Out of Focus (33 page)
“It might be a month. It might be five years. I can’t make any promises. But I can’t imagine sharing my heart with anyone but you. My life has been out of focus this past year. It’s starting to become clear again, thanks to you.”
This must be what joy feels like.
“Is that a maybe?” His mood seemed buoyant. He glanced over at Jake and Shutterbug, running through the yard with a smile.
“It’s not a no. So much has happened, I’ve put off dealing with most of it. But if you can be patient with me....”
“I’m not going anywhere.” He gently pressed her hand to her cheek, kissed the tip of her nose, then pulled her close. “We’ll take it a day at a time.”
THE END
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FAVORITES
FROM ADAMS GROVE
Ms. Huckaby’s Applesauce Cake
½ cup butter
1 ½ cups sugar
2 eggs
1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon of crushed cloves
½ teaspoon of allspice
½ cup water
1 ½ cups applesauce
¾ cup chopped pecans
½ cup raisins
Place the raisins in a bowl of warm water and set them aside to let them plump.
Cream butter and sugar. Add the eggs one at a time and beat well. Now, combine all the dry ingredients and add to the creamed mixture alternately with splashes of the water.
Stir in applesauce.
Drain and dry the raisins, then dust the nuts and raisins with flour before adding them to your batter.
Pour batter into a greased and floured Bundt pan and bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
Let the cake cool completely then frost with Ms. Huckaby’s Quickie Glaze.
Enjoy y’all!
Ms. Huckaby’s Quickie Glaze
This quick and easy glaze is perfect for your home baked goodies or use it on store-bought cookies, cakes or treats to make them extra special!
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 cup of confectioner’s sugar
3 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (or your favorite flavor)
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Remove from heat as soon as the butter is melted. Add sugar, milk and extract to the saucepan. Stir until smooth.
Drizzle and Brag!
Sheriff Calvin’s Mooin’ Marinade
½ cup soy sauce
½ cup Worcestershire
½ cup oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoon of your favorite BBQ Sauce (
Sheriff Calvin’s favorite is Rudy’s Sause from rudysbbq.com
)
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon basil
Place your steaks in a glass casserole dish.
Combine all the ingredients in another bowl, and mix well. Pour the mixture over the steaks. Cover refrigerate for 4-8 hours, no more than 24 hours.
Let meat reach room temperature before cooking.
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About the Author
Nancy Naigle writes love stories from the crossroad of small town and suspense.
Living on the cutting edge of technology in her day job, Nancy spends each night creating make-believe small town worlds filled with community, heart, and suspense. She hopes readers will accept her invitation to visit Adams Grove and will grow to care about the residents as much as she does.
A Virginia native, and spending most of her life in the Tidewater area, she and her husband of 16 years moved inland to quiet Southampton County. They now live in a log-sided home on a working goat farm with their two labs and more kids (the four-legged kind) than they keep count of, where they are living out their own small town love story.
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of small town and suspense
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