For lamp use. Miz Thompson asked for a bolt of cloth to do some sewing so the owner picked out a pretty blue material for me. Out of my own money, I h...d the store owner put together a bag with 4 bits worth of penny candy.By the time I finished, it was too late to start back home so I turned out the horses in the livery stable's lot after parking the buckboard. I walked to a café and had a nice meal. Although I didn't drink a lot, I thought a nice after-dinner drink would be a good way to wind. Kim and I are terrible cooks, and we don’t have a lot of groceries because Jerry seldom takes her shopping. Kim doesn’t drive, and neither do I.Table scraps of eggs, bacon, and pancakes tasted terrific. Emily gobbled her food up and cleaned her plate. Mike was an excellent cook, and he took pride in making our food.“Why don’t you make my mom cook?” Emily asked him over breakfast.“Your mom is good for cleaning, yard work, sucking and fucking but not cooking,” Mike answered her. I had told Mike I. .. Can’t work out why girls wear such short revealing skirts and then do their best to stop them revealing anything.“Harry ... you there?”I responded and within half an hour I had parked the Subaru SUV, blocking my wife’s Fiat 500 in the Martin Paris house/studio drive. He’s a lovely man, gentle – typical artist in his way, long thin wispy grey hair, falling out over the years and leaving him with a tall forehead with school teacher wired specs. There was a touch of a tarbrush somewhere in his. He watched all of this because he felt he had to… because all of this was undeniably HIS fault. He should have arranged for better security at the mansion. He had grown complacent, soft, as governor. He had assumed that his security detail had everything well in hand even though his chief of security had been out sick for the past two days. Why hadn’t he gotten a replacement? But he knew why…he had become so used to living in a bubble of safety for so long that he’d forgotten how vicious a.