http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2010/03/20/the-long-winter-chapter-19-where-theres-a-will/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed America's most comprehensive site dedicated to the life, literature, and many homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:32:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2010/03/20/the-long-winter-chapter-19-where-theres-a-will/comment-page-1/#comment-1339 Melanie Beasley Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:15:59 +0000 http://beyondlittlehouse.com/?p=3331#comment-1339 This chapter always makes me think of all the comforts I take for granted every winter-- layers of warm, soft fleece and sweatpants, hand lotion, chapstick, even toilet paper. How I wish I could go back in time and give the Ingalls family these things! Along with a giant stack of books! I remind myself all these women were still getting their periods every month, without Tylenol or Advil, without tampons, having to go to the freezing cold toilet and wash out the cloth rags I'm sure they used. These were incredible people by any standard. This chapter always makes me think of all the comforts I take for granted every winter– layers of warm, soft fleece and sweatpants, hand lotion, chapstick, even toilet paper. How I wish I could go back in time and give the Ingalls family these things! Along with a giant stack of books! I remind myself all these women were still getting their periods every month, without Tylenol or Advil, without tampons, having to go to the freezing cold toilet and wash out the cloth rags I’m sure they used. These were incredible people by any standard.

]]> http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2010/03/20/the-long-winter-chapter-19-where-theres-a-will/comment-page-1/#comment-1171 Barb Mayes Boustead Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:58:05 +0000 http://beyondlittlehouse.com/?p=3331#comment-1171 Both the burning of sticks of hay and the grinding of wheat grains in home coffee mills were actually pretty commonplace "last resorts" among settlers in the region during the winter of 1880-81. Maybe Pa and the other men in town talked about it in one of their gatherings at the store, sharing ideas on how to cope? I'd be very interested in tasting a bread made from mill-ground wheat kernels. Both the burning of sticks of hay and the grinding of wheat grains in home coffee mills were actually pretty commonplace “last resorts” among settlers in the region during the winter of 1880-81. Maybe Pa and the other men in town talked about it in one of their gatherings at the store, sharing ideas on how to cope? I’d be very interested in tasting a bread made from mill-ground wheat kernels.

]]> http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2010/03/20/the-long-winter-chapter-19-where-theres-a-will/comment-page-1/#comment-1170 Linda Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:39:15 +0000 http://beyondlittlehouse.com/?p=3331#comment-1170 I think if I was a sewer, a button bag would sound like a really nice project to start. I think if I was a sewer, a button bag would sound like a really nice project to start.

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