A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. ~ Laurie Colwin

 

From Good Housekeeping , August 1952, a quartet of placemats to applique with fruits and leaves.  Left-click to enlarge.

  In an appalling but typical display of vindictiveness and attempted intimidation, the governor of Texas is forbidding any of the returning...

 I feel his pain.

  Minnie came up from the basement after we got home last night* and gave me a cold stare and an angry meow - then turned around and went ri...

  And ends with sleeping for the entire day.

  We docked in Kotor yesterday.

  THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND DEP'T: Our cruise director, during the port brief for the next day's adventures, pointed out with ...

  Departing for the Adriatic tomorrow.  Blogging will be intermittent for a while.  (The dog-sitter has been engaged, and the boys are not p...

 

 

 

  Does anyone know of any good yarn shops in Athens?

  From the September, 1950 issue of Workbasket magazine, a delicate motif in thread crochet for a tablecloth or dresser scarf. This is from ...

  Happy birthday to the branch nobody remembers until some damn fool rents a powerboat and sinks it.

    Why I am taking vacation when technically I am always on vacation?  Oldest sister is arriving today and we'll be hitting the fleshpo...

 We will be under a "heat dome" until Thursday.