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  And I'm on the road again tomorrow, taking a bus tour with the Illinois State Museum to Alton and Memphis.  Back Friday.

 

  No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible ~ Stanislaw Lec

  Passau, from Walter Jerrold's The Danube .  It doesn't look a lot different today.

  breakfast on the cruise ship We arrived in Chicago last night on a typical Illinois early spring day, meaning it was pelting down rain and...

    Konzentrationslager Mauthausen. 

      Not shown: Crepes, fruit, and ice cream There were eight different Nachtische  displayed on the buffet last night. I stood next to a l...

  Don't ever again mix tatting with aquavit .

  Off to our Danube cruise. Blogging may or may not occur for a while. (and the lovely young couple that usually does our pet-sitting f is g...

 

  "Spring," by Dame Laura Knight It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer...

 

  From The Young Craftsman , 1943, a collection of projects designed for young woodworkers, from the pages of Popular Mechanics magazine.  F...

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  Les Bouquinistes by Irek Szelag There is no bond like the bond of having read the same books. ~ Edith Nesbit

 

  From Popular Mechanics , May 1930, "Many useful and serviceable articles can be made from discarded corrugated-board cartons, which m...