Jul 27, 2026 · 6 min · 6 segments
Episode 196 Ch. 22 of Little Town on the Prairie, "Unexpected in April". Join us this week as we discuss the definition of a blizzard, static electricity in cats, and where Ma taught.
Outdoors, the snow was all gone, a green mist of new grass lay over the prairie, and plowed land spread black and sweet, smelling under the warm sun.
Now she cleared away the dinner dishes, she saw her slated schoolbooks waiting for her, and she felt the soft breeze beguile her to go walking with Carrie and Grace in the spring weather.
"'I think I'll go to town this afternoon,' Pa said when he put on his hat." Is there anything you want me to get, Caroline? Suddenly the breeze was icy cold and Laura looked out quickly from the window.
he drew a chair close to the stove and sat down i'm glad all of this stock is in the stable i was going to get picket ropes in town he added kitty was frantic this was the first blizzard she had known she did not know what to make of it when all of her furs stood up and crackled trying to soothe her grace discovered that a spark would snap from her whenever she was touched nothing could be done about that except not to touch her three days and nights the blizzard raged pa put the hens in the stable lest they freeze it was so cold that the distable days were spent close to the stove and though the light was dim laura doggedly studied arithmetic at least she thought i don't want to go walking on the third day the blizzard left the prairie covered in fine hard snow it was still frozen when pa walked to town the next day "'I don't see how anybody can be prepared for anything,' said Laura.
"'When you expect something and then something else always happens.' "'Laura,' said Ma.
"'You may be well prepared to teach school and not be a schoolteacher, "'but if you are not prepared, it's certainly that you won't be.' "'That was so.
Later, Laura remembered that Ma had once been a schoolteacher.' that evening when she had put away her books to help ma get supper she asked how many terms of school did you teach ma two said ma then what happened i met your pa ma i answered oh laura said hopefully she thought that she might meet somebody maybe after all she would not have to be a school teacher always so short little chapter about a blizzard in april not a lot to talk about but let's go ahead and get started the first thing is i realized we didn't even really define what a blizzard is A blizzard, according to the American Meteorological Society, is a falling or blowing snow, winds over 35 miles an hour, and visibility at less than a quarter mile for at least three hours.
Outdoors, the snow was all gone, a green mist of new grass lay over the prairie, and plowed land spread black and sweet, smelling under the warm sun.
Now she cleared away the dinner dishes, she saw her slated schoolbooks waiting for her, and she felt the soft breeze beguile her to go walking with Carrie and Grace in the spring weather.
"'I think I'll go to town this afternoon,' Pa said when he put on his hat." Is there anything you want me to get, Caroline? Suddenly the breeze was icy cold and Laura looked out quickly from the window.
he drew a chair close to the stove and sat down i'm glad all of this stock is in the stable i was going to get picket ropes in town he added kitty was frantic this was the first blizzard she had known she did not know what to make of it when all of her furs stood up and crackled trying to soothe her grace discovered that a spark would snap from her whenever she was touched nothing could be done about that except not to touch her three days and nights the blizzard raged pa put the hens in the stable lest they freeze it was so cold that the distable days were spent close to the stove and though the light was dim laura doggedly studied arithmetic at least she thought i don't want to go walking on the third day the blizzard left the prairie covered in fine hard snow it was still frozen when pa walked to town the next day "'I don't see how anybody can be prepared for anything,' said Laura.
"'When you expect something and then something else always happens.' "'Laura,' said Ma.
"'You may be well prepared to teach school and not be a schoolteacher, "'but if you are not prepared, it's certainly that you won't be.' "'That was so.
Later, Laura remembered that Ma had once been a schoolteacher.' that evening when she had put away her books to help ma get supper she asked how many terms of school did you teach ma two said ma then what happened i met your pa ma i answered oh laura said hopefully she thought that she might meet somebody maybe after all she would not have to be a school teacher always so short little chapter about a blizzard in april not a lot to talk about but let's go ahead and get started the first thing is i realized we didn't even really define what a blizzard is A blizzard, according to the American Meteorological Society, is a falling or blowing snow, winds over 35 miles an hour, and visibility at less than a quarter mile for at least three hours.
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