Murder on a Girls' Night Out by Anne George

Author:Anne George
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1996-04-12T22:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Indian summer held on. On Saturday, Fred pushed his riding lawn mower from the basement and gave the grass what he hoped would be the last cut before frost. It was wishful thinking since frost sometimes doesn’t arrive in Birmingham until after Thanksgiving. But the yard looked nice and would for several days.

Saturday night, we had Haley and a friend of hers from the hospital, Amy Russell, over for supper. While I was fixing it, I realized you could trace American economics and cuisine through the meals we have shared with company: spaghetti to steaks to low fat turkey cutlets.

“Anything new at the Skoot ’n’ Boot?” Haley asked.

“Your mother’s not involved in that at all,” Fred said.

“Oh, okay.” Haley concentrated on her salad with fat free dressing.

“This turkey’s great, Mr. Hollowell,” Amy said. “What did you marinate it with?” Smart girl.

“What’s Mary Alice doing this weekend?” Fred asked later as we were getting ready for bed.

“I don’t know.”

“She hasn’t called.”

“You want me to see if she wants to go to Tannehill with us tomorrow?”

One weekend a month, they have Trade Day at Tannehill State Park. It’s one of our favorite things to attend. Fred heads for all the old tools and I migrate to the quilts, dolls and old dishes. We’ve never found a real treasure there, but it’s fun. Mainly, we see a lot of things that are already in our basement that we thought was junk. That makes us feel good.

“Are you kidding?” Fred said. “The last time she went with us she bought all those weird birdhouses. Had the whole car full of them.”

I slid into bed. “I expect she and Bill are staying busy.”

“One of those birdhouses looked like an outhouse, little quarter moon and all. Remember that one, honey?”

“And one was shaped lik a mailbox with the name ‘Jenny Wren’ on it.”

We both laughed. That’s got to be the best way in the world to go to bed.

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