Christmas on Main Street by JoAnn Ross EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: JoAnn Ross
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It was beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Shelter Bay. Tinseled
garlands and wreaths with huge red bows were strung across the streets,
colorful holiday scenes had been painted by students on the windows of
local businesses, and fairy lights sparkled in the branches of trees all over
town.
Down at the pier, Cole Douchett was freezing his tail off stringing lights
onto the cabin of his family’s fishing boat.
“Why, exactly, are we doing this?” he asked.
“Because the mayor got the idea for the town to have a Christmas boat
parade, like they do up in Portland,” his grandfather Bernard said.
“She’s hoping it’ll bring in more tourists,” Lucien, his father, added.
“Yeah, why go all the way to Hawaii for beaches when you can winter
on the Oregon coast? In case you didn’t notice, that’s frigging sleet hitting
your face,” Cole complained.
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“Boy’s been in the desert too long,” Bernard drawled to his son. “All
those years in Afghanistan and Iraq thinned his blood.”
“I don’t mind the cold,” Cole countered. “I’m an effing Marine. We live
for miserable conditions. . . .
“What I don’t get is why we need to be out here turning into Popsicles in
order to draw in more tourists. This is a fishing boat. It’s not like we’re
going to be taking tourists for whale-watching rides around the bay.”
And the boat wasn’t even used all that often anymore, except for family
sport fishing.
Whereas his grandfather had worked as a commercial fisherman until
recently, his dad had left the sea years ago to open a restaurant with Cole’s
mother.
Unfortunately, the place had taken a hit by a vicious winter ice storm,
only to be given a knockout blow two months after that when hurricane-
force winds triggered by a Pacific typhoon came barreling through Shelter
Bay. Which was when Maureen and Lucien Douchett had thrown in the
towel, closed down Bon Temps, and retired.
Sort of.
They were currently running a bait shop on the harbor, but his father had
kept the commercial fishing license, and whenever a recreational day on the
water ended up with more crabs, rockfish, or salmon than the family could
eat, the two men sold them to local vendors and restaurants.
“Didn’t we mention both your grandmère and mother like the idea of a
boat parade?” his father asked.
Slam.
Case closed.
There was nothing these two men wouldn’t do for their wives. If Adèle
and Maureen Douchett wanted the family to take part in this latest
cockamamy marketing gimmick the mayor had come up with, that’s exactly
what their men would do.
“When you get married, if you’re smart, you’ll learn early on that when
women get something set in their minds, it’s easier to go along rather than
get pecked to high heaven by ducks,” Bernard said. “There’s also the fact
that your grandmère and maman like Christmas,” he added pointedly.
“Unlike some people in the family. Who’ll remain nameless.”
That unnamed family member being him.
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