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Nice to get some back history of the Stuarts with dishes and such.

Shelley reaches her out of state destination and the house is strange to her and the people she is staying with seem nice and friendly and helpful. Apparently olives need to be cured before you eat them and not fresh from the tree to her discovery.

Pretty fun first chapter with the mom getting all weird and Shelley having a good fit over her mom choosing stuff for her and all this weird stuff about how FAR away Oregon is from California when they are right NEXT DOOR! It got pretty exasperating listening to them argue and the clueless dad piped in some good stuff.

That Grandcmother! Ugh! She is so jealous and conniving all the time, what a warped woman.

Whatever the Mallory-Hope Foundation is, James worked it so there would be more students at Fairacre School for the sake of seeing the desires of the dude who founded it and the bargain of real estate in the area, so helping out the school teacher, friend of his Wife, Amy, was a bonus luck thing. And it all wrapss up neatly!

Stirring through 17 and 19 back and forth and what is up with Little Aunt Em as well.

Back to 17 and just focusing on that portion in which Jane and her dad begin keeping house and paying attention to the weather and the supplies they have.

19: Mrs. Pringle is NOT a betting woman and gets all deeply offended when Miss Read off handedly inquires if she wants to bet on something. The audacity of the woman? Of course!

18: Amy wonders where all the field workers went as they meander through the countryside. Technology and change rears heads there. Oh and this was that groovy bit where the Vicar tries to remember a name: Rochester? Winchester and the teacher tells him: Salisbury. XD

Grandmother K changes and redoes Jane's bedroom which doofus ideas of winning over Jane to that awful house with a bunch of materialism, which doesn't work. Jane is about her home on the Island and no other...

Aunt Elmira seems endlessly disappointed...

Fine marvelous world, oh it's a fine marvelous world... says Littla Aunt Em... We shall see...

Going through the last few chapters we read together to remind me of what all's been happening.

I guess the bit with the lion is still pretty amusing

Okay, chapter 34 is when they shop for her second trip's clothing and stuff so there is that to bookmark, and yep Phyllis points out she will visit too, which we know turns out better than anticipated, yay. Here we go, she is on her way back Home!