A Change in the Weather

 Yeah! For a week we are scheduled to have highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s. Now that is more like it! We do have another cold front coming in next week with highs in the 60s but this time of year it doesn't last long. We will be moving into our new digs next Saturday so a cold spell will not affect us nearly as much. We close on the place next Thursday.

We have a very busy week coming up. Monday is Butch's ear, nose, and throat therapy. Most likely his last since he doesn't want to go anyway. And I do a money transfer for our new place. Tuesday is a very busy day except Trivia has been canceled because of a conflict. It is the day we get our stitches out from our dermatology adventure. And then at 4 is a going away party for Joyce, the lady we bought the Park Model from. She was very active in the pool hall on many levels. Thursday is the closing on the place as I stated earlier. And these are the extra's outside the usual scheduled stuff like more pool events etc.

Things are starting to wind down as they always do this time of year and by the end of March it will be very quiet around here. It always amazes us how many leave for up North the second week in March. Heck, In Iowa it can be a blizzard in May! We will be there in mid-April as usual I am guessing.

 I took this photo this morning and as you can see the leaves are about to fully pop open.

Old time photos!

 

Some VERY Interesting Photos

 

 

 

 

 1 The 'Tier Avto', the 1930's version of a GPS. Developed by Touring Club Italiano, this device was more like a “map guidance tool and came with a set of paper maps It was tethered to the car’s speedometer that kept the scrolling of the map in proportion to the speed of the car.

 

 

 

 2 A 'Tasmanian tiger' in captivity circa 1930. Also known as the thylacine, this carnivorous marsupial was native to the Australian mainland and went extinct in 1936.

 

 

 3 Airline reservations before computers, 1945

 

 

 

4 The 1950s '3-in-1 Kitchen Combination.' It came with a stove, a sink, and a fridge - all in one!

 

 

 

5 American photographer James Ricalton posing with two extra tall men, fondly remembered as the 'Giants of Kashmir,' in 1903. 

The photograph was taken in Delhi during 'The Durbar,' a celebration of the British monarch Edward VII’s (the great-grandfather of the current British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II) succession as the Emperor of India.

 

 

 

 6 Television shopping in 1974

 

 

 

 

7 A gas station on Brovarsky Prospect in Kyiv, Ukraine, 1979

 

 

 

 

 8 A woman standing in the doorway of an RV Camper at an exhibition in London, 1927. It was also called the "Road Yacht."

 

 

 

 9 Draft beer being served during a Lufthansa flight in the 1960s

 

 

 

 10. The Esso Hibernia tanker under construction, Wallsend, UK, 1970

 

 

 

 11. Niagara Falls without water, 1969

Here is a link to an article that tells the story of how they pulled it off.

 https://mashable.com/feature/niagara-falls-runs-dry

 

 

 

 12. An Empire State builder hanging on a crane above New York City, 1930

 

 

 

 

 13. An elementary piano class in progress in 1947 (photo by Yale Joel)

 

 

 

 14. Military bomber planes fly past Mount Vesuvius in Italy as lava and ash spurts from the top of the volcano. 

The devastating eruption ravaged the village of San Sebastiano and San Giorg in March 1944 and killed 57 people. Meanwhile, the Allied forces were battling for supremacy in the skies.

 

 

 

 15. The original Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1914

 

 

 

 16. A Phillips fridge from 1956 with a built-in radio!

 

 

 

 17. A horse being rescued from a canal that it fell in - Amsterdam, 1929

 

 

 

 18. Control Room of the German UB-11 Submarine (First World War)

 

 

 

19. Swedish Warship 'Vasa' being recovered from the seafloor in Stockholm, Sweden, on the 24th of April, 1961. It stayed underwater for 333 years and was still astonishingly well-preserved.

 

 

 

 20. A young woman of the Ouled Nail tribe, Algeria, circa 1905 (photo by Lehnert & Landrock)

 

 

 

 21. Philadelphia Electric Co. street light maintenance vehicle, 1910

 

 

 

 22. A tree house of the Koiari people, east of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1886

 

 

 

 23. A woman using a vacuum cleaner in 1906

 

 

 

 24. The 1958 'Sir Vival.' Designed by Walter C. Jerome of Worcester, this unique two-section vehicle was made to protect its driver and three passengers from death or injury on the highway. 

The designer believed that, in case of a collision, the engine compartment would take most of the brunt and leave the passengers safe. Its standout features included a two-piece engine and cab, along with a driver turret. Unfortunately, only one Sir Vival was ever made, and it remains in the care of Bellingham Auto Sales in Bellingham, Massachusetts, even today!

 

 

 25. A Native American chief at the Canadian Rockies, 1938

 

 

 

Random Photos from February 2022

His teachers would never have believed it! He reads all the time!

These next few were taken in the early morning...

This one is showing how the trees are budding out. It was taken on 2/22/22.