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Snow Angels by Kristine Kathryn Rusch So Gramps took them down to the road anyway. Bobberts stuck his hands in his pockets. Hisfingers found his dads Swiss Army knife. He didnt even get to use it. Dad was kinda meanabout that. You dont use knives to cut trees Bobs Dad said. Thats what the chainsaw wasfor. But Bobberts brought the knife so they wouldnt need the chainsaw. Last year Daddy saidthe chainsaw was why Gramps took Bobberts and Sarah to the car before the Christmas tree wascut. Too much could go wrong with chainsaws. So him and Sarah got sent to the car again. This time Bobberts was mad. Sarah didnt care. Shejust skipped ahead happy to be in the trees and the snow. She liked outside she likedplaying she liked it all. She didnt know there was cool stuff they couldnt do. Dad said Bobberts would get to do it “some day. Bobberts was beginning to think “some day” meant “never. The snow on the path was muddy.You could see the rocks underneath it. Bobberts kicked one and Gramps laughed. Its not that much fun kiddo” Gramps said. “They get a chainsaw and just slice through thetree. Its over in five seconds. Bobberts nodded. Dad said the same thing but that didnt mean it was true. Bobberts had neverseen somebody use a chainsaw—Dad said he was too little. He was nine now and tall for hisage. Everybody said so. He wasnt little anymore. Sarah skipped through the trees. “Theres the car” she said pointing. Their car and twoothers. Those weirdo people who were walking with Daddy and the tree guy into the woods.Bobberts didnt want to call it a farm because he didnt see pigs and cows and horses. It wasjust a woods with lots of Christmas trees. Gramps reached the car first and unlocked it. Then he rubbed his hands together. “You kids getinside” he said. “I gotta see a man about a dog
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