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| Sandra K. Licher |
Posted - Oct 14 2010 : 6:17:32 PM
What is everyone reading now that summer is over and we're starting to get cozy inside...at night anyway. Check my blog for my books and bedspread. I need new book ideas....always! I LOVE books! Share yours! You farmgirls will LOVE the old book I found of Laura Ingalls Wilder's writings.
Sam in AR..... "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
Farmgirl Sister #226
www.farmgirlsam.blogspot.com |
| 10 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Sandra K. Licher |
Posted - Oct 22 2010 : 07:24:01 AM
Hey Kim...where in Ontario do you live? I used to go up to Ear Falls area. I know....Mother Nature distracts us when we're young as her priority is keeping the species going....never mind what OUR priorities are! LOL! There's another great book I read from the library that was really old...and a true account of Anton Money who went to live in the wilderness back in the early 1900's...one of the best books I ever read....with old photos too! Too cool for words. I need to try and find a copy I can buy if there is such a thing or hope it goes in the library sale! It's called This Was The North by Anton Money with Ben East. There's another guy Richard Prenicke who wrote about carving a life in Alaska out of the wilderness and he filmed it besides journaling about it. He was from Iowa where I lived at the time and although he's passed away now,,,they had a special on PBS about him and so I bought the book and I think I have the video someplace too. He had been married and went through a divorce and that's when he took off for Alaska. I wish I would have done that after my divorce! LOL!
Sam in AR..... "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
Farmgirl Sister #226
www.farmgirlsam.blogspot.com |
| kiminca |
Posted - Oct 21 2010 : 07:04:47 AM
Hi Sandra, Did you ever read We Like It Wild? About the couple from Boston who went off to homestead in Canada? I read it about the same time I bought Woodswoman. I'll look up her other book, I didn't know she had one. I was hoping to do something like her when I bought the book...then a blind date led to marriage while still in school... On our very first date he saw We Like It Wild on my bookshelf and had read it too--a good sign! Why oh why didn't we go in that direction? (family family family). |
| Sandra K. Licher |
Posted - Oct 19 2010 : 11:54:32 AM
Kim...we must have the same taste in books! I read Woodswoman too and I have another book by her which I can't remember the name of and I haven't read it yet but I LOVED Woodswoman! If I was 40 some years younger and had my life to live again I would "go for it" and do exactly what she did. What a woman! She's older than me now I think...well...maybe not but she's no Spring Chicken,,,can't remember when that was written but it was awhile ago. I wonder what she's doing now?
Linda thanks for your comment as I didn't know there was a cookbook! Awesome! I want that too! LOL! My daughter grew up with the Little House books and we actually lived on Plum Creek in Iowa...not the same one I'm sure but it ran through my property on my little farm. She thought it WAS the same one I'm sure and we had some great blizzards there too! I read the books just recently and loved them.
Sam in AR..... "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
Farmgirl Sister #226
www.farmgirlsam.blogspot.com |
| kiminca |
Posted - Oct 19 2010 : 06:14:41 AM
At bed time I've been reading Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille. The description on the cover is "A young ecologist's life in the log cabin she built herself in the Adirondack wilderness". I hate to admit I bought it many years ago when I was in college and only now am reading it! I listened to Pilgrim at Tinker Creek this summer on a quilt run, and this is sort of like that but a little more practical and less poetic. Pictures too! which is fun. I just ordered Vintage Notions (advertised in the last MJF mag) and can't wait for it to come! |
| vintagediva1 |
Posted - Oct 18 2010 : 3:57:25 PM
I have some good books for barter at that thread.
Check 'em out
Michele
www.2vintagedivas.etsy.com
www.sissyandsisterstitch.etsy.com
www.sissyandsisterstitch.artfire.com
Love that good ole vintage junk |
| bakermom |
Posted - Oct 18 2010 : 09:24:50 AM
have been looking for something to read myself. I have the book you refered to by Laura Wilder. Also have a cookbook inspired by her writings. Talk about books making an impression on young minds. The Little House books formed the cornerstone of my whole personality. (which is why, to this day, I quilt, bake bread, churn occasional butter and raise chickens, all in the subburbs).I should get the book out and read it again.
bakermom
sister#2064
"that wine may cheer the hearts of man...that bread may strengthen mens hearts." psalm 104 |
| goneriding |
Posted - Oct 17 2010 : 6:33:55 PM
I've been reading A Purpose Driven Life. I'm a bit of a stonehead sometimes, I have to reread the chapters to 'get' what they mean! I've found quite a lot of free ebooks on my new phone apps. A lot of classics that I read centuries ago (a joke) and want to reconnect.
For some 'venting'-type of entertainment, please read my blog, http://lostadventuresintrucking.blogspot.com .
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Oct 15 2010 : 1:32:41 PM
Sam,
Looks good. I love chenille. I have been thinking about buying a bedspread like that. They look so cozy.
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
| pnickols |
Posted - Oct 15 2010 : 12:14:33 PM
i found this book too! loved reading her other writings |
| gypsy goat |
Posted - Oct 14 2010 : 6:31:47 PM
very beautiful bedspread so happy and cheerful i like it alot-the princess pillow very cute too!
farmgirl#1362 whatever you are be a good one-abe lincoln |
