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Quote Of The Day

 

What makes the success of many books consists in the affinity that exists between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public. ~ Nicolas Chamfort

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Vintage Children's Crafts - A Puppet Theater From Cartons

 

From Popular Mechanic's Do-It-Yourself Encyclopedia, Vol. 11, something to keep the kids occupied while they're stuck in the house over the holidays.  It's no longer down-loadable, but the book can be borrowed on a free one-hour loan from the Internet Archive.

Vintage Advertising - Union Pacific Railroad

From Woman's Day, May 1957.

(If Pete Buttigeig can get rail travel back to this, I'll definitely vote for him). 

For We...Are Come To Worship Him

 

Sorely Tempted

 

image from WCIA-3 TV, Champaign 

The Red Cross wants to know if I can go to Ft Myers for the first two weeks in January.

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A Pretty Face With Naught Behind It, As My Mother Used to Say

 

I let him out in the backyard yesterday morning, looked out ten minutes later and he had managed to -

• Unlatch the gate to let himself into the vegetable garden (streng Verboten and he knows it)
• Latch the gate behind him 

but then...but then!

• Couldn't figure out how to open it again to let himself back out.

Requiring me to walk across forty feet of frozen path in my robe and slippers to release him, the sodding idjit.

And - as his contribution to the Nicor Gas executive retirement fund - I find that every time I go into the kitchen he has removed the draft stopper from across the bottom of our imperfectly-fitting 105-year old back door.

(I just checked the local tv station's weather app, and it has risen to -2F.  Practically tropical).

Quote Of the Day

 

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. ~ Luke 2:7

The Online Bookshelf - Christmas Stories, by Georgene Falkner

 

With half a dozen seasonal illustrations.  Free download from the Internet Archive.

Vintage Knitting - A "Kitten" Hat from 1949

 

For a last-minute gift, a woollen hat with kitten ears, to fit a 3 month old.  From Workbasket magazine, June 1949 - left-click to enlarge.

Vintage Holidays - Edwardian Santas

 

Copyright-free images from Dover.

Let's See UCLA Do A Pyramid Wearing Puffer Jackets

 

Southern California cheerleaders near the end of the football season.

 

Central Illinois cheerleaders near the end of the football season.

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Quote Of The Day

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy

I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December

A magical thing

And sweet to remember.

"We are nearer to Spring

Than we were in September,"

I heard a bird sing

In the dark of December. ~ Oliver Herford

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Vintage Wood Crafts - A Collapsible Table from 1945

 

From Popular Mechanic's The Boy Mechanic, published in 1945 and a collection of projects considered suitable for the young.  I don't have any goggles that need repairing and the ornamental pump cover leaves me cold...but I rather like that table.  The book is a free download from the Internet Archive, and this particular project is on page 95.

Vintage Holidays - Christmas

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy.

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RIP

 

So Reserve Cat (aka the Ol' Gunfighter, aka the Big Yella Fella) made his last trip to the vet this morning - Brian took him.  He had been very sick for the past ten days with kidney/colon issues and was on a complicated schedule involving five different medications, special food, and an IV every other day. 

This morning he was crying, his eyes could not focus, and when he came into the bedroom looking for me he ran/staggered into the  wall.  It was time.

Vintage Magazines - The Red Cross Magazine, February 1920

 

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Quote Of The Day

 

photo from Newsweek

When you win, say nothing.  When you lose, say less. ~ Paul Brown.

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