I think Ma didn’t like the sound of the wind being played, as it was a reminder of the blizzard, probably not in the mood for whimsy, I suppose that is a form of cheerfulness.

I live in an isolated place, and it is awful knowing that past the town, and ours isn’t much bigger, maybe 10 times bigger and not very wide, there is just miles and miles of trees to get to a larger place. I know there are people along the way in farms, but really there is us, then nothing it feels like.

They were probably quite warm upstairs after the initial shock of the cold. When I was little there were cold beds, though not like how cold their would have been. I am not sure why our beds are not as cold these days. I think mainly the loungerooms were heated in the 60s, but more the whole house these days where I live.

I think Minnie and Mary would have only taken a short time to cross the street, like on the day they got home from school in the blizzard. I think people crossed like Pa to visit the shops. Unlikely the storm would have hit just in that short time perhaps?

I think Pa would not have liked the possibility that Laura could get caught in the storm hauling hay. Only the Wilder boys and Pa went out of town during that winter to haul things.