Chapter Nine: Builders
#10 of The Blackwood War
chapter 9
Chapter Nine: Builders
The following morning from seven am until lunchtime found her on the beach exercising all of her horses of which there was nineteen. She had her lunch after putting the horses out into their fields again before she telephoned a building company.
"Hello Johnston and Sons family builders." said a warm voice. "How may I help you?"
"I am Crystal Blackwood of Seven Oaks, Vancouver." she replied. "I would like to employ you to extend the size of my garage and stable-yard."
The person on the other end of the line asked. "I am Mr Donald Johnson, the father. Do you have planning permission?"
"Yes, I have." Crystal replied.
Mr Johnston smiled. "We will be down to see you at eleven am tomorrow morning. Is that okay?"
Crystal nodded. "It is yes. Bye."
"Bye." said Mr Johnston.
Crystal hung up then and went to shower before having a bite to eat.
She left at almost six o'clock for Ninja where Chad kept her training the techniques that he had already taught her in previous lessons. The young woman left there at nearly seven o'clock for Jujitsu where Damon did exactly the same as Chad had done. Crystal arrived at Karate and Kick-Boxing at almost eight o'clock. There too she trained hard. It was the same at Judo.
The next morning Crystal did not go riding at all. She just made sure that the tack room, feed room and all the stables were clean and tidy as well as the yard itself. She also drove all of her cars round the back of her house, out of the way of the garage.
The builders arrived at eleven o'clock and a small bald man with grey eyes said. "I am Donald Johnston. We spoke on the `phone?"
Crystal nodded. "The plans are in the kitchen."
On seeing the plans, Mr Johnston smiled faintly. "This should be done within three months, this is fairly easy for us to do."
Crystal grinned, pleasantly surprised. "And the cost?"
"Around $55,000." replied the builder. "We can even start the basic things today."
"Yes, please, start today." Crystal beamed.
The builders left at five o'clock and the young woman went to feed all of her horses before getting a bite to eat herself then leaving for Ninjutsu.
On arriving there Chad taught her slightly harder techniques.
"It helps that you do the other Arts or a lot of them." he said conversationally. "It has given you more discipline than if you had only started this class without ever doing a martial art before."
Crystal nodded, smiling warmly and Chad grinned back, happy that he had made her smile, her eyes lighting up with pleasure. She left at almost seven o'clock for Jujitsu where Damon told her more or less the same thing.
At eight o'clock Crystal left and went home.
From seven o'clock the following morning until lunchtime she was exercising her horses. After she had turned the horses back out into the fields and had eaten her own lunch she went into the city to buy a larger horse-van. A silver GMC thirteen horse one.
At almost five o'clock she fed all the horses, swept the yard then reset all the alarms before going for her own dinner and a shower.