The Jane West Chronicles
After spending the week as The Bionic Woman—going to work, commuting into town, getting kids ready for school, making costumes for the end-of-the-year school play when it's a known fact that she can't sew worth a damn and that all sewing activities involve her cursing like a sailor (causing poor Johnny West to run for cover), taking a horse to Show and Tell (which included coming up with a "non-sugar" treat for 57 kids), vetting horses, doing laundry, watering trees, feeding everyone on the ranch, etc.— Jane West is tired and cranky. (Johnny too...)
She has put a moratorium on all weekend activities, except reading.
Jane sure could use a weekend in a secluded mountain cabin. She's envisioning ...
Beatty's cabin. Circa 1920.
She, Johnny and kids made the horseback ride up here in the Pecos Wilderness a couple of years ago. It rained some, and the verdant green grass was up to their knees. The valley was filled with the sound of the rushing Pecos river.
All that's left of the cabin now is bits and pieces of the stone foundation, which made them sad. But that didn't stop the little family from standing in the middle of where four log walls had once been, thinking longingly of what it would have been like to have lived in such a peaceful, quiet place.
