I have a brooch… or had…. packed away someplace… a very old, but obviously cheaply made piece of costume jewelry, that I thought was set with a metallic green carnival glass scarab when i got it.
But it’s too lightweight to be glass. On a closer look, I realized it’s a real, iridescent beetle, metallic green with gold… maybe an inch and a half long, and pointier than this silver fellow.
Of course, it’s an ex-beetle, that is… one that’s… resting …pining for the fjords… simply stuck into little prongs on a simple pin-back.
Might have been made in Victorian times, or maybe as late as the 1920s… there have been a few waves of popularity for Egyptian designs… Art nouveau, Art Deco, and later King Tut’s tomb.
Presumably a cheap way to make elaborate looking, flashy jewelry to sell at Woolworth’s for a dime, or maybe it was a carnival prize. And now I have a dead bug that’s over 100 years old.
The metallic greens hold their color (it’s caused by diffraction of the scales.) The brilliant golds and silvers like the one illustrated only hold the color while they’re alive. Once they’re dead they quickly fade to greys and yellows.
Meanwhile… I fell into a huge rabbit-hole on this one.
Taken by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration.
I love the photo… started reading all the grocery prices.
Eggs were expensive! 25¢/doz may not sound like much, but it’s more than 5 pounds of potatoes or the “good” rice.
But actually, I remember thinking eggs were relatively expensive when I was old enough to start buying them… they only got cheap in the 70s or 80s cos the price didn’t go up as much as other groceries…. Till now.
But the real rabbit hole was “Milnut cream”. I googled it, and discovered it’s Milnot, and is what’s called “filled milk”… evaporated milk with the butterfat removed and replaced with plant oil.
Originally made as a cheap alternative, like the filled ice cream often used in fast food milkshakes, in the South canned Milnot became popular, and some people love the taste. Just like Miracle Whip, another “cheap substitute” which now costs as much as actual mayonnaise, there are those who prefer it.
You can still buy Milnot online…. the amazing thing is that I found it for $14.95 a can, when actual evaporated milk was less then $2!
Also, Shorpy and the Library Of Congress date this photo August, 1936… But all info about Milnot says it wasn’t called that till a name change in 1939. I trust the former more.
If the doctor or the health department had been called in, for some diseases there was a notice on the property. I think that’s what the illustration is showing.
But it not, you don’t think the farmer’s going to tell you, do you?
BTW… Somehow I don’t think today’s “milk truckers” still wear spiffy white uniforms with ties and peaked caps.
I thought this was Photoshop, or some such trickery…
But no, it’s an entry in the 2014 Sidney Sculptures in the Sand competition….
The little girl is actually walking on Andrew Hankin’s “We’re Fryin’ Out Here.”
it didn’t win… But it’s so much more interesting than the (boring, IMHO) winning entry, it was used to illustrate all the articles I found, and I had to look at about a dozen links to see one picture of the winner.
All you Cleo Pals had best get a-puzzlin’, cos I gotta tell you… this one’s a bit of a challenge.
But just keep on a-goin’ and you’ll get there!
….
Enjoy a sunny day on a lovely plaza… maybe a cold coffee concoction at that cool cafe….. we can pretend it’s still summer.
It’s an October New Yorker cover, but it looks like the artist was dreaming of sunnier climes.
Of course, we see it in stereo, and the panels are a wee bit mismatched. Your mission is to find the ten places where they differ
…
Then if you like, you can compare your solution
with mine:
PS… Once again, especially for those of you who might be newer to this endeavor… My advice, especially for a puzzle with so much detail, is… don’t let it overwhelm you.
Sitting and staring at the whole picture doesn’t work too well…. at least not for me.
I look at every part, and compare only that one bit to its counterpart on the other side. Things like sleeve lengths, hairstyles, colors of things… How many of things, like how many.. I dunno… branches on the tree, cookies on the plate. How tall is this thing… and is there even one like it in the other panel?
This list isn’t specific to today… I’m not saying any of those items work on this puzzle, only that I’m describing a method, while trying not to give spoilers.
But bit by bit, you’ll find that you’ve reached the count of ten… Happy solving!
He’s adorable… but the video doesn’t say much about what it is, exactly…so I looked it up.
in fact I didn’t realize at first that “Rusty-spotted cat” is actually the name of the species.
It’s the smallest wild cat in Asia, native to India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Wikipedia says it’s about the size of a small squirrel, half the size of the average cat…. usually 2 to 3½ pounds… but also that it’s between 24 and 18 inches long, plus a tail half its length… which sounds bigger than a small squirrel to me, but since I’ve never chased a squirrel with a measuring tape, what do I know.
They also say it “rivals” the Black-footed Cat of Southern Africa for smallest cat in the world.
They’re talking about the general size of the species… there have been known, single examples of cats smaller than either.
A domestic cat ….a blue point Himalayan-Siamese named Tinker Toy… holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest cat ever… a natural runt of his litter, 7½ inches long and 2¾ inches tall when over 2 years old!
Of course, they have no way to know whether an individual wild cat has ever been smaller when full grown.
Just for your amusement.
…and another one…
I’ve always liked Cows with Guns ..
even if here in dairy country we laugh at city slickers who think cows, especially cows with visible udders, can be male.
Cows are mums.
You wouldn’t steer us wrong, now would you?
Hay!
I may generally mean to a-moos you, but what-heifer I say is no bull!
Unless … occasionally if it’s funnier.
Or punnier.
But this time it was udderly true.
No cow pun ♪♪
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Frogzilla!!!
“O sole mio”
..
Yuck! ! ! Yuck! ! ! Yuck! ! !
Generally i like chocolate, but i’m with you here.
I wanted to believe…. I really did.
But searching for the product led me to a site that showed it to be…. sigh… photoshopped by an artist named Cris Shapan from two old ads…
Once of which is this….
The ad is fake, but the recipe provided by Kraft is real. But not being served like that…
,.
WIKIPEDIA LINK
I have a brooch… or had…. packed away someplace… a very old, but obviously cheaply made piece of costume jewelry, that I thought was set with a metallic green carnival glass scarab when i got it.
But it’s too lightweight to be glass. On a closer look, I realized it’s a real, iridescent beetle, metallic green with gold… maybe an inch and a half long, and pointier than this silver fellow.
Of course, it’s an ex-beetle, that is… one that’s… resting …pining for the fjords… simply stuck into little prongs on a simple pin-back.
Might have been made in Victorian times, or maybe as late as the 1920s… there have been a few waves of popularity for Egyptian designs… Art nouveau, Art Deco, and later King Tut’s tomb.
Presumably a cheap way to make elaborate looking, flashy jewelry to sell at Woolworth’s for a dime, or maybe it was a carnival prize. And now I have a dead bug that’s over 100 years old.
The metallic greens hold their color (it’s caused by diffraction of the scales.) The brilliant golds and silvers like the one illustrated only hold the color while they’re alive. Once they’re dead they quickly fade to greys and yellows.
Mine is (AFAIK, cos it’s been a few years) still amazingly metallic green.
I was so startled when I saw legs on it and realized it wasn’t something man-made.
a day to celebrate!
Okay!
Meet you all for a screwdrivers and cinnamon bun breakfast, at the 19th hole Cafe.
Sigh…. I wish.
The reality will be a couple of mandarins, some Cheerios and a cup of coffee… but a girl can dream, right?
,.
Stupid with Diamond Lil’s boyfriend’s dog?
G’mornin’ Butch. How was yer night?
YAY! It’s Lunchbox!
Yes, that’s his name.
That’s N.E. for New Orleans-1930s
Um… yeah …. N.E. for…. uh… “Noo Erlins”….
brain fade last night….it IS New Orleans in the 30s but Mr. Saul is the D.E.
Okay, I wasn’t confused about N’Erlins, but I am about “the D.E.”… can’t find out anywhere what that is! LOL
I just found out, as part of the picture description… He’s Norman E. Saul.
Or maybe that’s what you meant.
Meanwhile… I fell into a huge rabbit-hole on this one.
Taken by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration.
I love the photo… started reading all the grocery prices.
Eggs were expensive! 25¢/doz may not sound like much, but it’s more than 5 pounds of potatoes or the “good” rice.
But actually, I remember thinking eggs were relatively expensive when I was old enough to start buying them… they only got cheap in the 70s or 80s cos the price didn’t go up as much as other groceries…. Till now.
But the real rabbit hole was “Milnut cream”. I googled it, and discovered it’s Milnot, and is what’s called “filled milk”… evaporated milk with the butterfat removed and replaced with plant oil.
Originally made as a cheap alternative, like the filled ice cream often used in fast food milkshakes, in the South canned Milnot became popular, and some people love the taste. Just like Miracle Whip, another “cheap substitute” which now costs as much as actual mayonnaise, there are those who prefer it.
You can still buy Milnot online…. the amazing thing is that I found it for $14.95 a can, when actual evaporated milk was less then $2!
Also, Shorpy and the Library Of Congress date this photo August, 1936… But all info about Milnot says it wasn’t called that till a name change in 1939. I trust the former more.
,,
Fun bunch…
The only caption I could find so far was “Scenes of Slavic Life”.
Well, that narrows it down, doesn’t it.
I do have a suspicion about who’s the life of the party.
this one’s for Stel…
He’s a handsome fellow.
,,,,,
It was a scary world back then. Thank God for vaccines…
Got my seasonals.
How were the truckers supposed to know?
If the doctor or the health department had been called in, for some diseases there was a notice on the property. I think that’s what the illustration is showing.
But it not, you don’t think the farmer’s going to tell you, do you?
BTW… Somehow I don’t think today’s “milk truckers” still wear spiffy white uniforms with ties and peaked caps.
well, this is the month for scares…..
,
,
There’s someone who needs a neck brace!
Maybe ear crutches?
,,..
“I’m out! Where’s the fire?”
I thought this was Photoshop, or some such trickery…
But no, it’s an entry in the 2014 Sidney Sculptures in the Sand competition….
The little girl is actually walking on Andrew Hankin’s “We’re Fryin’ Out Here.”
it didn’t win… But it’s so much more interesting than the (boring, IMHO) winning entry, it was used to illustrate all the articles I found, and I had to look at about a dozen links to see one picture of the winner.
A sand sculpture you can walk on???
They’re apparently not sand sculptures, they’re sculptures (displayed) in the sand.
I guess a cutesy name to reflect that the contest venue is a well known beach.
.,.,…
They don’t look nearly as scary as they do in the movies!
.
,,,
Puzzle Time!!
Where are all my Puzzle People?
All you Cleo Pals had best get a-puzzlin’, cos I gotta tell you… this one’s a bit of a challenge.
But just keep on a-goin’ and you’ll get there!
….
Enjoy a sunny day on a lovely plaza… maybe a cold coffee concoction at that cool cafe….. we can pretend it’s still summer.
It’s an October New Yorker cover, but it looks like the artist was dreaming of sunnier climes.
Of course, we see it in stereo, and the panels are a wee bit mismatched. Your mission is to find the ten places where they differ
…
Then if you like, you can compare your solution
PS… Once again, especially for those of you who might be newer to this endeavor… My advice, especially for a puzzle with so much detail, is… don’t let it overwhelm you.
Sitting and staring at the whole picture doesn’t work too well…. at least not for me.
I look at every part, and compare only that one bit to its counterpart on the other side. Things like sleeve lengths, hairstyles, colors of things… How many of things, like how many.. I dunno… branches on the tree, cookies on the plate. How tall is this thing… and is there even one like it in the other panel?
This list isn’t specific to today… I’m not saying any of those items work on this puzzle, only that I’m describing a method, while trying not to give spoilers.
But bit by bit, you’ll find that you’ve reached the count of ten… Happy solving!
Got ’em!
Took me nearly the entire day on-and-off, but I FINALLY got the last one. A very tricky puzzler today!
I thought so too!
My very…
Yup.
That was #10 difference as well. Tricky!
The cliffs of Western Brook Pond, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland.
He’s adorable… but the video doesn’t say much about what it is, exactly…so I looked it up.
in fact I didn’t realize at first that “Rusty-spotted cat” is actually the name of the species.
It’s the smallest wild cat in Asia, native to India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Wikipedia says it’s about the size of a small squirrel, half the size of the average cat…. usually 2 to 3½ pounds… but also that it’s between 24 and 18 inches long, plus a tail half its length… which sounds bigger than a small squirrel to me, but since I’ve never chased a squirrel with a measuring tape, what do I know.
They also say it “rivals” the Black-footed Cat of Southern Africa for smallest cat in the world.
They’re talking about the general size of the species… there have been known, single examples of cats smaller than either.
A domestic cat ….a blue point Himalayan-Siamese named Tinker Toy… holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest cat ever… a natural runt of his litter, 7½ inches long and 2¾ inches tall when over 2 years old!
Of course, they have no way to know whether an individual wild cat has ever been smaller when full grown.