‘Rick, are…are you all right?’ she asked. ‘You look upset. What’s wrong?’ ‘I-I don’t know,’ Rick replied. ‘The whole world’s goi...ng crazy.’ ‘Come in,’ Dianna said. ‘Are your folks home?’ Rick asked. She shook her head and said, ‘Mom’s working a double shift and Dad’s out plowing snow.’ ‘Snow?’ Rick said. He looked behind him. It was snowing. He was all wet. He never even noticed. ‘Take your jacket off and sit down,’ Dianna said. ‘I’ll make us some hot chocolate.’ ‘Yeah, OK,’ Rick said. He. Is it me or is she walking in front of my door more often than she should? After all there’s no need to come this way to clean the living room and the other bathroom. When I hear her in my bedroom, I can’t resist. I go up and just stand in the doorway, watching her clean and dust. “Can I help you with something?” she says. “No, just let me look at you, that’s all.” “Well, I shouldn’t be after what we’ve done, but this is making me shy.” “I understand, but rules are rules. No touching but you. Farrier supplies. We're going to have to shoe the horses and mule. I came up with one better. We need a complete forge setup. We fired up the computer and started surfing the net. After an hour we found what we wanted. The company was in Vermont but they had the most complete setup for small foundry and forge. It took $150,000 but they said it would ship tomorrow and we'd have it by Tuesday. I thanked them and sat back satisfied."OK, smart ass" I quipped, "now you gotta learn to use that. “I sag more than Lonnie,” she said, pragmatically. “It may be more difficult to do mine, and take longer to get off. I’m not going to try to rush it. Pat? Why don’t you come over to my house tomorrow, so we can take our time.”“Okay,” I said, automatically.Aunt Vanessa leaned forward. “That would leave tonight ... open.”“I’m next!” said Grandma immediately. “Age, before beauty.” She looked at Vanessa. “Besides ... give the poor boy a break. He’s already done three of them this week. He’s.