Can Yeh Scooot Yer Buggy Over a Little Be-yit”
Jeannie Fulbright gets a pack and a half of oreos for cracking me up so early in the morning. Also, I refuse to say WHO emailed me a cheatsheet, but SOMEONE already done told me alllllll about a buggy, and about orange and about coke. So I now knows. And I aint gots to do no mo' research. Which is right nice since I aint a girl who takes kindly to being learned stuff. Lastly, I want to know from you blogger people what your best fiction book is. For I shall need something to read on my long journey out east next Monday. And Jay from Clevenland, do NOT tell me to bring a boy scout manual because A) It's not fiction B) I'm not a boy C) I'm not a scout and D) I've already read parts of Bobo's and it's just not my forte' (I hope forte' means what I think it means). PS. Buggy = Cart …. LAME-O |
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August 20th, 2005 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 21 Comments 21 Responses to ' Can Yeh Scooot Yer Buggy Over a Little Be-yit” 'Leave a reply |
on August 20th, 2005 at 11:07 am
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Two years in TN and 7 in AL and I still say cart. Whoever thought up "buggy" must of been from way back before grocery stores were even invented. Fiction books – Recently I have enjoyed the Abrams Daughters series by Beverly Lewis. You need to get them all because they really don't end and you have to read the next one. Mean trick I think. I've been waiting on book 5 for months. (No English bookstores here ya know)
on August 20th, 2005 at 11:29 am
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Best fiction book I've read this year so far is 'Peace Like a River' by Leif Enger. Plus, his is a homeschooling family!
on August 20th, 2005 at 1:18 pm
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Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss
Basket of Flowers by Von Schmid (Lamplighter Publishing)
actually most anything from Lamplighter is good.
Just David is a great family read aloud. (Can't remember the author)
on August 20th, 2005 at 1:20 pm
Best Fiction Book
Mine. Christian Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
It isn't published yet…neener.
As far as "real" fiction (aka, published) let me think…I read so much that it's hard to decide on one.
on August 20th, 2005 at 2:35 pm
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You're kidding…people really say buggy out there?! Isn't that what a horse pulls? We say cart. Baskets are for easter eggs.
Weird. I always knew people from TN were strange! 😉 Yup, we're completely normal here in TX…we're always fixin to do somethin over yonder, drinkin' a coke and saying howdy ya'll…
And don't forget to say ma'am and sir. We never ever ever called an adult by their first name as a kid…always Mr. or Mrs._____. Even as an adult (I guess that's what I'm supposed to be now!), I still call those that are older than I (at least by a decade or so) by Mr. & Mrs. unless invited to do otherwise.
But don't worry…if you mess up, they'll just look at you with sympathy since you're from California! 🙂
Marsha
on August 20th, 2005 at 9:09 pm
Thanks for visiting my blog and your sweet comments.
Looks like you have a lot of fun here. 🙂 I keep meaning to subscribe to the Old Schoolhouse Magazine, but I've never gotten around to it. Maybe some day I'll get on top of it.
cellomom
on August 20th, 2005 at 9:16 pm
Hey…
…you ratted me out! Whas up with that?! lol Just see if I send you any more cheat sheets….:-P LOL, J/K
You'll also have to get used to all this 'southern' food. Ever had biscuits 'n gravy for breakfast? Yummmy!
As far as Fiction, I love Penelope Stokes, Blue Bottle Club & Amethyst Heart. I also like Judith Pella's Daughters of Fortune Series. (I love historical fiction.)
on August 21st, 2005 at 11:26 am
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Fiction, nope not me. Give me non-fiction, I'm grounded in reality. Yeah, right! The latest I've read is "A Land Remembered" by Patrick Smith. But I'm not sure you're ALLOWED to read it, it's all about FLORIDA!
on August 21st, 2005 at 6:38 pm
Where East are ya headin'?
Are ya coming this-away? If so – you just gotta come by and visit! We have real horse and buggies here in Amish country 🙂
Favorite Fiction:
Mitford Series
The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency
A Story Like the Wing & A Far Off Place (sequel) by Laurens Van der Post and arguably my favorite works of fiction. Ever. Even better than Jane Eyre or ANY Austen. So there.
on August 21st, 2005 at 7:12 pm
Delaware is on the way –
to Tennessee depending on where you are STARTING from! All I know is you are heading EAST. I am NOT Monk – I need more than a direction LOL! Are you starting in TN and heading East? Are you somewhere else entirely and heading East? Are you somewhere East and heading to TN? ANd what on earth does Ohio have to do with this? Maggie*shaking her head in confusion at her dear friend Jen's geography skills . . .
on August 21st, 2005 at 7:38 pm
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I have several favorites but the one that comes to mind right now is Quo Vadis – historical fiction set in Nero's time. Not a book to read aloud to the little ones though.
Jenn
ps – I also second the recomendation of the Abram's Daughters series by Beverly Lewis. They are very nice light reading.
on August 21st, 2005 at 7:45 pm
Oh Help!!!!
Jen posted the following on my blog. Really. I am NOT making this up:
1) our weird friend Jodi is from Ohio… so that's what I was ; oh. wait. never mind, she's from Iowa. Whatever. Iowa — Ohio. Same thing.
2) I spose Delaware will be on our way if we cross the Pacific to get to TN. We're leaving from CA (naturally i thought you could read my mind — and I'm rather disappointed that you didn't). No worries; a big plate of chicken curry will wisk away any troubles. Can I sleep in your room?
Jen, dearest, have you considered perhaps, one day soon, maybe teaching Geography?!!!! Iowa – Ohio the same thing??? LOL! No, Idaho and Iowa are the same thing. Ohio and Omaha are the same thing. But Iowa and Ohio are NOT the same thing!
1. I make GREAT chicken curry.
2. You can sleep in : a. the guest room but you have to share it with all my books and scrapbook supplies or b. Tyler's old Loft – but we evidently have a colony of bats somewhere above it or c. in the barn. I am NOT giving up my room UNLESS you promise you will learn where IOWA and OHIO are!
Sheesh.
Check this out: http://www.BrightIdeasPress.com
on August 21st, 2005 at 7:51 pm
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Oh yeah, and any of the Jeeves and Wooster books by PG Wodehouse. The Code of the Woosters is my favorite. They are are riot… if you like British humor that is.
Jenn = )
on August 21st, 2005 at 8:01 pm
I love Jeeves!
haven't read Wodehouse in years but remember Laughing Out Loud at Bertie and his man, Jeeves. Also, I just posted this on DaisyChain's blog:
Have you read any of the books by H. Rider Haggard from 100 years ago that have recently been re-published? I LOVED the Pearl Maiden – set in the time of the fall of Jerusalem, a riveting story with a little wholesome romance. Many homeschool companies are carrying them now.
on August 21st, 2005 at 8:18 pm
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Wodehouse wins, then. It'll be the first I read out of all these good idears. I shall pick me up a copy. My daughter read Pearl Maiden and loved it thanks for all the good tips. Iffen you gots anymore recommendations, feel free to keep posting! i do love me a good book.
on August 21st, 2005 at 9:30 pm
*sigh*
Jen, Jen, Jen…I came over here to berate you fully for your major faux pas with the Iowa/Ohio thing, but I see Maggie has beat me to it. Good for her! I mean, really. Did I not JUST give you my address in the last day or so?!? Did your sister not spend an evening with me here in my house on her way home from CHICAGO, which is WEST of OHIO? Do you not own a MAP? Sorry for shouting, I'm doing that thing where you yell at people who are a bit slow, thinking if you just say it louder, THEN they'll understand.
Well, hopefully when you get to the eastern half of the country, you'll realize there are more than 3 States which are United and figure out more of our land's geography. We can only hope. I hope you're not navigating this cross-country trip, you may wind up a Canadian citizen.
Here's a site for you. http://www.mapquest.com Amazing things there, like…maps.
Jodi
P.S. – I like the Wodehouse books, too!
on August 21st, 2005 at 9:47 pm
TO JODI (as posted on her page)
I would have gotten here sooner to yell back at you (since you were yellin' first) but I took a detour in St Louis and ended up in Fuji. They have great apples there. Anyhow. Esssscuuuuuuuuuuze me for getting Ohio and Iowa mixed up. Do they NOT sound the same? and I'm an audio learner, so when i hear Iowa I mentally conjour up all sorts of states with too many vowels in them. Now play nice lest I come over with my packing-tape gun and give you what's for.
on August 22nd, 2005 at 12:23 am
I-O-W-A!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I hate it when people get Iowa and Ohio mixed up! Here is a way to remember the difference: I-O-W-A stands for "I Outa Went Around". 😉
~Connie (a real born & bred, corn-fed Iowaigan)
on August 22nd, 2005 at 12:49 am
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I think everyone needs to give you a break on this Iowa-Ohio thing. I mean, any word with that kind of vowel-consonant ratio deserves to get mixed up. I'm a visual learner and I can't get it straight. And why should such a short word have 3 syllables? You and I are both stressed out over this packing and moving. And you've got a new language to learn where there are VERY few one syllable words. For example "cat" is pronounced " caa-yit". "I" is a one syllable word but you have to drag it out and it's kind of a combination between "I" and "Ah". I'll get my tape gun and join you if you have anymore problems with anyone. ; )
on August 22nd, 2005 at 8:17 am
Violent Blog!
This blog is scaring me – threats galore! And what is with that whole packing gun thing? I have a packing gun, several in fact. I can hardly shut up a box with it, much less a person. I must be doing something wrong!!!! (My dh rolls his eyes everytime he sees me pick one up. Customers, beware!)
on August 23rd, 2005 at 10:29 am
*sigh*…..
JenIg, Oh my my, we are SOOOO looking forward to your departure from the insular cocoon that is California and truly experiencing the American Heartland. Sometime, if you ever drive the 1000 miles from from one end of O-H-I-O-W-A to the other, you will come to appreciate the vast expanse of flat interior wasteland known as Indiana and Illinois (note to Californians — it's like totally NOT pronounced "Illi-noise")!!!!
Certainly the Boy Scout Handbook would be a great thing to read, especially if one needs to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together while en route. But if mere fiction is what's required, I recommend the early work of Stephen Lawhead, especially the first three books of "The Pendragon Cycle" — Taliesin, Merlin and Arthur. This is the King Arthur saga told from a Christian point of view.
Lawhead's historical fiction is also great, such as "The Iron Lance" — Book I of the "Celtic Crusades" series. This story is very true to the actual historical characters and events, and he paints very colorful word pictures with his writing. Warning though — the descriptions of medieval warfare violence are very explicit, moreson that Homer's "Illiad." Maybe this is a "guy's book."
However, my Mom however greatly enjoyed Lawhead's "Byzantium," which is a good one-shot story by this author. It describes the Christian struggle of the lead character Aiden through turbulent circumstances, as a reluctant tourist of the Medieval world. Stay away from "Patrick" which represents a bad turning point for this writer.
Have a nice LOOOOOOOOOONG drive across the North American continent!