Vintage Magazines - Ladies' Home Journal, July, 1934

 

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Knowing Emmett Till had been born
in '41 and my father in '42,

knowing Mississippi made a wound of his only body

while my father's slept tender in Alabama,

knowing how quick my father was to whistle,

to hum, to quip back, to be smart - while Black -

I turned my head in the classroom,

turned my head from the film-lit photograph,

from the misshapen yield of that river,

toward the gentle vacancies of the baseball field.

Oh, child.  It's 1992.

Your father will be beside you at the dinner table.

There is a mother whose son was lost to Mississippi.

She's telling you, Look. 

~ Amanda Gunn

The Online Bookshelf: Animal Portraiture by Wilhelm Kuhnert

 

One hundred breath-taking color studies by early 20th century animal painter Wilhelm Kuhnert.  Free download at Project Gutenberg.

Other Crafts - Raffia Coasters from 1950

 

Ideal for these hot, muggy, ice-tea-drinking summer days (left-click to enlarge),  a set of coasters to braid from raffia, which still can be found in craft stores.  If you're too far or too hard up, you could also do this in #10 crochet cotton.

From the Open Library, Crafts for Everyone by Louis V. Newkirk.  Not available as a download, but you can borrow it in one-hour increments if you have a free account.  

National Preserving Awareness Week

 

Blitzen and Sheba are doing their bit.

For This, I got the Tommy Lee Jones Over-The-Top-of-The-Reading-Glasses Death Stare

 

Me:  What do you call a cow that has just given birth?

He:  I dunno, what?

Me:  Decalfeinated!

(It's terrible being married to a man with no sense of humor).

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit, where all the powers of the mind and character are brought into play and are absorbed in the task. ~ Florence Bascom

Grrrsday

 

Children's Crafts - Clothespin People from 1953

 

From the McCall's Golden Book for Children, 1953, an idea for someone small who is bored with other summer activities.  Of course, you need to have a good old-fashioned round-topped pegs for this to really work.  The kind you buy in a craft store won't do.

The book is full of ideas for children's crafts, and is available as a one-hour loan at the Open Library (You'll need an account, but it's free).

Beware Of All Enterprises That Require New Clothes

 

We leave for Alaska in fifteen days, and I hope this gets here before then.

Vintage Magazines - All Story Love Stories

 

Boy, if this isn't a tear-jerker, I don't know what is.

Quote of the Day

 

Quelle Surprise

 

Having been sucked back into providing support for a Red Cross response (the Derecho that hit the Midwest earlier this month), I am now working with a new volunteer who is a retired railroad dispatcher, and who told me that there's a locomotive named after me.

That pleasant thought aside, I am going to be up to my armpits in Red Cross stuff this week so please excuse any gaps in posting.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

If you ever get to thinking you're really something, try calling another man's dog ~ Anonymous

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Woodworking - a Maple Leaf Whatnot from 1943

 

In belated homage to Canada Day, a corner whatnot shelf from The Young Craftsman, a collection of projects considered easy and suitable for the young from various magazines such as Popular Mechanics, published in 1943. It's a free download at the Internet Archive.

Vintage Holidays - July 4th

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy.

Caturday!