Loving Her Cowboys: Cowboys Online 3 by Jan Springer

Author:Jan Springer [Springer, Jan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spunky Girl Publishing
Published: 2016-11-05T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

By the time the cattle drive rolled around, Rafe was good to go. JJ noticed he barely limped now and the pain lines etching his mouth were gone. Relief for Rafe made her happy, and when she was happy, she baked.

The guys were leaving this morning and last night she had made them a cornbread cake, a bunch of homemade granola bars and apple fritters, and then this morning she’d whipped up two loaves of zucchini cake using zucchini from the garden. The cakes were ready to take out of the oven and they would have no shortage of sweets during their week long cattle drive.

She eyed the six bear-proof steel storage containers that held the non-perishable food supplies she had already packed.

Mentally, she checked off her list.

For breakfast, she had packed for each of them pancake mix, maple syrup, dried blueberries, freeze dried strawberries. Plenty of instant coffee. Whitener. Sugar. Corn meal and wheatlets. Powdered cheese for the cornmeal and canned peaches and pears to complement the wheatlets.

For lunch they had plenty of canned soups, cowboy beans, and canned vegetables, rice and potatoes. Supper they had their choice of canned and freeze-dried stew, pasta and preserved tomato sauce.

JJ smiled as she grabbed her oven mitts. And, of course, they had their sweets.

Since they would be working on their own most of the time, each of them also had their own ultra-large coolers, which contained fresh fruits and vegetables, steaks and other perishable items.

It would take six days to seven days get all the cattle to the railroad area where arrangements had been made for the train to stop and have the cattle loaded on the cars. Then it would take an estimated one-day ride on their machines to get back to her.

JJ’s breath backed up as she thought about their reunion. She wished she could go along with them, but there some cows and their newborns that needed tending. She had also made arrangements for daily flight instructions with Kaley. JJ had wanted to bring up the subject to the guys many times over the past couple of weeks, but she just didn’t have the nerve.

Besides, they would just worry about her if they knew she had resumed her lessons. They needed their full attention on the cattle drive, not on her flying a plane.

JJ opened the oven and retrieved one of the loaves. She had just set it upon the top of the stove when she heard the stomping of feet up the back stairs.

Oh shoot. They were already coming inside to get their gear. She had hoped to hide the cakes until they were cool and then wrap them. She removed the other cake and set it beside the other one. Maybe if she hurried she could hide them…

“Hey baby. The machines are ready to go. Do we have everything packed? Oh it smells good in here. Let’s eat,” Dan said as he entered the kitchen and his gaze snapped onto the two loaves.

JJ laughed. Unbelievable!

“You guys just ate an hour ago.

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