When sorting basement shelves, Mom recently found a couple boxes of books. Fun books! From the days of library book sales when my sisters and I decided to start collecting some of our favorites (and even some classics we had not yet read) to begin our own libraries.
Now seemed a good time to sort and split the books with Maren starting her own home. So, here is my third of the stash! And now I have more on my reading list as I've never read Black Beauty, Johnny Tremain, or The Tapestry.
How fun to begin my Laura Ingalls Wilder collection just as Elsa and I are listening through that series of audiobooks and thoroughly enjoying this lovely literature we had mostly forgotten from our childhood.
The current audio book (performed masterfully by Cherry Jones - including singing along with "Pa's" fiddle) is The Long Winter. And I thought we had winters with a lot of blizzards and snow when I was young!
While the Ingalls family and the fledgling town of De Smet, South Dakota struggle through their unusually fierce winter - cut off from supplies of food and coal by a train that gave up trying to dig out and reach them between blizzards...
...we turn up the furnace in our insulated home, enjoy views of frost and snow through our triple-pane windows, cosy up on the couch with a blanket and mug of tea, and enjoy the distraction of stories that speed along our handwork and Christmas gift-making - like these pot-holders ready to send to a friend overseas.
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