Grrrsday

 

Vintage Children's Crafts - Milk Carton Toys from 1976

 

From a great and fun book called The Woman's Day Book of Gifts To Make, published in the mid-1970s (which is when I think home crafting with humble supplies really peaked in this country.  So many craft magazines after that rely heavily on stores and kits).  Left-click  to enlarge.

Milk  in cartons is hard to find now, but orange juice is still around.  This book can be borrowed from the Open Library site.  It is free, but an account is required.  

Vintage Holidays - New Year's Eve

 

copyright-free image from The Graphics Fairy

The Gift That Keeps on Giving

 

This Christmas we gave each other our colds.

Vintage Holidays - Christmas

 

Caturday!

 

The Original Antifa

 

The American cemetery in Hamm, Luxembourg 

Kill Me Now

 The most obvious shortcoming of a cruise ship is that you have nowhere else to go.

It becomes even more obvious when the carol singers in the lounge get started on their fourth iteration of Felice Navidad.

The Legend of Bishop Hatto

 

We are passing through Bingen on the Rhine and the Bishop's Tower is on the north bank (he was a real person and a very cruel man). This poem gave me nightmares when I read it at age nine or so.

Walking Off The Pilsner

 

A Balkan Breakfast

Baba ganoush, picked beets, olives, cheese and incomparable bread and butter.

Not All Who Wander Etc Etc

 

Fourteen jours, to be exact.  Blogging will be intermittent for a while.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 ...our dead shall not return to us while day and night divide
Never while the bars of sunset hold.
But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died,
Shall they thrust for high employments as of old?

...their lives cannot repay us - their deaths could not undo -
The shame that they have laid upon our race
But the slothfulness that wasted and the arrogance that slew,
Shall we leave it unabated in its place?

Grrrsday

 

Five Days and a Wake-up

 Leaving Brian at home and going with a sister-in-law who shops.

(She does not yet know that I snore).

Vintage Tatting - A Christmas Idea from 1916

 

From Clark's Book of Needlework, 1916. Tat seven for a star, or six for a snowflake.  Left-click to enlarge.

Vintage Holidays - Thanksgiving

copyright-free image from The Graphics Fairy 

Caturday!

 

On The Road (or at least Amtrak) Again

 

Off to Chicago for a culture-vulture week (Carmina Burana, Much Ado About Nothing, and the Elizabeth Catlett exhibit at the Art Institute).  Blogging will resume Caturday!