After she got into the house he kept pacing around it and growling. Every time she started to open the door he jumped at her and snarled." Laura began to float away on the music, and then she heard a clattering noise, and there was Ma by the stove, getting breakfast. It was Monday morning, and Sunday would not come again for a whole week. Eliza had a narrow squeak the other day, when I was away at Lake City. You know Prince, that big dog of mine?" Clatworthy reservoir nearby - great for fishing or walking (can be accessed direct from the farm, no car needed. The round walking trip is 6 miles) That summer and fall, the Ingalls again plant a garden and fields, and store food for the winter. Pa trades labor with other farmers so that his own crops will be harvested faster when it is time. Not all work was farming. Hunting and gathering were important parts of providing for the Ingalls as well. When Pa went into the woods to hunt, he usually came home with a deer and then smoked the meat for the coming winter. One day he noticed a bee tree and returned early to get the wash tub and milk pail to collect the honey. When he returned in winter evenings, Laura and Mary always begged him to play his fiddle; he was too tired from farm work to play during summer. [4] In the winter, they enjoyed the comforts of their home and danced to Pa’s fiddle playing.

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Anderson, William. Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. 2004. ISBN 0-06-028974-0Meet Marissa Marissa is a Mom of 4 kids 2 cats and 2 dogs. an Air Force brat, and a Virtual Race junkie. Her kids range in age from 7 to teens. Using rebates her family enjoys a debt-free Christmas every year! Now she is sharing all the ways she saves money. Come along for the ride! Sadly, as with time what often happens has done so; there have been many changes. The “big woods” have mostly been harvested for one reason or another. Still scenic and pretty though. After the sun went down, they could not slide downhill, not even once. That would be breaking the Sabbath. So they put the sled in the shed behind the house, to wait until Sunday was over.

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Alice and Ella and Mary were all wide awake now, and Laura put her head under the covers and whispered to Alice, "My! weren't you scared?" Good-by! Good-by!" they called, and off they went, the horses trotting gaily and the sleigh bells ringing. He made the tiniest shavings, cutting very slowly and carefully, making whatever he thought would be pretty.

The first book I ever enjoyed reading and getting an image in my head while I read it, was “Little House in the Big Woods.” This has always been something I wanted to see. Pa and Uncle Peter had each a pair of new, warm mittens, knit in little squares of red and white. Ma and Aunt Eliza had made them.

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He would come in from his tramping through the snowy woods with tiny icicles hanging on the ends of his mustaches. He would hang his gun on the wall over the door, throw off his fur cap and coat and mittens, and call: "Where's my little half-pint of sweet cider half drunk up?"

Onions were made into long ropes, braided together by their tops, and then were hung in the attic beside wreaths of red peppers strung on threads. The pumpkins and the squashes were piled in orange and yellow and green heaps in the attic's corners. All alone in the wild Big Woods, and the snow, and the cold, the little log house was warm and snug and cosy. Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie were comfortable and happy there, especially at night.