How Green Becomes Wood

"I think it's only fair you do, 'bout time you start pulling your weight around here," Cooger teased, checking on the pot pie and the corn bread mix, "Yeah, they'll be ready at just around the same time."
 
Lex raised her eyebrows at him. "Oh really? Alright, then." She walked behind him to take care of the potatoes and pinched his rump as she passed. "I'll work on that." She set about making the mashed potatoes.
 
Lex took his advice and did just that, putting together a nice mashed potato mound in no time at all. Then she helped him set the table and get everything set up for dinner. She then helped herself some water and sat down once everything was ready. "Thanks for this, Cooger. This is amazing."
 
"Aw, it's nothing, wasn't gonna let you go hungry," Cooger said, getting a can of coke from the fridge and sitting down across from her, "Thanks for helping. It made it a lot easier. It's been nice having you over today, I gotta say. Even though it threw off my plans something fierce."
 
"Sorry about that. What were your plans? Other than chopping wood," she asked, having a momentary flashback to the scene she'd driven up to earlier. That lovely, lovely scene. She should surprise him more often.
 
"Boring stuff. I was going to check the chicken coop lighting, sharpen my tools. We're coming up on winter, so I need to make preparations for that. And start prepping the compost so the garden beds are fertile for next year. Spent most of the morning just taking inventory of what I've got and what I still need."
 
Lex nodded thoughtfully as she took her portion of the pot pie. "I've been thinking about getting a bit of land, not this much, but a bit so my neighbors are forced to be farther away from my forge, and I've been considering if I'd want to get animals on it. I guess that's putting the cart before the horse, but it's fun to dream. Do you like having chickens?"
 
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