Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. ~ Laurie Colwin

Girl With A Pearl Earring

 

Home Sewing - Applique Placemats from 1952

From Good Housekeeping, August 1952, a quartet of placemats to applique with fruits and leaves.  Left-click to enlarge.

HOIST, PETARD, OWN

 

In an appalling but typical display of vindictiveness and attempted intimidation, the governor of Texas is forbidding any of the returning Democratic state representatives to go anywhere unless accompanied by a police escort.

In response, two of the lawmakers decided to visit a drag show in Austin yesterday.

And It's August Already

 I feel his pain.

Caturday!

 

Minnie came up from the basement after we got home last night* and gave me a cold stare and an angry meow - then turned around and went right back downstairs.  She got over her snit by bedtime, though.

(*she despises the new petsitter, a sweet local high school kid that the dogs, Blitzen and Sheba adore).

A Journey of 1,000 Miles Begins With A Single Step

 And ends with sleeping for the entire day.

I May Be Moving

 

We docked in Kotor yesterday.

There Will Always Be An England

 

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND DEP'T: Our cruise director, during the port brief for the next day's adventures, pointed out with typical British understatement that there were only three roads into and out of our destination, and "...if you get lost, you should not be out unsupervised."

Bon Voyage (Again)

 

Departing for the Adriatic tomorrow.  Blogging will be intermittent for a while. 

(The dog-sitter has been engaged, and the boys are not pleased).

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Grrrsday

 

While We're On the Subject of Vacances

 

Does anyone know of any good yarn shops in Athens?

Vintage Crochet - A Thread Motif from 1950

 

From the September, 1950 issue of Workbasket magazine, a delicate motif in thread crochet for a tablecloth or dresser scarf. This is from my own collection, and as of this date, not yet available at the Antique Pattern Library.

Left-click to enlarge.

Semper Paratus

 

Happy birthday to the branch nobody remembers until some damn fool rents a powerboat and sinks it.

Summer In The City

 

 

Why I am taking vacation when technically I am always on vacation?  Oldest sister is arriving today and we'll be hitting the fleshpots of Chicago* until Saturday.

(*or at least the Art Institute and the Palmer House).

Welcome to Summer in the Midwest

 We will be under a "heat dome" until Thursday.

Caturday!