Nuggets of Sunshine

I was sewing a seam on my new dress when the wind loosened the shutter on my window. It banged the shutter against the side of the house, back and forth, back and forth, almost as if the wind was having a tantrum with the shutter. The banging shutter emphasized the wind and rain that had kept me in the house for three says and had given me the worst case of cabin fever I had ever had. As I went to fasten the shutter, before it broke the glass, I saw my Pa hurrying down the muddy street Such a thing had never happened before, that he would leave the store in the middle of the day and I wondered what could have happened.