He handed one to Annie. “Follow me.” Annie shoved hard on her shopping cart to keep up with Jake as they went around the bakery. She parked the cart along the bakery's back wall before she settled beside Jake in the alley. She felt as if she was going to start drooling all over herself any minute...
Lue yelled, bursting through the screen door with Don on his heels. “Mercy sakes, we's in the bedroom. What's the matter now?” Breathlessly, the boys hurried to the bedroom door. Standing around the bed, Nannie, Cass, and Bess studied the layers of fabric they had stretched out across the bed. Th...
John said Jim and he should drive over and check out the damage. He'd like to hear from Rudy if the sheriff investigated yet and had an idea how the fire started. Hal laid her fork on her plate as she added, “I really should go along to help Martha with the house cleaning.” “Gute idea. Amos said ...
Miranda held on to her seat as the wagon leaned one way then the other and lurched off the rocks. She wondered if there was anything else ahead that could be worse than all the country they had traveled in. The mud mired trail in Kansas and the potholes and gopher mounds in Nebraska were rough go...
When I tell her you're ready to sell to a customer, she'll take you back to the lab. Maybe two or three weeks from now.” “Is that all the time I have here?” Henie reached down for the cat's pan, hugged it to her and turned around. She paused to study the barn, the pasture and the grove of cottonw...
She was twisting the key in the lock. She looked up and smiled at him when she recognized him. Bat tugged his hat brim and greeted, “Evenin’, Miss Leta. How’s the bonnet comin’?” “I’ve gotten it about half done,” She said as she dropped the door key in her black receptacle and pulled the draw str...
Once everyone had on their for gute clothes, they were ready to leave for church. John pulled the enclosed buggy up by the house. Noah offered to hitch Molly to Jim's buggy. Jim followed to see if he could help. The boy lifted each of Molly's feet to inspect them. “What are you doing?” Jim asked....
While Tansy went to the outhouse, Amanda sat on the porch to wait for whatever was going to happen next. “Mandie, do ya want to he'p me fix the pasture fence? It's been a few days since I've checked the fence line. Probably been a deer or two didn't make a clean jump. I thought when we’re done we...
The girls played with the kittens. Shana declared that was one of her chores assigned by Abigail. She had to keep the kittens tame so Abigail could play with them when she came home without the kittens hissing at her. May Jean grumbled that she would like fun chores like this one at her house. On...
She dressed and quietly wriggled into her coat to keep from rousing Hover out of his power down mode. She stepped out on the porch with the feeling she had plenty of restless energy to walk off. The screen door slammed behind her, making the only noise in the morning stillness. The birds were eve...