“Ma hurriedly floured the breadboard, and kneaded the dough. Then she got dinner. She was putting the pan of light biscuits in the oven when Pa came driving the wagon up the hill.” -By the Shores of the Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder Now that the November days have turned much colder and a […]
“Run down and get the cinnamon, will you, Joey?” said Polly. “It’s in the ‘Provision Room.’” The “Provision Room” was a little shed that was tacked onto the main house, and reached by a short flight of rickety steps; so called, because Polly said, “It’s a good place to keep provisions, even if we haven’t […]
Almanzo ate four large helpings of apples ’n’ onions fried together. He ate roast beef and brown gravy, and mashed potatoes and creamed carrots and boiled turnips, and countless slices of buttered bread with crab-apple jelly. ‘It takes a great deal to feed a growing boy,’ Mother said. -Farmer Boy What’s […]
“The cellar began to have its winter smell of apples and preserves. After all the perfect apples had been picked, Almanzo and Royal could shake the trees. They shook the trees with all their might, and the apples came rattling down like hail. They picked them up and threw them into the wagon. These were […]
Lucia, my 8-year-old daughter, read this quote to me this week as it was part of her copywork for school. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt Right away, I copied it onto our chalkboard to read daily. What a fabulous piece of advice! So often we long for […]
