We're planning a trip to Wisconsin to visit my father and thought we'd make it into a literary and historical trip to see the homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder. I'm still working out the details but the sites we'd like to visit are:
Pepin, Wisconsin
Walnut Grove, Minnesota
Burr Oak, Iowa
De Smet, South Dakota
Independence, Kansas
Mansfield, Missouri
We've been reading the LIW books aloud for several months. We're on the third one, "On the Banks of Plum Creek" which takes place outside Walnut Grove. Of course, Tacie and I have read them before. Talia is hearing them for the first time and is as excited as we are.
One thing I'm trying to coordinate is that we want to see a pageant at one or more of the sites. There are special events in Walnut Grove, De Smet, and Mansfield in July to celebrate LIW's life.
Bruce would rather stay home and get caught up on some repair work to our old house. We plan to camp along the way. Tacie will stay in Wisconsin for a while after Talia and I leave to spend some time with Dad and Pat. We'd hoped to bring Charlie (our new dog) but if we go into a restaurant or museum there's no place for Charlie to wait for us. It is too hot to leave him in the car.
We plan to leave in the next week or so, after the 16th when Tacie gets home from horse camp.
Thursday, July 07, 2005
A Beginning
This is the beginning of our family blog. I've given it the title of "How Does Your Garden Grow?" after the children's rhyme:
Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row.
I think of our family as a garden that we tend.
Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row.
I think of our family as a garden that we tend.