The Summer House by Hannah McKinnon

Author:Hannah McKinnon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books

Flossy

Judy Broadbent’s house was less than a mile up Sea Spray, set on the other side of the street from Flossy and Richard’s. Not beach front, as Flossy’s was. But any chance she got, Judy loved to remind everyone that she had the best of both worlds in her Rhode Island summer home: she was on the ‘safer’ side of the street, away from the pounding surf during storm season, but she still had full view of the ocean. “It’s marvelous, really. I wake up to water views but I never have to worry my house will float away!”

As compared to Flossy, whose house was set back privately on a low bluff overlooking the water—poor thing! As if.

Flossy snatched her to-do list off the ancient green refrigerator and ticked through it. In three days sixty people would be seated in their backyard to toast Richard’s seventy-fifth birthday, and there was still so much to be done. So far, all the RSVPs had been affirmative, with the exception of the Mandevilles who were in Nantucket, and Richard’s former Fairfield University history department colleague Noah Barnes, who often came to Rhode Island for a weekend visit, but was visiting his grandchildren in Maine. They had yet to hear from Richard’s college roommate, Hank. Flossy had asked Richard to call him no fewer than four times.

Still, she was thrilled that almost everyone was coming. Though Richard knew about the party, she’d not let him in entirely on the guest list, at least not the out-of-towners. She couldn’t wait to see his face when some of the university crowd showed up. Which reminded her, she had better call the Inn at Watch Hill and check on their reservations. It was nearly impossible in the summer season to get a room anywhere near the village, but she’d managed to book a few rooms and the Weitzmans had offered their guest rooms to any extras. Luckily, most of the guests were summer people, as well.

Their landscaper, Lucas, was scheduled to come in to mow so that the backyard would be a fresh carpet of neatly trimmed green. She’d wanted to ask him to remove the hedges and replace them with some spike grass and sea lavender, but Richard said that was going hog wild, that they’d spent enough already, and he would trim the hedges himself. Flossy had given Sam and Evan the dull clippers to bring into the hardware store in town to be sharpened that morning, as a little reminder.

Outside the kitchen window, the teak bar table was assembled and tucked beneath the arbor. She was very pleased with how it came out after the missing legs incident. She and Clem had been pulling down table toppers from the attic and the deep recesses of the old china cabinet in the dining room that no one ever used. But it had proven a much-needed trip down the memory lane of their family summers. She’d had the chance to handle some of Richard’s mother’s vintage

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