From Plum Creek With Love: A Little House on the Prairie Podcast

Mary is distracted by a glimmer of light she claims to see when she's near a window. Together, Charles and her head to Mankato to see if the eye specialist there has the answers. At home in Walnut Grove, Laura decides the best thing for Mary to have upon getting her eyesight back is a place where she and Adam can be alone. Enlisting Albert to assist with some cometic work, Laura sets to task with...

Every farmer in the Hero Township area plans to band together when it comes to selling their wheat at a fair set price. Every farmer that is except Mr. Larabee. Personally, he doesn't understand why everyone has to make the same price per bushel when he has the biggest crop. And when he says everyone he really means Joe Kagan. It isn't long until Mr. Larabee swindles everyone, but most importantly...

Everyone's favorite letter invading postal worker is back, Kizia Horn returns to give us an update on how life has been since we last saw her. After moving out of her Subterrian Studio apartment, Kizia has found above the ground accomeditations next to a body of water. Since it's summertime Laura, Albert and Andy can spend their days with her. That's until Kizia receives word that due to her lack...

Mary and Adam have done it; they're going to start a family. At least that's the news they are sharing with everyone...including Adam's estranged father who lives in New York City. And upon receiving the news, Giles Kendall makes his way to Walnut Grove and meets his new extended family. Making up for lost time Giles Kendall decides to 1) offer Adam the chance to attend Law School in N...

Toby Noe makes an unexpected visit to Walnut Grove on his way to Frisco and the Ingalls play host while he's there. As Laura gushes over another boy, Jason Brooks, at school, Toby Noe starts to gush over the Spinster Amanda Cooper. However, shyness and solitude are the major obstacles to overcome in this episode. Following the bad dating advice of Albert, Toby Noe must do something he has neve...

Get ready for a three ring...family drama. Jordan Harrison is a young boy who's busy with improving his stunts and skills in hopes of one day running away to join the circus. He dreams of this because his home life is broken with his two parents yelling at one another and, for the most part, ignoring Jordan. Leading Jordan to make some questionable choices/actions that lead him directly to Doc Bak...

Outside of Walnut Grove lives a man named Issac Singerman. He's a widower and now also an empty nester as his only son moves out to NYC for marriage. Why did the son have to leave for marriage? Because he was following Jewish tradition. Lonely, Issac meets Albert and invites him to be his apprentice at his woodwork shop but also to have some company. Albert starts to learning many lessons from...

It finally happened...They made Carrie the lead character in an episode. Charles, persuaded by Jonathan Garvey, decides to take on a month long employment with the new Telephone system coming into the area, leaving Caroline alone at home with the kids...once again. With Charles gone and everyone busy, Carrie is not sure where to be without getting potential injured or yelled out.  Eventu...

Picking up exactly where the previous episode left off, the trek back to Walnut Grove from Winoka with Mary, Adam and the blind students moves on.  Harriet continues to share her impertinent opinions about Joe Kagan and gushes how excited she is to meet a fellow philantorpisht in Miss Hester Sue Terhune.  That's until Harriet finds out that Hester Sue is not a St. Louis Terhune but a Pas...

We catch up with retired boxer Joe Kagan who is still living in Walnut Grove. Or at least is getting by. After two failed attempts (thank you Harriet and other local bigot Mr. Larabee) Joe is finally allowed to attend church with the rest of congregation (A Big thank you to Mr. Oleson) Meanwhile, back in Winoka, Mary and Adam are informed the church owned building the school for the blind operates...

The Ingalls take a backseat in this Garvey centric episode. When young Andy Garvey demonstrates less than stellar academic aptitude, school mom Alice Garvey will go to any lengths to help him improve his GPA. Unfortunately, top student Albert is letting his grades slide (and isn’t Alice’s first choice of tutor) leaving her only one option: Nellie Oleson. Wanting to make his school mom happy with b...

Albert and Andy are two prairie boys on the edge of their tween years and are starting to test their boundaries.  Which doesn't go over well at Plum Creek or the Garvey Estate. Jonathan Garvey shares a childhood trauma inspiring Charles to repeat something similar for the boys. Set to task with crossing the prairie wilderness en route to Sleepy Eye to retrieve a letter and return home safely, Albe...

It's finally happening!!! Mary is getting married. Leaving the kids at home, Charles and Caroline return to Winoka for their first born's wedding nuptials. And what a trip. As everyone sits around catching up, stories from Charles and Caroline's early years as parents causes Mary to question if she's capable of being more than just a wife...but a mother. When a Duststorm interrupts what could be c...

When Harriet Oleson's long distance cousin moves to Walnut Grover and starts a local Newspaper, she proves that the pen is mightier than the sword especially when it's in her hands. With the power of persuasion/influence others at her finger tips, Harriet opens her own type of Pandora's box and lets loose a sting of misleads, half-truths, and questionable statements. Not only that, but the mercant...

With things at Plum Creek being peaceful, you know it's time to stir the pot. Enter Fagin, a young calf in the back of the wagon, who is gifted to Albert, from Charles, to help teach the both of them about livestock. Albert takes special interest when he learns he could win a prize at the upcoming fair by how well he raises the calf. As Albert and Charles spend more time together, Laura is once ag...

Following the aftermath of the Fourth of July fire at the Saloon, The Walnut Grove Expats are making a u-turn and heading back home to Hero Township. Saying Goodbye and leaving Mary in Winoka, the Ingalls invite Albert to come along with them.  Upon returning to Plum Creek, it's in need of some major TLC as does the entire rest of the town of Walnut Grove.  However, to really fix the town up Doc B...

Winoka hasn't proven itself to be a favorable place to live and raise a family.  With Laura being accused of sassing the boss and bullying the boss's son, Charles and Caroline are on a probation of sorts in regards to their jobs.  Jonathan and Mr. Oleson, also employed by Standish, are not fans and would rather be their own bosses.  Alice and Harriet are oblivious of how dire things...

John Bevin, his wife Bess, and daughter Amelia are new residents of Winoka. They had to leave their farm to find a different means of make a living.  John doesn't seem to mind living in the city except for the constant jokes he gets in regards to his size and shape. Upon witnessing the rude, offensive childish name calling done by the school kids, Amelia sets out on a path of complete denial t...

The Student body at the Livery School in Winoka is growing. They even have enough students to form their own football team and challenge the Winoka Dragons over at the Private School. And with their star player, Luke Hoskins, the Livery school might stand a chance.  Over at the school for the blind we're introduced to Tom Carlin and his father, Frank (the man previously known as Wendall Loudy...

With the Garveys and Olesons now living in Winoka, everyone seems to be settling in. All except Charles who hates living in the city, Caroline who is essentially living in the hotel kitchen, Alice who's trying to start a school in a Livery, Jonathan whose unemployed, Mr. Oleson is helping to manage the saloon while also housing his family inside and Harriet who has become a barmaid to send her kid...

It's as if you opened your eyes and it's the next day.   Season 5 Begins/continues right where season 4 left off, with the end of Walnut Grove.  The Ingalls are stopping in town to say good bye one last time to whomever is still around before leaving.  With one last visit to the outhouse, the Ingallls are off on a stock footage wagon trip to Winoka in Dakota territory. And while Mar...

It's the first day of school, once again, for Mary as she begins the Burton School for the Blind in Iowa. And while Charles is dragged into the office of an unknown man to sign paperwork, Mary is introduced to her teacher: Adam Kendall. He very quickly serves to Mary some TLA (Tough Lovin' Adam) as he works on breaking her out of her self-pity shell and tries to get her acclimated to her new world...

During a two week break from school Mary heads to Mankato to get an update on her eyeglasses' prescription.  Which only solves the issue for a moment...until Mary says her new glasses aren't any better than the old ones.  While Mary continues on about the shadows appearing on the pages in the books she's reading, the residents of Walnut Grove, or more exact those who are members of the grange,  ar...

The population of Walnut Grove is about to increase with the arrival of Eva Simms' first baby! However, she's not the only one who will be increasing the population. The Ingalls house is also about to expand when it's announced that instead of going through "The Change" Caroline is actually pregnant.   While things might be going smoothly for the two pregnancies, an off hand remark made...

Young Peter Lundstrom has been silently calling for attention/help.   After being expelled from his boarding school, Peter returns home to a father who chooses work over spending time with him and a grandmama who easily turns the other cheek.  Feeling his son just needs a sense of values, Peter is sent to live with family out in the primitive world of Walnut Grove. The family being the Olesons.  H...