"And we will have electricity in about three weeks."
"Three weeks," Edie yelled out. "What are we going to do until then?"
"Oh, stop your complaining. What do you want for breakfast? I have a nice wood stove and coffee is hot. Want a cup?"
"Have you heard anything from Jim?"
"No, just about him. He is running around with some older woman. She has money, I guess. He drives her car. The bastard." Edie was surprised to hear her mother say bastard but she hated Edie's ex-husband. She didn't want her to marry him. Said he was too wild and five years older than her and being in the Army. She was just a kid. They got married when Edie was seventeen. She got pregnant two months later. She went crying to grandmother. "I'm too young to have a baby." The grandmother had a cure for everything. You see, she was the mid-wife and if you had any sickness, you went to Grandma Wood and she would boil you up some herbs and make a tea and you would be just fine. Edie's grandma told her to douche with mustard and water and the "mistake" would flush away. Well, the "mistake" was born in July and was named Susan. One remedy that didn't work.
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