Category: Humor
A Visitor from San Francisco (by Tavia 42)
Summary: After a few too many heartbreaks, Joe promises himself he’s done with serious romances. No one really believes him, and his resolve is tested when a pretty stranger’s carriage breaks down on the Ponderosa. Will a romance finally end well, or will it just mean yet another heartbreak?
Rating: G | Word Count: 60,221
The Trouble Magnet #3 (by Wrangler)
Summary: When Little Joe goes six weeks without getting into trouble Pa allows him to stay home alone thinking that he was no longer a trouble magnet. Pa was very wrong. Rating T, WC 16,585 Part 3 of the Trouble Magnet Series, links included within.
These are the Days (by JC)
A glimpse of Adam Cartwright redux, back on the Ponderosa after a surprise reunion in Stockton and with a family of his own. (Third in a series, links to other stories provided)
Rating T Word Count 1285
Raffle a Cartwright (by mo1427)
Summary: Adam is raffled off for a date, but he’s not the one who’s worried.
Rating: G, Word Count: 668
The Unforgettable Day (by mo1427)
Summary: A Spring community picnic, a young girl, and a Cartwright. All make for an Unforgettable Day.
Rating: G, Word Count: 913
The Trouble Magnet #2 (by Wrangler)
Summary: Little Joe proves again that he’s his own worst enemy and a trouble magnet when he causes so much mayhem at the ranch that it leaves Pa stunned.
Rating T, WC 13,489
Part 2 of The Trouble Magnet Series, links included within
The Trouble Magnet #1 (by Wrangler)
Summary: All Ben Cartwright wanted was one day without Little Joe getting hurt in some way. Pa learns never to tempt fate again once he returns home that night.
Rating T, WC 10,618
Part 1 of the Trouble Magnet Series, links included within
She Was Hot (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is a sequel to “I Was Hot” and is Marie’s response to her toddler son’s interruption of what had been planned as her grand party. However, a suggestion that she take the story and own it becomes her plan and this is the story of her execution of that plan.
Rating: PG Word count: 1747
“I Was Hot” (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is a prequel in which Marie’s grand gala for the ladies of the area is interrupted by a son in a most shocking way as two other sons cavort elsewhere. The family has to pull together to fix this mess.
Rating: PG Word count: 1470
Unfortunate Goings-On (by Tavia42)
Summary: Joe and Hoss meant well. They always do. But somehow they find themselves falling into a series of misadventures, and getting out of one only lands them in another. This story is a compilation of 2025 Pinecone Challenges, which form an ongoing narrative – thank you to AC1830 for so many wonderful prompts!
Rating: G | Word Count: 6,042
The Twelve Trees of Christmas (by Tavia42)
Summary: Joe and Hoss form Cartwright Brothers’ Christmas Trees, selling trees to familiar faces all over Virginia City.
Rating: G | Word Count: 4,133
Written for the 2025 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
Timber! (by DJK)
Summary: Oh, what fun there is on the Ponderosa at Christmas
Rating: G (110 words)
Written for the 2025 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
Winter Blues (by AC1830)
Summary: There are times, when Christmastime isn’t so joyous.
Rating: G (220 words)
Written for the 2025 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
The Second Honeymoon (By MelissaR1992)
Summary: Joe and his wife, Alice, take a second honeymoon trip to New Orleans where they get mixed up with a couple of jewel thieves and their only hope is a clumsy, down-on-his-luck, detective.
Rating: PG Word Count: 16,010
Part of the Forever Reimagined series, links to all stories included within.
Someday Soon (by Wrangler)
Summary: Sorting through a box of mementos, Ben finds a gift Little Joe made when he was five and recalls how it helped the Cartwrights through their first Christmas without Marie.
Rating T, WC 12,520