Wilder on the Prairie

Episode 119   By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 10 "The Wonderdul Afternoon"   Join us this week as we discuss "A Life on the Ocean Wave", "Buy a Broom", Ma's opinion of Lena, Fresno scrapers, and Mary not supporting Laura's ventures. 

Episode 118   By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 9 "Horse Thieves"   Join us this week as we discuss mashed potato cakes, bushwhack, brushing your hair 100 strokes a night, Ma stroking Laura's hair, and clearing up the confusion for this chapter.

Episode 117   By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 8 "Silver Lake"   Join us this week as the discuss seagulls in South Dakota, the Big Slough, what graders do, bedlam, ticking mattresses, where did Mary's rocking chair come from?, Stebbins' camp, pelicans in South Dakota, quonking, purple buffalo bean pods/ground plums/buffalo plums, and Mary laughing. 

Episode 116   By the Shores of Silver Lake chapter 7 "Where the West Begins"   Join us this week as we discuss the Big Sioux River, buffalo wallows, the 1800s buffalo population, "Uncle Sam's Farm", the James River, and where is Aunt Polly?

Episode 115   By the Shores of Silver Lake, chapter 6 "The Black Ponies"   Join us this week as we discuss the difference between ponies and horses, cooking for 46 people 3 times a day, what the washing exactly was they were hiring out?, hames and traces and whippletrees, "Beware!", "A Railroad Man for Me", and the character of Lizzie marrying at 13. 

Episode 114   By the Shores of Silver Lake, ch. 5 "Railroad Camp"   Join us this week as we discuss Laura preferring old-fashioned travel, "teamsters", "shanty", "peaked", and Ma and Laura cleaned their lunch site.

Episode 113   By the Shores of Silver Lake, chapter 4 "End of the Rails"   Join us this week as we discuss the role of firemen, "There Is a Happy Land", Mary's sensitive fingers, and the cost of the meal.

Episode 112   By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 3 "Riding in the Cars"   Join us this week as we discuss starching clothes, lawn dresses, lillies of the valley, Tracy, MN, how fast trains went, and the roles of brakemen. 

Episode 111   By the Shores of Silver Lake, ch. 2 "Grown Up". Join us this week as we discuss 1939, 1879, hardtack, losing Jack the bulldog, Laura crying, Laura growing up at 12? At 10?

Episode 110   By the Shores of Silver Lake ch. 1 "Unexpected Visitor"   Join us this week as we discuss Burr Oak, Iowa, scarlet fever, Docia (Ingalls) Forbes, the Homestead Act of 1862, Aunt Ruby Ingalls, Uncle Peter Ingalls, Uncle Henry Quiner, and Cousin Charley. 

Join us for the AMA (ask me anything)!!!

Episode 109   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 41 "Christmas Eve"   Join us this week as we discuss rosin, "Charlie He's a Dandy", rollicking, and "Lily Dale". 

Episode 108   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 40 "The Fourth Day."   Join us this week as we discuss not doing the housework, the word "shamble", the whole family crying, bean broth, the $10 buffalo coat, "freeze the nose off a brass monkey", the word "gully", and oyster crackers. 

Episode 107   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 39 "The Third Day"   Join us this week as we discuss cat's cradle.

Episode 106   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 38 "The Day of Games"   Join us this week as we discuss waking up snowy, cornmeal mush, the significance of the red-checked tablecloth, and little girls crying.

Episode 105 On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 37 "The Long Blizzard" Join us this week as we discuss overcoats, the mysterious clock on the shelf, personifying the blizzard, Pa's jumper, the narrative shift to Ma, "Bean Porridge Hot", and the ball of fires coming down the chimney.

Episode 104   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 36 "Prairie Winter"   Join us this week as we discuss "scudding", Pa wanting to go West, a bear's track quilt, "Jesus Holds My Hand" and "Sweet Sabbath School."

Episode 103   Banks of Plum Creek ch. 35 "Keeping House"   Join us this week as we discuss beaver in Minnesota, Pa's "itching foot", shawl pins, Laura's use of onomatopoeia.

Episode 102   Banks of Plum Creek ch. 34 "Marks on the Slate"   Join us this week as we discuss lard and beeswax as a salve, turnips, slate pencils, and the definition of "pell mell."

Episode 101   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 33 "Wheels of Fire"   Join us this week as we discuss ragweed, eastern cottonwood, and Spot having a calf!

EPISODE 100!!!   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 32 "Grasshoppers Walking"   Join us this week as we discuss bobsleds and when the locust know it's time to go west.

Episode 99   Chapter 31 On the Banks of Plum Creek "Surprise"   Join us this week as we discuss cosy vs. cozy, muskrat, otter, and mink in Minnesota, what a muffler is, Carrie's china dog, Laura's jewel box, and what a muff is. 

Episode 98   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 30 "Going to Town" Join us this week as we discuss pioneer thrift, flannel, gilt, Nellie's manners (or lack thereof), navy beans, challis, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", "The Girl I Left behind Me", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Swanee River", and "Home Sweet Home".

Episode 97   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 29 "The Darkest Hour Is Just before Dawn"   Join us this week as we discuss Laura's foot pain, Anna misbehaving, Ma scolding Laura about Charlotte, comforters, and inheriting sibiling's clothes.

Episode 96   On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 28 "The Letter"   Join us this week as we discuss hairpins and how much Pa was earning in eastern Minnesota.