Chapter 6 – Feed Store and MoreLate Thursday Afternoon, June 12th, 2014
“Hey, get your shoes on. We’re going to take a little drive.”
“What if I don’t wanna?” I asked Mel in response to her sudden command.
“Well, if you ‘don’t wanna’ go and look at puppies and you’d rather hang around here wallowing in your misery, then stay here.” She gave me her million watt smile.
“Puppies?”
“Yes, puppies.”
“Well, all right then. Give me a hand here.”
Minutes later I’d been unceremoniously boosted into Mel’s pickup truck and we were driving down some dirt road out in the country. “So, are you thinking about getting a puppy?” I looked at the profile of her face as she concentrated on the rutted road.
“Actually, no; not yet. Kris and I both love dogs and we’d already have one if it were just us bu
