Picture Sundays: Cigarette Card Trellis Advice
Via Deirdre’s Garden Diary and Homesteading, a Wills Cigarette Card from 1923. A little gardening advice with your cancer sticks....
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Picture Sundays: Staying Cool on the 4th
From HaFoSaFo.com, a Chevy S10 mobile swimming pool on the 4th of July in Los Angeles. Hope you are all staying as cool as these folks....
Picture Sundays: Compulsory Chickens
quire little attention–only a few minutes a day. An Interested child, old enough to take a little responsibility, can care for a few fowls as well as a grown person. Every back yard in the United Sates should contribute its share to a bumper crop of poultry and eggs in 1918. In time of Peace a Profitable RecreationIn time of War a Patriotic Duty...
Picture Sundays: I’m One Taco Short of a Combination Platter
It’s a huge non sequitur, but today’s impending Superbowl made me think of the gatefold for the ZZ Top album Tres Hombres. Perhaps it was the publicity person who wanted me to promote a birria meat stew concocted by a celebrity chef (and celebrity flag football participant–who knew there was such a thing?) in conjunction with the Superbowl. Or maybe I’m having a Proust moment, except with nachos instead of madeleines. So...
Picture Sundays: Easy Ridin’ Bees
To see how “backwards” beekeeper Danny rescued this swarm see his blog Bees and Beyond....
Picture Sundays: Smart Car Cargo Option
Spotted in Meiners Oaks, CA. One person’s creative solution to not having enough cargo space....
Picture Sundays: Make This Squirrel Lamp!
Tired of them in your fruit trees? Via Modern Mechanix...
Picture Sundays: Redneck Wine Glasses
Another gem from the SkyMall catalog. Would they still be redneck if filled with artisinal tap water?...
Picture Sundays: Doberman Chariots
“Ready for the race! Brutus of Quintre and his charge are ready for the sulky races, a regular feature of some of the South African sporting events.” Photos via The Doberman Insider. Now that we are without a car, it’s time for us to figure out alternative forms of transportation. Our late dog was a Doberman and I remembered a book we used to have about the breed that showed some unusual events that used to be held in South Afr...
Picture Sundays: The Vigo County Canning Club
Vigo County Canning Club, Indiana 1918. Via Kaufmann Mercantile. I hope we’ll be seeing more food preservation clubs in the years to come. They make a lot of sense. You can pool resources, labor and expertise. No need to be nostalgic, this is an idea for the present and future....