Happy Easter

 

image from the Graphics Fairy.

I'd Work There

 

Just A Butterfly

 

And I'm on the road again tomorrow, taking a bus tour with the Illinois State Museum to Alton and Memphis.  Back Friday.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible ~ Stanislaw Lec

The Online Bookshelf - The Danube, by Walter Jerrold, Redux

 

Passau, from Walter Jerrold's The Danube.  It doesn't look a lot different today.

Opportunity Knocks But Once

 

breakfast on the cruise ship

We arrived in Chicago last night on a typical Illinois early spring day, meaning it was pelting down rain and the wind was blowing all the signs over.  Hopped on the regional shuttle bus to drive us back downstate, and the driver lamented that there were only three passengers.  Such a load just wasn't heavy enough - he was going to have to fight to keep it on the road.

I knew I should have had that second muffin.

This Morning, We Went To Mauthausen

 

 

Konzentrationslager Mauthausen. 

Glad To Have Helped

 

   Not shown: Crepes, fruit, and ice cream

There were eight different Nachtische displayed on the buffet last night. I stood next to a lovely English gentleman who had slices of Sachertorte and Doboschtorte on his plate and was dithering over the Esterhazy cake.

Me: Go for it. Think of all the people on the Titanic who skipped dessert.

(When last seen, he was happily helping himself).

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Note to Self

 

Don't ever again mix tatting with aquavit.

Eastward Ho!

 

Off to our Danube cruise. Blogging may or may not occur for a while.

(and the lovely young couple that usually does our pet-sitting f is going to be living in the house, in case you were worried about the dogs.  I have no idea what we're going to do if they ever decide to start having kids).

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

"Spring," by Dame Laura Knight

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~ Charles Dickens

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Woodworking - Art Deco Doghouses, 1943

 

From The Young Craftsman, 1943, a collection of projects designed for young woodworkers, from the pages of Popular Mechanics magazine.  Free download from the Internet Archive.

Vintage Holidays - St Patrick's Day

image from thegraphicsfairy.com

 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Les Bouquinistes by Irek Szelag

There is no bond like the bond of having read the same books. ~ Edith Nesbit

Grrrsday

 

Scrap Crafts - Cardboard Hampers, "Easily Made" from 1930

 

From Popular Mechanics, May 1930, "Many useful and serviceable articles can be made from discarded corrugated-board cartons, which most merchants are glad to give away."  Allowing the thrifty housewife to create a clothes or scrap hamper for next to nothing.  Left-click to enlarge.

Vintage Advertising - Argo Cornstarch

 

From McCall's magazine, March 1919, an advertisement for Argo Cornstarch that includes a couple of recipes if you can enlarge it enough to still be legible.  Food advertisements in the days before color photography came into widespread use are uniformly bright and pretty.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Under the constitutional laws of the United States, there has never been an argument that a former president is immune from prosecution for crimes that he committed while in office. ~ Judge Michael Luttig