The elements

Afternoons on the davenport (featuring chicken pox); big porch swing pushes; views of white caps on the river; the arbor; white pickets; wild flowers; judging the weather from the flag's direction; hard floors; comic books; bathroom adventures; tip-toe tours of the museum room; waiting for ghosts; watching hallway candles; stove run on wood; warm kitchen; full bar; stiff fish hanging from the heights; whisky jokes all around; endless rounds of cribbage, both friendly and vengeful; sunbathing in the adirondacks; fishing for all manner of fishes, in all manner of environments, using all manner of bait; listening to whispers through paper-thin walls; hugging the chimney.