A Stop Along the Road

Jerry always liked driving his truck on the open roads of the country on the weekends. His wife’s folks had a nice patch of land about an hour south of town, so they’d go visit them almost every week. It wasn’t big or anything. They had some hens and pigs, and almost two acres of planted crops. More than half of that was corn, for trade, but mostly everything else were veggies that they used to live off. They didn’t have enough land to make a…