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“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

You’re back, and I’m glad.

Today we finish the first section of our story; fittingly as October and autumn come to the NC mountains.

These first three chapters are actually a prologue .. or maybe a hypothetical. We’ve been looking into the future, at what life could be like IF everything works out. But, of course, nothing, in the end, is what we think it will be.

We’ll have more questions than answers after today.

How did Brooke and Peter meet, if he was homeless and living on the street? How was this young couple able to purchase an old family farm, especially a place so large? What was their company, Barking Out Loud? What did it do and how did it make so much money? What were the other fights Brooke and Peter had? And just where do their friends fit in?

Then there’s the name, Tall Clover Farms, along with why the truck\’s color won’t change. What are these stories about?

The next installment will start to offer answers as we go back twenty years to Brooke graduating from college and beginning her adult life. She’d need a job and a place to live before the story can start. Then, only if she’s lucky, will she end up on the mountain in the home you’ve now visited. Or maybe not, we’ll see.

In Chapter 3, we find Brooke and Peter, comfortable on their mountain in NC, enjoying the colors autumn brings, and getting ready for the arrival of some old friends. Chairs will be arranged around the fire for an evening of storytelling. Storytellers look back and remember because that’s what storytellers do.

Let\’s read Chapter Three. Then we’ll go on, so we can eventually arrive at Tall Clover Farms.

But – none of it may go that way because you are helping to write this story. What are your ideas? Keep speaking up; that’s the only way we can do this – together.

As always, the conversation starts here.

Read Chapter Three