Love Through the Seasons by Tracie Peterson

Author:Tracie Peterson [Peterson, Tracie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781636094755
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

A little after three that afternoon, Marlene and Aunt Leticia arrived. Karen hadn’t seen her aunt in over a month—maybe two. She and Mom had been so busy with the garden that they hadn’t been much for visiting anyone. They barely managed to get to church.

They went together to meet Marlene and Leticia in the yard and walked down the sloping drive that led to the back of the house. Karen figured it would be easier to do this and later Marlene could drive down and get her mother.

“Meredith, I always loved what you and Curtis did with building the new house,” Aunt Lettie began. “The farm needed a big family place like this. Remember all of us trying to live in the homestead house?”

Mom smiled. “I do. All of us girls sharing space upstairs.” She turned to Karen. “We were almost like two sets of twins, me and my sisters. We were so close in age, just a year or at most two years apart from the next one.”

Lettie nodded. “I loved the times everyone would get together out here, didn’t you, Marlene?”

“I did. The food was always incredible, and it was fun coming back to the farm. Especially when you guys still had horses and other animals to play with.” Marlene gazed off across the yard. “I used to love to swim in the pond.”

“Mercy, but we all did,” Aunt Lettie replied. “When we girls were young, Mother couldn’t keep us out of it during the summer. She used to have to threaten to send Dad to fetch us. We knew we’d be in big trouble if our disobedience forced Dad to leave important work in order to handle us, so we always came running at that warning.”

They reached the back of the house and stopped a moment. Karen looked up at the deck that stood over the downstairs patio. It needed some attention, and she’d been meaning to get to that ever since Stan died. In fact, he was the one who pointed out the problem areas.

“Shall we go inside?” Mom asked.

Karen pulled her attention back to the others. “Of course. That’s why we’re all here.”

She opened the french door on one side and flipped on a light. The illumination revealed a large open room with a couch and several stuffed chairs. Against the far wall were the kitchenette and a door. Karen started the tour.

“As you can see there’s a little kitchen area. Refrigerator, stove, sink, microwave. Just about everything you’d want except a dishwasher.”

“Oh bother,” Aunt Lettie declared. “I never liked them. Always washed dishes by hand. Gets them cleaner.”

“Mom always thought that way too, until I showed her what a really good dishwasher could do.”

Karen continued the tour. “This door leads to storage.” She opened it to reveal a very neatly organized storage room. Shelves lined the walls, and on those shelves were a variety of things including most of the vegetables and fruit she and Mom had canned that summer.

“Looks like you two have been busy,” Marlene said, nodding toward the canned goods.

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