Before leaving, the clan had lined the bottom of every wagon with three, four-pace sections of Orangewood trunks. They intended to use those for makin...g arrows and other useful items, like axles for their wagons and spokes for their wagon wheels. Everything else the clan owned was loaded atop the Orangewood. They knew that the only place Orangewood trees were found was in the southwestern part of Narcilia. They carefully stored seeds to make sure they’d have the wood available when they found a. "Hey, that's all right. I think Paul looks great. I'm proud of him." You know, in old pictures, my Dad looked pretty good. It's really sad the way he let himself go." Well, Paul doesn't have time for exercise, but he does it anyway. Puts me to shame. 'Fraid I look too much like your mother. Ooops, sorry!" S'OK. It's true. She looks worse than Dad." Well, I'll be changing for sure." Norma proceeded to tell Lindsey about her naked time coming up, then about her and Paul working at Transformations. "Sandy said to Sarah, "So you have to wear the gloves all the time he tells you to? That's neat! Is that rubber, or what?" And to me, she said, "So does she have to wear them to eat with too?" No, not at all. Sarah, you can take your rubber gloves off now."Of course I knew she couldn't, and she knew I knew, but it was all a part of the game being played out for Sandy's amusement, without her even knowing it. So Sarah said, "I'm sorry, Sir, I can't take my gloves off."I replied, in a slightly. But... “Why???”“Because you are special and I want you to be as happy as you can be. If a new SUV helps make you happy, then we will go buy it for you. If you ask again, the answer is, ‘Because it made me happy. That’s why.’” It took some time but Ann Marie finally accepted what I said at face value and we drifted off to sleep cuddled like small puppies.The morning brought a big room service breakfast that we dawdled over for almost two hours. The babies were bathed, fed and dressed and we.