Comments on: Pull Up A Chair… http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:08:59 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821902 Christy Hardin Smith Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:28:09 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821902 <p>bob at 230 — Love the Little House books. And agree with you on Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her life stories parallel a lot of what my great grandmother lived, coming by covered wagon into WV with her family when she was a girl. We’ve already started reading the Little House stories to The Peanut and she loves them. Still have my original boxed set that my grandparents bought me for Christmas when I was four. :)</p> bob at 230 — Love the Little House books. And agree with you on Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her life stories parallel a lot of what my great grandmother lived, coming by covered wagon into WV with her family when she was a girl. We’ve already started reading the Little House stories to The Peanut and she loves them. Still have my original boxed set that my grandparents bought me for Christmas when I was four. :)

]]> By: wangdangdoodle http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821422 wangdangdoodle Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:08:39 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821422 <p>testing little blue f thingie in epu land</p> <p>:)</p> <p>Mmmmmmmmmm, gazpachohhhhhhhh!</p> testing little blue f thingie in epu land

:)

Mmmmmmmmmm, gazpachohhhhhhhh!

]]> By: Arnie http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821401 Arnie Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:45:34 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821401 <p>EPU’d bigtime,</p> <p>Summer soup, Spanish style - </p> <p><a href="http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/egg/egg0896/gazpacho.html">GAZPACHO</a></p> EPU’d bigtime,

Summer soup, Spanish style –

GAZPACHO

]]> By: pet wrecker http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821399 pet wrecker Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:43:52 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821399 <p>how about <i>the federalist papers</i> for the boy king’s summer reading?<br /> not<br /> *g*</p> how about the federalist papers for the boy king’s summer reading?
not
*g*

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821266 Adie Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:09:44 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821266 <p><em>PA Lady 227</em></p> <p>Thanks much. That was a very sweet post, scooping up all those thots together. ;-></p> <p>and <em>JEP</em></p> <p>If it makes you feel any better, I can’t keep up either. But that doesn’t make any difference. I mean, people do have other lives besides blogging, eh.</p> <p>Yes! I am positive your thoughts are read, and greatly appreciated around here. Keep ‘um comin’.</p> PA Lady 227

Thanks much. That was a very sweet post, scooping up all those thots together. ;->

and JEP

If it makes you feel any better, I can’t keep up either. But that doesn’t make any difference. I mean, people do have other lives besides blogging, eh.

Yes! I am positive your thoughts are read, and greatly appreciated around here. Keep ‘um comin’.

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821255 Adie Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:00:47 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821255 <p><a href="#comment-821242"><em>newdealfarmgrrrlll @ 231</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>EPU’d but oh well. Every Friday I read Bouphonia’s <a href="http://bouphonia.blogspot.com/">Friday Hope Blogging</a> which I highly recommend.<br /> Thru that linked to <a href="http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/">this</a> story & blog: “After having to drop out of school due to lack of funds, William Kamkwamba from Malawi decided to learn as much as he could from books that had been donated to his primary school’s library. One of the books detailed how to build a windmill that generated enough electricity.”</p></blockquote> <p>what’s with this “oh well” bidness, heh?! ;-></p> <p>Try as you might, you can’t be epu’d from “pull up a chair.”</p> <p>Thanks for the tips. Always looking for a good read.</p> newdealfarmgrrrlll @ 231

EPU’d but oh well. Every Friday I read Bouphonia’s Friday Hope Blogging which I highly recommend.
Thru that linked to this story & blog: “After having to drop out of school due to lack of funds, William Kamkwamba from Malawi decided to learn as much as he could from books that had been donated to his primary school’s library. One of the books detailed how to build a windmill that generated enough electricity.”

what’s with this “oh well” bidness, heh?! ;->

Try as you might, you can’t be epu’d from “pull up a chair.”

Thanks for the tips. Always looking for a good read.

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821251 Adie Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:53:26 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821251 <p>Hey guys. Finally got to a book, & I was dead-wrong about the birdie at 202.</p> <p>please forgive,</p> <p>and try Common Moorhen, which I believe someone else suggested upthread.</p> <p>Gorgeous picture, <em>ccmask</em>! ;-></p> Hey guys. Finally got to a book, & I was dead-wrong about the birdie at 202.

please forgive,

and try Common Moorhen, which I believe someone else suggested upthread.

Gorgeous picture, ccmask! ;->

]]> By: BigMitch http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821243 BigMitch Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:46:39 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821243 <p><a href="#comment-820993"><em>Bay State Librul @ 57</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Wow. The Tillman obstruction, hitting hard after Libby could be a zinger. Especially, if his brother and mother go postal.</p></blockquote> <p>Count on it!</p> Bay State Librul @ 57

Wow. The Tillman obstruction, hitting hard after Libby could be a zinger. Especially, if his brother and mother go postal.

Count on it!

]]> By: newdealfarmgrrrlll http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821242 newdealfarmgrrrlll Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:46:37 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821242 <p>EPU’d but oh well. Every Friday I read Bouphonia’s <a href="http://bouphonia.blogspot.com/">Friday Hope Blogging</a> which I highly recommend.<br /> Thru that linked to <a href="http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/">this</a> story & blog: “After having to drop out of school due to lack of funds, William Kamkwamba from Malawi decided to learn as much as he could from books that had been donated to his primary school’s library. One of the books detailed how to build a windmill that generated enough electricity.”</p> EPU’d but oh well. Every Friday I read Bouphonia’s Friday Hope Blogging which I highly recommend.
Thru that linked to this story & blog: “After having to drop out of school due to lack of funds, William Kamkwamba from Malawi decided to learn as much as he could from books that had been donated to his primary school’s library. One of the books detailed how to build a windmill that generated enough electricity.”

]]> By: bob somerby http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821241 bob somerby Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:46:22 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/14/pull-up-a-chair-55/#comment-821241 <p>Redd:</p> <p>I don’t know if you’ve read the Little House books in your adult life. But I think Laura Ingalls Wilder was one of the last century’s deepest souls. It’s hard to describe how deep those books go, although they tend to get ignored because they sit on the shelf marked for children.</p> <p>Was anyone ever better at crafting a beginning, middle and end? I’d recommend starting weith the second book, Little House on the Prairie, only because the first book (In the Big Woods) was meant to be a one-time, stand-alone book about how-we-lived-back-then, and was therefore less strong on narrative. </p> <p>I was lucky. When I was teaching fifth grade, one of my kids left the final book in the series (The Final Four Years) in her desk at the end of the year. Before I took it back to the library, I stole a glance, then read it…</p> Redd:

I don’t know if you’ve read the Little House books in your adult life. But I think Laura Ingalls Wilder was one of the last century’s deepest souls. It’s hard to describe how deep those books go, although they tend to get ignored because they sit on the shelf marked for children.

Was anyone ever better at crafting a beginning, middle and end? I’d recommend starting weith the second book, Little House on the Prairie, only because the first book (In the Big Woods) was meant to be a one-time, stand-alone book about how-we-lived-back-then, and was therefore less strong on narrative.

I was lucky. When I was teaching fifth grade, one of my kids left the final book in the series (The Final Four Years) in her desk at the end of the year. Before I took it back to the library, I stole a glance, then read it…

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