Last fall, I took a moment to air a nagging question I had about Pushing Daisies. This time around, I have a list of thoughts concerning a show I’ve watched more times than I could possibly count.

When I was a young child, I became addicted to episodes of Little House on the Prairie. Now, thanks to the Hallmark Channel, I could continue watching the show at least 4x a day.

And while I love the program, years of watching the series have left me with a bunch of questions. Questions in some cases that could never be answered. I merely present my random musings to those who might enjoy a trip back through Walnut Grove.

So for now, I leave you with this list of 15. Don’t be surprised to see more installments in the future:

1. Why did the Ingalls have the crappiest house in Walnut Grove? How did the Garveys (and everyone else in the town) end up with a much larger home? Didn’t Jonathan work at the same exact mill as Charles? (Granted, the Garveys only had one mouth to feed…but you get my point.)
2. Why wasn’t older Carrie ever given a storyline? (I think the last time she was featured was when she fell down the hole.) If the attention wasn’t on either Laura or Albert, it was on the new adoptees James and Cassandra. As it was, Carrie barely ever spoke.
3. Why were the older males never meant to have love?  Mr. Edwards lost two families and then gave up a blind girl because he felt he was too old. And how about Dr. Baker? He also gave up Anne Archer because of age.
4. Speaking of love, why didn’t Hester Sue and Joe Kagan ever get together?
5. Was Charles the only person in town who could solve things with his fists?
6. When the families temporarily left Walnut Grove to make money in other towns (like Winoka), what did Dr. Baker do?
7. Why didn’t Laura and Almanzo volunteer to take more orphans in? (I’m not counting Shannen Doherty since she was technically a relative.) Laura knew what it was like to grow up in a large family and she had a huge house. She could have offered to take James and Cassandra in when they were looking for parents. Heck - she could have even offered to trade homes with her cramped parents.
8. Exactly how much older was Almanzo to Laura?
9. When the Ingalls were struggling, how did Charles always find money for tobacco?
10. When Mary’s baby died in the fire, how did Dr. Baker know the fire started in the basement? Was he also the town fire marshal?
11. Whatever happened to the black doctor Hiram brought on?
12. If there were approximately 100 residents in Walnut Grove, why did only 20 of them show up to church every week? I think more people ate at Nellie’s during their franchise stint.
13. Why were Caroline and Hester Sue responsible for running every shift at the restaurant? Couldn’t Mrs. Oleson find someone for the breakfast rush?
14. Why did Hester Sue feel it was necessary to sing after every event?
15. When did Charles and Caroline find the time to produce more children? Not only did they lack bedroom doors - Carrie slept in the same room!

For those of you in the Minneapolis area, just a quick reminder. A stage version of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books (starring Melissa Gilbert) will be hitting Guthrie Theater in a few weeks.