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June 7, 2008
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Dansk tekst til venstre |
English text on the right |
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Dagens baghave: |
Backyard of the Day: |
Sod House on the Prairie,
Sanborn, Redwood County, Minnesota

The Sod House on the Prairie is
located at 12598 Magnolia Avenue in Sanborn, Redwood County, Minnesota.

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Vi havde regnet med at skulle
hænge i Spencer, Iowa, til først i næste uge, mens
vi ventede på bilen, men Scott, som var vores mekaniker, havde
ondt af os og påtog sig at ringe rundt til omegnens andre
mekanikere, og på en eller anden måde fik han
støvet en benzinpumpe op og fik os sendt afsted ved 10-tiden i morges. |
Well, we were fully expecting to
hang around Spencer, Iowa, until early next week waiting for the
truck, but Scott, who was our mechanic, had mercy on us and took it
upon himself to call around to other mechanics in the Spencer upland,
and somehow or another he came up with a diesel pump and had us on
the road this morning about 10 am. |


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Vi vendte straks næsen
nordpå, krydsede ind i Minnesota, og standsede først, da
vi kom til "Tørvehuset på Prærien." |
We immediately headed north,
crossed into Minnesota, and didn't stop until we got to the "Sod
House on the Prairie." |



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Det første hus,
Ingalls-familien boede i, da de flyttede til Walnut
Grove, Minnesota, var en tørvehytte. Det var svært
at finde byggematerialer på den træløse
prærie, så op til en million tørvehytter stod i
sin tid rundt omkring på prærien. Den hytte
Ingalls-familien boede i findes ikke mere, men for circa 30 år
siden byggede Stan McCone adskillige tørvehuse bag sin
gård i Sanborn, for at vise folk, hvordan mange pionerer
på prærien levede. |
The first home of the Ingalls
family, after moving to Walnut Grove, Minnesota,
was a sod house. It was difficult to find building materials on the
treeless prairie, so at one time as many as a million sod houses
sprung up around the prairie. The dugout soddy that was home to the
Ingalls family no longer exists, but about 30 years ago Stan McCone
built several sod houses behind his farm in Sanborn in an effort to
teach people how many pioneers on the prairie lived. |

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