Shephardation Anxiety

 

Brian's gone to Antarctica for two weeks and someone is not happy.

Vintage Christmas Gifts - A Dollhouse from 1937

 

The truly ambitious could start now and have this ready by Christmas Eve.  It's on pps32-40 of the December, 1937 issue of Science and Mechanics, courtesy of the Internet Archive.

RIP To Another Member of the Greatest Generation

 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Happy Thanksgiving

 

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I'm giving thanks that I can breathe again.

I Hab a Code

 Too sick to do anything but pet cats and reach for Kleenex.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

When a man says that there is a war on men, what he's really saying is that he's upset that the world is making it harder to get away with being a doucheknuckle.  ~ James Fell.

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Tatting - A Medallion from Holland

 

From Beyer's Handwerkboeken Serie H No. 40, Frivolite, an airy medallion that would work as a Christmas ornament (stiffly starched). No date given, but probably late teens/early 20's.

The book is in Dutch but if you tat, you should be able to work out the pattern (central and second row of rings are 8-8, large rings in the third row are 6-3-3-3-3-3-3-6).  From the Antique Pattern Library - scroll down.

Vintage Magazines - Collier's

 

October 10, 1931, and Al Capone was still a week away from conviction and the slammer.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faith, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights.  Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption withing religion itself.  Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.  Thomas Jefferson.

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