Chapter 34
Kat came in, four days after the storm was over, with a picture frame under one arm. “You will not believe what I found, reading the storm news.”
Scooter glanced up. They were still doing repairs; a section of flooring in the kitchen had given way when some of the joists had gotten soaked. They had probably been decaying over the last several years before the hurricane proved to be the last straw. Thank God Andy had some carpentry skills and that both Scooter and Jason were able to follow Andy’s lead. (Well, at least, Andy was capable of finding instructions on YouTube and then making sense of those instructions, which was more than Scooter could manage. Scooter’s mom had been a carpenter of no small skill, but she had always thought she’d have more time to teach those things
