I just looked down at the table and nodded silently. * * * * * Hello, my name is LeAnn. You've already met my husband Carl, and he has told you about ...dna, our sweet darling landlady. She is so charming and adorable, and we all get along great. We have become very close in such a short period of time. We love helping her with errands and little things, and she very generously gave us permission to remake the entire backyard. Edna is like the grandmother we never had!Anyway, our little life here. Daniel stood outside with a large basket over his arm.He looked with disgust at the tin in her hand. "If that is what you've been living on, no wonder you're wasting away." Good evening Daniel," she smiled politely.Daniel sighed. "Mrs Coates thought that you were looking a bit under the weather, and since you are refusing to eat at my house; I persuaded her to pack up enough for the two of us, and I've brought it to you."Izzy gave a delicate little sniff as the aroma from the basket hit her. ‘Let Mommy alone, now!’ She stopped crying and dried her eyes with her fingers. Sally, still trying to get comfortable, said, ‘She’s not listening.’ ‘Wait till she gets out of you. We’ll spend years trying to get her to listen to either of us.’ ‘Our Christmas present, huh?’ ‘Yeah, and one I have been wanting for so long.’ ‘Yeah, she’s been wanting this baby,’ thought Sally, suddenly despressed after the joy of choosing and trimming the Christmas tree. ‘So have I, but that’s incidental. Dammit,. Forms went up and beds of gravel went down. The welders framed two nests of woven rebar where the slabs were to be poured. Next the cement trucks came. The float-men slicked the concrete surfaces while the foreman insured that the slabs were properly graded. They took time to cure. The septic tank was dropped in place and covered over with a pre-cast concrete cap. The inspectors had been watching and signed off on the foundation. That ended the first two weeks.The crane came. Load after load of.