During her career she’d helped tell the beginning of that story (planting, growing, and harvesting grain) and the end of that story (creating baked goods from scratch) at historic farms from Wisconsin to Switzerland. She’d never had opportunity to consider the middle phase, though—turning grain into flour. The mill’s interpretive possibilities really were exciting. She read the research reports, scribbling ideas as they came. An hour later she reluctantly acknowledged that she should be going. She made sure the fire was out, bundled up, and fetched her skis from the front porch. The cast iron skillet she’d baked the kuchen in, which now needed cleaning, was a heavy addition to her pack. But it was worth it, Chloe thought, as she kicked off. My love life might be falling apart, but I do enjoy my work. Her optimism carried her back to the Education House. She’d endured her assigned workspace in a dilapidated trailer through the fall, but once the weather turned cold, she humbly begged Byron for corner space in the cottage he shared with the curator of research.
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