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| SusieQue |
Posted - Sep 13 2008 : 6:26:00 PM
I found some more of the Little House on the Prarie books that I didnt have at a yard sale. I still love to read these and watch the shows "over & over". Will always be one of my favorites!
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| Mommyswanson |
Posted - Sep 16 2008 : 5:01:40 PM
I am reading the books to my kids at bedtime. We are about half-way through Farmer Boy right now.
Laura
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| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Sep 15 2008 : 07:39:53 AM
I love the story in Farmer Boy about when it was a Sunday and you know in those days you did nothing on Sunday and they got caught sledding by their father. I jus ROFL when I read that part and I must have read that book a half a dozen times.
I took one of the parts of the book and typed it up and framed it and it hangs in my kitchen. To me it is the very spirit of what makes our country great. This is it:
"A Farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please, and no man can tell you, to go or come. You'll be free and independent, son, on a farm." A quote from Almonzo Wilder's fater around the mid-1890's, taken from Laura Ingalls-Wilder's book, FARMER BOY
This is true if you stay away from big banks, Monsanto, and chemical/fertilizer companies,lol
Warmly,
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
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| sweetproserpina |
Posted - Sep 15 2008 : 07:31:09 AM
I just re-read Farmer Boy yesterday. I love the descriptions in that book, especially the food! He makes all that food sound soo delicious. Even when he's just talking about bread and butter, it's described in such a way that makes one hungry all over. Laura's childhood is really about pioneering and homesteading, whereas Almanzo's is real farm life. The amount of work that they had to do! Makes me glad I don't have to hoe three acres of corn, or put up three pigs and one 'beef' in a day!
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| dutchy |
Posted - Sep 15 2008 : 06:10:33 AM
I love them too. They are a good way to learn more about that aera.
I will read them again this winter lol.
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| Marcy |
Posted - Sep 15 2008 : 05:39:28 AM
I so love her books too! Does anyone have the "I Remember Laura" book? On the cover it says, "I Remember Laura...America's favorite storyteller as remembered by her family, friends and neighbors. It is such a great book. It touches on her life from her childhood, to when she wrote the books, to when she passes away. The book also has recipe's, photo's and other tidbits that are so wonderful. If anyone is interested in her life, other than reading her books, I highly recommmed it.
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| Txfarmgal |
Posted - Sep 14 2008 : 5:53:08 PM
I love those books! I even have the other ones that have Laura's mother and grandmother in a series of books. At the moment they are packed away for my grandkids, I use to have them set out as decoration. I am an avid book collector.
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Be strong and Courageous. Jos. 1:9
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| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Sep 14 2008 : 4:17:51 PM
I love these books too! My favorite one is Farmer Boy, which is the story of Laura's husband, Alonzo's, childhood.
Warmly,
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
| whiteraven |
Posted - Sep 14 2008 : 3:59:06 PM
I'll have to dig out my childhood copies and reread them. Has anyone read the ones written by her daughter? Or I think there are some about her mom? Are they as good?
whiteraven
farmgirl Sister #320
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| rhondacate |
Posted - Sep 14 2008 : 2:36:12 PM
A couple of years ago, I found a boxed set of these at a thrift store for a couple of dollars. Great find!
I love them, and they make me wish I had learned how to do more things as a kid.
~Rhonda |
| Alee |
Posted - Sep 13 2008 : 7:44:29 PM
You too? I LOVE re-reading those books! It always inspires me to want to do more things for myself! When I think of the beautiful hand stitching they did and all the wonderful things they did to survive! Wow!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Sep 13 2008 : 7:34:22 PM
Me too Susie - I re-read them every year in the winter. When you read about the hardship of The Long Winter it puts things into perspective, and I never fail to re-examine my values and work ethic after reading them either. I also have a book of articles that Laura Ingalls wrote for a paper in Missouri - really interesting stuff.
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
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