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.
Episode 95
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 27 "Rain".
Join us this week as we talk about dogs aging, dustdevils, the Nelsons' house, Exodus 10, heat rash, and what underwaists are.
Episode 94
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 26 "Grasshopper Eggs"
Join us this week as we discuss grasshopper eggs, making cottage cheese, "All the Blue Bonnets Are over the Border," "The Campbells Are Coming Hurrah!" and "Life Let Us Cherish."
Episode 93
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 25 "The Glittering Cloud"
Join us this week as we discuss lizards panting, $1,080 per acre of wheat, pullets, "no great loss without some gain", and the Grasshopper Plague of 1874.
Episode 92
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 24 "Going to Church"
Join us this week as we discuss the Congregational Church, Edward Alden, shirrings, Ma's gold pin, "Wait from the Wagon", "There Is a Happy Land", John 11:35, "Jerusalem the Golden", and "Pa's bell" is still in Walnut Grove.
Episode 91
On the Banks of Plum Creek, ch. 23 "Country Party"
Join us this week as we talk about vanity cakes, Ma's patience, the Ingalls' chickens, and the definition of "knoll."
Episode 90
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 22 "Town Party"
Join us this week as we discuss velocipedes, china dolls, talking dolls, and Mother Goose.
Episode 89
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 21 "Nellie Oleson."
Join us this week as we discuss the value of money to the Ingalls, the interactions with the Oleson family, ring-around-the-rosie, "Uncle John Is Sick Abed", and Nellie Owens.
Episode 88
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 20 "School"
Join us this week as we discuss the definition of "sprigged", which readers the girls would have used, blue herons, snipes, who Laura and Mary's friends were, and Miss Eva Beadle.
Episode 87
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 19 "The Fish Trap"
Join us this week as we discuss crape, to "cipher", buffalo fish, pickerels, and bullheads.
Episode 86
On the Banks of Plum Creek ch. 18 "The Old Crab and the Bloodsuckers." Join us this week as we discuss boughten brooms, minnows, crabs/crawfish, and LEECHES.
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