I was loading the dishwasher tonight and heard a rumbledy-thumpy sort of noise from the other side of the kitchen island.  I looked aroun...

Another vintage pattern book from Purple Kitty.   Undated but mid to late 50's from the looks of those hats.

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TACOS "This popular Mexican treat is called by many names in different parts of the country.  They are toasted tortillas cut into thi...

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. ~ W. S. Gilbert

Maybe February isn't going to be a total loss; my car-pool buddy gave me a shoebox full of her late mother-in-law's costume jewelry.

I walked into the office this morning and immediately two colleagues helpfully pointed out that my face and neck were covered with red blotc...

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Chilblains.  These sores are caused by frost, and are very troublesome, and often painful.  Where the skin is not broken, bathe the part i...

...as long as we do not know exactly what makes men get up out of a hole in the ground and go forward in the face of death at a word from...

From 1953, Columbia Minerva's Fashions in Quick Knits and Quick Crochets (why the plural, I don't know).  From the nice people a...

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This should have been posted yesterday but our intrawebz was down. From Clayton's Quaker Cookbook , 1883. "With the exception ...

Worked a Yellow Ribbon event this morning for two returning National Guard units.  Is it me, or are they making second lieutenants young...

Just finished a grant proposal that included a line item for snake tongs (that's going to have me giggling every time I think of the...

My first full day back at work since a week ago Tuesday, and of course I had to spend two hours with the coroner going over our mass fatalit...