How Two Extra Jobs and Forty Thousand Dollars Bought the Old Miller Farm

“I want the Friday night and Saturday late shifts.”

Patty blew a thin gray stream of smoke toward the gravel.

“Those are twelve-hour stretches,” Patty said.

“Eleven at night to eleven the next morning.

It’s mostly long-haul drivers and guys coming off the night shift at the wire mill.”

“I know what the shift is,” I said.

“I can carry four dinner plates up one arm, and I don’t make mistakes on guest checks.”

“Your husband works over at the tractor repair shop,” she said.