On Wed, 1 May 2002 06:30:25 -0500, shmartonak@ticnet.com wrote: > > >On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Sara wrote: > >> Anybody watching Frontier House? (For those not in the USA, it's a >> television program following 3 families who are trying to recreate the >> experience of homesteading in Montana in 1883.) The first episode >> was on Sunday 29 April, to be followed on Monday and Tuesday. > >I guess I'm in the minority (story of my life), but I was disappointed. I >enjoyed the Victorian House show that was done last year and was looking >forward to Frontier Hous. Instead of getting a lot of hows and why of >frontier life, we got whining about no makeup and commentary about who's >on the virge of divorce. The show was more about the people playing the >roles than it was about frontier life. > >JMHO > >-- I know what you mean. As the series goes on, it's more of a soap opera than a documentary. I'm not interested in the family feuds. On last night's episode, the homesteaders had to put up fences within a week to protect their land from a cattle drive. The series showed them putting in fence posts and stringing barbed wire. My question was - where did the fence posts come from? They looked way too uniform to have been made by the homesteaders, and anyway there wasn't time from them to make all those posts. Maybe there was a lumber mill nearby - it would have been interesting to see how they would trade their stuff for fenceposts. I'd rather see that than Gordon worrying about his weight loss (didn't it ever occur to him that he was getting in shape????). Sara