Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for January 14, 2011

That is just soooooooo wrong, Holly …

Donner party? That’s tough times…..gotta remember that line.

Tell me about the lambs, Clarice. (manic slurping)

Six Hours???? When I was a kid on the farm, we would go WEEKS without power during ice storms… Suck it up Holly!

ghostkeeper that was the last day of the show. Someone bougth the town except of little house ma and pa house wasn’t sold. Towns people were upset and Laura came up the idea they can run us out but who said they could have the homes so they blew them up to rubble.

This strip reminds me of a few years ago of ice storm we had power outage scattered and massive. My mom lives in a small town was out for a whole week, A cousin lived up the street I not sure may have generater or had power assisted her with water and food. Place my sister lived no power a day or two longer came up with a way to have somewhat power. I can understand how kids feel. Stuck at home nothing to do. One can only clean for so long.

Good grief what a scenario. None of that happened in the book!

Yeah, I didn’t remember that at all. Maybe my parents didn’t let me watch that. God knows, today someone would think that would be “cool” to do and try and blow up their town.

yeah, those Donners were such party animals

Uh huh… Have you ever been over Donner pass in the Sierra’s? Where most of the Donner party had to eat each other to stay alive after getting caught in a blizzard before they made it by wagon train to the lower elevations of California?? Not a pretty picture.

Googled “Donner”, read the wiki…wish I hadn’t.

“Little House” (book) never had any of that.TV producers would put in a car chase if they could, and the average viewer would believe it.

“Donner, party of six? Your table’s ready. Sorry for the wait.”

“Never mind. I’m the only one left, and I’m not hungry anymore.”

Our town of Marysville was named after a survivor of the Donner party. I had to go on line because our paper dropped the strip and, while it’s coming back next month, I didn’t want to miss anything. Imagine my surprise when I saw the contents touched on our history. Len - take heed!