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a break. I’ve been cleaning all morning and I just hung that thing. I
like the sound, you know.”
“Go ahead,” Katie said.
Jo sat and rolled her shoulders, working out the kinks. “You’ve
been getting some sun,” she commented. “Did you go to the
beach?”
“No,” Katie said. She scooted one of the bags aside to make room
for her foot. “I picked up some extra day shifts the past couple of
weeks and I worked outside on the deck.”
“Sun, water… what else is there? Working at Ivan’s must be like
being on vacation.”
Katie laughed. “Not quite. But how about you?”
“No sun, no fun for me these days.” She nodded toward the bags.
“I wanted to drop by and mooch a cup of coffee this morning, but
you were already gone.”
“I went shopping.”
“I can tell. Did you find anything you liked?”
“I think so,” Katie confessed.
“Well, don’t just sit there, show me what you bought.”
“Are you sure?”
Jo laughed. “I live in a cottage at the end of a gravel road in the
middle of nowhere and I’ve been washing cabinets all morning.
What else do I have to excite me?”
Katie pulled out a pair of jeans and handed them over. Jo held
them up, turning them from front to back. “Wow!” she said. “You
must have found these at Anna Jean’s. I love that place.”