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time he muttered aloud, “Yeah Bob what next?”

 Chapter 25

They were both up around seven the next morning, they had a light breakfast of cold cereal and several cups of coffee. Bob paced around the house until Alicia asked him to go to the store. “Your brother won’t get here before ten or eleven probably, here is a list of a few things I need.”

Bob stated to protest but Alicia said, “I’ll be here by the phone, if he gets here before you get back I’ll be better at telling him how to find my house and you should exercise your hip.”

Bob took her list and some cash she handed him, “Okay, and I’m keeping track of what you’re spending so you will get paid back.”

He went out the door and headed for the store.

He was back in about twenty minutes, handed Alicia the bag of groceries and looked mildly disappointed when she told him that no one had phoned yet.

“I noticed that your fence has a bit of a lean out there in front, where will I find a few tools?”

“Out in the back in the garden shed,” she replied. “But you don’t have to do anything.”

“Oh, I know but I want to and it’ll pass the time. Besides it looks like it just needs a brace and a few nails.”

A little later Bob was just putting the hammer away when Alicia called out, “C’mon Bob, your brother will be here in a moment.”