Tuesday's two's.............and a plate.

 These two ceramic pieces came to our house when my father in law moved in to live with us.  I went back to his house after he moved in and tried to find things he had sitting around in his living room that might make him feel more at home with us. That was probably nine years ago so things don't always get remember that far back.

I found his tractor models and his horses on shelves.  I also found these birds.   I never notice that they looked just alike.  I just grabbed things and put them in a box and set them around in his room.

These two birds were there also, so I had grabbed them to bring home.  Now years later,  I asked my wife about them and she said they were not family items.  She believed they must have been auction sale items that he picked up in his boxes that he bought.  I do know that we have a blue willow platter that he found in one of his boxes and below he found a set of four  or five plates.

These auction plates were in a box of many things which he paid a dollar for the taking.  We later found these to be Indian Tree hand tinted plates worth a lot of money.  There is one other pattern out there that is done in mostly browns and oranges.

Substitute teaching is getting to be an old habit for me.  I was a Science teacher on Monday and an English teacher on Tuesday.  The Special Education room needs me for Wednesday.   I get off early Wednesday as the teachers have a workshop in the afternoon. 

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Do you have your glasses on?

This little guy doesn't wear glasses but he is very happy about receiving a valentine.  This will be my very last posting of any valentines until next year.

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Bits and pieces of more Valentines........

I can't date this card but the dancing hearts remind me of the early twenties stuff right before animated movies were being created.

 An interesting heart house but this ain't good English....

I did find another German made card.  This one said Made in Germany while the other card said Printed in Germany.  This card had one of those honeycomb paper decorations on it but they have totally fallen apart.

Secret code on the back of this one from Lucille Myers.  If this is the same person, Lucille Myers must have been her country school student as she grew up to be my first grade teacher. 

I guess I will finish today with a little housewife humor.  I suppose this is either a cooking pot or maybe a boiler in which you cooked your clothes clean.

Have a good Sunday everyone.   I am going to get some rest today and do as little as possible.  Thanks for stopping by.......

Old Valentine's Day cards part 2.........

To Zella from Helen Smith

This Valentine was printed in Germany.  Of all the ones that I found, it is the only one that states were it was created.  The little girl rotates at the waist so you can make here hands reach the keyboard. My mom was born in 1919 so you can guess that they are dated from the late 1920's to 1930's. 

This is a Valentine that was sent to my mom from her brother and cousins.   Her brother Marvin was staying with his Uncle Lee and Aunt Esther for a while.  Times were tough and I think he helped on the farm also.

From all that I can figure out of the writing on the back, Marvin is her brother and the cousins of Leila and Eva Marie Wheeler are written on the back.  The two cousins of Lee Junior and Freda had not been born yet.

To Zella from Dannie

This Valentine is of the same vintage as the top one.  At first it looks like she is  riding a motorcycle but it is a tricycle.

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Old Valentines..........

I was sorting through some old valentines and I thought I would show a quick peak of just a few that I found.

This one impressed me with it's high quality of print and how the front and back were overlapped just like a sophisticated Hallmark card would have been created today.

I really have a lot of these that I want to share.  I really had never sat down and gone through these until now.  Some are from friends to my mom and some are from mom's children when she taught country school.  That was in 1940's that she taught school.  I have a special one that I will share later that was given to my mom from her grandmother.  That is a very old one and could be dated in the late 1920's.

We had a cold thaw today as the snow on the ground makes the air still feel very cold.  It will be warmer tomorrow and maybe we will actually lose some serious snow drifts.

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Thursday's moments..........

The firemen that go with their model firehouse are sitting out front. They are having their last cup of coffee before they get put away for the season.

It takes a while to get them all boxed up as one has to mess with the syrofoam casings that come with them.  Once the big things are put in thier correct boxes then we deal with all the little people and things.  It takes a few trips to get them down the stairs into the basement.  I count that as a part of my exercise routine for the day.

I picked up the one seaglass books again at the bookstore and read a little more about what washes on shore from the ocean.  They had a photo of the marbles that wash up from the harbors and shorelines.  The age of them looked like this grouping of marbles, which helped me to date these as older than I thought that they were.  Some of them are newer but this is the greatest group of what I call old. 
Some marbles are ptetty much sandblasted as they stay in rough waters and rocks for a long time on the shoreline.  They show these white glass marbles being all grayed and textured from the wear and tear.

These particular marbles looked like the ones that were shown that had washed up on shore in the book of seaglass.

I am subbing today for a band instructor.  I don't read music so we are having study hall of course.  I though I could get some blog work done in all the free moments.  We are to warm up starting this evening into the next few days.  A snow melt would be very welcomed.

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A balcony veiw........

It is a one photo day today as I was teaching various things in the Special Education room on Tuesday.  Maybe we will get our village put away today and I can rest up and catch up on my blogs.  I am continually amazed at the amount of hand painting is done on these small houses.  We did buy a new church for this collection for a steal the other day to add to the collection.

We are promised a warm up on Friday but my car would have liked it sooner.  It clunked a little on the way to school today as it was extremely cold out there.

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