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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
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I love that picture!
We tended to do adventure games - pioneers, mad scientists, anything that involved the woods and mud. There were some serious clay deposits around, so we'd make horribly mishappen little bowl and wait for the sun to dry them - which didn't happen since we're talking western PA here.
We played with trolls in the winter and in the summer either played pioneers, explorers, or astronauts. A downed tree makes a dandy aircraft....lotta branches to use for levers.
I know I am coming into to this more than a little late, (sheepish look), but have the two of you read any of the Anne of Green Gables books? My daughter, now 16, really enjoyed those when she was about your girl's age. And Johnny Tremain still sits at the top of her most favorite books list. She is a historical fiction buff as well, but she would agree with your observation that the good stuff sure is hard to find :\
Apologies if ya'll have already mentioned them.
At our first PA house, we had a huge backyard that sloped downhill steeply. At the bottom was an enormous fallen tree. The way the branches fell, there was a large open space in the middle that you could get to by climbing. We used that as a fort... sometimes roofed parts of it with big hunks of bark.
The Anne of Green Gables books are great. I bought my mother the boxed set about 10 years ago. Kinda nostalgic for us. Recently, whilst looknig for *something* to read at her house that wasn't so technical, I found them. What a joy to reread them after all these years.
For that matter, 'pologies all round, me droppin in on a topic long gone :| I guess such are the perils of following up on an interesting post and getting drawn into another thread with even more interesting posts *sigh*
I bought the Anne of Green Gables boxed set for Clare a few years ago. She's never read them. I'll have to see if she's interested now.
Nah, no apology needed! We visit and revisit and visit again all interesting topics! ;-)
Those are good for at least one read, the earlier books more than one. After Anne marries Gilbert they just aren't that interesting.
As far as I know, there is no statute of limitations on topics around here. Folks just jump in and yak about something that caught their attention, even if it was mentioned way earlier!
They are amazing! My girl was assigned the reading, but struggled at first with the style and vocabulary. We started reading them together and she was hooked =D It was incredible how quickly here brain acclimated to the more formal style, really opened up her reading!
I loved and always will love the Anne books. And I STILL want to be like Anne when I grow up...find someone like Gilbert, settle down, have a big family, and do a bit of writing on the side. Preferably in a lovely place. ;-) Not a bad life!
BTW, it was through Rilla of Ingleside (about Anne's daughter) that I first got a bit of a feel for what World War I was all about - albeit from a Canadian perspective!
Aw, now you done went and spoilt it for me.
I won't be readin' 'em now...
I am sitting here trying to remember how old my daughter was...4th grade...I think so :o
Yeah, like you would have before...
That's not the point...
Thank you :]
WW1 has always struck me as so pointless and futile. It marks the beginning of a period in history that just leave me depressed. Not until WW2 do things get, I don't know. Moving, again. It's like from 1914 to 1938-ish, the world was all in greyscale.
I liked Anne's House of Dreams a LOT, though. Have you read it recently? I thought the later ones not as interesting when I was little, but in rereading...well, there's a lot more I can identify with now.
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