Graydon would swing a sledge hammer to drive a splitting wedge down through the knot until it would snap apart, sometimes violently; he would use a single-bit splitting axe to split the blocks down to fit the stoves. His job was to keep the wood boxes for both stoves full. He would save the larger, pine-knot chunks for laying up the parlor stove fire at night. Despite that, the parlor fire would by morning burn down to ashes and a few embers. Getting up in the morning was done surrounded by clouds of one's breath in the frosty upstairs air.It was a long, cold run to the outhouse in winter. Pails under each bed were carried and emptied at morning call.Winter life at the Wolf Creek homestead seemed very closed in for Graydon, sheltered, his world centered around the warm house and the sheltering barn. He swaddled himself in boots, sweater, a heavy coat, hat and gloves, before coping with the frozen spaces outside. Work centered on feed, firewood, chopping ice, carrying water, and. Everyone here just seems so phony sometimes." I see that the suburbs haven't changed much since I was a kid," Sydney said, feeling a strong buzz in her head."You grew up in the suburbs?" Not too far from here," she confirmed. "I went to Whispering Oaks High school. Class of 94." Wow. Somehow I pictured you as growing up in... I don't know, South Central LA or something."Sydney laughed. "Nope," she said. "I'm a product of a good old upper middle class upbringing. My father was a dentist and my mother was a stereotypical housewife. I got two brothers that live around here. One's a dentist like my old man; the other's a computer systems engineer. I'm kind of the black sheep of the family, as you can imagine." Do you still see your family?"She shook her head, displaying no sadness. "Nope, not too much. My parents pretty much disowned me when I... you know... came out of the closet. They wrote me out of their will, kicked me out of the house, the whole bit. The only one that I have any.
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