CHAPTER 9
“We need to know what we’ve got in the way of food and supplies,” Chaco said.
Always the accountant, Jude offered to log the inventory and keep a ledger. He located a yellow legal pad and a pen, and sat at the patio table. Bethany put on a second pot of coffee, and a pan with water for cocoa because, by that time, the little girls had awakened. They cuddled under a blanket, sleepy-eyed, on Abigail’s lap. Lacy sucked her fingers. Rufus plopped down on the flagstones beside them and licked his paws.
Once Jude accounted for all the supplies from the shed, the vacationing neighbors, and the Walkers’ pantry and garage, only the contents of the Pennymons’ wheelbarrows remained. Rocky recited the items as he removed them one at a time and placed them on the flagstones. “One Remington
