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Old Things

• Fun!, Just Stuff, Old Things

  Be a Good Do-Bee — Romper Room

  04.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  My Mom, bless her soul, was a true packrat. She saved everything. Maybe it was that she grew up during the Great Depression (if so, what’s my excuse?)… No matter; I’m grateful for some of the things she saved and was able to pass along to me. One of them is a packet of stuff […]

• Bikes, Old Things

  The Coolest Bike. Ever.

  03.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  As the number 8 kid in a family of 9, I rarely got anything new. Most of it was hand-me-downs from one of the older siblings. There were exceptions though; Mom worked at the J.C. Penney store downtown when we were kids and got in on some great deals, and we reaped the windfall from […]

• Cars!, Old Things

  Citroen 2CV Rat Rod

  02.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Now this. Is. Cool.

  Not what you’d expect in a rat rod at all, but what would kinda naturally flow from what began as a front-drive rattletrap of a car. The Citroen 2CV is pretty rare here in the US, but they’re common as houseflies in Europe, so it makes sense that people mod them […]

• Cars!, Fun!, Old Things

  Metropolitan Minnesota

  01.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here’s a funny photo I found on eBay… It was on an auction for a 1959 Nash Metropolitan, in Minnesota. Dairy country, no doubt!
  I’ve been looking half-heartedly for a project car; kinda thinking ahead to Ian getting his license in a year or so. It’d be fun to pick up something that needs a little […]

• Old Things

  National Corn Husking Competition

  12.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I got a little taste of corn husking as a kid. Dad had his hobby farm by Shindler but not a lot of land for growing crops. What he did have was lots of connections with farmers who grew corn and would let him go through their fields to glean leftover corn that their pickers […]

• Family, Old Things

  Lost Family Found, Almost Under Our Noses

  11.24.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I’ve been doing some research trying to find more about my family history… Uncle Runt did some work on the family tree years ago, but went only as far back as his Grandfather (my Great Grandfather), Serrill C. Thornton, born in 1852 in Whitehall, NY. His father — my Great-Great Grandfather — was also named […]

• Cool Technology, Old Things

  The John Deere B, aka Johnny Popper

  11.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  The kids & I passed a really lazy Sunday afternoon yesterday watching one of my favorite movies, Cars. One thing that struck me while watching it is that they could have cast the herd of tractors a little better; in the movie the likeness of an old Farmall tractor was used to portray the cow-like […]

• Old Things, The Deep

  Ben Franklin — One Smart Fellow

  11.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  “And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the […]

• Old Things, Personal Growth, The Deep, The Kids

  Real Family History

  11.04.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been working on tracking down some of my ancestors lately, and there’s one thing that really, really sticks out to me — for most people the sense of who we are and what we’ve accomplished doesn’t stick around very long after we’re gone.
  I look at the names of my grandparents, great-grandparents, and so […]

• Fun!, Old Things

  The Burma-Shave Booklet

  07.08.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  A while back whilst browsing through a neighbor’s garage sale, I picked up a really spiffy copy of a Haynes Guide for Yellowstone National Park, printed in 1959. Aside from some dented corners and some kids’ scribbles on the cover, it’s in beautiful shape. Flipping through the pages when I got home, I discovered […]

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