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PLEASE VOTE
All the various news media keep telling us how to control our voting stress. Me, I’m ignoring my voters stress. I did finally figure out that the White House pictorial site didn’t get lost ...
Ronnie
I’m sleeping well. That’s a wonderful thing to say after months of getting up every hour on the hour, or half hour on the half hour. The dreams have been very colorful and dramatic things th...
QUITE A DAY
It’s Halloween, it’s the first day to vote, and tonight you can crank back your clock. If that doesn’t keep you busy, I don’t know what will. Blogger. Something has gone wrong with my templ...
Wordpress
Yes, it has taken me four hours to create a new WordPress blog…with Georges help. I am filled with ease, and gratitude. His remarks made me see this new WordPress clearly. It lands in my brain...
ALMOST
It’s almost time for a lot of things. I can hardly wait for the votes to be counted. I can hardly wait for the reorganization of my pictures on “imgur” to be finished. At least the top photo ...
WHY?
Why can’t I get my header across the whole blog? Why did Trump almost behave the other night? That was scary. Why are the single photos on my imgur account endless? Why am I not able to stay...
SHRINKING
” class=”center-block”/> An occasional leaf turns golden outside our windows. The temperature returns to normal, and we rejoice before it goes up again. Most of the America states are in t...
DAY TO DAY 1
I’m here. I spent the last few days working on the ‘imgur’ site. It all seems endless. Saturday morning my computer words turned to gibberish again, and George figured out it was my new, t...
MEA CULPA
I must apologize. I spent yesterday cleaning up the wreckage on my photo host, “imgur.” Two albums I thought might be fun to share were the Comic Con collections. “imgur” didn’t think so, ...
New ORTS
• I have no idea what made me look inside our old washing machine when it was operating, but I did. The center agitator was going up and down gently but not turning. The repair person wil...
WITH COOKBOOK IN HAND: 2
1937, Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, blue cover Food Historian Annie Grey writes that we began abandoning rich offal dishes not only because we grew squeamish, but WWI and WWII took away o...
LIFE IS
Bobbie suggested I try out Poetry Soup. I can do that. And did that. I also almost finished the second part of the cooking history series too. Yes, I am having fun with it. Home: The photo ...
ROAD TRIP
Well guarded. G went down to get the mail and came up waving our ballots. “We are going to take a road trip,” he proclaimed. Within minutes, we had filled in the ballot from the previously fille...
WITH MARTINI IN HAND
From American History si edu. A General Electric Monitor top refrigerator from the 1930s in the museum’s collection. The name comes from its resemblance to the 1860s warship, the USS Monitor...
GARAGE DOOR
The third and very fancy garage door in an up position. To compound this morning’s presidential folly of not wearing a mask, our house security system died. Lots of blinking lights in the middl...
ARRRGGGGGG !!!!!!!
ARGGGG…this is me checking every link in each Nazi entry. It’s been interesting. I thought I could just copy and paste these old entries here, and there, but no. Each piece took almost a day t...
The Thingplatz or Thingstätte Movement
What are “Thingplatz,” I asked writing to friends in Germany. One wrote back saying, “I did a little research. They were part of the Third Reich, and no one will discuss them.” Thingplatz are o...
IN SEARCH OF NAZI ARCHITECTURE
I grew up with an interest in architectural history and followed this interest with graduate work. After attending a convention in Minneapolis in 2000 and discovering the great swath of burned a...
ART AND DESIGN IN THE THIRD REICH
The son of an old friend asked to read this series. I posted it here for easier access, and I hope you don’t mind reading, or reading it again. The pictures have been removed, and all the links h...
MUSIC IIN THE THIRD REICH
Music had always been an important part of German society from children’s songs to the unique atonal music of the 1920’s. Under Joseph Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda, music also became a tool ...
AUTO ONLY ROADS: THE REICHSAUTOBAHN
The automobile began taking over as the primary form of worldwide transportation in the early 1910’s. Most roads were dirt, cobblestone, or early versions of macadam. Automobiles using these ro...
MUSIC IN THE THIRD REICH
The son of an old friend asked to read this series. I posted it here for easier access, and I hope you don’t mind reading, or reading it again. The pictures have been removed, and all the links h...
SUBMARINE PENS OF THE THIRD REICH
The son of an old friend asked to read this series. I posted it here for easier access, and I hope you don’t mind reading, or reading it again. The pictures have been removed, and all the links...
SMILING
I finished the research for the cooking articles, and I began an outline for the pieces. It does look like there will be more than one. ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Himself: Gami...
TABLE AND CHAIRS
Here they are just days after we bought them. 1960’s, and very like the ones on the QE2 when she first sailed. Here they all are in use. We have had lunch and dinner here. We have also se...
