When I was a kid I was very much into the Oz books, all fourteen of them
Imagine my surprise at age 9 when I went with my parents to a mall in New Jersey and saw a slew of new ones!
Unbeknownst to me, Ruth Plumly Thompson had been appointed Royal Historian of Oz after Baum and wrote 19 more in the series.
It was like pulling teeth from my dickhead father to get even two books. He assured me I could get more later and was completely indifferent to why this was such a big deal to me.
Sure enough, they went out of print soon after and became impossible for me, as a child, to find.
Of the 19, 8 were public domain and reprinted as hardcover. The remaining 11 I tracked down as an adult.
Recently I decided to upgrade them to the hardcovers with dustjacket, and now I have all of the so-called Famous Forty (yep there were more after Thompson).
It hasn’t stopped raining here in Mid-Michigan for like dayyyyyysss. Have any of you read that short story by Ray Bradbury, “The Long Rain”?
"The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains."
It is maddening!! This is our back yard. Thank God it’s not near the house
I knows it's late, but here are some meat pies I baked and marshmallows i baked/ cooked last weekend. Both turned out really good! I used red cabbage juice to color the marshmallows purple, and i gave the unused cabbage juice to my daughter. She used it for a cool science experiment that tested the pH of water around our home: filtered, tap, and water from the Arboretum nearby (blue = basic, purple= neutral, pink = acidic).
