We went through some boxes while Clare was here and one contained my 1990 Pee Wee Herman Calendar. I remember getting it — my mom gave it to me for Christmas. That might have been the same year she gave me my talking Pee Wee Herman doll and his pal, Chairy.
Of course I kept it.
Here’s January’s image with Pee Wee sitting on Chairy next to Miss Yvonne while Pterri perches on the back of Chairy. Also pictured are Randy, Globey, and Clocky.
Here’s January’s dates page.
Today, January 7th, we are instructed to think about Grandma’s nose.
Hmm. I really don’t remember my grandmas noses.
Grandma Patrick Grandma Green
They both had pretty typical noses…
I’ll keep this around and post each month’s image if I remember. And maybe reflect on the message for that day.
I’m reading a book, Wish You Well, that takes place in Southwestern Virginia in the early 1940s. In it the great-grandmother of one of the protagonists sews her a “feed sack dress”, a term new to me. Of course I asked Professor Google and was surprised to learn that feed sack companies made feed sack material dual purpose. The first, a container for the feed, the second a dress or apron or other cloth-made item. The material was not just white or off-white with lettering printed on it, but floral, or striped, or otherwise decorated. I remembered a cotton tablecloth my Grandma Patrick had on her kitchen table and wondered if it could have been made out of a feed sack. I was lucky to be given it and used it on my table for a while. I had no idea where it was, but today I serendipitously came across it while going through boxes for a different reason.
The tablecloth has a pattern of different types of flowers on a gray background with a crochet trim. The material is is soft to the touch, but strong. I’m willing to bet it was made from a feed sack, but of course no one is left to confirm my suspicion.
I’ve decided that it should not sit in a plastic bag in the storage area of my attic, but be displayed somewhere in the house. It’s now covering a too-dark bedside table in the purple guest room.
These two files were in an envelope with a return mailing address of Ranstead S. Lehmann, Attorney at Law, 167 Du Page Street, Elgin, Illinois; labeled Final Receipt for Farm.
One is a probate document which I’ll probably put with my genealogy stuff since it gives Grandpa Patrick’s date of death.
The other document is for the sale of the farm. It’s really too hard for me to figure out and I don’t have a scanner large enough to copy the whole thing, but one thing that stands out is how they determine the exact location of the farm and land. Back then I don’t think they had actual addresses for this particular area. In fact, all my Dad had to write on a post card to his sister who still lived on the farm was her name, town, and state. And when his mother wrote to him, the return address on the letter was simply Hampshire, Illinois.
This would be a lot to write on an envelope:
All that part of the following described premises lying Easterly from the Highway known as the St. Charles and Genoa Highway running Northwesterly and Southeasterly through the premises herein described: The southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, the south half of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter, the east 17.36 chains of the south 23.04 chains of the northwest fractional quarter and the north 27.50 chains of the west half of the southeast quarter of Section 30, Township 41 North, Range 7 East of the Third Principal Meridian, in the Township of Plato, Kane County, Illinois (except that part of the above described premises lying westerly of the center line of the Highway; ALSO excepting approximately one acre of land and improvements thereon in the northwest corner of the farm same to be surveyed).
Of course I don’t think I have ever seen a location described in surveyor language, so this is possibly perfectly normal.
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