Dandelions in a jelly jar

This book is pretty slow going. The characters are interesting and the story was too but it just seemed to stall out for a while.

This is the 2nd book in the series and while the first book was about Mae and her new husband this book was mostly about her sister Trudy. Trudy's roommate in St. Paul gets engaged and Trudy has a hard time feeling happy for her friend. She had a really hard time finding a good roommate last time. She has been missing her sister so she decided to move to Lake Emily and get a teaching job there and then she'd also be closer to her boyfriend Bert. Things seem to be going great until they hit a rough patch. Bert's mother is not an easy woman to get along with and she and Trudy bump heads. Then an old friend asks Bert to help out with the hockey team and then later with the football team. Bert is happy to help but he doesn't realize how resentful Trudy is of that stolen time. When the school board starts talking about cutting programs Trudy gets upset thinking they are too quick to cut art and music programs but not sports and writes a letter to the editor which sends the whole town into a tizzy. It takes a nasty wind storm and devastation, plus a few apologies from Trudy, to bring them back together.