The next few hours were filled with shopping, meeting people, and Sunny fawning over the town’s decorations. We found her boots, thick socks, snow pants, a heavier coat, gloves, a scarf, and a hat. She told me she wouldn’t be able to move in the snow if she wore all that. As long as she was warm, I would be more than happy to carry her around in the snow.
She goaded me into buying Christmas decorations and a tree, which we tied down in the back of the truck. We bought board games, puzzles, and decks of cards. I took her to the craft store and we stocked up on paints, canvas, brushes, colored pencils, graphite pencils with different softness… or something, sketch pads, erasers, and just anything she thought she could need to create if something happened to the electricity.
At each store,
