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  In other news, Minnie went missing Wednesday night - I was afraid she had bolted out the back door while we were running the hose out into...

The entire south end of town is flooded, along with our basement.  Let's see, when did this happen before? Just to make things really be...

  We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother... Amd gentlemen in England now a...

 

  A tatted medallion using a ring of hearts motif, pretty and unusual.   My notes say this is from Workkbasket magazine, May 1950 - but I ca...

  photo by Joseph Cacchiola

 

  wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. ...

 

  The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. ~ Mark Twain

  National Museum of the Marine Corps FB page There is a profound, sickening duality in being thanked for your service by people who would b...

 

  Never presume to measure another's grief When death has struck, saying, "they did not care." Death has a pride that's ta...

 My desktop is kaput. Geek Squad says they'll have a new one for us on Thursday.

 

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

 

  From Workbasket magazine.  This was another "orphan" page, so I'm guessing the 1950s but not sure. Left-click to enlarge.

  March 8th, 1924.  Poor Horace Howard Herr appears to have slipped into obscurity, like James B. Hendryx and William Patterson White (the b...