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Date Posted: 21:36:12 05/05/02 Sun
Author: Ann
Subject: On seeing some the FH repeated
I noticed Mr. Glenn was griping about how hard it was to cut the hay with a sythe. Karen Glenn had to borrow an egg to make the groom's cake for the wedding, because she'd used all their eggs for breakfast. When she sent her daughter to borrow an egg from the Brooks, the daughter commented about how they had already borrowed eggs from him, and chicken feed too. So Miss Self-Sufficient, Plan-Ahead was not so perfect herself, and her husband had to admit how hard the work was.
At the wedding Mr. Glenn said something about Karen, along the lines of her bein outspoken or independent or something like that, but then said her liked her that way, that she wouldn't be who she was if she wasn't that way.
Interesting that I did not pick up on those things the first time around.
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Re: On seeing some the FH repeated -- Leigh, 20:46:10 05/07/02 Tue
I remember that. Mrs. Clune made the really nice wedding cake. And yes Karen Glen made omlettes for breakfast and didn't have enough for the cake. I thought she should have humbled herself to go ask for the eggs. I wondered if the situation had been reversed if she would have said, " I am sorry that you didn't plan ahead and now you need eggs. I guess you are not used to budgeting because you are wealthy and live on the west coast, but I need these eggs for my family".
I am wondering if these people are going to show up on any talk shows. Anyone see any of them?
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Re: On seeing some the FH repeated -- Ann, 11:42:37 05/08/02 Wed
I'd love to see some of them on a talk show, preferably Oprah. (Too many of the other shows would just allow a shouting match/fist fight situation, which I do not find entertaining.) I also think it would be neat of any of them wrote a book about their experience. However, I bet they all had to sign something with PBS that they wouldn't go on other shows or write books.
I would like to see another follow-up on PBS in a year from now.
It seems as if the women had the hardest time (even Karen, if she would admit to it), as their work was grinding drudgery. I think the men got more satisfaction, as, even though their work was hard, it showed more results and had more variety. Mr. Clune mentioned that Mrs. Clune had hoped to do sewing and quilt-making, but she never had time, as the meal preparation, cleaning and laundry just took up all the time.
I suppose back then, eventually families would have made improvements (such as maybe a well close to the house, maybe even connecting to a pump in the kitchen) that would have made life a bit easier and given them a little bit of time for something such as sewing or quilting.
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Re: On seeing some the FH repeated -- Pat, 21:31:49 05/07/02 Tue
Hi Ann,
I hadn't notice that either. That is a good observation.
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Re: On seeing some the FH repeated -- Kim, 11:42:40 05/08/02 Wed
What got me laughing like a loon was watching Nate pulling the imaginary cord to 'start' his scythe, and the hysterical sound effects ... talk about his great sense of humour! He and his bride seem to be the least likely to complain, although they have their moments, I know.
Kellie and I were talking about FH the other day on the phone, and I mentioned to her that I don't recall seeing so much complaining on the 1900 House, from London. I don't remember that they smuggled in deodorant and shampoo or constantly whined about everything. From that viewpoint, I preferred watching 1900 House more. Yes, it was harder on the frontier, but the bottom line is this: These 21st century people knew what they were getting into when the volunteered for the show. No one put a gun to their heads and made them do it. Kwitcherbellyachin and get on with it.
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Re: On seeing some the FH repeated -- Shell, 15:49:21 05/08/02 Wed
I do remember on the 1900 House that the did sneak in shampoo(or at least tried to.)
I wish pbs would show more of FH. The have tapes for 5 months, the could have a nice series with that, showing an hour per week. That way you could see more if what was going on.Also, the way the women were dressed while working. I know it was hot and their used ti dressing in less but it seems that they wwre out there in their slips, not dresses. I couldn't see Laura doing that, no matter how hot she got. In fact resding the books I always wondered how they could stand being dressed that way being so hot.
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Re: On seeing some the FH repeated -- Ann, 11:54:37 05/08/02 Wed
I'd love to see some of them on a talk show, preferably Oprah. (Too many of the other shows would just allow a shouting match/fist fight situation, which I do not find entertaining.) I also think it would be neat of any of them wrote a book about their experience. However, I bet they all had to sign something with PBS that they wouldn't go on other shows or write books.
I would like to see another follow-up on PBS in a year from now.
It seems as if the women had the hardest time (even Karen, if she would admit to it), as their work was grinding drudgery. I think the men got more satisfaction, as, even though their work was hard, it showed more results and had more variety. Mr. Clune mentioned that Mrs. Clune had hoped to do sewing and quilt-making, but she never had time, as the meal preparation, cleaning and laundry just took up all the time.
I suppose back then, eventually families would have made improvements (such as maybe a well close to the house, maybe even connecting to a pump in the kitchen) that would have made life a bit easier and given them a little bit of time for something such as sewing or quilting.
I wish I'd seen the 1900 House. Was that only one family?
I liked Nate's sense of humor too. He and his bride did seem to cope best, but then they had no children to worry about and were in a honeymoon frame of mind with each other (and were younger, to boot!)
The complaining didn't really bother me that much. Probably because, at least silently, I would have been griping too, I'm sure! I often rant and rave (to myself) about something difficult, but then I do it. Of course, maybe the key is, I do my griping silently, not in front of a TV camera! For all the complaining, no one gave up and packed in, which I think was an accomplishment considering they were there 5 months.
Plus, we don't know how PBS edited the whole thing. Maybe for every minute of complaining there were 5 minutes of positive talk, and they chose to show more of the complaining. (It still gets me that Karen was so holier-than-thou, however. She could have simply shown how she was coping without knocking the Clunes, and she would have come across much better for it.)
Anyway, I thought the show was fun to watch. I could probably keep talking about it for another month (as you can probably tell, lol!)
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Was that IT?? -- delilah firth, 00:45:16 05/12/02 Sun
The show was only 6 or 8 hours long?! I thought it was a series. I am very disappointed. I didn't think the show cut it. I was rather bored and thought they were all so *non-pioneer*. I must admit to only seeing three or four hours of the *series* and those hours were not consistant.
There is one question I have:
Would the Ingalls women had been able to take their *bras* off like that one lady did?
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Re: Was that IT?? -- Ann, 11:48:28 05/12/02 Sun
Well, the Ingalls women probably would not have taken their "bras" off when other people were around, but I wonder about times when they were living pretty much alone. Maybe in the summer, they would?
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I know I would have, Ann -- delilah firth, 15:15:30 05/12/02 Sun
But I wonder how many women actually *burned the bras*.
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Re: I know I would have, Ann -- Ann, 21:41:40 05/12/02 Sun
They probably just put them away for the summer,lol! Although maybe some independent types who had their own farms or worked as cow-pokes (if any did) probably didn't wear corsets, but maybe had some type of plain camisole type garment.
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