Wordy Wednesday - December 6, 2023
More of my favorite fungi, Bird's Nest has appeared. No "eggs" yet. I hope I see them before rain drops scatter them.
The first wild violet of the season.
Another "first" is not as welcome, but expected. The first puddles in the far back part of the yard. Clay soil just can't drain the rain fast enough.
My son and I went to the Goodwill Bins yesterday. I'll spare you the details, just mention we bought 70 books! Here's Baby Cat checking out their smells.
I'll leave you with a photo of a very contented dog.
Wow. That's a lot of books. You've got reading material for a while.
ReplyDeleteI do! Five are the collectible fundraiser cookbooks, a few cookbooks I cut recipes out of. Most are mysteries, many of those are new looking hardcovers people paid a lot for. A few are to collect. An April 1942 Reader's Digest. A fabulous 1882 The Successful Housekeeper (tips for the housewife, recipes, cleaning, etc.) with lots of clippings and notes from old newspapers, and even an old envelope from 1940, with letter inside! It dealt with someone who died, how the writer was promised a diamond pin, but some relatives should have been cut off entirely! Also a vintage/antique calling card. I've only read about those in novels! So, ephemera from the '40s in an older book. Grandmother's I'd guess. My son has his
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Oh, an April 1942 Reader's Digest. I so love to read wartime (WWII, that is) magazines. My heart breaks when I see ads from those magazines removed, mounted, and sold. A piece of history destroyed. Those clippings and notes and letter are treasures, too.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite part of old magazines are the ads! Or letters to the editor. I can pick up any magazine in a waiting room, even if not interesting (like autos) and read those! I don't like to see pages taken out to frame either. However, I run across books in such poor condition with fabulous illustrations, I understand in that case. I have a print from 1884 (one of those posts that has disappeared, I shared it two years ago, it's birds called "black chats") and there were under 200 of them made. This Reader's Digest has the little blurbs at the bottom, jokes and quotes and things, just like now. It is rather faith heavy. Not all the articles are quite... right for today's reader. Historical though.
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