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I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. ~ Captain John McCain, USN

Grrrsday

In honor of National Dog Day earlier this week, this blogger ran a set of pulp magazine covers with Man's Best Friend on the cover.  This one is a fiction weekly from 1925.

The cats are not amused.

It's Deja Vu All Over Again

It's after midnight. We've just managed to evict a bat. I was slightly more helpful this time.

This has been quite a week.

Well, This Is Special

We have a gas leak and I can't find the cats.

No Further Comment

There's ass and there's class.

Vintage Images - Sumer is A-Goin Out

Late-summer candy-box floral image from The Graphics Fairy.  

Caturday!

Quote Of The Day

and Minnie has the blue Irish stole!

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. ~ Yiddish proverb

Grrrsday

Because We All Could Use A Little Squee Today

More photos here.

Aunt Martha's Workbasket, June 1937

Not a lot of content in this month's issue but this crocheted outfit (skirt, blouse and capelet) is pretty, and there are instructions for making a Trip Around The World quilt, and an embroidery pattern for a "Singing Mexican Boy."  Free download at the Antique Pattern Library.

Vintage Advertising - Baby Ruth Candy Bars

from an online copy of the Delineator that I can't find anymore!

Offered With Absolutely No Comment

Because I am speechless.

"USCIS took 'nation of immigrants' out of mission statement because it wasn't created to serve them, director says."

Don't Expect Much From Me This Week

Both sisters will be visiting (and they're bringing their husbands and 40% of their children).

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The Online Bookshelf - Book Reviews

image from the Hudson Valley magazine

Book reviews written in 1911 by inmates at Sing-Sing.  Robert Louis Stevenson evidently was a favorite - Mrs Gaskell rather less so. 

A Red Letter Day

Sixty Million Frenchmen (Had Better Stand By)

image from agence eureka

Lord knows I should have learned my lesson, but for some reason I decided that my two sisters and I (USA, USN and USMC, respectively) really need to go to Paris next year.  I found a river cruise that's being offered at a great rate, and decide that we can follow up the cruise with a quick trip to Alsace because Haguenau.  I present for your reading pleasure a slightly edited version of the ensuant three-way text conversation.

I've decided to go to Paris next April.  Anyone want to go with me?

I'm in.

Me me pick me.

I'm looking at a (TM) river cruise its from Paris to Normandy and back. Afterwards we can take the train to Haguenau.

I have always wanted to do a (TM) cruise

I can meet you in Paris I'm not good on a boat

ITS A GODDAMNED RIVER

Yes dear

This is what we get for inviting the Army along

Hey Tip of the Spear

There are drugs for that 

Like she needs them

Yes I really want to be on a small boat with you two

I'll meet you in Paris

Children's Crafts - A Cat Purse from 1949

A clever little coin purse in the shape of a cat's head.  I remember these - you pinned one to the lapel of your Sunday coat, and your mother put a quarter inside for the collection basket.

A page of instructions can be downloaded from my Flickr account.

Luckily, She's My Sister-In-Law

Travel Agent:  So, you want to fly into Columbia but out of Charleston?

Me:  They can't be that far apart - I think Sherman managed to burn them both.

Caturday!

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Make voyages.  Attempt them.  That's all there is. ~ Tennessee Williams.

The Online Bookshelf - Rome

From Project Gutenberg, with seventy beautiful Edwardian paintings of the Eternal City.