No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible ~ Stanislaw Lec
We arrived in Chicago last night on a typical Illinois early spring day, meaning it was pelting down rain and the wind was blowing all the signs over. Hopped on the regional shuttle bus to drive us back downstate, and the driver lamented that there were only three passengers. Such a load just wasn't heavy enough - he was going to have to fight to keep it on the road.
I knew I should have had that second muffin.
There were eight different Nachtische displayed on the buffet last night. I stood next to a lovely English gentleman who had slices of Sachertorte and Doboschtorte on his plate and was dithering over the Esterhazy cake.
Me: Go for it. Think of all the people on the Titanic who skipped dessert.
(When last seen, he was happily helping himself).
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Off to our Danube cruise. Blogging may or may not occur for a while.
(and the lovely young couple that usually does our pet-sitting f is going to be living in the house, in case you were worried about the dogs. I have no idea what we're going to do if they ever decide to start having kids).
From The Young Craftsman, 1943, a collection of projects designed for young woodworkers, from the pages of Popular Mechanics magazine. Free download from the Internet Archive.
From McCall's magazine, March 1919, an advertisement for Argo Cornstarch that includes a couple of recipes if you can enlarge it enough to still be legible. Food advertisements in the days before color photography came into widespread use are uniformly bright and pretty.
Under the constitutional laws of the United States, there has never been an argument that a former president is immune from prosecution for crimes that he committed while in office. ~ Judge Michael Luttig