What happens when farmers go to the city is one thing. But what happens when city people try their hands at farming? Visit the newly wed MacDonalds to find out.
Another fun film, in a similar vein, is 'For Richer Or Poorer', starring Tim Allen--a husband and wife, fleeing the city, hide out with an Amish family, pretending to be distant cousins.
My husband and I found Betty's book in a used book store in the 1990s, when discerning whether to jump into family farming (his passion) or staying in the suburbs with his high-paying financial sector job. Don't know if the book helped, but it did provide hours of laughter as we read it aloud after long days in the field! Later we discovered her "Onions in the Stew" and the movie. We still giggle about the "Gammy cookies". I must pick up the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series for our baby grandson!
We raised our children on OLD children's books. Even thirty years ago our public library was purging their shelves of such books and filling their shelves with... well, nothing we wanted our kids to read. We filled our home library with books our library put out for the trash! Delight is exactly what children's books must be filled with.
Another fun film, in a similar vein, is 'For Richer Or Poorer', starring Tim Allen--a husband and wife, fleeing the city, hide out with an Amish family, pretending to be distant cousins.
Mark, we haven't seen that one! Thanks for the recommendation.
My husband and I found Betty's book in a used book store in the 1990s, when discerning whether to jump into family farming (his passion) or staying in the suburbs with his high-paying financial sector job. Don't know if the book helped, but it did provide hours of laughter as we read it aloud after long days in the field! Later we discovered her "Onions in the Stew" and the movie. We still giggle about the "Gammy cookies". I must pick up the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series for our baby grandson!
Oh for the days when books like that were what people wanted to read -- for fun.
Betty MacDonald also wrote the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series for children. Delightful!
We raised our children on OLD children's books. Even thirty years ago our public library was purging their shelves of such books and filling their shelves with... well, nothing we wanted our kids to read. We filled our home library with books our library put out for the trash! Delight is exactly what children's books must be filled with.