Wedding Bell Blunders: A Freshly Baked Cozy Mystery by Kathleen Suzette

Author:Kathleen Suzette [Suzette, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

I was wary of going to talk to Jared after what Alec had told me. If Alec thought enough of it to say that Jared was a bad person and to stay away from him, then it made me pause. Sure, all criminals were bad people and were people that I needed to stay away from, but Alec had been direct about this. But he hadn’t said anything about Skip Thomas. Skip was Richard’s younger brother, and I knew him fairly well. He worked at the hardware store, so I took a drive over there the next morning.

The new house we had moved into still needed some work done, so I had a reason to stop in. We had had some major renovations done by a contractor, but there were a few projects that I was going to work on. One of them was the garden in the backyard. I really envisioned it looking like an English garden with a large variety of flowers growing in the yard. And I wanted a fountain of some sort in the backyard. It was still early in the spring, but I knew that the hardware store would be starting to get some of their spring merchandise in. I headed inside and then out to the back patio where they kept the seeds, planters, and other outdoor items.

When I stepped outside, I was a little disappointed at the offerings as far as fountains were concerned. It looked like they hadn’t gotten their spring stock in yet. But there was a lovely, scalloped fountain with a cherub standing in the middle of it, and I thought it was cute. It would look nice in my garden once the ground warmed up enough to get things planted. I ran a finger along the edge. It was made of a manufactured material that was lighter than the cement I had envisioned. Glancing around, I realized that I was going to have to look into what grew well here in Maine. At my old house, I had mostly planted a handful of rosebushes, and I had filled the planters along the front with petunias and marigolds. I wanted more than that for my new garden.

I glanced over and saw Skip waiting on a customer at the outside register. When he finished, he looked at me, and I smiled and nodded.

He grinned and came over. “How are you doing, Allie?”

“I’m doing well, Skip. I’ve got my eye on this fountain. Are you going to get any more in for spring?”

He nodded. “Oh yeah, any day now we’re expecting a big shipment of outdoor items, and I’m sure there are going to be some fountains in it. This was left over from last year, but it is kind of nice.”

“I just moved into a new house a few weeks ago, and I’m thinking about planting a big flower garden. An English flower garden.” I smiled.

He nodded appreciatively. “That sounds great. We’ll have some more seedlings coming in soon, too.

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