The Legend of Bishop Hatto

 

We are passing through Bingen on the Rhine and the Bishop's Tower is on the north bank (he was a real person and a very cruel man). This poem gave me nightmares when I read it at age nine or so.

Walking Off The Pilsner

 

A Balkan Breakfast

 

 

Baba ganoush, picked beets, olives, cheese and incomparable bread and butter.

Not All Who Wander Etc Etc

 

Fourteen jours, to be exact.  Blogging will be intermittent for a while.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 ...our dead shall not return to us while day and night divide
Never while the bars of sunset hold.
But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died,
Shall they thrust for high employments as of old?

...their lives cannot repay us - their deaths could not undo -
The shame that they have laid upon our race
But the slothfulness that wasted and the arrogance that slew,
Shall we leave it unabated in its place?

Grrrsday

 

Five Days and a Wake-up

 Leaving Brian at home and going with a sister-in-law who shops.

(She does not yet know that I snore).

Vintage Tatting - A Christmas Idea from 1916

 

From Clark's Book of Needlework, 1916. Tat seven for a star, or six for a snowflake.  Left-click to enlarge.

Vintage Holidays - Thanksgiving

copyright-free image from The Graphics Fairy 

Caturday!

 

On The Road (or at least Amtrak) Again

 

Off to Chicago for a culture-vulture week (Carmina Burana, Much Ado About Nothing, and the Elizabeth Catlett exhibit at the Art Institute).  Blogging will resume Caturday!

Vintage Advertising

 

With the holidays fast approaching, a timely little advert for Nonesuch Mincemeat (which is still around, btw).  From Woman's World, January 1922.  Downloadable from the Internet Archive in an issue that includes instructions on what to do with an incubator, and some forgettable fiction.

Caturday!

 

Napoleon Was Right

"Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake."

Quote of the Day

 

Isn't it wonderful that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~ Anne Frank

Grrrsday

 

Lest We Forget

 

We are the soldiers who have no voice. ~ Graham Bentley

Vintage Crochet - a Doily from 1947

 

From Woman's Day, April 1957, an advertisement for crochet thread that includes a free pattern.  The entire issue can be downloaded from the Internet Archive and is worth a look.  Lots of mid-century modern home decor, and a small craft section.

Left-click to enlarge.

Happy Birthday, Marines

 

Caturday!

 

Just Waiting on Issachar and Naphtali

 

We had four little boys lined up to read with Baldur the Wonder Dog at school this morning.  The first three were Elijah, Noah and Judah.

Quote of the Day

 

The worst wasted of all days is that during which one has not laughed. ~ Nicholas Chamfort

Grrrsday

 

Knitting - A Wimple and Gloves

 

From Crafts N Things, February 1992.  If you start now, you can probably have these completed for a Christmas gift.

November is Native American Heritage Month

 

cartoon by Bill Mauldin

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay. ~ Robert Frost

Grrrsday

 

Other Crafts - "Frilly Lacy Jewelry" from 1973

 

From Make it From Odds 'n' Ends, published in 1973 by the Pack O' Fun people, a variety of jewelry, pendants and earrings to make from string and acetate (a suggested source of the acetate - the lids to holiday card boxes).  Available as an online loan only at the Internet Archive. 

Tomorrow Is National Chocolate Day

 

Govern yourselves accordingly.

Caturday!

 

History Repeats Itself

 

Seven Nisei soldiers of the 442nd posthumously receive commission. ~ Military Times, 10/20/25

Last month, the Secretary of the Army posthumously promoted seven second-generation ('Nisei') Japanese-American soldiers to the rank of second lieutentant.  These men had been ROTC cadets at the University of Hawaii in December of 1941.  

They were expelled and forcibly removed to a relocation center on the West Coast after Roosevelt signed an executive order stripping them not only of their chance at serving as officers but most of their legal rights as citizens.

All enlisted in the 442nd Regimental Combat team.  All were killed fighting in Europe.  

Their names were Grover Nagaji, Howard Urabe, Robert Murata, Jenhatsu Chinen, Daniel Betsui, Hiroichi Tomita and Akio Nishikawa.

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Furniture Crafts - a "Costumer" from 1915

 

From The Boy Mechanic: Book II, a free download from the Internet Archive, dating back to a time when your house might have one or two small closets - if you were lucky.  This is a grand book, full of interesting projects that in those dear dead days were considered simple enough for a boy 12-16 years old to make.  

Happy Birthday To The Woman Who Tried To Warn Us

 

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Sewing - Plastic Bibs from 1950

 

From Crafts for Everyone by Louis Newkirk, a set of bibs to be made from that new-fangled plastic fabric that was all the rage just after the war.

Instructions can be found at the Internet Archive - unfortunately, this is one of those books that has to be checked out by the hour, but an account is free.

Happy Columbus Day

 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

photo from Getty Images

I must counsel you, my dear, to remember that patience is one of the highest virtues a woman can possess, and self-control is another. ~ Bessie Dill

Grrrsday

 

Children's Crafts - A Clothes Peg Boat from 1949

From Hobbies Weekly, November 16th, 1949.  A British publication from a time when toys, and materials to make toys, were in short supply.  A better picture can be found at the Internet Archive. 
 

Happy Birthday, Fannie Lou Hamer

 

"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Grrrsday