Miriam's Story: Part 2 Romance in Amish Country by Schmidt Melanie

Author:Schmidt, Melanie [Schmidt, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religious Fiction
Publisher: Melanie Schmidt Publishing
Published: 2013-08-13T05:00:00+00:00

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“It is lovely,” Ruth said as they surveyed the small apartment on the second floor of the new stable.

“Credit Isaac for that,” Daniel answered. “He does fine work.”

“Uncle Isaac does the very best work,” little Ruthie added with a rush of family loyalty.

“Isaac was always one for making things,” Miriam’s father, the elder Ezra, said with not a little paternal pride in his voice. “He never could plow a straight furrow, mind you, but break the plow, and he could build you a new one much better than the one you had.”

Miriam smiled. Her brother’s lack of farming skills had been an inside family joke for years, but every time she saw Isaac’s work in wood, she was amazed at what he could create. The apartment was small, but all the furniture and storage was neat and to scale, making it perfect for a single man. The sparsely appointed kitchen did not worry her, since she knew Ruth and Naomi would keep Daniel fed.

As they all filed out and headed down the open-tread staircase to the stable below, nothing but praise and positive comments could be heard from the family group touring the now completed stable. The only residents so far were a saddle horse Daniel had acquired: one of her father’s draft horses who was nursing a foot injury after stepping wrong on a rock, and one of the female cats from the other barn, who had decided this was a good place to which to move her new litter now that all the construction noise had ceased.

“So, when do the horses come?” young Ezra asked, anxious to get on with the important part of this whole affair.

“Well, Ezra, I have some ideas about that,” Daniel said, laying a hand on the boy’s shoulder to guide him out of the stable.

“Let us have lemonade on the porch, so you can tell us all about it,” Ruth suggested.

Lemonade to cool them down from the warm September day sounded like a good idea to everyone, and as they left the cooler interior of the stable, Miriam noted the looks of satisfaction Daniel and Seth both wore as they surveyed the adjoining paddock and lunge enclosure. Daniel had already demonstrated the lunge training for them with his new gelding, and young Ezra had not been the only one deeply impressed with his obvious experience and skill in working with the horse.

All seated on the porch—Miriam and the children, Naomi, their father, and their brother, Abram, his wife Esther, Aunt Ruth, Daniel and Seth—holding ice-cold glasses of lemonade in their hands, Ruth passed around a plate of cookies and folks settled in to hear about Daniel’s plans.

“So, what do you have in mind for where to begin with the horses, Daniel?” Seth asked as he took a bite of Ruth’s famous oatmeal cookies.

Daniel studied his partner thoughtfully then nodded, as though coming to a decision. “My friend from Belleville—Duncan McGrath is his name—the one who gave me a ride here that first day?”

Seth nodded.

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