Courting Buggy: Nurse Hal Among The Amish by Risner Fay

Author:Risner, Fay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: amish, fiction contemporary women, iowa farm, iowa in fiction, iowa author
Publisher: Fay Risner

Chapter 11

Hal put the groceries away. Tootie watched closely what came out of the sacks. She questioned, “You bought a roll of cookie dough?”

“I thought we could have chocolate chip cookies for dessert tonight,” Hal said. “Would you rather mix up some cookie dough from scratch for me?”

“No, Dear, I guess that roll is sort of like baking and certainly quick,” Tootie relented.

Hal brought five tubes of biscuits from the sack and started for the refrigerator.

“You don't make your biscuits from scratch?” Tootie asked.

“Jah, Emma does for breakfast, but I had something else in mind for these,” Hal said.

“Well, they are better than nothing, aren't they?” Tootie replied with disdain.

Once Hal emptied the sacks and put them away, she said, “Maybe I should wash up before I start supper. The perfume smells strong on me yet.”

“I thought you said no one would mind?”

“I said no one would mind you wearing perfume. I'm not so sure John will be pleased about this much perfume on me,” worried Hal.

“You worry too much,” Tootie declared. “Don't wash all that good perfume off.”

“Well, maybe no one will say anything,” Hal relented. “I'll keep my distance from John until bedtime.”

Tootie giggled.

Adam Keim knocked on the front door. Hal hollered out the kitchen window, “Come on in, Adam.” She went back to the stove and took the lid off a kettle. As she stabbed a chunked potato, Adam appeared in the kitchen doorway and searched the room. “Emma's not here. She took my mother with her to clean the school house this morning. They should be home soon. Dad and John are in the field. Noah and Daniel are planting in the sweet corn patch. You might as well sit down and keep Aunt Tootie and me company until they come home.”

Tootie cut the cookie dough and filled a baking sheet. She was almost done when she stopped to look intently at Adam. “Emma said you are a furniture maker. Too bad business is so slow. Otherwise, you would be working instead of sitting around here with us.”

Adam looked like he didn't understand.

“That's all right. You can't help it if you don't have customers. It's just we tend to worry about these things you know. You're going to be the provider for our Emma some day,” Tootie prattled as she laid the raw cookies in rows.

Hal watched Adam and bit her bottom lip to keep from stopping Tootie. Adam frowned his dislike and started to get up to leave. She said firmly, “Sit down, Adam.”

He plopped back in his chair with his hands up in the air as a sign of surrender.

“Very funny,” Hal hissed. She came over close to his ear. “If you're a member of this family, you have to endure everything good or bad. That means no leaving me alone with her.”

Adam wrote on his notepad. “Unless you adopted me I am not a Lapp yet.”

Hal laughed.

Adam wrinkled his nose like a rabbit and sniffed.

“Aunt Tootie and I went shopping today in Walmart and sampled the perfumes.

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