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Farht about this as I walked through the fall wheat, running rain The air was crisp today, not quite chilly, but with a hint of the winter that was only a few months away now

The fall wheat was usually the last crop harvested; the apples already picked and stored for the winter She’d made apple butter after all

Polly loved apple butter She ate it every year, but this year she learned to ht of the afternoons spent in the back kitchen of the diner, jars spread out everywhere, a spicy cinna braids, laughing as they filled containers with the sweet treat

My girls

Roxie was adahtly so Once she made the decision to move back to Bailey Falls, she was determined to live away from her mother, but close by The old farmhouse she found was about halfway between my place and her mom’s, only a few minutes from the town she claimed was too small, but she secretly loved

When I flew out with her to Los Angeles to pack up her apartment, I noticed there wasn’t a lot there that made itwellhomey It was functional, and of course the kitchen was i about it that really saidRoxie

As much as she claimed to have a full life out there, it took us less than a day to pack her up, and less than an evening to say goodbye to her friends Sure, her Hollywood friends Jack and Grace were sad to see her go, but they assured her that anytiether

Driving back across the country, Roxie see home, to her new old life And quicker than anyone expected, she’d cleaned out the Airstream, equipped it with the necessary items to turn it into a food truck, and Zo it She sold out each and every time she showed up to a farmers’ market, a county fair, or a private event

I s out of the side of the truck, passing a slice of h coconut cake to a happy custoht about what her tits looked like in her V-neck Zombie Cakes shirt

I came to the end of the row, satisfied with the feel of the plurains on the stalks We’d harvest soon,up the dusty farh the open s Turns out Polly was a big fan of the band as well, and she and Roxie listened to the old albu, Daddy," Polly had infor a reed

As they made the last turn and pulled up besideRoxie turned off the et out and race up and down the rows, like she did every time she came out here

"Hey, Daddy!" she cried out, as I helped her unbuckle and swung her high