Couch 248: Curiouser and Curiouser

Same here!

I never watched the lhop tv show - I was a bit too old for it when it started

I also never watched it. I may have read the first book. It just never appealed to me that much.

Struggling a bit because Dr. T said he was going to cut up/kill his one palm tree today because it's not healthy and he won't take it to the new building. Like, he brought in hedge trimmers to do it (and pointed them out). It sounds silly, and I'm not overly attached to that tree in particular (it's in a corner and not in my general line of sight), but I still feel sad about it. I asked if he'd at least bring some plants to the new office, and he said yes, but was pointing out another sickly one that probably wouldn't make it (in part due to space).

If I had any sort of green thumb, I might have asked if I could take it on, but I'd probably just hasten the plant's death, and I imagine that would make me feel bad. Plus, he probably would have declined anyway. (I admit that I'm also thinking "Are you going to take that small table? If not, could I have it? Or buy it?" As I'm in need of a bit of furniture due to some renovations. He's mentioned giving a microwave to a client before, so.

It did lead to a good discussion about the move, including some aspects that might be affecting me that I hadn't considered. So...I guess that's positive? May write more on it later.

I think I was primed to like it because we started reading the books out loud as a family when I was 6. I kind of identified with Laura Ingalls because she had a tomboy side and I did as well.

I read and re-read LHOP books as a kid. The whole series. My sister and I used to pretend to be Laura and Mary.

I also read every Nancy Drew book in the library, along with Hardy Boys. My sister and I also played Hardy Boys, because there were two so we didn't fight over who had to be Bess (Nancy's cousin/friend). Sometimes when there weren't any of those series available at the library I read Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, which was okay but not nearly as interesting as the others.

I could not stand Nancy Drew. It seemed she was always waiting around for someone to rescue her. I much preferred the Hardy Boys.

Read Cherry Ames, Sue Barton, the Dana Girls, and Clint Lane (set at West Point).

Ah, see, I very much do not have a tomboy side and never did. So that could explain it. And that sounds nice about reading the books aloud.

I don't remember Nancy Drew standing around waiting to be rescued. Then again it's been many, many years since I read any of the books.

For those into parody - there are some of the nancy drew etc series by Mabel Maney - hardy boys, nancy drew, and cherry ames are all included. They are not deep but they are light and fun. Nancy Clue and the Hardly Boys in a Ghost in the Closet by Mabel Maney | Goodreads

I loved Cherry Ames and Sue Barton. Also all the Beverly Cleary teen books like Fifteen and The Luckiest Girl. Man i wanted that pink rubber raincoat with the black velvet collar. All i ever had as a kid were the fold up clear plastic adult in-a-pinch "raincoats."

My girlfriend down the block who was the same age as me had a little bookshelf in her bedroom with all the Nancy Drew books. I think she let me borrow them. The only books we owned were a big book of fairytales, which i had done reading by age 5, and Little Men, which i found in our attic, and which i was told not to read as it was just for boys. But i eventually did anyway. I dont think my brother ever did.

So my uber driver to pick up my insulin today was a mountain climber!!! So much fun to hear him talk about places ive read about, like the football field on Denali.

How cool, Una!

I love hearing people tell their stories about walking the Camino.

I'm not built to do something like that...but I admire people who are fit enough to take on that challenge.

I know, right? I mean, mostly i read mountain climbing stories when its either very hot, to cool off, or when its very cold, to say at least im not THERE! So cool to run into him. I love my town!

We had some books (like my mother's old ndrew, lmalcott, liwilder books and the completely creepy original mary poppins stories that my dad's mother had) but we mostly used the library. When I was six, my other grandmother gave me a monthly subscription to receive a Happy Hollister book each month. I loved that present.

I had friends who were into trixie beldon books - that was horses (I think it was horses - I didn't read them really).

my grandma saved all of my mom's and uncles comic books from when they were kids, so i got to read little lulu and other comic books of their era. in addition to my mom's older nancy drew books.

How beautiful is that!

What a gift.

I remember reading the name Aloysius in a Highlights for Children at the dentist's office and thinking htf do you pronounce that?! Altho i think i had heard the saint's name - i just wasnt putting the two together.

Wasn't there a Bobsey Twins series of books also? I can't remember if they were mystery solvers too or not. Did somebody already mention those?

Werent they babies?

My favorite book for a while was The Latch Key Club kids, but ive never been able to refind it.

Also of course Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy-Tib books. They restored the actual house in Minnesota.