Under the Wire

Things have a wonderful way of working out sometimes. Call it fate, predestination or just plain luck. There are times if you sat down and wrote out the best possible outcome for a situation, you never could dream up what actually happens.

Several years ago, Sue decided she wanted a cat. This surprised me because we already had about 20 hanging around the barns, haystacks and fields around our house. The problem was, she said, they are all wild and don’t come up around the house. She wanted one that could be fed, petted once in a while and would hang around the back door. Within a few days, my...