“We can’t flip a single light switch until every inch of this cloth is out of the house.”

“How much will the breaker box and wire cost?” I asked.

“Nine hundred dollars if I buy the box wholesale through the shop,” Nate said.

“Twelve hundred if we buy it retail at the lumberyard.”

I pressed my thumb hard against my index finger inside my coat pocket, working out how much cash was left in my vinyl zip pouch after paying the county clerk.

“We have eighty-two dollars left in the pouch,” I said.