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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Apr 10 2011 : 11:00:24 PM
About a year or maybe more ago Alee posted about a book called The Prairie Girl's guide to life. I had been wanting it ever since. I seen it once at AC Moore for only a few dollars! But, my husband was in a hurry and said he would take me back, but we were on vacation there and he never got me back there. I was so upset! Then I've had it in my Amazon cart forever, but haven't had the money for it yet.
Well, today I went to the library and while I was looking at embroidery books there it was. (I don't know why it was in the embroidery books, except for it wanted to go home with me today!) I had to grab it and bring it home!
So far it's been the best read I've had in YEARS! It is a very quick and easy read. I am loving it!
It has a lot of easy, simple, and fun things to do with the kids/family, or just for yourself!
First off, I have always known I was going to read the Little House books to my kids, even have fiddled with the idea of getting the Little House home school cirr from Calvert for them to go through! But, this book has nudged me that next week we are starting to read through it with the girls. I even went and dug out of my boxes (cause I didn't have enough book shelf room) my entire set of Little House books just so we can start!
Second on the list, is actually going to be sooner, this week sometime we are making dandelion greens, for days now my DD1 has been picking me dandelions and bringing them to me as flower. Well, how will she fancy eating their leaves I wonder. Hmm don't know but we are trying the recipe in the book any way! I have eaten them in the past and liked them, just never in a recipe as described in the book!
Third on the list summer is pretty much here where I live, been in the upper 80's for days now! So we are making ice cream, just the way she describes pretty soon, but I think I may wait till the mulberries are ripe and I make and can some mulberry jam, so we can put that on top of the ice cream! Either way we are doing it. I know my girls will love rolling around those coffee cans till it turns to frozen cream!
Any way, that's as far as I've went so far in the book, there's many other things, I want to do on my own too that look like fun projects, like curing my own meat. I so want my husband to learn to hunt and bring me home a deer, so I can smoke/cure it! Also this next fall I am brining my turkey you better believe it! Ok, so now I just GOT to buy this book! lol Or keep it on permanent loan from the library! lol
I just want to heads you up if you aren't much for reading, this book is very simple and goes super fast. And is like the author is sitting and having a conversation with you. Which is the style of writing I prefer, to the documentary I'm giving you a speech style of writing some authors do! lol haha One book on gardening and herbs I bought one year, that was supposedly a biography about a woman who was raising these things, and raising bees etc, was booooooooooring, and went on and on, kind of in circles and was like she was up giving a speech instead of having a conversation with you, yet the speech/writing seemed to have no content, or point many times! lol. And I really never could get past the first chapter cause her style of writing was soooo boring. I just couldn't keep going with it, even though I so wanted to learn about her expertise in living off the land, growing these herbs/veggies and raising bees. So any way, point being, I really like the flow and style of this book a lot. It's been a super easy, AND fun book, I can barely put it down!
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Apr 12 2011 : 12:10:40 PM
Has any one tried the bread and butter pickle recipe in this book, I want to try it with zucchini.
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