Monday Again...and Rambling
Vacation is speeding by. "Stop," I say. "Stop". I'm trying to slow it down, but I can't catch it.
Summer is wonderful and busy with (needed) home projects and family celebrations. Sometimes I get weary. I did get to go on my yearly trek to Mansfield, MO and (re)visit the Laura Ingalls Wilder homes and museum. My daughter and I try to do this every year.
Can you tell we like Laura? We also like Rose Wilder, her daughter-- very interesting woman.
We took our kids to this home site years ago. I was hooked. My daughter is hooked, too. However, I don't have enough money to lure my son back there. :)
I told Dr. Daughter that I started reading Laura's books in 4th grade. I didn't live in Missouri at the time, but Illinois. At one point, I decided I would write Laura a letter and tell her I was reading her books and that I loved them. Then someone told me (I think a teacher) that Laura was deceased. I was crushed.
License plates (other than Missouri) that were at the homestead while we were there: Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Arkansas. Other Laura book lovers, too!
I'm loving my new writing project of scary short stories, except at night, when I shouldn't be writing them. I start imagining all kinds of things happening and noises. Then I can't sleep.
Have you ever been to any of the Wilder homesteads? Who is your favorite childhood writer?
Summer is wonderful and busy with (needed) home projects and family celebrations. Sometimes I get weary. I did get to go on my yearly trek to Mansfield, MO and (re)visit the Laura Ingalls Wilder homes and museum. My daughter and I try to do this every year.
Can you tell we like Laura? We also like Rose Wilder, her daughter-- very interesting woman.
We took our kids to this home site years ago. I was hooked. My daughter is hooked, too. However, I don't have enough money to lure my son back there. :)
I told Dr. Daughter that I started reading Laura's books in 4th grade. I didn't live in Missouri at the time, but Illinois. At one point, I decided I would write Laura a letter and tell her I was reading her books and that I loved them. Then someone told me (I think a teacher) that Laura was deceased. I was crushed.
License plates (other than Missouri) that were at the homestead while we were there: Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Arkansas. Other Laura book lovers, too!
I'm loving my new writing project of scary short stories, except at night, when I shouldn't be writing them. I start imagining all kinds of things happening and noises. Then I can't sleep.
Have you ever been to any of the Wilder homesteads? Who is your favorite childhood writer?
Comments
I don't remember authors from when I was real little, but I did read everything by Terry Brooks and C.S. Lewis I could find.
Hugs and chocolate,
Shelly
As a kid I read all of the Tom Swift and Hardy Boys books. Despite a single author's name appearing on these books, I've heard they were really written by a number of different anonymous authors. I don't know for sure who wrote them, but those were my favorite book series.
Lee
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I'd love to visit the Wilder's homesteads
Nutschell
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I don't think I've been to a writer's home - but now since blogging I do look at places differently ..
Your scary tales will be great to read - let's hope the daylight lasts! Then we get to read them too .. cheers Hilary
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