Thirty Days and a Wake-Up

Quote Of The Day

She had known, really, that somewhere there had to be such a house.  A house that smelled of vanilla and cinnamon and fresh-baked bread.  A house with embroidered cushions tied to each carved pine chair and a canary as yellow as butter that sang and sang and sang.  She had known too that such a house would have a cat with whiskers like cello strings which jumped on to your knee the moment you sat down... ~ Eva Ibbotson

Tatting - A Booklet from Cartier-Bresson

Second edition but no year given, at least that I can find - I'll take a shot that it's no later than the 20's.  

66 pages (in French), available as a free download from the Antique Pattern Library.

Vintage Holidays - Presidents' Day

Copyright-free image from Dover.

Caturday!

On Our County EMA's FB Page This Morning

O tempora! Part II

You really start feeling old when the sergeant issuing you your retiree ID card looks about sixteen. 

Grrrsday

Vintage Holidays - Valentine's Day

A copyright-free set of Edwardian Valentines, from our friends at Dover.

Watch This

Watch it to the very end.

Housekeeping Notes

This was on my template page today:  
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Google+ Comments: Support for Google+ comments will be turned down, and all blogs using Google+ comments will be reverted back to using Blogger comments. Unfortunately, comments posted as Google+ comments cannot be migrated to Blogger and will no longer appear on your blog. 

I guess that means if you notice some comments are gone, too bad?

Frame Of Reference

GSD needlepoint pattern from Pinterest

Little Man and I attended his first Puppy Life Skills class at the kennel club this evening.  One of the other students is named Bader.

Me:  Bader, as in Douglas Bader the World War II RAF ace?

Other owner:  Ah..no. Bader as in Harrison Bader, center fielder for the St Louis Cardinals.

Vintage Magazines - Action

For the best in lusty adventure, from 1953 (although it looks as though that cover was recycled from the 20's or 30's).

Caturday!

Quote Of The Day

image from the Graphics Fairy

When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the hall
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl
         Tu-whit;
Tu-who, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

EDITED TO ADD:  The following was tweeted by one of our local PDs along with a jpeg of a snowman wearing a police uniform.  "PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not commit crimes for the next couple of days, the wind chills are -50 degrees!!!"  I love living in the Midwest.