Vintage Home Crafts - A Plant Stand from Popular Mechanics

 

This is from one of the Popular Mechanics magazines available online at Google Books, but I seem to have lost the volume number.  A pretty and timeless project (if you happen to know how to solder).

Vintage Advertising - Br'er Rabbit Molasses

 

From the Woman's Home Companion, January 1921.  No recipes, alas.

Road Trip (Again)

 

Doing some traveling this week.  Blogging will resume on Caturday!

Obscure Holidays - National Moth Week, July 21-27

image from the Graphics Fairy

 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

photo by Dillinger Kelly

Come ye into the summer woods,

There entereth no annoy;

All greenly wave the chestnut leaves,

And the earth is full of joy. ~ Mary Howitt

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Crochet - A Lacy Tablecloth from 1950

 

From Workbasket magazine, September 1950 - the kind of project that makes me wish I could do thread crochet.  Left-click to enlarge.

Vintage Magazines - Blue Book, August 1932

 

I imagine it's hotter there than here...but not much.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Grrrsday

 

Other Crafts - A Trinket Box from 1964

 From Workbasket magazine, March 1964.  A trinket box to crochet together, using wallpaper or wrapping paper to cover the sides.

Happy National BlueBerry Day

 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. ~ Maya Angelou

Colleville-sur-Mer

 

A Day That Will Live In Infamy

 

"July 1st, 2024. Today the United States Supreme Court overthrew the central premise of American democracy: that no one is above the law.

It decided that the president of the United States, possibly the most powerful person on earth, has "absolute immunity" from criinal prosecution for crimes committed as part of the official acts at the core of presidential powers.  The court also said it should be presumed that the president also has immunity for other official acts as well, unless that prosecution would not intrude on the authority of the executive branch.

This is a profound change to our fundamental law - an amendment to the Constitution, as historian David Blight noted.  Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that a president needs such immunity to make sure the president is willing to take "bold and unhesitating action" and make unpopular decisions, although no previous president has ever asserted that he is above the law or that he needed such immunity to fulfill his role.  Roberts' decision didn't focus at all on the interest of the American people in guaranteeing that presidents carry out their duties within the guardrails of the law.

But this extraordinary power grab does not mean President Joe Biden can do as he wishes.  As legal commentator Asha Rangappa pointed out, the court gave itself the power to determine which actions can be prosecuted and which cannot by making itself the final arbiter of what is "official" and what is not.  Thus any action a president takes is subject to review by the Supreme Court, and it is reasonable to assume that this particular court would not give a Democrat the same leeway it would give Trump.

There is no historical or legal precedent for this... "  Heather Cox Richardson.

Knitting - A Summer Slipover from 1947

From Woman's Day "Found Money" department, August 1947, a classic sweater with Lauren Bacall shoulders.  To knit in two colors (left-click to enlarge).

 

July is National Watercolor Month

 

And here is set of lovely vintage watercolors of Oxford (town and gown both), from the incomparably-named John Fulleylove.  Free at Project Gutenberg.