Fortunately, all summer long we had cut and stacked firewood down one side of our old house, so we stayed warm and cozy.In addition, my mother, like e...ery other year, had spent the summer canning hundreds of Mason jars filled with beans, tomatoes, peaches, and other items.Anyway, on a bitter cold windy Saturday morning, with the wind howling outside, my Uncle Hank knocked on our door. His daughter Frances' little girl had died.He had come to ask Dad to help him dig the grave."Why don't you come. He stood straight, his eyes facing forward, not following her as they used to tend to do. When she had first started training him he was wild and unbroken. He hadn’t wanted to be used by her, instead he had wanted to use her. She had shown him that that was not going to happen, and for the first several months he had walked around with an ass full of welt and a pony tail. The pony tail was the Mistresses personal touch on her ponies. When they misbehavied or were just starting training. What kind of game are theyplaying here?I open it and large, bold, red letters spell out the phrase "On theother side" in a field of black and white stripes. On the other side?What does that mean? Is this how Todd says welcome to the company? Isit and stare for a moment trying to put it together. You know, that'svery sweet of him to do that. Here I believed that he was some douche. I guess he really does care that I feel welcome.I scan the room looking for him in an effort to thank him for. .what she had witnessed the night before had all but driven her over the brink. At this point she was just downright bawdy. Up to now she thought she had managed the absence of a man in her life with a reasonable amount of decorum. Now that she was confronted daily by unrestrained sexual activity her sense of decency and modesty was in shreds.The was no avoiding it out here in the heart of the country. As you strolled along its country lanes and byways one couldn't look over a fence without.