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

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

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

  I spot the hills  With yellow balls in autumn I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold clusters And I am called pumpkins. ~ Ca...

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

 

 Photo from Wikipedia According to the traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church, our prelates are hanged, not shot.  Please respect our tradi...

  from the Graphics Fairy

 

  I mage 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. ...

 

  Time for another Workbasket magazine - this one has two quilt patterns, a crocheted collar that is straight out of Flash Gordon , knitted ...

  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).

  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 ...

  Vintage blackberry print from the Graphics Fairy .

 

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

 

  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. Th...