Welcome to the minicast. This is going to be where we read and cover the last three books in the Little House series.

We ran out of time in the last podcast, so we thought we would put an interim minicast up in the week between podcasts.

And we are women of our word. Let's get to it and just up front if we hear a jackhammer. We really, really apologize.

The city chose this day to attack my street with jackhammers, so I'm so sorry. There's nothing we can do.

But the alternative of the street blowing up is so just every time you hear that jackhammer, just think of us winning.

Let's talk about Little Town on the Prairie. Also, just met again, and what happens at the very beginning of the book is that Paul comes home and asks if Laura would like a job in town.

Everybody's like speechless, because the only job anyone's ever heard of in a girl working in town is to work in a hotel among strangers.

And that's bad. That's not for our Laura. She's not even allowed to hang out with her cousin Lena.

Yeah, she was a bad influence. So just imagine all those like creepy strangers coming off the train in a hotel. Yeah, no good.

So she actually is employed for $1.50 a week to sew shirts at a store in town, like a dry goods store.

And $1.50 a week doesn't sound like a lot to us.

No, but I got in this converter thing and using the like unskilled labor conversion from that year, it's actually about $186.

Which is pretty darn good for a kid to be bringing home.

Yeah, so yeah, that's a big contribution to the family, like a $1.50. I'm not going to tread into town for $1.50, but back then it was a lot of purchasing power.

Laura is not going to be blowing it all at Abacrombie and Benster.

I thought that it was pretty smart of the sky, the dry goods owner to make up shirts because I was listening to this documentary about the prospectors, you know, the gold rush.

This is earlier, you know, 50 years earlier, but honestly, the people that made all the money are the chicks that made all the pancakes for everyone and the women who made the short staff.

Yeah, because everybody needs pancakes, you know.

And shirts, I think it was really smart of the guy.

Yes.

Unfortunately, here they are again with crop failures.

I just support Pa, man, he just can't catch a break.

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