The Farmhouse

The Farmhouse has a porch that wraps around the front and a kitchen that smells like something good is always cooking. The screen door creaks when it opens — Farmer Brown has fixed it three times and it creaks anyway, so he's stopped trying. The table inside is big enough for everyone, and on the nights when the whole farm family gathers around it, it somehow always is. There are muddy boot prints by the door that never quite come clean. There are drawings on the fridge that the younger animals made and Farmer Brown never took down. There is a rocking chair on the porch where he sits at the end of the day, watching the sun go down over his land, grateful for every single thing that happened — even the parts that went wrong.