Myobservation of the colors was as far as I got, however, because Josiahtook this opportunity to shout out his customary greeting."Hey, Stinky, wake u...p; it's us!"When he did, he saw his little peninsula of a bed surrounded by us onthree sides. The girls were quick to pounce on the various bottles andcans and began oohing and awing over the colors and shapes. Once again,but only for a moment, Timothy had that cornered-rabbit look in his eyesas he hunched his shoulders and almost cowered at the. “Looks like the store is busy,” she replied as she pressed the button to raise the passenger side window, and drove off.It was a bit past three on a Friday afternoon, and it did look like the store was busy from the packed parking lot. I strolled around looking at some of the items, like many of the other men were. I took a position at the edge of the adult videos where I could watch most of the room, and the entry door..My wife entered the building, the bright sun streaming through the door. Not too bad. I mean it was kind of intermittent if you know what I mean,” I said. He seemed as nervous or even more so than I was.We got the coffees and a dozen not all that fresh donuts and returned to the waiting area.When we arrived back at the waiting room, we got the news: there was no news, not yet.More muted and meaningless conversation. Then it was 9:59 P.M., and the doors to the action in the back swung open. Doctor Snodgrass came striding toward us.“It’s a girl; six pounds nine. We estimated that we were about two days north of Cairo when we saw signs of a major forest fire. The eastern side of the Mississippi River along here had been covered with trees, many of them over a century old. Now they were gone! The ground was wiped clean of live plants of any sort. All that we could see were burned stumps of trees and piles of wood still smoldering in places. We moved permanently to the west bank of the river because of the soot and heat still wafting from the burned area..