From Popular Science, in December of that year and anticipating America's entry into the war by a bit. Probably not something you'd give to the birthday boy in this day and age.
Little Grey Bungalow
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Wood Crafts - Build Your Own Anti-Aircraft Gun, 1940
From Popular Science, in December of that year and anticipating America's entry into the war by a bit. Probably not something you'd give to the birthday boy in this day and age.
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
The Thief of Time
image from Pinterest
He (calling from the next room as he fiddles with the clock radio): What time is it, 19:45?
Me (in a concerned tone): Why...why no, honey. It's...2020.
(He hasn't thrown anything at me. Yet).
Saturday, June 6, 2020
Friday, June 5, 2020
Quote Of The Day
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Update
I am too angry to post right now. Sorry. UPDATE: On top of everything else, the Atlantic hurricane season officially began on Monday.
What next, locusts?
What next, locusts?
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Friday, May 29, 2020
Quote Of The Day
image from the Graphics Fairy
A bumblebee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. ~ Anonymous
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Vintage Woodcrafts - Doll's Garden Furniture from 1939
Garden furniture, and a fence and gate from clothespins, from Popular Mechanics, October 1939.
Monday, May 25, 2020
Vintage Images - A Red Poppy
image from the Graphics Fairy
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields. ~ John McCrae
Saturday, May 23, 2020
Friday, May 22, 2020
Quote Of The Day
River Landscape, Gustave Courbet (1869)
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. ~ Toni Morrison
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Vintage Papercrafts - Some Dolls' Furniture
From Tina Lee's 1965 book Things To Do, dolls' furniture to make of discarded boxes. More doll projects available in the book which can be found (to borrow only) on the Open Library.
Monday, May 18, 2020
Vintage Images - Flags of Scandinavia
image from Pinterest
Happy Syttende Mai (belated) to my Norwegian readers - if I have any. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that without Scandinavian immigrants, the Midwest as we know it today would not exist.
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Friday, May 15, 2020
Eternal Vigilance
And an eighty dollar child gate - is the price of freedom from Little Man and Batdog sneaking into the laundry room to snack on cat poo.
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