She growed up REAL good!
Posted on 02/11/2008 1:44:17 PM PST by JSDude1
I am glad that Hallmark has started playing these old (values filled shows again): I used to watch this show as a Child. It has given me a new appreciation of Michael Landon Sr. and as a man of God, as many episodes are openly filled with faith in Christ!
On another note, I looked up Melissa Gilbert (and remember reading an interview with her and her husband on ET in the 90's): in it she said that though she was liberal, her husband leaned conservative! Well to my surprise she is married to Bruce Boxleitner (I loved this guy on Babylon 5!). It turns out if you follow the link I provided with this article; it seems He is a Republican, and has donated far more to Republican candidates than he has to democrats! I just found this interesting..
IN HEAVEN: THANK YOU MICHAEL.
To let you know my time frame (I am 27yrs old born in '80)!
She growed up REAL good!
Liar! A null sag!
It’s hard to believe Hollywood once made shows that reflected traditional American values.
Those books are pretty good, I think. I think it is the next to the last one, New Dawn on Rocky Ridge that tells the story of Laura going back to South Dakota because Pa is dying.. I cry everytime I reread that chapter.
There is another series about Caroline when she was young, written by Maria D Wilkes. I have read a few of those as well.
HAHAHAHAHA!
I too loved Michael Landon. His son is doing wonderful movies on Hallmark as well.
That’s the one I grew up with.
I too enjoy hearing about life on the frontier at that time. The simple pleasures that they relished. I throw it back at my kids and say, "See? They're just happy to have a glass window and white sugar! You don't know how good you have it." I know, I'm sounding like my old man but what the hey, it works.
LOL! I was thinking the same thing!
Alluring, alas....
You’ve gotta read the Little House series! My daughter (18years old) and I relate all events to what Pa would do.
With a rumored trust income of $11 million a year, she lives in an unpretentious ranch house on two acres and drives a Jeep.
The movies are based on a series of books written by Christian author Janette Okie.
I’ve never read the books but from what I hear the later movies aren’t even close to the books.
Thanks. I’ll look for them on-line and at Border’s.
Not sure where you are in the series, but that winter in Nebraska (?) when the last train before winter (loaded with coal and flour) doesn’t arrive before the snows close the tracks really put a lot of stress on the family. Basically, they spent every day of the winter, from dawn to late evening, either twisting prairie grass into knots to burn in the stove for a little warmth or taking turns at a coffee grinder to grind wheat kernels into flower so they could bake a kind of rough bread to eat.
Yes the later movies stray. But the first one was close.
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