Shirley this one is for you.  Does it remind you of a time long ago? lol

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Bubble, it would be taller than my knee  

The succot  cabins are interesting, but I would have to settle on street level, would be nervous in the top one.

I'll take that kid, Bubble!  Would love to squeeze him.  I do have one photo of me missing that big front tooth & remember the day my brother took it.  I did not remember why I looked so serious and not smiling in all the photos of that day, until after he died and his wife sent photos she recognized of his negatives, of each of us.  THEN I recalled him chasing me all over to get a shot of that vacant mouth.  I had the big "French" front teeth, didn't know that was a French trait until someone on TV mentioned it.  I keep telling my kids about your amazing photos and how different your view is from what "we" think of Israel. I picture the historic buildings and markets..... and you show us the shiny new world of today, along with beaches & beautiful flowers and your darling grandson.  Thank you.

Love the photos of the coleus, Sato & Bubble.  My mother had an enormous one that "took over" her dining room table because it had the perfect light for growing.  Was so beautiful her Garden Club friends talked her into entering it in the MO State Fair.  She not only won a blue ribbon on it, but was selected "Best of Show" that year.  Not sure what happened to it after that, but it certainly had it's day.

Bubble, that is a pretty and interesting plant.  You can tell it is a tall plant.  I think I saw some buds in places and I wonder if they will develop into the same flowers.  It would be spectacular if several were in blossom at the same time.

I see someone lost a tooth.  I remember losing my baby teeth.  I still have the roots to most of my permanent teeth and I hope I can keep them - until.

I would have no trouble with the succot cabin and I'll bet the view is wonderful.

Mary Ann

No buds Mary Ann, just brown leaves. The flower is at the cress of the plant.  It would need that strong stem to support it/.

Bubble, I love that photo of Aviv, such sparkling eyes and big grin! I always enjoy your photos of everyday life, thanks for posting, I always learn something new!

I thought someone would comment on the domino in Aviv's hand: old, hand made, from Ivory and Ebony.  They were my grand dad's game.

Bubble, I went back and looked at the pic.  I didn't notice the domino at first as I was looking at his big grin and sparkling brown eyes . 

I was about five and both of my front teeth were loose.  I was helping my mother put dirty clothes in the hamper.  The lid fell down and hit my mouth and there went both my front teeth!  My daughter as about the same age when she was riding her bike, hit the curb and there went her two front teeth!  Do y'all remember the song "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth?"

Mary

Then perhaps place it not so close to the wide smile of a happy boy?

Its so nice to have family items from the past isn't it? I have several paintings and watercolors that my mom did that I cherish!

Bubble, thanks for pointing out the domino, I was centered on the missing tooth

Your post also reminded me of this, an old favorite with a message.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LajppsE2_LY&start_radio=1&list=RDLajppsE2_LY#t=0

Bubble the domino is a treasured heirloom, but it is not as visible as that gap in Aviv's mouth!  I have never seen a domino like that; all of mine were in a box from a store.  i'm deprived!

I'll tell you what I have that is old.  I don't know if they're originals or not, but I had them when I was a child - Lincoln logs.  I bought some at a later date for Norm's sons and the logs are smaller - I could not combine the sets.

Mary Ann

MaryAnn, I had the set of Lincoln logs as a child, along with a game of miniature cowboys and Indians too as a child. They were my building blocks! Unfortunately, they went through a flood years later. I also had a dollhouse and furniture that my father made, and my mother sewed furnishings to decorate it. I lost that and so much else to that flood.

Thanks Jack - I had never hear that song before. I wish it was aired more often, it is needed these days.

Mary Ann, I had a set of those wooden logs too.  They got lost in our many moving.  I  bought some for my son but now they are made of plastic. Not the same feel at all.

Angel, I have on my wall a wooden panel shaped as a shelf and with a Venice landscape painted by my mother 'for her first house' after she got engaged and before the wedding.  I cherish that.

MaryTX - if that happened  to one of the grandkids, then it runs in the family!   

My dad made me a doll house too, made of a cardboard carton.  Furniture too.  He may also have made the curtains because he was able to do that, however. my mother could have participated.  The doll house went the way of cardboard cartons, but as I said, I still have the Lincoln logs.  I know Tim, Tom and Terry played with them, but I'm not sure about the next generation. 

Another old thing I have is my mother's Westinghouse iron.  It still works, but it is heavy, and I don't iron any more.  I have a lighter iron that I may press something, but as for ironing anything, I'm wash and wear, drip dry.  I have my mother's ironing board too - just in case I need it.  I hate to throw anything away!

Mary Ann

I went back to look at the domino, Bubble... I had a tin coffee can full that my friend & I found along the creek that was about a block from the house I grew up in.  They were solid, thick ivory with what I thought probably cane back... beautiful carvings with colors in the etchings.  Since I knew nothing about them I gave probably 8 or 10 to a friend that wanted to have a bracelet made out of them.... she was into bright & gaudy stuff.  Not sure what happened to the rest of the can, I thought the ivory was probably worth something but was before computers to check it out.  So great you have the history behind yours & real ivory & ebony!

Something kept nagging me until I stopped to "look" into my memory & realize it was Mah Jongg & not dominos that I found.  Had such delicate carvings but did a quick Google & don't see anything like them. 

Shirley, when I was very young, but could remember things, we had a Mah Jongg set and I remember seeing it in my closet so I probably got hold of a set my folks had and that may have been the last of the Mah Jongg set!  Whether the tiles were ivory or not, I don't know but they were ivory colored with colorful markings on them.  Carvings?  I have no idea.

See, you triggered a memory for me too.

Mary Ann

The Lincoln Logs and other toys were passed along to family.   Still have an old train given to my son by his grandfather.   I still have this doll house.  We purchased the kit over 20 years ago for our grandaughter.   Shirley was too weak to work on it.  Shortly after she died I put it together.  My grandaughter spent lots of time playing with it when young.  She is now 26, in a new home and we plan on taking it to her.


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Jack that is very similar to the wooden one my father made except it was only two rooms on each of the three floors and no stairway. I remember that some of the furniture was made from toothpicks and the wooden shafts from wooden matches. All of the bedspreads, curtains and tablecloths were made from my mother's fabric scraps. The house was white with a green painted tin roof.

Neat house, Jack and nice furniture.  I am not sure my dad made the furniture from cardboard.  I think we must have had Sears and/or Wards catalogs and dollhouse furniture could have been in them.  All I remember is two rooms on each floor.  I played with it but I have no idea for how long. 

Mary Ann

What a pretty doll house, Jack.... and I'll bet there will be tears when you take that to her.  How sad your Shirley isn't here to enjoy the memories with you, but in MY world, she is right there beside you and hugging you every time you do something to remind "the kids" about her. 

Mary Ann, the pieces I found were fine line carvings in the ivory.... and colors "mushed" into the carvings.  There was an old man that lived some distance away, owned quite a bit of land, maybe the size of a square block but the area was not built up when we first moved there (edge of town).  Turned out he was a physicist/ professor and turned sour on the human race, had his little building, warehouse, filled with stuff he gathered all over town.  He had dogs & horses but as he got older he wasn't able to take proper care of them. When he died they found lots of money & lots of junk, he lived on one side of the creek that ran through the area and our house was on the other, as kids we were afraid of him.  I think the mah jongg was something he probably threw into the creek & floated down after a rain.  One time after a hard rain I was playing near the creek, heard a noise & looked up & saw a wall of water rushing toward me.  Still makes me shiver to remember.... it was much higher than I was tall. I loved the woods, all of my friends loved to come see me. We had an apple, pear & walnut tree as well as the maple & woods out back.  Wild asparagus, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries & dew berries.  Dad always planted a huge garden and I thought it was heaven.  My sister hated it, she was not an outdoors person.  Memories, maybe I was a strange little kid, she still thinks I am.........

Ben made a beautiful doll house like that, two floors, 6 rooms on each floor (3 in the front and 3 in the back) with all for  4 outside walls sliding out for easy access. There was a spiral staircase build around a skewer, a big veranda on top of the house with a railing again made of skewers and wood dowels. He added light to each room with flash light bulbs and working on batteries, a switch on the roof to activate each room separately.  There was different wall paper in each room and I  made the curtains and carpets. It stood on its wheeled low table for moving around and had a heavy plastic cover with handle, so as not to gather dust.

This was built for a future grand daughter...  About a year ago I gave it to  a cousin for their  6y old adopted daughter  with learning disabilities.

I am sorry now that I never took pictures.

I'll have to take pictures of my Chinese Mah jong set with its special colorful drawing and post them here.

I did miss the opportunity of a life time to own an old original ivory one: There was a box of those tiles on sale in an open air bazaar. I did not know the game then and I wondered if the set was complete. The woman selling had no idea what they were. So... Now I know they would be very valuable.

Oh,  doll houses are such fun!!   
To receive and to play with,  no matter
what your age.   

Shirley, I loved to roam our neighborhood that was sparsely populated.  We had a former farm to our east and all of the neighborhood kids played there in all seasons.  In the middle of the lot were grapevines and we'd go there, pull up weeds and make shelters for ourselves - hideaways.  In the middle going the other direction were pine trees and we'd climb those trees, getting pine pitch on our hands and clothes.  In the winter we skied between the grapevines because they were on a slope.  We played sandlot baseball next to our house and had many broken cellar windows as a result of someone not catching the ball as it rolled toward the house.  We had a path around the house where kids would run and Dad wondered if he'd ever get grass to grow there (he did!).  I am the only one left of 14 kids who grew up in our neighborhood.  It was a great childhood and Norm was one of the 14.

Bubble, that must have been quite a doll house that Ben made.  Parents in those days were so much more inventive than they seem today; it is so easy to buy things and not only kids, but adults get involved in so many things that they don't have time to be creative.  I wish you had taken a picture of it too.

Mary Ann

Jack, that is a lovely doll house.  I had a small one, but neighbor friend a huge one that her father made and it was on wheel.  it was 3 stories with and attic  we would spend many a rainy day rearranging the furniture and justplaying,  He finally put it in the cellar so we had plenty of room to play.

Mary Ann, my mother would save the wooden spools from her sewing (those were the day when women sewed every thing) and make furniture, animals even color them and make a wooden necklace This was in the depression.. I even cut out paper dolls from the catalogs

Bubble, I also went back and checked his hand,  My Dennis lost his two front teeth when he went running across the room with his fathers pipe in his mouth and fell

Mexican train and Mah Jongg is very popular in Riverhead, they play it here in the Rec.Hall, the library and the senior center.  I use to play cards every Wed. night, until the group of six women either moved away or passed on. We played Michigan rummy or Hand and Foot. Of course then came the computer

Gloria, I also cut out "dolls" from the catalogs and designed clothes for them.  I doubt any of my styles would have qualified me for fashion designer.  I know most of the children who lived at the same time as we did created a lot of their own entertainment.  Of course we were encouraged to play outdoors and in our neighborhood there were plenty of children to play with.  We lived in an old orchard and most of the houses had a fruit tree in the back yard - so we climbed trees.  I do not recall anyone falling out and/or breaking a leg or arm.  But we had plenty of apples to eat - green or red. 

I looked at the member list earlier and found there are few people who have posted as many times as I have.  Basically I post in two folders, occasionally in two or three others.  I'm going to have to learn to shut up!!!

Mary Ann

Bubble, Ben was very creative and I too would have liked to see those photos! My parents had both Mahjong and dominos sets; I believe my older sister has them now.

There seemed to be more family time and less need for television and radio back then! In the summer, kids spent all day outside and out of our parent's hair.


We children also had an empty lot and a forested area to play in after work and school. Unfortunately, there were some broken bones for tree climbing, building forts and racing around buildings on our bikes. My sister and I were the only girls among several boys, and there were lots of skinned knees and emergency room visits.

I remember waiting each month for McCalls Magazine and the "Betsy" paper doll. I had to wait until my mother finished reading the articles and I'm sure I was a pest about it!

Mary Ann and Patricia, I also post in other places, I enjoy reading your post, and everyone else that post here.  I have learned so much about Alaska, my mind picture was so different. My day isn't complete until I check in here a few times aday. I also enjoy all the earth cams, I love to look in on NY Harbor and follow the big liners out under the Vernarrows Bridge (spell)

Quote from: Lindancer on October 02, 2018, 07:44:35 PM
Mary Ann and Patricia, I also post in other places, I enjoy reading your post, and everyone else that post here.  I have learned so much about Alaska, my mind picture was so different. My day isn't complete until I check in here a few times aday. I also enjoy all the earth cams, I love to look in on NY Harbor and follow the big liners out under the Vernarrows Bridge (spell)

In regard to "I love to look in on NY Harbor and follow the big liners out under the Vernarrows Bridge (spell)", can you post a link (or two) to a web cam for that?

Be careful of tonight's weather.