Click here to see images of Laura’s jewelry box.
Laura received a fur cape and muff from the Christmas tree.
Episode 99
Episode 98
Ma bought golden-brown flannel to make a new winter dress for Laura.
Pa purchased navy beans for the winter’s supply.
“Home Sweet Home” was one of the songs about home Pa played to cheer Ma and the girls up on his return.
Episode 97
Laura snuggled next to Mary under their comforter.
Episode 96
I think Ma’s hairpin would have looked similar to this, minus the plastic tips on the ends.
Episode 95
Dogs like Jack tend to go grey between 7 and 10 years old.
It was so hot dustdevils broke out all the time.
Episode 94
The Ingalls were in for a second year of hardship as millions of grasshoppers laid their eggs for next year.
Click here for a video how to make your own cottage cheese!
Pa played “All the Blue Bonnets Are over the Border” before he left.
The last song he played was “Life Let Us Cherish“.
Episode 93
The Rocky Mountain locust was the species that caused so much destruction in the 1870s. It became extinct by the early 20th century.
Click here to see an informative video about the Great Plague of 1874.
This was my favorite video, a short featurette about the devastating effects it had in Nebraska.
Episode 92
The entire Ingalls family enjoyed going to church when Rev. Alden was preaching.
Pa sang “Wait for the Wagon” on the way to the new church.
The whole family sang “There Is a Happy Land” on the way to church.
Laura thought her Sunday school class did a poor job of singing “Jerusalem the Golden.”
Episode 91
Ma made vanity cakes for the country party.
Episode 90
Willie Oleson said no one could ride his velocipede.
Nellie Olson showed everybody her china doll.
She also had a talking doll. Click here to listen to similar dolls made by Thomas Edison around 1889.