A Newport Sunrise by Cindy Caldwell

Author:Cindy Caldwell [Caldwell, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prickly Pear Press

Seventeen

Carrie jumped up as a wooden shingle clanked on the deck right next to her. She picked it up and held it out to Faith.

"So you going ahead with the roof? At this rate, you won't have any of these left pretty soon."

"No kidding. With this wind we get at night, they're coming off like crazy. And yes, I did get ahold of that quirky contractor and he's coming on Monday to pick up a check for supplies. He can start next week."

Faith wrestled the cork out of the bottle of chardonnay Jen had put on ice earlier. "That's a good thing. Your dad and brother were okay with it? That has to be a pretty penny."

Jen nodded. She hadn't called them yet, but had thought about it all day. They'd let her stay in the house and not insisted on selling it, and asked that she'd just be in charge of any urgent renovations —and this was urgent.

She set the new shingle in the stack with the others. "I'm just going to go ahead. I'm positive it's a very good price compared to other contractors around here, and it'll protect their investment. When I put it to them that way, they won't object. And besides, they both have money."

Jen took the foil off the mini French onion soup bites she'd made for their Friday night happy hour and passed it around to her eager and appreciative friends.

"How do you come up with all this weird stuff?" Carrie asked. "Don't get me wrong —I love it. But some of this stuff I've never even heard of."

"I'm still going through Nana's things. This is from the fifties and apparently was very popular back then. I should make it for Mrs. Grover and Mrs. Russo. See if they'd remember."

"So culinary history through appetizers. That would be an interesting book," Faith said as she took a bite herself and nodded with approval. "This is really good."

Jen picked up one of the mini French onion soup cups and took a bite. It was warm and rich —definitely one of the better recipes she'd found in Nana's collection.

"Yeah, right. I wouldn't buy a book like that but I bet a lot of people who know how to boil water would. Well, I'd buy it if you wrote it." Carrie laughed while she helped herself to seconds.

"That isn't my intention, but it's kind of fun, isn't it? We get to try stuff that's different. And you guys can be my guinea pigs and tell me what's horrible."

"Ugh. Beets. No on the beets," Carrie said, taking a sip of wine as if to get the memory off her palate.

"Agreed. It took me forever to get the purple off my hands, anyway. Not worth it. Although I am sure there are plenty of silent beet lovers."

"My dad is one, but I don't care," Carrie added, again shaking her head. "My mother may be a lot of things, but at least she wasn't the kind who made me eat stuff I couldn't stand.

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