Are we really too busy to shop for groceries??

[steve-in-kville]

I don't think there's anything really girly about reading the books. Yeah they were written by a woman but there's not a whole lot of overly girly stuff in them. Maybe that's because Laura Ingalls was more of a tomboy herself.

Here's another childhood favorite. Read the series over and over. Eventually bought the whole set for my boys:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123170.Big_Red

[steve-in-kville]

That's in the book. Pa is no fool, he knew the owner (Almanzo) was sweet on his daughter. He had leverage. He also had no other options.

I thought Almanzo and his brother had all the wheat grain hidden in the wall of their house for spring planting? And the town people figured it out? Different story?

[barnhart]

That's in the book. Pa is no fool, he knew the owner (Almanzo) was sweet on his daughter. He had leverage. He also had no other options.

I thought Almanzo and his brother had all the wheat grain hidden in the wall of their house for spring planting? And the town people figured it out? Different story?

Only Pa figured it out. He went over and took some out a knot hole while they were watching. They didn't say anything because they knew he would keep his mouth shut and they knew his family was hungry and if you read between the lines a bit, there were signs that Almanzo was waiting for Laura to grow up a bit.

[Somebody]

Isn't that the time where Almanzo and another young man went out over the prairie to buy wheat from some one living out there somewhere? They weren't quite sure where he lived, and wanted to go out & back between blizzards.

[steve-in-kville]

I remember that now. Somehow the outside dimensions of the building didn't match up to the inside. I think that's how it got found out.

I think I've forgotten more those books than I ever knew to begin with. Good reading.

[Somebody]

Good time to get those books out and reread them again!

[steve-in-kville]

I should. I'm so far behind in my reading its sad. I bought a book before Christmas that I was really looking forward to reading. I got past the preface and now it collects duct on my shelf.

[silentreader]

I should. I'm so far behind in my reading its sad. I bought a book before Christmas that I was really looking forward to reading. I got past the preface and now it collects duct on my shelf.

tape?

[Rdm]

Call me a girly-man, but as a pre-teen, I read those book several times over. I think I had the entire TV show on DVD, but many are in rough shape. That's a lifestyle we'll never see again, although I wish we could sometimes.

I don't think there's anything really girly about reading the books. Yeah they were written by a woman but there's not a whole lot of overly girly stuff in them. Maybe that's because Laura Ingalls was more of a tomboy herself.

Yeah, I just started reading the first book to my daughter, and I forgot how much of the first book especially is about the old-fashioned way of doing things.

On another note, the Little Britches series has some similarities to the Little House series, in that it's an auto-biographical series and has places of explaining how things were done "back then." It's very different in that it follows the adventures of a young boy on his journey to adulthood as he does everything from riding trail as a very young cowboy, to trick-riding in local shows and for cowboy/western movies. It does have a bit of language, but I really enjoyed the glimpse into another life.

[steve-in-kville]

I should. I'm so far behind in my reading its sad. I bought a book before Christmas that I was really looking forward to reading. I got past the preface and now it collects duct on my shelf.

tape?

Eh?