Happy International Chocolate Day

 

from McCall's magazine, December 1962

A holiday we can all get behind. 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

While philosophers were looking for a characteristic to distingush man from other animals, inconsistency ought not to have been forgotten. ~ Richard Duppe

Grrrsday

 

Children's Crafts: Seashell Jewelry from 1950

From Crafts for Everyone, by Louis Newkirk, 1950.  A way to use some of the souvenirs you brought home from the beach.

This book is available as a one-hour borrow from the Internet Archive. 
 

Happy Labor Day

 

photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, MOMA

They Aren't Even Pretending Anymore

 From Heather Cox Richardson:  "On Friday, the White House debuted computer games on the official White House website.  The 'games' are ripoffs of older games like Snake, this one with a white man in a suit picking up Black, Asian and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits." 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ~ John Adams

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Tatting - A Doily Edging from 1952

 

From my collection of old Workbasket magazines, the December, 1952 issue offering a "Wild Rose" doily edging.  Left-click to enlarge.

Vintage Magazine - Cowboy Stories, March 1927

 

That tomato can is plumb ventilated.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Find out who you are and do it on purpose. And do it with purpose. ~ Dolly Parton

Happy National Dog Day

 

Vintage Crochet - a Glass Jacket from 1961

 

A useful summer project from Workbasket magazine, June 1961.  Knit Cro Sheen is still available at Michael's, and this may save your porch furniture from those unpleasant rings that glasses of iced tea can make. The rest of the magazine is available at the Internet Archive.

Lore of the Corps - The Battle of Bladensburg

On this day in 1814, 103 Marines and "flotillamen" from the Washington Navy Yard held off a numerically superior British force long enough to help save the Declaration of Independence.

"It was an unmitigated military disaster, save for a small band of US Marines whose desperate defense of the nation's capital allowed for the Declaration of Independence - and the President - to be whisked away to safety."  Claire Barret, Military Times.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

High noon in August! over all the land
The very air is palpitant withheat;
While stretching far, the fields of ripening wheat
Unrippled lie as plains of yellow sand. ~ Henry Sylvester Cornwell

Grrrsday