Colorado Cowboy by Palmer Diana

Author:Palmer, Diana [Palmer, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

The snow was deep by the time they got back to Butch’s cabin. Esther’s ankle-high boots were going to get full of snow on the way to the front door.

Butch solved that problem very easily by hefting her over his broad shoulder, catching her behind the knees with his good arm.

He chuckled at her surprise as he bumped the truck’s door shut with his hip. “We learn coping skills when we lose limbs,” he teased.

She laughed, too. “Yes, we do. Thanks! My feet would have frozen. The snow’s halfway to my knees already.”

“We’re most likely going to get snowed in for a day or two,” he remarked as he put her gently down on the porch. “That being the case, I’d better get out back and make sure my furry house guests have enough to eat and that their water bowls are plugged in so the water doesn’t freeze.” He sighed. “Then we hope we don’t lose power, or I have to go out and water them two or three times a day.”

“How do you get water when there’s no power?” she asked, and was honestly curious.

“Melt snow, if it’s the only way. But we have an emergency generator. I can connect it to the well head if I have to.”

“Wow. Science!” she teased.

He grinned. “All the comforts of home, regardless of the weather. And it’s the weekend, so I don’t have to work—except for feeding our furry guests. I won’t be long.”

“I’ll start supper.”

“Damn,” he muttered. “I should have stopped somewhere and gotten us takeout, so you wouldn’t have to be in the kitchen cooking on our wedding day!”

“I love to cook, since you taught me,” she protested. “Really. It’s not even like work.”

“You sure?”

She smiled. “I’m sure.”

“Okay, then. I’ll go see to the animals.”

She went into the kitchen and started looking through the meat in the freezer.

* * *

She cooked a beef casserole and made biscuits to go with it. Dessert was vanilla pudding from a mix, with some Cool Whip and peaches mixed in.

Butch just shook his head as he savored the dessert. “Honey, you have a way with food,” he said. “You can take the simplest things and make them uptown.”

She grinned. “Thanks. It’s better if you have yellow cake or shortcake and put peaches and ice cream over it and then add the Cool Whip, but I didn’t have ice cream or cake.”

“We had cake at the fellowship hall.” He groaned. “They told me to bring the rest of the cake home with us. I forgot!”

“They’ll save it for us,” she said with certainty. “I’ll phone the Gray Dove later, to make sure. It’s not a problem, you know. We’re eating dessert!”

He sighed. “You’re the easiest person to live with,” he said.

“So are you.”

He looked up. “I’m really not,” he told her. “I’m impatient, bad-tempered from time to time, unreasonable . . .”

“You’re just you,” she interrupted. “We all have times when we’re irritable. I get that way, too.”

“I’ve never seen you irritable.”

“Well, I don’t get that way often.

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