"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:50:54 -0600, Ema Nymton >
> wrote:
>
>> On 12/29/2012 5:36 PM, Farm1 wrote:
>>
>> > And I wondered who the hell 'Pioneer woman' may be. Not that I care in
>> > the
>> > least.
>>
>> You know, I wondered about that, too, she is a pioneer from where? As
>> it turns out, Oklahoma, which does not sound like an unsettled region,
>> but maybe it is.
>>
>> They live on a huge ranch (farm), and you see footage of the children
>> and ranch hands on horseback, helping her husband load up cattle, or
>> somesuch. She earns quite a bit on that show, so I am sure her husband
>> can afford every newfangled ranch gadget that he wants. It is not a bad
>> show, you could probably find an episode or two online if you got bored.
>>
> I'm not a big enough fan to know for sure and I'm not Googling, so
> anyone who knows otherwise can correct me.... I think she calls
> herself Pioneer Woman because she's a City girl who moved to the
> country - so she's roughing it on a cattle ranch now.

Doesn't look to me like she's roughing anything. They have a HUGE kitchen
with all sorts of fancy stuff in it, much better furniture and much more of
it than we do. And a big screen TV.