“Mum, it’s fine. I’m going to wear a jacket.”Alex couldn’t help but watch the sexy teenager glide across the floor to fetch her black blazer... from the coat mountain hanging off the single hook in the hallway.“Are you still OK to give me a lift, Connor?” Charlotte asked.“Can you give me five, I am just finishing off something for work.”“I can give you lift, Charlie, if Connor is busy,” Alex called out.“That would be great, if you don’t mind, Alex?”“Any excuse to go out in that car of yours,”. But she was great..she arranged some cushions on the couch for me, made me a strong bourbon and we just talked while she went in&out of the kitchen to check on dinner. On one of her trips out of the kitchen she excused herself to go change. When she got back she was wearing a more casual but tighter jumpsuit kinda thing, my back ached but I noticed. As the evening went on, we ate, talked, had a FEW more drinks and even with the bourbon my back still hurt. She noticed & went to get me some sweat. “Rope, what’er you doin back here, did them old cows scare my little boy?”He heard her voice and stood up. When he saw her, he took off to her in a dead run, right through a bunch of chickens that were pecking the ground between him and her.The chickens thought he was chasing them and flew into the air and ran like crazy to get away. Berty Yancey stooped down to pat Rope on the back, then she knew she had to get them chickens put up before they got too far off.She got some corn and scattered on. It made getting these two a lot easier." He pulled the carcasses off the mule and resumed his monologue as he began skinning the hides. "I remember when I first went off like that on my first trapping expedition. I thought I was man-grown for sure then." He kept quiet for a time then, perhaps remembering his other firsts, first pelt, first woman, first Rendezvous. For a second he looked every year of his age. Then with a grin, he bowed to Louise and offered her a leg of the sheep. Putting the.