Maxwell Family Outting

I remember that night, I thought I was going to have to promise some of the regulars a quarter hour in my bed to get them to help me go out looking for you and then there you were coming up over the rise in the road, right as rain. I think that was one of the first times I really worried about you. She watched the road roll past, enjoying the scenery like she did when Colt or Ruth took her somewhere, none of her other clients tended to want to take her from the Back Water. And she was just fine with that, she'd rather it be with the people she loved that she got to experience the world with. She liked that idea just fine. I do like continuing to breathe.

She worked the small sheaf of parchment free from her pants pocket, looking it over, Fifteen pounds salt pork, beef, and lamb each, thirty hens and five roosters, two new goats, a new milk cow, a couple nugs, and nearly three hundred pounds of various vegetables and fruits, oh, here we are, three tins of the finest biscuits. It was under three fifty pound bags of flour and a five pound bag each of salt and yeast. I really should look at making our own yeast starter so we can stop buying it every time. And we ate though the chickens a little faster than we did last time you went to market. Did we hav... we didn't have extra company that I remember. I'll make sure to add another five hens to that, just in case. I don't like the drunks when they realize we have no meat to feed them. And she wasn't too keen on slaughtering the chickens herself, but she made do. That was a part of life. If she wanted to eat, she had to kill the livestock sometimes.

Maybe we should pick up some other sweets too, just to keep around? A small bag of hard candies might be nice to have as an every now and then treat, and it was good to keep something around for when someone might bring their kids in, it happened now and then, people traveling by foot from one place to another with little ones in tow, she liked to have a small treat to give them when they were well behaved in the main area. And then of course, a bolt of good fabric for a dress and tunic, and maybe a vest. She patted the gold pieces in her pocket, and realized she probably had brought more than enough to get five bolts of fabric, but she wanted to make sure she wasn't just spending her hard earned gold just to spend it. Should ... should I look for a couple more books to add to the collection we've started?

@Cooper Maxwell