Caturday!

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Quote of the Day

image from thegraphicsfairy.com

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~ Henry James

Outstanding In His Field

That he is whistling "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" makes it even better.

Vintage Images - Crown Imperial Lilies

copyright-free, from Dover

Had a Red Cross event this weekend and for some reason I keep thinking today is Monday - apologies!

Quote Of The Day

Aunt Martha's Workbasket Magazine, January 1937

Another crochet-heavy issue, with a rug, a doily, and a collar and cuff set, along with a pattern for an Iris quilt in applique. A free download from the Antique Pattern Library.

Vintage Advertising - Orange Crush

A cool drink for the hot day that today is shaping up to be.

Quote Of The Day

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't books in the world.  ~ James Baldwin

Grrrsday

Woodworking - A "Novel Pushcar" from 1923

A "novel pushcar" made like a bulldog, from the January 1923 issue of Popular Mechanics (left-click to enlarge).  I am having way too much fun going through these on Google Books.

Quote Of The Day

 I'm a Black man, and I love America.

I'm aware that's become a controversial statement.  "I love America" is something you now say if you take Fox News with your morning coffee.  I get it.  Every Independence Day, one of my favorite high school classmates posts Frederick Douglass's Fourth of July speech on his Facebook page.  You know the speech.  It contains the line, "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?"  I get that, too.  I know our past, and I know our pain.  Enslavement.  Peonage.  Jim Crow.  I know our present, and I know our pain.  Mass incarceration.  Red lining.  Extra-judicial police killings.  But the future is up for grabs. ~ Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Grrrsday

Everyone needs a hobby.

Not Just No

One of my nephews was born in Guatemala.  His sister is biracial.

Their mom got a phone call this morning from a lady asking her if she would like to contribute to the Trump re-election campaign. 

Aunt Martha's Workbasket Magazine - December, 1936

Eight pages from 1936, including a crocheted bedspread, a crocheted chair set, and a quilt pattern called, perhaps wistfully,  Mother's Dream.  Free download from the Antique Pattern Library.

Who Needs Opposable Thumbs Anyway

If nobody gets up early enough to please him, somebody has figured out how to open the back door.

Masochism

It was way too hot to do this today.

I'm Not Saying It's Hot Out

when the coolest place in the house is the floor of the shower in the basement.

...but two Hobbits just threw a ring into my back yard.

How hot is it where you are?

Woodworking - A Sewing Duck from 1940

Something for a loving husband (or son who is taking wood shop) to create one evening for the little woman.  From Popular Science magazine, December 1940, available as a free download from Google Books.  

Caturday!

Quote Of The Day

Minnie and Sheba at the vet's yesterday

If all else fails - duck.  As a defensive stratagem it's unreliable but incredibly re-assuring for a moment or two. ~ Murphy's Laws of Combat