Monday, July 14, 2008 - Little House on the Prairie
Well, we got all the Little House pictures downloaded, so I thought I'd put them up. There are a LOT of them, but they're pretty cool, and it was amazing to actually be in the places that Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about in her books. We started off in the town of DeSmet in South Dakota. The actual claim that Pa buys in the books is there and there are reproductions built in the actual places where the house and barn were.
You can see the house and the barn in this picture. The barn (the building to the right) is a little bigger than the one Pa built, but the house is about the same size.
This was a reproduction of the dugout that the Ingalls lived in, in Walnut Grove.
Rebekah and Rachel running to the well pump.
Petting a little pony like the one Laura rode in The Shores of Silver Lake.
Walking up to Ma's little house.
Rachel (of course) found a mama cat and her kittens up in the top of the barn.
The girls made corncob dolls - they used a special machine to strip the dried corn from the cob.
Like all good prairie girls, We went to school...
Although by the time Laura Ingalls was my age, she had been teaching school for a year and a half!!
Rebekah and Rachel passed their spelling test
And we all solved a riddle.
Some good advice.
Riding back in the buggy.
Making rope the way the pioneers used to make it.
Grinding wheat with a coffee grinder. The Ingalls had to grind their wheat this way in The Long Winter.
The only original trees left on the homestead from the many that Pa planted. These are 5 cottonwoods that Pa planted for his girls.
That's all for today. Tune in tomorrow for Walnut Grove pictures!!
Cheers!
Sarah Beth
