It was the following morning and the storm finally passed through. The sun was out but a slight drop in temperature remained. Tasha set her alarm early and gently slid out of bed without wakening up Alice. As she stood over and watched Alice, there was nothing and I mean nothing nobody could possibly say to change her mind that Alice wasn’t the most beautiful woman in the world to her. Tasha went to the bathroom to relieve her bladder and then brush her teeth. She then threw on some sweats and a t shirt and walked outside to assess the damage the storm had done to the front yard. It wasn’t as bad as she thought just a bunch of broken branches spread out across the yard. She went into the shed grabbed her lawn gloves and trash bag and began cleaning up the yard. She loved doing yard work, it was Alice who wouldn’t be caught dead doing anything pertaining to yard work. God forbid she got dirty or broke a nail, Tasha would never hear the end of it. After she was done with the front yard she walked to the back yard and continued her clean-up efforts. She and Alice bought a 4 bedroom home two years earlier it was their dream home. It was just the two of them and it suited them perfectly. Tasha bagged up the remaining storm debris and sat the bags in front for the trash pickup. She then headed back into the house to check to see if Alice had woken up. She hadn’t, she was still sleeping peacefully. Tasha had to give herself a pat on the back she definitely put it on Alice last night, a job well done Lt. Colonel. Since, Alice was sleeping and the fact that she had 4 hours to kill before she had to report to base she went into the kitchen to make breakfast.

Alice was a vegetarian so she prepped the ingredients needed to make her some baked almond cinnamon french toast, herb & onion frittata (an Italian style omelet), and her favorite citrus berry smoothie. She wanted to spoil Alice as much as she could before she left. For Tasha she prepped some regular french toast, grits, scrambled eggs, and maple bacon.