Delight stood up, moving Franklin’s arm away from her shoulders. “I have an announcement to make.”
All eyes turned to listen to Delight. “If Delbert weren’t dead, I’d murder him.” Quietly she sat back down, picked up Franklin’s arm, and put it back over her shoulder.
“How did you find me?” Granny looked to Silas for the answer.
Sheepishly, he admitted, “I opened your Christmas present early, before I was going to leave. I read your note about the key and where it belonged. I borrowed your snowmobile to get to church. Since I was in town I thought I might as well attend your wedding to see if you really would marry him. I figured he’d want the key and so I checked your house and, when you weren’t there, I figured the only other way to the cemetery was the road.”
Franklin looked at Granny, “Christmas present? You gave Silas a Christmas present? I thought you didn’t like him. You’re always complaining about him. You’ve tried to have him arrested and you gave him a Christmas present? What more don’t I know?”
“Hello, Hermiony Vidalia.”
Granny raised her eyes from Franklin’s to the voice at the back of the church. With all eyes now on her, Granny’s friends and family watched as Granny’s skin turned as white as the snow swirling outside the church. The last thing Granny remembered before falling to the floor like an apple falls from a tree in what some might call a dead faint, was Delight’s giggly voice stating: “Franklin, Granny’s falling for you again!”
THE END
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julie Seedorf believes that if you believe it, you can do it. Julie retired from her computer business in 2014 to journey into writing full time. Putting her creativity to work, she is the author of the fictional Fuchsia, Minnesota Mystery series. Her first book Granny Hooks A Crook weaves a story about a fictional town in Minnesota that doesn’t conform to the conventional rules and regulations of the communities that we live in today. Granny herself is unconventional and many say unbelievable. Perhaps she is only unbelievable because we have stereotypes of the way older people are supposed to age. Julie’s books in the Fuchsia, Minnesota series (in addition to Granny Hooks a Crook and Granny Snows a Sneak, there is also Granny Skewers a Scoundrel) are meant to poke fun at those ideas.
Adding to her career as an author, Julie also writes freelance human interest stories for Minnesota area newspapers, the Albert Lea Tribune and the Courier Sentinel. She hopes to expand her freelance career in the future. Seven years ago Julie started her career as a columnist. Her column Something About Nothing can be found in the Albert Lea Tribune, the Courier Sentinel and online at her blog http://www.sprinklednotes.com.
Having lived in small communities all her life Julie knows the richness that a small community can have in bringing up a family. Julie raised her children in small communities and takes the time to make sure her grandchildren learn the importance of the saying, it takes a village to raise a child.
The experiences of grandchildren learning who a grandparent was when they were young, is the subject of the Granny’s In Trouble series that Julie writes with her grandchildren. The first book in the Granny’s in Trouble series, “Whatchamacallit? Thingamajig?” was published in 2012. The next book in the series will be out soon.
You can find Julie on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/julie.seedorf.author on her blog sprinklednotes, on twitter at @julieseedorf or on her website at julieseedorf.com. Her books are available on Amazon, Createspace, Barnes and Noble and other independent bookstores.
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