Thursday, November 30, 2023

Shephardation Anxiety

 


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

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

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.

Saturday, November 25, 2023

Friday, November 24, 2023

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Happy Thanksgiving

 

copyright-free image from www.thegraphicsfairy.com

I'm giving thanks that I can breathe again.

Monday, November 13, 2023

I Hab a Code

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

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Friday, November 10, 2023

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.

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

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.

Monday, November 6, 2023

Vintage Magazines - Collier's

 


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

Saturday, November 4, 2023

Friday, November 3, 2023

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.

Thursday, November 2, 2023