If Only It Were This Easy

 

I will be working one of the early voting sites for the county for the next two days.

Toy Crafting in Wartime - An Anti-Aircraft Gun from 1940

 

From Popular Science, December 1940 - a toy that launches and then shoots down a glider. Left-click to enlarge or go to Google Books. 

A Brief Hiatus

 Off to climb Sleeping Bear Dunes with my sisters and sister-in-law (masked and at six foot intervals).  Blogging will resume next Tuesday.

UPDATE:  As a result of Sister#1's habit of referring to us as "Sister Two," "Sister Three," and "Sister (in-law) Four," the owner of our Air BnB came to the pardonable conclusion that she had rented her house to a bunch of nuns.

Paper Crafts - A Sleepy Pumpkin

 I spot the hills

 With yellow balls in autumn

I light the prairie cornfields

Orange and tawny gold clusters

And I am called pumpkins. ~ Carl Sandburg

Vintage Images - Juniper Branch

 

image from The Graphics Fairy

Happy International Gin & Tonic Day - as Election Day gets closer, the more I need one of these.

 

Quote Of The Day

 Photo from Wikipedia

According to the traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church, our prelates are hanged, not shot.  Please respect our traditions. ~ Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens, after the SS threatened him with a firing squad.

Vintage Images - Pumpkin Seed Packet

 

from the Graphics Fairy

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Image from Zedge

A touch of cold in the Autumn night 

I walked abroad,

And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge

Like a red-faced farmer.

I did not stop to speak, but nodded,

And round about were the wistful stars

With white faces like town children. ~ T. E. Hulme

Grrrsday

 

Aunt Martha's Workbasket, January 1938

 

Time for another Workbasket magazine - this one has two quilt patterns, a crocheted collar that is straight out of Flash Gordon, knitted gloves, and some interesting household hints ("When boiling custards or sauces, place a clean marble in the bottom of the vessel.  This will avoid the necessity of stirring, and save much time.  The marble will roll around in the custard and prevent burning.")

The entire issue may be downloaded at the Antique Patterns Library site.

Vintage Images - Apples

 

image from The Graphics Fairy

Happy World Teacher's Day!

 

(I have no idea what has happened to the last three days, but they got away from me and I'm not even deployed anymore. Sorry).

Knitting: Soakers from 1951

 

A pair of soakers from Smart Knitting and Needlework, Winter 1951.  Knit a pair to delight (or horrify) a mother-to-be and tell her this was what families used before rubber/plastic pants were invented. The pattern is on my Flickr account.

These lingered on for a few years after the Second World War ended but faded away by the mid-1950's.  

Vintage Images - Autumn Berries

 

Vintage blackberry print from the Graphics Fairy.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Epidemic  n. A disease having a sociable turn and few prejudices. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Grrrsday

 

Virtual (Support) Never Goes Unpunished

 

The advantage of actual, as opposed to virtual, motor transport is that nobody gets away with checking out of the DR until they see me. They can't just skip merrily off to the airport without turning in their car keys.

I spent most of yesterday looking for MT assets.