1.3 Time for Dinner
The two had a quick lunch, stopping to watch a little bit of TV, but when finished they went back to work on the projects they had been working on before lunch. The sounds of power tools could be heard coming from the basement, with the sound of music coming from the office throughout the afternoon, but as it got closer to supper, Henry came upstairs early to clean up and found Jazmin to be doing the same thing.
Tonight some friends of the family were coming over for supper and some games. It wasn’t planned to be a late night sense all had to work the next day, but it was the first night in a long time that either couple had got to relax. They would of planned it another night, but everyone’s schedules only free up for this Sunday evening.
About 6:45 Gerome and Darla showed up at Henry and Jazmin’s door step. Gerome and Darla had been married for about a year. Both had been childhood friends of Henry and Jazmin and their friendships only grew through school. Gerome stood a little shorter than Henry, but he was not missing any mussel. Haveing to work on the family farm his whole life, he had kept in shape throught his years moving cattle and working on farm machinery.
Darla on the other had seemed fragile when standing next to Gerome. She group up in town, not having any family in the rural area. She participated in school activities which kept her in shape, but she you would not find her in the summer weight room. She stood about as tall as Gerome, but only because of her inch thick soles of her shoes. Henry opened the door letting the couple in from the cool dusk evening. The sun starting to set behind the houses and trees to the west.
“Hey guys. Nice you see you!” Henry says as the two enter.
Jazmin’s voice could then be heard coming from across the house in the kitchen, “Hi Gerome and Darla. I am just finishing up lazania.”
“Hi Jazmin” Gerome and Darla reply almost at the same time. Gerome then took Darla’s coat to hang with his coat on the rack by the door. “I hope we are not to late.” Darla continues.
“Nope. I think the garlic bread is just finishing up with the lazania,” as the three move to the kitchen, Henry continues, “And I forgot about the green beans, do you mind if they are microwaved?” Not really stopping for an answer, Henry starts to get together the green beans.
“That is fine.” Gerome says, and then turns to Jazmin, “So what have you been up to?”
“I have been working on my blanket. Trying to get more craft stuff done to sell. I think I am getting the hang of sewing though.” Jazmin opens the oven to pull out a pan of lazania. “How about you two? What have you been up to?
Darla speaks up, “Work. When we are not at work, we are working on our rental.”
“I heard you got one. How is that? Does a lot need to be done to it?” Henry says pushing the buttons to the microwave to start warming up the beans.
Gerome responds, “It is in good shape. We just had to paint it, fix some of the plumbing, and redue the kitchen floor. A water leak had messed the floor up.”
Jazmin carries the lazania to the table, and Darla grabs the garlic bread that was sitting on the stove top. “Sounds like fun.” Jazmin says. “And if you want to grab those plates over there,” looking at Henry, she nods to the plates sitting out on the counter, “we should be good to go.”
Henry grabs the plates as the microwave goes off. “I can get those,” Gerome says as Henry looks at the plates in his hands and then at the microwave. “Now go set the table.” With that Henry walks out of the kitchen to take the dishes to the table as Gerome grabs the green beans from the microwave.
