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This is just part of my vintage book collection. These are some of my various homemaking and crafty books. They sit on a shelf in the craft/computer room, held up by my awesome Dr. Seuss Grinch bookends.
One of my Black-breasted Buzzard pair flies home with a nice new carpet for the nest.
Some raptors line their nests with fresh eucalypt leaves when they are in residence, it's thought that this might be to reduce parasites as an antiseptic. It certainly improves the looks.
The light was harsh which partly explains the hard look. It might also be a bit overprocessed.
This pair of Black-breasted Buzzards were nesting in a large euc on the bank of the Lyons River, 100m upstream from the road crossing. (The river was not running as is normal outside rain times, but there were a few waterholes with water). The birds seemed to be in the initial stages of nesting, or had just laid and were waiting to lay more. Not much sitting was going on, and no feeding. I watched them for a couple of hours on two days as we camped 10km away. A pair of Whistling Kites had set up nest exactly opposite in an even taller tree.
We required few paintings for the sets of our play “HomeMaker”; performed during the “RangDakshini” 2009. This painting was one of many that were drawn.
The play went on to win many awards, 5 to be precise, including the best play. I got award for “Best Set” design.
City Light parade float. Item 18408, City Light Photographic Negatives (Record Series 1204-01), Seattle Municipal Archives.
The Eva-Last stand at Homemakers Expo JHB 2014. Winner of the Silver award for Stand and Design Excellence.
Photo by Curtis Strand of Strands' Studio, Rugby, North Dakota
The Strand Studio negative collection 1948-1988 is housed at the NDSU Archives at North Dakota State University NDSU Libraries in Fargo,ND.
digitalhorizonsonline.org/digital/collection/ndsu-strand
library.ndsu.edu/ir/handle/10365/17200
This photo appeared on the front page of the Pierce County Tribune, Rugby, North Dakota on April 4, 1951.
Caption: “Active Homemakers make UN Flag
The description is: The picture is of the Active Homemakers club making a United Nations flag at their regular meeting at the Arndt Erickson home on March 14. The flag is to be presented to the Rugby high school.
From left to right:, sitting are: Mrs. Esther Saby, Mrs Agnes Welch, Mrs. Arden Luther and daughter, Mrs. Roy Brundage and Mrs. John Fay. Stranding, left to right are Mrs. Mary Brundage, Mrs Pius Striefel, Mrs. Senora Fosser, Mrs. George Kraft, Mrs. Clarence Olson, Mrs. Arndt Erickson, Mrs. L.K. Bickler, Mrs. Andrew H. Fedje and Mrs. Kittil Kittilson. Back row left to right, Mrs. Ed Crook, Mrs. Douglas Martin, Mrs. Alice Graham and Mrs. Gilbert Berdahl.
Mrs. John Fay is club president, Mrs. Roy Brundage, vice president and Mrs. Alice Graham, secretary-treasurer.
There are 17 active members and four honorary members. The honorary members are Mrs. Agnes Welch, Mrs. Christine Harnit, Mrs. Nan Bucklin and Mrs. Louis DuPuis Sr. Mrs Welch was the only honorary member present at this meeting. The late Mrs. Anna Heitseh was also an honorary member of this club.”
The powder blue United Nations flag hung in our study hall during my junior high days of the 1960’s.. The high school had moved on to a new building, but the U.N. flag was left behind. It was a welcome relief to gazing around at all my classmates and the framed picture of George Washington covered in spit-wads.
I always had a good feeling about the U.N. flag ---we were at the geographical center of North America, and it was a long way to any point on the continent, not to mention the globe. It made me feel apart of the world that was so distant from my home town of Rugby, North Dakota. Funny what symbols can do ---
Vintage Australian-made dolls house furniture in its original box: Marquis Little Homemaker Modern Plastic Kitchens in Miniature are Educational, Washable and Durable.
Marquis furniture was (probably) made with the same moulds as the American-made Plasco, also called the Little Homemaker range.
Seen on Australian ebay August 2010; photo courtesy of the seller.
If someone orders the Blythe dress or coat and hat, I am going to throw in this apron for free. Its cute but not extremely well made...
The games we play as children are rehearsals for the roles we play in life. Traditional toys for girls nurture homemaker stereotypes, simulating traditional domestic roles through play. In these photographs, I am exploring the possibility of the same staging taking place with the prolific, but publicly hidden occupation of prostitution. By constructing these scenes in miniature, I project representations of the sex industry onto the medium of the conventional dollhouse. As polar opposites, the homemaker and the sex worker are highly constructed and restrictive roles, the most deeply-rooted myths of the feminine.
Pieced together from many sources of representation these constructed spaces can be peered-into and examined.
Meet Jane, Juvenile Tyrannosaur
A juvenile tyrannosaur (a term referring to members of the dinosaur family Tyrannosauridae that includes T. rex, Nanotyrannus, Tarbosaurus, Gorgosaurus and Albertosaurus), “Jane” was discovered in June 2001, during a Burpee Museum expedition to the Hell Creek Formation of Carter County in Montana. Jane was initially found by two amateurs: Bill Harrison, a professor of foreign languages and literatures at Northern Illinois University; and homemaker Carol Tuck. Because Jane was discovered toward the end of the field season, excavation had to wait until the following year.
Over the course of seven weeks, approximately 12 feet of overburden was removed to expose the partially articulated skeleton of a small tyrannosaurid. During excavation, the specimen was "field" identified as Nanotyrannus lancensis because of the similarities in tooth and jaw morphology to the Nanotyrannus holotype skull (CMNH 7541) housed at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The specimen was removed in several plaster jackets, the largest being some 8 feet by 5 feet and weighing 2 tons. The specimen was transported back to Rockford, Illinois, in August 2002. However, preparation did not begin until January 2003. A team of preparators with no formal training prepared the specimen, a process that took approximately 10,500 man hours.
Once prepared, the specimen was found to be 51 percent complete by bone count, with skeletal elements that include two-thirds of a disarticulated skull, several cervical vertebrae, several cervical ribs, several dorsal vertebrae and ribs, the right scapulocoracoid, the right humerus, complete hips and sacrum, mostly complete legs and feet, and about half the caudal series.
After being prepared and molded/cast, Jane was studied by Burpee Museum Curator Michael Henderson and several well-known tyrannosaur paleontologists including Philip Currie, Robert Bakker and Jack Horner. This research is ongoing and a formal description of the specimen is being formulated.
When initially prepared, many characteristics were found that appeared distinct from T. rex, including a prominent lateral glenoid shelf on the scapula (shoulder joint), a narrow "Gorgosaurus-like" vomer (a bone on the roof of the mouth), an increased alveoli (tooth-socket) count in both the maxilla and dentary, and an unknown pneumatic foramen (opening) in the left quadratojugal (bone at the back of the jaw) also present in the holotype of Nanotyrannus (CMNH 7541).
The first two skeletal characters are now recognized as being the result of the animal’s young age and small size. It is now known that similar features are present in other small tyrannosaurids and are lost as the animals grow and mature. Also, histological work was done on Jane by Dr. Greg Erickson, who examined the growth rates of various tyrannosaurs. Based on his work, Jane is determined to have been 11 years old at the time of her death and still growing.
The presence of more tooth rows in the lower jaws of both Jane and Nanotyrannus has made the potential referral of either taxa to T. rex more difficult. However, new Tyrannosaurus specimens, including “Samson” at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and the re-prepared T. rex specimen at South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City, South Dakota, show these same extra tooth placements in both the dentary and maxilla.
Thus, the presence of the unique jaw character seems to suggest that Jane and CMNH 7541 may indeed be the same type of dinosaur and may be different from T. rex. Additionally, unpublished data obtained from CT scans of the braincase of CMNH 7541, carried out by Dr. Larry Witmer at Ohio University, has revealed characters that suggest CMNH 7541 is not from a T. rex. Unfortunately, the braincase of Jane was not recovered with the specimen, so direct comparison of this region of the two skulls is not possible at this time.
Burpee Museum scientists continue to study Jane. CMNH eagerly awaits the results of their research. In the meantime, we’ll be conservative and simply call Jane a "juvenile tyrannosaur."
A cast of Jane went on display at CMNH on November 11, 2006.
Fun fact:
Jane has a pathological toe – a large "spongy growth" on the right toe of her left foot. Originally diagnosed as a heal fracture, the element was CT scanned by radiologists at Rockford Memorial Hospital. The pathology was re-diagnosed as an osteomelitis with a Brody's Abscess (bone infection). In humans/mammals, such a bone infection can be quite debilitating: prior to the advent of antibiotics, it was 20 percent fatal in humans. This bone infection may have affected Jane's behavior.
1983 or '84, I think. From Left to Right:
Kathy -
Becky - now a school teacher in Puyallup.
Carolynn - homemaker and mom and Salt Lake City.
Kelly - PE Teacher (I think) in Indianapolis
Laura - don't know
Me - nerd in Santa Cruz, CA.
Publication: [19--]
Language(s): English
Format: Still image
Subject(s): African Americans
Genre(s): Pictorial Works
Extent: 1 photographic print : 21 x 26 cm.
Technique: black and white
NLM Unique ID: 101448555
NLM Image ID: A029679
Permanent Link:http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101448555
365 Project: Day 13
On Tuesday, I got to go to a baby shower for Jesus—with 200 other women. How blessed I am.
A large part of my job at church is to help our Small Groups Pastor, Renee Burt, with anything she needs, especially as it relates to the two women’s groups that she leads. One of them is a Bible study group of about 200 women (for wives and moms of all ages), called HomeMakers, who meet at church every Tuesday morning from September to April. (This beautiful group of women is a huge part of my life, and has been for 10+ years, so I’m sure you’ll hear more about it/them in future posts as well.)
On Tuesday, we had our Christmas party, and met for the last time until after the new year. Our party theme was all in the spirit of giving, and based on the Christmas song, Little Drummer Boy. It was pretty much a 21st century baby shower for Jesus. We called it, “Gifts Fit for the King”!
If you’ve ever listened to the lyrics of the little drummer boy song (besides the pa-rum-pa-pum-pum part), it’s such a sweet song of a little drummer boy talking about how he, like baby Jesus, is just a poor boy too… and even though he has no gifts to bring, he honored Jesus by giving what he had and offering up his talents, playing his best for Jesus on his drum.
Because our party was a “baby shower,” all of us HomeMakers brought new, unwrapped gifts to donate to a couple of local organizations in Minneapolis that help women and children. One of them is the Robbinsdale Women’s Center, a crisis pregnancy center, who’ve helped over 17,000 women and families since 1992. The other is called The Healing House, a drug treatment center, where women live for 12-18 months. It’s the only one of its kind in Minnesota, and one of the things that makes the Healing House unique is that the women’s children can live with them there during their treatment.
This photo doesn’t even do justice to what generous gifts we saw before us on those two 8-foot tables and piled on the floor. There were thousands and thousands of dollars’ worth of clothing, toys, toiletries, and things that were donated to help these women and their children. My eyes welled up several times throughout the day, just completely overwhelmed at the hearts of our HomeMakers, so full of love and generosity. These women jumped at the opportunity to help, and went beyond even what we thought might come in to be donated. Even in an economy that is affecting so many of us, people so generously gave. It is overwhelming to witness and be a part of.
Sometimes we can think we have so many problems or have so little ourselves, but what happens when we take our eyes off our own need and reach out to help someone else? Well, a lot happens, but one thing is that we gain a deeper understanding of the love and compassion of Jesus. Loving and giving changes us on the inside, ultimately affecting how we relate to the natural world we live in.
Renee and I get the privilege of delivering the donated items to the organizations, on behalf of all the HomeMakers. The greatest gift anyone can ever receive on this earth is LOVE, so it’s our prayer that everyone who is touched by these gifts feels the deep, deep love of Jesus… and knows in their hearts that He loves them and hasn’t forgotten about them.
Spreading God’s love… now that’s a gift that’s fit for the King.
Luke 7:13 ~ When the Lord saw her, His heart overflowed with compassion.
Ephesians 4:32 ~ And become useful and helpful and kind to one another, tenderhearted (compassionate, understanding, loving-hearted), forgiving one another [readily and freely], as God in Christ forgave you.
1 John 3:17-18 ~ If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God’s love? It disappears. And you made it disappear. My dear children, let’s not just talk about love; let’s practice real love.
West German collector card by TV Spielfilm.
Tom Selleck (1945) is an American actor and film producer, best known for his starring role in the TV series, Magnum, P.I. (1980) and for the box office hit Three Men and a Baby (1987).
Thomas William Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1945. His parents were Martha (Jagger), a homemaker, and Robert Dean Selleck, a real estate investor and executive. He has an elder brother, Robert, a younger sister, Martha, and a younger brother, Daniel. He grew up in San Fernando and attended the University of Southern California, where he obtained a degree in English. A drama coach suggested Selleck try acting, and in his senior year, he dropped out of the university. Selleck then studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse under Milton Katselas. Tom's first television appearance was as a college senior on The Dating Game (1967), but, incredibly, he lost. Soon after, he appeared in television commercials for products such as Pepsi-Cola. He worked as a male model and had small parts in films like the satire Myra Breckinridge (Michael Sarne, 1970), The Seven Minutes (Russ Meyer, 1971) and the conspiracy thriller Coma (Michael Crichton, 1978). He played a leading role in the B-Horror film Daughters of Satan (Hollingsworth Morse, 1972). Selleck starred in six failed television pilots before he landed his breakthrough role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the television series, Magnum, P.I. (1980). With his prominent moustache, Hawaiian-style aloha shirt and Detroit Tigers baseball cap, he became one of the most popular TV stars of the 1980s. For his role, he received five Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, winning in 1985. Selleck was originally cast as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981), but could not take the role because he was committed to Magnum, P.I. His films included the adventure drama High Road to China (Brian G. Hutton, 1983), the action film Lassiter (Roger Young, 1984) and the romantic comedy Three Men and a Baby (Leonard Nimoy, 1987) with Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson. The latter was the highest-grossing movie in 1987 and Selleck's most successful film. He again played bachelor architect Peter Mitchell in the sequel 3 Men and a Little Lady (Emile Ardolino, 1990), which was also successful.
Tom Selleck appeared extensively on television in roles such as Lance White, the likeable and naive partner on The Rockford Files (1978-1979), as Monica Geller's (Courteney Cox) older love interest, Dr. Richard Burke, in Friends (1994), and as casino owner A.J. Cooper on Las Vegas (2003). In addition to his series work, Selleck appeared in over fifty films and TV movies, including Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer, 1990) and the sports comedy Mr. Baseball (Fred Schepisi, 1992). In 1993, he won a Razzie award for Worst Supporting Actor for his performance as King Ferdinand of Spain in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (John Glen, 1992) starring Marlon Brando. Selleck was the third person in Razzie history to accept one of the statuettes voluntarily. He shaved off his trademark moustache for the comedy In & Out (Frank Oz, 1997) starring Kevin Kline. Once rarely seen without it, he has since kept it off for most of his stage and screen work. Between 2005 and 2015, Selleck played troubled small-town police chief Jesse Stone in nine television films, based on the Robert B. Parker novels. From 2010 on, he appeared as Commissioner Frank Reagan in the drama series Blue Bloods (2010-2024) with Donnie Wahlberg. Tom Selleck married model Jacqueline Ray in 1971. They divorced in 1982. In 1987, he married British dancer Jillie Mack, with whom he has a daughter, Hannah, an international show jumper. Kevin Selleck (1966) is the son of his first wife, Jacqueline Ray, from her first marriage. Tom Selleck adopted Kevin during the marriage and has continued to treat him as a beloved son after he and Jacqueline Ray divorced.
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1st Edition, "Homemakers Guide to Creative Decorating", 1952. Authors: Hazel Kory Rockow, PhD, Julius Rockow.
I spend my time cleaning, washing, tidying, baking pies and cakes and so forth. Actually that's a lie but sewing counts doesn't it? The pips make this one a bit Christmassy I think.