JULIA

All of a sudden, we had three more pieces to build in addition to the bed frames going to Brianna and Sam. Almost two months of work with just Lisa and I, and probably not much less with Reneé when she could start in a week and a half considering her skill level. Even adding Janet wouldn't significantly impact us as she'd likely need to give two weeks notice as well and was also inexperienced. Still having four sets of hands to sand, stain and varnish would be a godsend.

When I woke up on Saturday morning, Master had already phoned the order for the new supplies. When he...