Does Mrs Ingall Wilder really paint her sister as so entirely boring?

I'm rereading the book now, and for the most part, yeah. Practically any time anything's going on, Laura's helping the adults, or at least trying to figure out what's going on, while Mary's just sitting there watching.

Another thing that I'm noticing about the books, which I didn't notice the last time I read them (around fifth grade), is just how often Charles will be doing something, and Caroline will see a better way to do it, but not mention it until he's most of the way done, just as a, "By the way, why didn't you do it this way?" sort of thing.

How does Charles react to that?

I'm now watching part 3 of 5, and it's honestly not that interesting. I do adore Cameron Bancroft, so it's good background, but that's about it.

How does Charles react to that?

Most of the time, the book doesn't say. In the scene I just read, where he's building the chimney and she suggests a better way to stack the stones (I didn't totally get what that was about), he just said, "I believe I will" and finished it up that way.

happy birthday Noisedesign! may this year bring you more and better than the last year!

Happy Birthday, NoiseDesign!!!

One tape down, yay! Now I just have to find the other one...

Mary's just sitting there watching.

Well, she only watches until she's blind. :)

I need a new copy of the series. Farmer Boy was my favorite. I got it when I had the chicken pox.

Happy birthday, ND!

Emmett's team finally won a baseball game. We're now 1-3. Emmett got to play back in the infield again too. He started at catcher and nobody stole on him for two innings. (And basically everybody that gets to first base steals second because it's such a long throw for most of the 8-9 y.o.s).

Then he pitched for the first time. I was a little worried how he'd handle it. It's easy to tighten up out there and get very frustrated when you lose the strike zone. While he was warming up, a couple pitches got by the catcher and hit the wooden backdrop with a resounding BOOM. The kids on the other team started to look a little nervous at this Nuke Laloosh display. First batter. Strike out swinging. Emmett is reaching back and just unleashing it. No self-consciousness at all. No aiming, just rearing back and blowing it by them. And he's right around the plate on all the pitches. Except every 10th pitch would go blasting back against the backdrop. The third batter was so far back from the plate he took two called strikes on the inside part of the plate.

He faced 6 batters in two innings and struck out 5. The last batter received 4 balls, which means his coach comes in to pitch. Kid hit an absolute blast into the outfield where our centerfielder, Nathan, made a gorgeous leaping catch to end the inning. Nathan and Noah were the stars of the game. Nathan also blasted a triple which scored several. Noah also pitched two strong innings and had a bases clearing triple, and another double.

Our infield defense still sucks, but out pitching is now pretty good, and our hitting was very impressive this game. t /braggity brag

I wondered something about NUMB3RS. The kid's theory about Sniper 0 meant that 0 was the first sniper right? Committed the first two crimes, at least? But when he drew the accuracy graph, killing #1 was low skill, and #2 was high. What in hell was the point of numbering the kills in anything other than time order? I'm good with the axis thing, though. It sure sounded like the axis we couldn't see was being labelled x. But then he went into multiple dimensions.

Oh, gosh, have I said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NOISE DESIGN!!!

Here's hoping you have a wonderful year, and that your vodka is always chilled and happy-making.

Hee, go Emmett!