My Saturday

This is what I did yesterday!

The School Board's Visit

...She had been so angry that it was hard to remember exactly what she had said. "I said that you have as much to say about the school as anybody. Then I said, 'It's too bad your father doesn't own a place in town.Maybe if you weren't just country folks, your father could be on the school board.'"

"Oh, Laura, " Ma said sorrowfully. "That made her angry."

"I wanted to," said Laura. "I meant to make her mad. When we lived on Plum Creek she was always making fun of Mary andme because we were country girls. She can find out what it feels like, herself."

"Laura, Laura," Ma protested in distress. "How can you be so unforgiving? That was years ago."...

Pa said..."So Nellie twisted what you said and told it to Miss Wilder, and that's made all this trouble. I see...Well, Laura, maybe you have learned a lesson that is worth while. Just remember this, 'A dog that will fetch a bone, will carry a bone.'"

Littl e Town On The Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. 1941 Harper and Bros.

Little House, Long Shadow

Little House, Long Shadow is a new book by Anita Clair Fellman. The mail carrier brought it to me as I was sitting in my front yard, holding a fundraising yard sale for a local woman. The blank looks as I opened it, oooed, and said what the title was. I don't even really know what it is about. And I am as tired as Ma after the New England Supper. If I read anything tonight it will be the Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion that also came in the mail.

Night, night everyone!

Scissor Sisters - Return To Oz

I always thought the actresses that played Dorothy and Princess Ozma would have been good as Laura and Mary.

Play With Your Food

Another blogger has come up with a great idea. Think of all the details that could be tinkered with. Gingerbread brownies could be used. Because chocolate frosting only adds to the goodness.

Brownies, blondies, or orangies, depending on the soil type you want to portray.

Where in the World Is Laura Ingalls?

I had to laugh today. A pamphlet mention of the Ingalls family, living IN Plum Creek. Perhaps Pa built a really, really big fish trap, and laid prairie sod on top for a roof.

Or You Could Share It

Everyone has a billion ideas about what to do with their economic stimulus check. Some people in West Seattle have an idea about sharing the check. Instead of buying more consumer goods made in China, you could donate your check to a LIW site, or to the charity of your choice.

Why ever not?