After 16 years of marriage, the Rostron's have two c***dren, Martha 15 and Larry 10. Cathy is the executive secretary for a large law firm with four y...unger secretaries reporting to her. Derick is computer programmer who holds a senior position with a large electronics firm.Their very close friends, Jane and Ray Sheppard, live across the street, two houses down the street. Ray is an agent for a large insurance corporation. His wife, Jane, works as the chief accountant for the same law firm that. I picked up my phone and sent the message, “Now!”Four gentlemen came out singing, “Happy Birthday to you.Happy Birthday to you.Happy Birthday, Sarah RollinsHappy Birthday to you”The Golden Staters sang it again; only this time they gave it some good old Barbershop Quartet bounce.After the restaurant patrons all stood and applauded, I stayed standing and said, “May we kiss whom we please, and please whom we kiss.”That got a round of laughter from all my ladies.The Golden Staters stayed to sing. Sounds rising from the river valley below masked the soft crunch of his boots as he turned round and walked past the quiet lodge, towards the list field. The padded gambeson he wore this morning help provide warmth in addition to the protection it was intended for. Others arriving for the inspection took no note of him, they were mostly the younger up and coming, hoping to someday be knighted; for him, older now, it was the joy of battle. He had no aspirations beyond the individual bouts, and. Gwen had worked in cahoots with our mothers to pack things in the car I would need for an overnight stay. The place was a property previously owned by my grandfather before he died. It was purchased fully by my father by him buying my uncle’s half. The property bordered the South side of a lake, it had a hill with a large flat top that we had used for camping, star gazing, and watching meteor showers. The property also had an old stone cabin on the other side of the hill from the lake.After the.