I will have to get the Little House books now. And to Leigh’s “there’s plenty of room for individual style!”: so true, here on the internet. Isn’t blogging great!

I think their appeal is that they portray exactly the kind of lifestyle you describe working toward in your blog; the kind of lifestyle many of us are drawn too: living in close relationship to the natural ebb and flow of the seasons and the land.

Here’s my shocker (you can gasp at this one too), the Little House books are still a favorite of DH’s and mine and he still reads them aloud to me in the evenings while I knit or do other handwork. And our kids are grown up and on their own now! We enjoy them just the two of us.

Conveying the emotions of such an endeavor is tough, I really understand what you are saying about that. Laura Ingalls Wilder did a good job on that one though; again the universal appeal. I’m not quite the writer she is though. Fortunately, there’s plenty of room for individual style!