With their financial health intact, she made arrangements to proceed with the work on the house.
Alex was sitting on the porch swing, nursing a cup of coffee the morning they arrived to work on the house.
But every dime spent on the house meant that much less she could invest in the dairy - and the dairy was the one thing that stood a chance of stimulating her anemic savings account.
The days grew warmer, and work on the house on the hill drew to a standstill.
Will it pay if a tree falls on the house?