Teaberry Tea & Thyme by R. A. Wallace

Author:R. A. Wallace [Wallace, R. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Jessilyn stacked the dirty dinner dishes into the dishwasher, closed the door, and turned the machine on. She couldn’t hear it running over the sound of the circular saw outside her kitchen window. Seth had the framework of the deck in place and was working on the boards that would make up the floor of the deck.

He had salvaged the wood from another house. It meant he had to make some modifications to his plans based on what he had to work with. But Jessilyn was thrilled with what he had managed to engineer based on what he had. The materials had been technically free, costing Seth’s time to dismantle an existing deck and transport the materials to Jessilyn’s. In the end, they would have a deck that totaled the cost of the nails for Seth’s nail gun and some other minor expenditures.

He had been working on the deck after he finished his job with Anderson Landscaping each day. Jessilyn was amazed at his focus on the project. She knew that his days with the landscaping job were work intensive and often completed in extreme temperatures. But Seth had doggedly given as much time as he could to the deck.

Jessilyn looked out the window and saw six year old Evan helping. She knew that Seth would have been much further along with his project if he were working on his own. His small assistant often hindered more than he helped. But Seth appeared to have a bottomless well of patience when it came to Evan. Jessilyn smiled at the two of them working now.

They were complete opposites. Seth was tall, around six feet two, with dark hair that he kept short with his own hair clippers. The only feature they shared was blue eyes. Evan’s hair was so blond, it was nearly white. Evan was wearing eye and ear protection and was chattering non-stop as he watched Seth systematically nail a board into place.

He had the first several feet of board down near the kitchen door, so Jessilyn stepped out onto it and marveled at how nice it looked already. Seth was flipping some of the repurposed boards over and using whichever side looked best. As a result, some of the boards he’d nailed down already had old stain on them, others just had what had dripped to the bottom side when they’d initially been stained. Seth told her it wouldn’t be a real problem. They’d be staining it all again once he was done and he could smooth out any bad spots with a sander.

She was in awe of Seth’s craftsmanship. He had an image in his mind of what he wanted to do and, like magic, he knew exactly what had to be done to produce it. Seth shot the last nail in the board and set the gun down, then removed his own ear protection. He looked up at Jessilyn and grinned.

“What do you think?”

Jessilyn knew she was grinning like a fool back at him but she couldn’t help herself.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.