Or Maybe Submarine Week

 We got seven inches of rain in one hour and forty-five minutes this weekend, and about an inch and a half of that, made its way to our finished basement. Note to self: there will be no more keeping yarn in decorative baskets on the floor.  EDITED TO ADD:  Don't expect much from me this week.  

It's National Marine Week

 

Oh, you meant the other kind...

Hiatus

 I've been assigned to the Highland Park response and will be not be posting for the next five days or so. EDITED TO ADD: So, I'm being released from the response so I can attend a 3 day FEMA class, and going back on until next Sunday.  This one is lasting longer than I anticipated - but then, I've not covered a mass shooting response before. It's...different.

Grrrsday

 

Knitting - A Wedge Washlcoth from 1940

 

From the February, 1940 issue of Workbasket.  The entire issue is available as a free download from the Antique Pattern Library (don't click if you aren't prepared for a stereotypical "cullud chile" lawn ornament pattern).

"War at the best, is terrible..."

 

Them as never heerd dead men callin' for the colors don't guess what they be. ~ Percy MacKaye

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

photo image from Newsweek

Some years ago I was lucky enough to be invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things.  And I felt that at any moment they would realise that I didn't qualify to be there, among these people who had really done things.

On my second or third night there, I was standing at the back of the hall, while a musical entertainment happened, and I started talking to a very nice, polite, elderly gentleman about several things, including our shared first name.  And then he pointed to the hall of people and said words to the effect of, "I just look at all these people, and I think, what the heck am I doing here?  They've made amazing things.  I just went where I was sent."

And I said, "Yes.  But you were the first man on the moon.  I think that counts for something."  ~ Neil Gaiman

Gotta Keep Those Numbers Up

 

They'll do anything to get us to attend training.

Grrrsday

 

Don't Forget The Primaries

 

I'll be working the polls all day tomorrow.  EDIT/UPDATE 6/28/22, 21:20 HOURS: my feet are killing me.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

photo from the Texas Tribune

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey

Grrrsday

 

Children's Crafts - a Sweet Potato Baby Alligator from 1918

 

From Mother Nature's Toy Shop by the indefatigable Beard sisters - see page 132 for cutouts to make the head and limbs.  EDITED TO ADD:  If you don't want a sweet potato/alligator hybrid rotting on your shelf, this would probably work with longleaf or Eastern white pine cones.

June Is - Among Other Things - National Fruit and Vegetable Month

 

Vintage produce box labels from Dover.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Grrrsday

 

Kid's Crafts - A Cat to Cut from Card

 

Something to keep the kids occupied inside on a muggy day.  It's from Le Carton Articule and several pages are on Patricia's site. I can't find a date - but I'm guessing 1920's or 30's from the illustrations.