Tag Archives: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Channeling Laura Ingalls Wilder #4

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

“On the Bank’s of Plum Creek” find the Ingalls moving from Indian Territory all the way up to Minnesota.  Pa’s dream is to become a successful wheat farmer amongst his Norwegian neighbors.  First they live in a home dug out … Continue reading →

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Channeling Laura Ingalls Wilder #3

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

I recently finished Laura’s third book in her series, “Farmer Boy“.  This is the story of her future husband (Almanzo Wilder) at age 11 growing up on his family farm in upstate New York. Given all of the reading and experimenting … Continue reading →

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Channeling Laura Ingalls Wilder – #2

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

Wow!  There is so much about this book that I had forgotten.  I’m not done yet, but it is a page turner (really).  One thing is that it makes me miss my Midwestern roots.  In “Little House on the Prairie” … Continue reading →

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Soap – Part 3 (final)

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

It looks like my soap project is a success and easier then I thought.  The hardest part was the first step of chopping up and rendering the lard.  When we get our pigs butchered I’ll see if the butcher could … Continue reading →

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Finally…SOAP! Part 1

Posted on October 3, 2010 by

  What else would YOU do with 50 pounds of lard?  When we slaughtered our 5 hogs last year there was a lot of fat left over.  The leaf lard (the purest lard from the kidney areas) I rendered for … Continue reading →

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Channeling Laura Ingalls Wilder – #1

Posted on September 21, 2010 by

  I’m kinda serious about bringing Mrs. Wilder into my present day life.  When I was a child for 3 or 4 summers in a row my reading ritual was to go through the entire series of her books from … Continue reading →

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