From 1953, Columbia Minervas Fashions in Quick Knits and Quick Crochets (why the plural, I dont know). From the nice people at Purple Kitty.
Copyright-free, from Dover.
This should have been posted yesterday but our intrawebz was down. From Claytons Quaker Cookbook, 1883. "With the exception of bread, which has been appropriately termed "the staff of life,...
Worked a Yellow Ribbon event this morning for two returning National Guard units. Is it me, or are they making second lieutenants younger-looking all the time?
Just finished a grant proposal that included a line item for snake tongs (thats going to have me giggling every time I think of the look on the State grants administrators face).
My first full day back at work since a week ago Tuesday, and of course I had to spend two hours with the coroner going over our mass fatality plan.
Caught some kind of creeping crud (the spousal unit probably brought it home from one of his ankle-biters) and have been out for the count for 48 hours.
Copyright-free image from Dover. Right-click to copy.
“The chafing dish of to-day has accomplished much as a civilizer, seeming to rekindle the flames of hospitality and to elevate the standard of cookery. Who can doubt its permanent stay! The bro...
Caller: Where do I get a license for a reptile over six feet? Receptionist: Um...whats your address? Caller: *click*
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Smitty came back from lunch with a high&tight. We asked him if he was planning on telling us goodbye before he left for boot camp. And in other news, his little sister is thinking about app...
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Smitty came back from an Americorps meeting at the state capitol with a flyer about a governor’s award for which Americorps members (including Smitty) are eligible. It’s some kind of big deal, ...
Xinnian Keui Lo! And a paper dragon to print off and put together, from those creative folks at Canon.
A free dragon stencil from Dover. Left-click to enlarge and copy.
"Well-balanced and appropriate menus are absolutely necessary to the success of any establishment serving food. Given the best of raw materials and the most competent cooks, the institutional man...
The spousal unit is facing the inevitable this summer – replacement of one of his knees (twenty-three years as a Marine infantryman will do that). He had a consult with the surgeon this morning...
Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assem...
From Workbasket magazine, April 1948. Left-click to enlarge.
Copyright-free, from Dover. Because its January and the Burpees catalog should be here any day now.
Somebodys going to get his ass chewed for that blankie, though.
(Image from Patricia). Epiphany or King’s Night is an excuse to make King Cake, an easier recipe than which you cannot find. Ok, ignore the grammar structure of that first sentence. If you live...
There is no use in reproving vulgarity, for it never changes. ~ Goethe
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