copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy And in other news, I'm headed back to the Quad Cities tomorrow for this .

 

  Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness. ~ Mark Twain

  A children's etiquette book from 1922 with illustrations by Penny Ross.  Free download from Project Gutenberg.  

  From Harper's Handy-Book for Girls , free download from archive.org.  Although the instructions call for making your own chain from w...

  "Eastern Point Light" by Winslow Homer

 

photo by Jan Lynn Voorhees  [Friend's] first choice had been a cabin in the woods, but that's too much nature.  I don't do cabin...

 

  From Home Decoration with Fabric and Thread , published 1940.  The book, with quite a few attractive projects including a stocking cat tha...

  The first grade gave him an end of school present - pet wipes, doggy treats, a ball, and a handmade card with his portrait on it. (and cho...

  It was last Saturday and darn, I missed it.

 Minnie hasn't let me out of her sight since I got home yesterday afternoon.

  According to the National Weather Service, Illinois has racked up the most tornadoes of any other state - 86 - in 2023.

  My desk is just the other side of that red brick wall.

 Not cool, man.

  I have been here one week, so yesterday was my day off and I hit the antique stores.  Brian is damn' lucky the Red Cross only paid for...

 

  When the blow-dryer in your hotel room stops working.

  Never let your guard down when a Red Cross Public Affairs volunteer is around.