At Home on Ladybug Farm - Donna Ball [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
March Hares
Chapter 1 - Rushing the Season
Chapter 2 - Family Meeting
Chapter 3 - In Another Time
Chapter 4 - Discoveries
Chapter 5 - History Lessons
Chapter 6 - In Another Time
Chapter 7 - Sheepshearing
April Showers
Chapter 8 - Blackberry Winter
Chapter 9 - Company
Chapter 10 - More Company
Chapter 11 - In Another Time
Chapter 12 - The Art of Parenting
Chapter 13 - Easter
May Flowers
Chapter 14 - In Another Time
Chapter 15 - Changes
Chapter 16 - Making Adjustments
Chapter 17 - It Never Rains But . . .
Chapter 18 - In Another Time
Chapter 19 - Hard Choices
Chapter 20 - Coming Home
Chapter 21 - Mother’s Day
Chapter 22 - Stories
EPILOGUE
A Change of Plan
They were silent for a while, listening to birdsong, watching the colors deepen over the mountains and the shadows swallow up the lawn. Then a sudden stream of lamplight poured into the dusky shadows of the porch as the front door opened, the screen door squeaked, and Lori burst out. “I’ve got it!” she exclaimed. “I’ve got the plan.”
She bounced to a stop in front of them, a yellow legal pad in her hands, a very pleased expression on her face. “What we’ll do,” she declared, “is turn this house into a bed-and-breakfast.”
Cici lifted an eyebrow. The other two sipped their wine and said nothing.
“I was talking to Ida Mae this afternoon,” she went on. “Did you know this place used to be a boarding house for military wives in the forties?”
Cici said, surprised, “I didn’t know that.”
Lindsay and Bridget looked at Lori with new interest. “Is that right?” Bridget said.
And Lindsay added, “A boarding house?”
Lori nodded. “That’s probably how we ended up with all those bathrooms. A house full of women . . .”
Cici grinned and lifted her glass to sip. “How about that? And sixty years later, it’s still a house full of women.”
Also by Donna Ball
A YEAR ON LADYBUG FARM
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eISBN : 978-1-101-14063-5
1. Female friendship—Fiction. 2. Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)—Fiction.
3. Farmhouses