Happy New Year

 

Here's hoping 2021 turns out a lot better than it's looking so far.

Vintage Images - Cat Music

 

If anyone ever figures out how to sing this, let me know.

Quote Of The Day

 

 

In the bleak mid-winter

Frosty wind made moan;

Earth stood hard as iron,

Water like a stone; 

Snow had fallen, snow on snow,

Snow on snow,

In the bleak mid-winter

Long ago. ~ Christina Rossetti

Grrrsday

 

Sewing: The "Twenty Minutes'" Blouse from 1923

 

From The Girl's Own Paper, January 1923.  The editors want you to send them ninepence for a pattern, but I don't think it's really needed.

Interestingly enough, like many of the other designs featured in the GOP, this appears to have been swiped, without attribution, from a French fashion supplement, Les Modes De La Femmes De France. I pinned this a few months ago and of course now can't find it. EDITED TO ADD: Found it! 

https://pin.it/lZGL7GO 

Vintage Images - Edwardian Christmas Card

 

Copyright-free, from the Graphics Fairy. 

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

image from Pinterest

Therefore, all seasons shall be sweet to thee,

Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch

Of mossy apple-tree, while the night-thatch

Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall

Heard only in the trances of the blast

Or if the secret ministry of frost

Shall hang them up in silent icicles

Quietly shining to the quiet Moon. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Grrrsday

 

In Some States, That's a Hanging Offense

 

We had to put it back up on the bookshelf.  Someone kept stealing a sheep.

WHAT A GUY

Brian is giving me a water buffalo for Christmas. 

Caturday!

 

Brian is putting up the lights today.

The Annual Binge

 

As someone on one of my online forums put it yesterday, be thankful for a Zoom holiday get-together  - it means you can mute that obnoxious uncle.

What Were His Parents Thinking Dep't

 I have requested an investigation into an incident involving one of our rental cars - and it has been assigned to a young man named Alaska Otterbacher.  

Quote Of The Day

 

A childhood without books - that would be no childhood.  That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy. ~ Astrid Lindgren

 

And she's off!  Virtually, again, this time to Baton Rouge, where I will be supporting Hurricane Laura-Marco-Delta-Zeta.  There hasn't been enough time between hurricanes to shut down the response for one and start up the response for the next.

Blogging will continue if I have time.

Quote Of The Day

 

It does not improve the character to be bullied.  Children are microcosms of peoples.  Treat them badly for long enough and then give them a little power and they will punctually repeat with greater emphasis the behaviour to which they have been subjected. - Ngaio Marsh

 Brian got to ring the bell at the Methodist church from 1045 to 1100 this morning. 

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

image from Forbes magazine

May you live in interesting times. ~ Sir Joseph Chamberlain