The Best Christmas and New Year Celebration – Chapter 3

The Mutual Discovery Matt spoke again as he watched them putting the balls back in place. “If you guys have finished competing against each other we could go eat somewhere and I’ll pick up the tab. We have a lot to catch up with Andy.” Andy nodded enthusiastically and Janet smiled to herself after viewing his reaction to Matt’s sister. Her brother was not a … Continue reading The Best Christmas and New Year Celebration – Chapter 3

The Best Christmas and New Year Celebration – Chapter 2

Catching Up with the Past Roger and Miranda Sonter looked on happily as their two children wolfed down their mother’s famous pancake breakfast extravaganza. While they were now adults’ memories of their childhood were fresh in their parents’ memory as they’d grown up noisily in the home. It had been a quiet home since they both left but that was the way of the world. … Continue reading The Best Christmas and New Year Celebration – Chapter 2

The Best Christmas and New Year Celebration – Chapter 1

The Return of the Prodigal Miranda Sonter glanced at her laptop notification. She was in the middle of composing an email to her son Andy in Germany where he was presently stationed on rotation with his army unit. This was his first trip to Germany, and he was keeping his parents well informed of his delight in discoveries made there. On his leaves he’d spent … Continue reading The Best Christmas and New Year Celebration – Chapter 1

The Impractical Wish

Oliver sat in the coffee shop watching the world go by. The coffee had considerably cooled since it was delivered to his table and the cheesecake resting by its side was untouched. He was not really interested in these two items, waiting for him to reach out and consume them hastily before making a painful attempt to stand and shuffle off to the newsagent for … Continue reading The Impractical Wish

Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 5

Freya Finds Her Soulmate There was excitement at the ranch. It was time for Running Squirrel’s delivery and one of the cowboys was dispatched to the Indian camp to alert the chief and his family. They rode quickly and the wife of the chief and the local Dakota midwife rode back quickly to respond. Running Squirrel had been taken to Freya’s room to give her … Continue reading Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 5

Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 4

Freya Gets a New Name Freya thanked the foreman in acknowledgement of all the help he’d given in keeping the workers happy on the ranch despite her brother’s difficulty nature. “Erik you can go now and tomorrow, we’ll do an inspection of the ranch. I hope my favourite horse is still available but I’ll leave it to you to arrange all that along with provisions … Continue reading Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 4

Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 3

Freya Inherits the Ranch As a Lutheran the foreman would feel uncomfortable if he were not married to his Indian bride in a Christian ceremony and have the marriage recorded in government records, He knew marriage with Indians had been done frequently during pioneer days so it was not unheard of, but he was unsure how his fellow workers would handle him bringing Running Squirrel … Continue reading Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 3

Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 2

Trouble at the Indian Camp The pastor addressed the oldest man among ranch workers. “This ranch has potential and can be a good place for you to stay if the owner of the ranch wants to develop a team spirit with his workers. What would you say to that?” “He would need to make a lot of change in his attitude for us to agree … Continue reading Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 2

Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 1

Ari’s Inheritance At Risk Bjorn Gustafsson had ruled his family with a rod of iron and life had deteriorated for the family after the loss of his second wife Brigid. His first wife Edda had left two years into their marriage and fled across the border of Manitoba into the US state of North Dakota and was now happily married to another Swede who was … Continue reading Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 1

The Caimbeul Generations – Chapter 3

Iian Finds a New Love Iian was sitting on the veranda of his brother Gregory’s house with Cara enjoying drinks in the evening and watching the sailing ships arriving and departing for their foreign journeys. It was an increasingly busy harbour, and the population was increasing rapidly as more migrants arrived and were either assigned work, given grants of land in the far corners of … Continue reading The Caimbeul Generations – Chapter 3