Beverages

They make a Beth delighted.



(She really does like her iced drinks.)

Tickets to the Met

This is what they looked like in 1961(?).

I love the stripes on the back.

This person paid $1, the day before Christmas. Or do you think that says December 2?

(Found in an old book.)

New drawing by Greg

I like it.

And there's more where that came from!

Baby blanket

For a friend.



Three sizes of granny squares! (There's a mini version not visible.)

I packed it up and sent it off to Toronto with:



Two baby hats!

One with pompom!!!!

Old-timey

I want to steal these from the office supply shelf.

Found

Awesome paperbacks!

The Shook-Up Generation (1958, third paperback printing 1969)—a "shocking exposé of juvenile delinquency," with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. It reminds me of this (the book, not the sweater).

I'm Done Crying (1969): "THIS BOOK WILL SCARE THE HELL OUT OF YOU!" Ha haaaaaa!

Aren't books great?

My favorite chocolate in the entire world

They changed the recipe in the fall—and the new formula is really bad. Since then I have been buying up and stockpiling all the original bars I can find. For a while I had quite the cupboard full.

Tonight I ate the very last piece. I actually feel really sad!

Halifax, Nova Scotia

My friend Jennifer secretly recorded this starling on her office windowsill.

Turn up the volume to hear him whistle!! (Did you know that starlings are mimics, like mynas?)

Sigh. I miss animals.

Windowsill

A friend of mine. (He wartches me while I sleep.)

Found sticking out of a bag on the curb

Printed cotton or linen.

It's a shower curtain?

Found in a recycling bag

"To the guys on the block, J. T. is the kid who stole the radio out of the red convertible before they could get to it. His neighbor, Mrs. Morris, declares him a first-class nuisance. His mother is bewildered —'He's just gone bad, that's all. . . Stealin' and lyin' and I don't know what all.' But all the sensitivity, responsibility, and care of which ten-year-old J. T. Gamble is capable emerges when he finds an old, one-eyed, badly hurt alley cat."

With pictures by Gordon Parks, Jr., son of photographer and film director Gordon Parks and himself the director of Super Fly (1972).

BEST EVER!

Christmas vacation

I miss it.

Something amazing I found in a box by the curb

The Bluejackets' Manual, 1973: "Since 1902, it has been used by millions of enlisted people—everyone from the most junior seaman to the most senior chief petty officer—as the one most valuable reference book on how to do things the Navy way."

I had no idea this existed! It's pretty fascinating.

Seamanship:

Rules of the Road:

Knots!

And FAQs:



No, the Navy cannot "cure" homosexuality.

I love books so much! They are endlessly interesting, don't you think?

Calzone in a bag

It's what's for lunch! At your desk, while you read "your blogs."

Snowman

Cute. He's eating his greens!

But—what's that thing on his neck!?

I suggest a biopsy.

Snow storm morning

Leaving the house.

It was awesome!

Once again

I made pie.

High five!

A lively smart assertive person

Once I was on the beach with Greg, and I wrote in big letters in the sand, "I LOVE GERG." Because that's my idea of a good joke.

Then Greg wrote, "GERG + REBERCKA," and a new nickname was born: Berky.

We both are obsessed with Scrabble on our new phones, and the other day he looked up "birkie."

I just find it sooooooooo cute that that is my nickname!!!!!!

"Birrrrrrkie." (Scottish accent)

Piles and piles of salty slush

Do your boots no good.

Flag day

In my office.

Wow

So beautiful!

How does it DO that?

Elementary school trash bag

Someone's been adding up their bills.

Found on a trash can Friday night!

From 1963.

All the original cards, playing pieces, and dice!

The board is in pristine condition (never played?)--and the design is so great:

(I wonder who decided the whale should be wearing a cap??)

Dear Time magazine

Haven't you ever heard of an en-dash??

I was shocked—SHOCKED—to see this hyphen on the cover.

Which goes to show how low my shock threshold is and the types of things I spend my days fretting over.

CHECK OUT MY PLANTS

They got it going on!

My geranium has been blooming and blooming nonstop for months, and now the christmas cactus has caught on!

This is its first bloom ever—and it just sort of did it on its own.

Who knew it was white?

Snow

Not good for a cactus.
:(

Picture

Accidental picture of knee, boot, and phone case.

I like.

Lentil-walnut burgers

Yeah, Mollie Katzen!

I learned to cook with the Moosewood Cookbook when I was a teenager, so this was quite the trip down memory lane.