Pa brought horehound candy back for Laura and Mary after the trip to town.
Episode 79
Episode 78
Ma put Carrie’s hair in paper curlers.
Pa used an ox goad on Pete and Bright.
Laura and Mary ate corn dodgers for their lunch.
Podcast recommendation! From Plum Creek with Love.
Episode 77
Laura loved picking and eating plums on the banks of the aptly named Plum Creek.
Episode 76
Pa used a scythe to cut all the straw and hay to feed his livestock.
Here is how farmers threshed wheat in the 1880s. The machine in this video was similar to the one the men brought to Pa’s farm.
Episode 75
Would you be brave enough to distract a bull charging towards your house?
Episode 74
Enjoy this video about Eleck Nelson, the Ingalls’ neighbor.
Episode 73
The prairie was full of black-eyed Susans and goldenrod.
Laura saw a badger going to the swimming hole!
The sheet Laura sewed was made of lightweight cotton muslin.
Episode 72
The Ingalls Family swam near the plum thicket along the creek.
Episode 71
Laura and Mary enjoyed playing in the rushes.
They saw blue flags (irises) every day.
Fat bumble bees buzzed around the creek
Dragonflys also danced around the creek.
“Water bugs” were actually water striders.
Episode 70
The willows grew close to the dugout along the creek.
Laura loved the morning glories that bloomed with the dawn.
Click here to see a video about the dugout and Plum Creek.
A Saskatchewan sod house from the turn of the last century.
An extent sod house in my home state.
