She walked out onto the back deck and slid the patio door closed. She was totally naked except for her Birkenstocks. She was carrying her towel. My fr...end stared admiringly at her. She moved over to the patio table, unselfconsciously, and dropped her towel onto one of the chairs. She took a joint from behind her ear, picked the lighter up from the tabletop and took quite a bit of time to light the joint. When it was going she took a huge hit, inhaling deeply, and then she stood there holding it. He swaddled himself in boots, sweater, a heavy coat, hat and gloves, before coping with the frozen spaces outside. Work centered on feed, firewood, chopping ice, carrying water, and shoveling snow. Trips to town were infrequent, and were a challenge. The Blue Goose was reluctant to start and, once started and running, was difficult to steer in straight lines down the rutted, icy roads.By mid-winter the winterscape expanded greatly for Graydon. He acquired a pair of war-surplus trooper skis,. He laughed.“Oh, yes!” he said. “She graduated today, didn’t she? Was it good?”“Very satisfying!” I asserted. “Fitting tribute to all her hard work.”“And yours,” said Imogen, as she came into the room having caught the conversation as she entered. “Will we see her for dinner tonight?”I explained the situation.“Get her to come down anyway,” she suggested. “We’ve missed her these past few weeks.”I took some tea up to our rooms and changed out of my work clothes and into something smart casual. I. About of week talking back and forth, with both husband and wife, the time had presented itself. Their son was going out of town for a party up north in Barrie leaving the house free.The day arrived. Unfortunately the husband was called into work and was unable to be there. He was actually very interested in making a video of the whole thing. He told me he found it odd, but just thinking about the video had him more sexually energized that he had been in a long time. He still found his wife.