Good News
Thursday, May 12, 2005
The storms had never quite made it to Collette’s edge of town, although the wind was gusting quite furiously, and OLeif reported a great deal of lightening on the way back from work.
While Collette waited for him to return, she cut some ham into the potato soup and watched an Antiques Roadshow special on hand-painted Halloween collectibles manufactured strictly for the United States in German cottage industries during the early teens, twenties, and 1930’s, before Hitler came to power.
And OLeif had bought a new journal for her and a small silver and black pen, with which he wrote a note in the top corner of the first page:
“The trials in life make it all the more memorable. — OLeif”
The previous morning, Mom had called her with news from the Lord-Welches. Colorado and Lacey had set their wedding date for Mom’s birthday, November 26th, two days after Thanksgiving. They would all travel up together that Friday, no doubt. But perhaps even the bigger news was that they had just purchased a cabin on the lake, an hour and twenty minutes north of their farmhouse. Once Pearl graduated, they would sell the farmhouse and move up there. Seven years to attend to repairs. The old man who had sold them the cabin even threw in a twelve-person pontoon boat, free, as well as all the furniture and dishes inside the cabin. It seemed too good to be true, but if anyone had something like that coming to them, it was certainly the Lord-Welches.