Martinson is sitting in his comfy chair looking out on his beautiful grounds running off into the distance. He should be feeling mighty pleased with himself, after all, Dorothy had made magnum love with him the just concluded night and she had also made him the best breakfast that he had enjoyed in years. But that didn’t negate the awful distress he was feeling this morning, with the coming of an event that he had hoped would go away.

Three months before at dinner, Dorothy had informed him that she was leaving him to spread her wings. After all, as first-generation settlers on Neo Hampshire, they each had thousand year lives to enjoy. And she was careful to let him know that there was nothing wrong with him at all. She had totally enjoyed having and raising their two children together and he had been a very fine partner in their personal arrangement over the years. If they had only the normal seventy of eighty years of life allotted to them, she would be glad to spend the rest of them with him, a very dear person to her.

But, with such a long lifespan, she wanted to leave the only place on this planet that she had experienced and get to see much of the rest of it. And with Marty so totally settled down on his own kilometer square parcel, she had found a man on the other side of the planet that had no such hindering assets and was glad to share adventures with her.

She did let him know that she would be glad to share years with him again in the future if that came to be available. She had also enjoyed the time on this beautiful place. But, in the meantime she wanted to enjoy her wanderlust for some time.

She had informed him that she had picked out another lady that lived not too far away to take care of him. They both knew her and had always liked her, and her husband had got the adventuresome spirit too, only the stay-in-place kind with another young lady in residence with him. Marcia and Glen had also seemingly been a permanently committed couple, but one of the offshoots of the long lifespans for the first-generation settlers of these newly settled planets was an occasional desire to have more than one mate for their lifetimes.

One of the ironies of this syndrome is that the first settlers would remain very young in appearance and health right up to their last years.

Even with three months’ notice, there were a number of matters to take care of. First of all, Dorothy agreed to release all of her interest in their settled parcel for a very modest income on it to pave the way for her wandering. Marty sadly agreed to that. And also, since it would take Marcia some time to get her situation negotiated too, Mitzie would come to help her dad take care of things until Marica arrived. She would bring her kids, who were very cute with her and her husband agreed to let her stay for an extended time if she wanted.

But, Mitzie knew that Marcia would want to settle in and find her place in Marty’s life before she would welcome extended guests, as lovely as they were. So, she limited her time at her childhood home to two weeks to help keep things up with the home and animals until Marcia would show up.

Marty’s bed would evidently be empty in the meantime but that would give him some time to come to grips with the changeover from one dear woman to another fine one.

Just as Marty’s mind returned to the current situation, he heard the honk of the cab out the front. So, he moved to let the driver know that the lady would be there with him soon, and also that she could use some help with her luggage.

So, the driver came in and Marty moved out to study the odd cab awaiting the abandonment of Dorothy from his life. He keenly felt that he would never allow her back into his life again, but knew better than making predictions of that nature.

When he studied the cab, for only the second time that he had seen one on this planet, he again noticed its odd construction. This planet’s manner was an odd mixture of high-tech and ecological sensitivities. It was boxy and mounted on big spongy wheels. It had solar panels on the side and a team of two large horses to give the primary motions. The cabin was large for large loads, it was also used to transport internet deliveries as well as passengers. And in fact, brought some with this pickup of Dorothy. None of it was for her, though.

When the driver moved out with her luggage, Marty noticed that it was made up of one large wheeled trunk and a light satchel. Not that much for the divorcing of her life from his, but since she would be wandering, probably just enough to handle the load of her life from then on. Later he found that she had not taken one picture of him, probably to avoid jealousy by the new guy when he got nosey and looked into her possessions.

When she came out, she moved to give him a big hug, but he waved that off and gave her a warm, “Goodbye, and good luck!” That was all. So, she nodded back at him and rode off in the strange taxi out of his life. Probably for good.

Later that day, Mitzie and her two children arrived and with his chores to do, and their accompanying him, he had no time to think of sad thoughts for the rest of the day. And that night, Mitzie who had learned well cooking at the hands of her mother made a fine dinner with the gabbing two children relating all of the events of the day helping grandpa on the farm part of his place.

That night, after the kids were put down in her and her brother’s old bedrooms, she moved to her father’s bed and spent the night with him, in comfy and friendly chaste sleep. She arose in the morning before the children to not confuse them as to what had happened at that night. Mainly, since nothing had happened, just some comforting for her dear and still youthful looking father. She reflected that she would have loved him as a man, if he wasn’t her father. Nothing wrong with her husband, though she felt that he was being carefully untrue to her, but it is very hard to compete in a girl’s mind with a handsome and dear father.

As the two weeks ran their course, the children asked if they could visit again, since they lived in the city with few animals or gardens around. And Marty told them that they had been wonderful on their visit and he would let them know when they could come again, with their parent’s approval, of course. Mitzie nodded at that. Father being considerate and encouraging. Just like always.

And in the morning of the expected afternoon arrival of Marcia; Mitzie and the kids took their leave with many hugs and kisses to Marty. Tears in his eyes at this. It had been a welcome transitional visit from them to help keep his heart upbeat at his future.

When Marcia arrived in the early afternoon, it was not in a cab, but a horse drawn carriage piloted by Glen her now to be former mate. He was gracious in helping her to move to the house with her things, much more than Dorothy had left with, but Marcia was not particularly friendly with Glen, as he moved to leave.

With Glen gone and Marcia standing in the living room, he approached her and warmly told her, “Welcome my friend to our house.” And with that the tears flowed from her eyes, but she held Marty very tightly in her arms. Then they together moved her things up to his bedroom. She was let to know that she could occupy one of the former children’s bedrooms at first, but she just looked up to him and purposely moved her things right into his (now their) bedroom right then.

That night, he fixed dinner, almost all of it homegrown. Only the spices that the settlement ship had brought to grow on the planet, of which some had arrived with the leaving of Dorothy, were usually needed from outside the estate’s borders. And some machinery too, that was bought and paid for with the credits gained from the growing and delivering of his marketing crops.

Marica shyly took her seat and enthusiastically partook of the meal. Baked potatoes with butter, beef roast with peppers, rutabagas and turnips baked in a tomato sauce and fresh peas just picked that day. And she also enjoyed the homemade juices offered up to her. But her trademark humor was silent for the time being. She still had a lot of transitioning to do before that came out to view.

He informed her that he would walk her about the place the next day and let her know what among some of the chores she would need to care for. She was very experienced in these, since her previous home had been an estate much like this one was.

Then after cleaning up, they moved to the couch in the living room to watch the two hours of news and programing on the television from the internet. The news on this planet was quite dull, since nothing much that was dire happened often on it. Mostly it was notifications of any adjustments to the legal system and the schedules of upcoming public events. The most popular of these was the monthly Saturday village pot-lucks and the four seasonal holiday-like gatherings.

With dinner done and the television programming over for the night, they looked at each other and he took her by the hand and led her to their to-be-shared bed. She moved to the bathroom and after several minutes came out in a fine looking, but body covering, night gown and he welcomed her into her new bed with an opening of the covers. She moved under the covers, gave him a light kiss and then rolled over to cuddle back up to him for the night. He patted her on the shoulder and then with his arm over her chest they fell to sleep for the night.

She woke up first in the morning and had breakfast on the table when he came down. They ate in silence as they both glanced out the kitchen window to a typically beautiful day here on the Mannerly Estate, so named because of Martinson’s manner of keeping things very neat and clean. After they watched the brief morning news on the internet newspaper, they together cleaned up the kitchen and then he took her by the hand to show her around and introduce her to the daily outside duties.

Marcia was a very experienced housewife and so was more than qualified to arrange her inside work. But, outside there was just too much to do for one person to keep up on. It had been better when there had been children to help with it, but they would have to make do for the time being.

So, he walked her around to show her the daily duties and offered to listen to her suggestions on how to divide up the work. Since they were both very neat and clean, there wouldn’t be that much inside work for the time being. He showed her the three milk cows and the milking parlor, with the cool room next to it for separating the cream and then pasteurizing the milk before cooling and storage. Then on to the hen house where they kept three dozen layers and next door a couple of dozen prospective fryers. It was a double building with a common wall between the two types of chickens. And next to that was a tiny brooder house for when they would be raising chicks.

Then he showed her to the tool shed and the tractor that doubled to doing mowing and tilling the garden. He walked her through the garden which was still drying out after the spring tilling and showed her the small orchard of various types of dwarf fruit trees, all small to be easier to work with without relying on ladders.

Marcia suggested that she would care for the swine, the chickens and chicks when they were present and mow the lawn with the tractor once a week. Marty said that that would help immensely and left it at that. Then he excused her to take up her duties and he moved out to finish the pruning of his dwarf fruit trees and the grinding up of the branches to layer in the composting bins. They were busy all day and so didn’t have any time together except for lunch, until dinner. She made lasagna, her specialty for them that night.

After watching the two-hour television programming, they sat and talked a bit about things, and he asked her if she would be comfortable with him there. She said that it was much like she was used to and she thought that she could after some time to adjust.

He then asked about her current children and she let him know that she didn’t know how they would take this new situation between their parents, because the one that leaves is almost always blamed the most, no matter whose idea it was to start with. He understood that very well, because his former partner was being vilified in the family for her leaving, when she had been an exemplary ‘wife’ and partner for many years. So, they would just be friendly and act normally when they came with no offered-up explanations. What was now was just what was now, and they would have to accept it, or not.

Then they quietly discussed intimacies that would be coming up. She mentioned that she was still a bit in shock over what had happened, but that intimacies had not been a problem for her and Glen. Marty offered the same with he and Dorothy, so they agreed that that would work itself out in due time, but that she would appreciate some time to come to grips with the changes in her life. She knew that they would get along in that manner too, since she had always admired him when they had previously been just neighbors and friends.

Marty shyly mentioned that he was unusually needy in this respect, but would honor her feelings in this matter. She said to not worry, that she would favor him as soon as she could in the ways that she could at that time.

And then they walked hand in hand to their bedroom for the night.

That night, only their second together, she spent a lot more time in the bathroom and when she came out, she was a sight to behold. She had a shorty night gown, with very pretty panties on and her tits hanging out of the bodice of her top. She had also combed her hair down and prettied up her face with eyeliner, colored facial powder and lipstick of flaming red. She had a big smile as she entered the bed and announced, “Let’s play a little, my new lover!”

With that she moved up to cuddle with him and to share in kisses. She guided his hands to stir things up in her nether regions, with his mouth up to her breasts. Then with his eyes blazing in lust she moved down to his cock and took it into her mouth and suckled on it for the next fifteen minutes with every trick know to womankind employed to bring him to a total finish up in her mouth. With that and the seeing of her showing the cum and then swallowing it, he collapsed back onto the bed and she took him into her arms and they slept soundly for the night.

The next day, she took the tractor with the lawnmower out for a ride. She managed to cut some grass, too. And her gales of laughter serenaded Marty as he was catching up on his record keeping in his office in the barn. He smiled as he heard her enjoyment while riding the tractor. It reminded him of her sense of humor at the village combination pot-lucks and trading exercises. It was an important manner for the estate to get credits on account with the sales of his excess milk and eggs. Also, in attendance would be the representatives of the manufacturing concerns in the northern tech city of New Pittsburg. They would take orders on needed equipment to be built and then delivered by them to the estate requesting it. For large tonnage crops, the companies that used them sent very large wagons right to the fields to accept them.

A couple of weeks later he remembered that the monthly Saturday Flea Market and Pot-Luck was coming up that week and he wondered if they should just wait a month for that. But, the milk even under refrigeration needed to be moved for quality reasons. Though some of it could be made into cheese. But he felt that they would have to make at least a brief visit to move the milk and eggs.

At dinner that night, she was still lit up over another tractor ride and was also understanding about the need to attend the Saturday monthly village visit. She explained that she didn’t feel that she and Marty had done anything wrong, that they were the offended, not the offenders. He without taking sides on this agreed with her assertion that they should attend as full visitors and plans were made to that effect with her making several pans of her stupendous lasagna.

That night she dressed up for him again, but now all restrictions were off. They went into overdrive with each other and when he was up into her and emptied into her baby factory, she was ecstatic over it with her climax, too. And she whispered that they should think about raising another family between them, since they were getting along so well. He assured her that they could address this subject again in the near future. And she settled down with him and held him tightly all night.

When they got to the village fair, they unloaded the milk and eggs very quickly because of the farm’s reputation and then they checked out for needed supplies, which included spices for cooking. While Marcia was checking out the spices, Glen who appeared to be alone asked to talk with Marty alone. So, they moved to the non-alcoholic drinking pavilion and settled down to discuss whatever Glen had in mind.

He said that he had noticed Marcia’s fine condition and was happy to see her in such good shape. And then he unloaded to Marty that the young Asian girl had abandoned his place after only two weeks, because of boredom. She was used to the action of the northern tech and manufacturing city and just couldn’t take the quiet of the countryside. No lack on Glen’s case was noted in the parting letter left on the lunch table, with her having left while he was in the field working.

There was protracted silence while they nursed their drinks and then with lowered eyes, Glen asked if Marty would mind if Marcia came back to be with him. Marty coolly indicated that he would mind a lot, but that it would be up to Marcia to decide on that. When Glen asked to talk to her first, Marty refused that to prevent any misrepresentations of Marty’s feelings by Glen on the matter. So, he told Glen to take his leave and to find him and Marcia after an hour. So, Glen walked off glumly. Marty explained to Marcia the conversation, Marcia was furious at the nerve of Glen and Glen never showed up for the request.

On the way back in the wagon, Marcia sat very closely to Marty and hugged him along the way. When they got on their own property, she directed him to pull into a small grove of trees by a pond and she dragged him to the back of the wagon and intimately worked him over so much that she had to drive the vehicle the rest of the way home. And when they got home, she dragged him up to their bed to lay naked against her naked body all night in love that if it could be seen would be white hot.

Several weeks later, one of her kids and his family came to visit and the parents made sure that the kids helped with the chores, taking over Marcia’s responsibilities so that she could concentrate on making them feel at home. The kids loved it and asked to come back. So, Marty made up a schedule for the kids of the two families to visit one family group at a time and with a lot of fun also got a lot of help with the planting and later the reaping and harvesting.

After the end of the fall reaping, harvesting, butchering of the swine and fryers and canning was complete Marcia took Marty aside one evening and asked him if he would be interested in having a helping couple live on the estate with them the year around. This was because the operation on the estate was in the state of rapid growth and even with the kid’s help, a regular assistance would be very helpful.

He and she went out to his office in the barn and hammered out an AD to be entered in the help wanted section on the planetary internet. And, they got responses very quickly to their surprise. One young couple caught their attention and so Marica and Marty sent out an inquiry to the planetary security system about them. The report came back that they were a new couple with spotless reputations. So, they were invited to spend a week at the estate to see if this would work out.

It turned out that they were an artsy couple. He was a painter and guitarist; she was a sculptress and violinist. That would liven things up around the house. Also, they were both from country upbringings, so were well versed in the chores to be done around the estate.

They said that they loved it there, but it would take a month or so to divest themselves of their responsibilities at where they came from. Marty said that that would give him time to have the cabin that they asked for to be built and the couple were very excited about that. When they returned and settled in, they found that they could get their portion of the work done in about four hours a day, except during planting and reaping seasons. So, they had plenty of time for their arts, and in addition, they caused quite a stir in the village when they first attended one of the monthly Saturday festivals. The two sides of kids loved them too.

It turned out that they were very happy to live their life on the estate. They had no desire for a place of their own, nor any children. They totally enjoyed Marty’s and Marcia’ children and grandchildren when they visited. Their arts and work on the estate was enough for them, as they were a very devoted couple.

In the meantime, Marcia got pregnant (with Marty’s help, you know) and everyone was excited about that. And with that, the family was firmly united for the long run to everyone’s total relief. Marcia had no intention of ever leaving this beautiful place and its honorable man.