We Got ...

 Snow!

Out the windows photos.

One Year ago

 

Can you believe I'm missing snow?  Only white on the ground is from the biggest piles from our snows in December.  Grass is green.

But look at this forecast.

There's hope.

The Flail

 Looking for something to post, I came upon the photos I had taken of a farming implement at the Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Historical Society of Williamsport, PA.  We visited there at the end of October.

In a room with lots of old time stuff I saw the flail.  We have one of these that we found in the barn.  We never really knew what it was for until a neighbor in town described how it was used.  He didn't put a name to it though.

I have no idea how old ours is but I can't imagine it was in use in the 20th century.  I don't have a photo of ours and it's cold, wet and dark outside as I write this so you'll just have to believe me that ours looks just like the one hanging there.  Two rods fastened together with a leather thong (I don't think ours is eel skin), with one rod shorter than the other.

I plan to print up the description and mount it next to the flail so others will now know what it is.

These came to me under the heading 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s

 

The question should be "Who still eats this?"

This wouldn't even be my daughters but may one day be the granddaughters but hope not.

 

I loved to get this candy when I was at camp in the 60s.

This would be Dan with his brother Dennis next to him.  We didn't have a TV until the late 50s and  even when we did, I wasn't allowed to watch much Saturday morning TV.

To be continued.