Adolph's Choice (Grooms with Honor Book 7) by Linda K. Hubalek

Author:Linda K. Hubalek [Hubalek, Linda K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Butterfield Books Inc.
Published: 2018-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

“How’s married life, Poppy?” Rose asked as she winked at her. Poppy blushed but answered anyway since she was among her new friends.

“Um, good, but different than what I expected? We’ve only been married a week, but in some ways it seems longer, and other days it’s like I just met Adolph.”

“Even after all the years Patrick and I have been married, he’ll surprise me, or leave me dumbfounded, by something he does or says,” Kaitlyn said as she drew her needle and thread through the quilt layers. The women laughed or nodded in response.

Women sat around two quilt stands set up in the event room at the Paulson Hotel. The group was quilting tops for Avalee Paulson today. With six daughters still to marry over time, Helen decided to start on Avalee’s quilts.

Helen Paulson had invited Poppy to join the group when Helen stopped by the meat market. Adolph encouraged her to join the group, even though Poppy wasn’t much of a sewer.

Luckily, Linnea stopped by Poppy’s house so they could walk over together. Even though Poppy had met all the women over the course of the week, they were still new to her.

“I must say, I enjoyed the clean chicken I picked up at the market this week. There wasn’t a pin feather in it due to your diligence,” Iva Mae Shepard complimented Poppy.

“Thank you, Iva Mae. I grew up huntin’ and fixin’ game, so I fit right in with Adolph’s business.”

“I’ve never been to Tennessee. What’s it look like?” Luella, Helen Paulson’s fourth daughter, asked. Poppy noticed the young woman slightly limped when she walked out of church last Sunday, and Adolph said she was born with a club foot. It didn’t seem to slow her, or her bubbly personality, down though.

“About the opposite as here, except for green grass,” Poppy laughed. “The isolated valley is in the middle of the Smoky Mountains and covered with canopies of trees mixed in with open meadows. Lots of streams and springs for water,” Poppy mused, wishing she could be walking along her favorite stream again.

“The town of Collard’s Cove is smaller than Clear Creek and didn’t have much but one general store and a blacksmith. In other words, if you couldn’t get what you need at one or the other business, you didn’t need it.”

“I assume there was a bigger town for more supplies nearby? At least there was in Kentucky,” Mrs. Tolbert, the barber’s wife commented in a haughty voice. Linnea had warned Poppy the woman thought herself as being better than the rest of the women in town.

“Yes, but I’d never been to it. My pappy did the trading,” Poppy answered back.

“Your mother didn’t buy supplies?” Mrs. Tolbert continued, to add an extra jab.

“My mama died when I was twelve, but she was always a homebody, and I stayed home with her. My pappy took care of our needs,” Poppy replied back in the way to put Mrs. Tolbert on alert that Poppy wasn’t going to let the other woman walk over her.

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