Betty MacDonald and a huge Betty MacDonald fan club Christmas surprise

Betty MacDonald fan club fans,

we have a very special  Betty MacDonald fan club Christmas gift.

As already mentioned we are going to share very exciting info on Betty MacDonald's fifth autobiographical book.

Betty MacDonald fan club research team recently got very interesting info on this subject.

The most important item is a letter by Betty MacDonald.

She describes in detail her fifth autobiographical book.

We have lots of Betty MacDonald fan club Christmas gifts for you.

Join our two current Betty MacDonald fan club contests, please.

Tell us please in which of her books Betty MacDoanald mentioned Christmas.

Deadline: December 31, 2015

Join our second Betty MacDonald fan club contest, please. 

We have a Betty MacDonald fan club surprise for you.

Tell us please which member of Betty MacDonald's family wasn't fond of her huge Christmas trees?

Hurry up and send us a mail, please.

The first one will be our Betty MacDonald fan club surprise winner today. 

You can order our new Betty MacDonald and Alison Bard Burnett CD and DVD!

DVD and CD are different. You can see Betty MacDonald, her sister Alison Bard Burnett and other family members and friends in front of the camera for the first time! 
 
We can offer you new wonderful Betty MacDonald Fan Club Items and a new Betty MacDonald and Alison Bard Burnett CD and DVD. 

Alison Bard Burnett shares the most interesting stories about Mary, Betty and the Bard family.
CD and DVD interviews are different ones.

New  Betty MacDonald documentary will be very interesting with many new interviews.

Alison Bard Burnett and other Betty MacDonald fan club honor members will be included in Wolfgang Hampel's new project Vita Magica.

More exciting news about Betty MacDonald's filmed interview will come soon. 

Enjoy a wonderful  breakfast with Brad and Nick, please.

Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli will be back soon.

I guess our beloved darling is going to share a very exciting Betty MacDonald fan club Christmas surprise too.

Wishing you a very nice Monday,

Greta



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Betty MacDonald and a huge Betty MacDonald fan club Christmas surprise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Betty MacDonald fan club fans,

great Betty MacDonald fan club news.

We have a very special Betty MacDonald fan club Christmas gift for you.

A relative of one of our Betty MacDonald fan club fans wrote about his experiences with Betty and Robert Eugene Heskett ( Bob in The Egg and I ).

We are going to share it with you because it incl. very exciting details. ( Betty MacDonald fan club newsletter December )

Take care and have lots of fun on Saturday,

Martin

Betty MacDonald described Christmas time in her book 'The Egg and I:

I put up my Christmas tree during the last week of November, just to get the feel and smell of November out of the house. Bob warned me that it would dry out and the needles would fall off before Christmas but I laughed. Not only did I think the drying out improbable but it seemed more likely that it would flourish and give birth to little Christmas trees in the moist atmosphere of the house.

I never tired of admiring and loving our little Christmas trees. When we cleared the back fields, Bob let me keep about ten of the prettiest trees for future Christmas trees. The loveliest of all we sent home to the family but the one I chose for our first Christmas was a dear, fat little lady with her full green skirts hiding her feet and all of her branches tipped with cones.

The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald is a memoir of the years in the late 1920’s that Ms. MacDonald and her first husband, Bob Heskett, spent running a small chicken farm near Chimacum, Washington. The Egg and I was Betty MacDonald’s first book, published in 1945, and she went on to write several more volumes of memoir and the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books for children. 

I can see from the book why the divorce ensued. Betty MacDonald begins her story with a quotation from Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: “Such duty as the subject owes the prince, even such a woman oweth to her husband.” Berry MacDonald says she went into marriage with this sort of dutiful attitude, along with adherence to her mother’s advice “that it is a wife’s bounden duty to see that her husband is happy in his work.” 

“Too many potentially great men are eating their hearts out in dull jobs because of selfish wives,” quoth Mom, and Betty listened and found herself supporting Bob in his dream of owning a chicken farm. With no electricity. No indoor plumbing. No radio. No telephone. Bats hanging in the cellar and flying into the house. Dropping boards and chicken lice. Days that began at 4 AM and ended at midnight or thereafter. Homicidal chickens. Bears and cougars. Ma and Pa Kettle as neighbors. Babies with “fits”. 

The Egg and I is very funny. 

Betty MacDonald had a way with words. Some examples, chosen almost at random:
“Farmers’ wives who had the strength, endurance and energy of locomotives and the appetites of dinosaurs were, according to them, so delicate that if you accidentally brushed against them they would turn brown like gardenias.”

“The parlor was clean and neat. . . I was amazed considering the fifteen children and the appearance of the rest of the house. But when I watched Maw come out of the bathroom, firmly shut the door, go over and pull down the fringed shades clear to the bottom, test the bolt on the door that led to the front hallway and finally shut and lock the door after us as we went into the kitchen, I knew. The parlor was never used. It was the clean white handkerchief in the breastpocket of the house.”

“Not me!” I screamed as he told me to put the chokers on the fir trees and to shout directions for the pulling as he drove the team when we cleared out the orchard. “Yes, you! I’m sure you’re not competent but you’re the best help I can get at present,” and Bob laughed callously.

Bob’s attitude in that last quote from the book, repeated frequently throughout, is probably the reason that Betty left him in 1931 and returned to Seattle, civilization, and eventually a new husband, Mr. Donald MacDonald, who presumably appreciated her desire to support him in his work and returned the favor. 

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