Found, too.

Last month when Dan was cleaning out one of the loft areas in the barn he came upon this newspaper remnant.  It helped him date when the items in the barn were placed there and not touched since: 1906

The paper is in very bad shape.  We're not sure what was spattered all over it.  I've saved what I could and bagged it up as house history.

The paper comes from New York City.

 

You can see above how much the paper cost - 3 cents and Sundays 5 cents - and it looks like it was available all over the place.  Below shows the date August 26, 1906, a Sunday.

I tried to photograph some of the articles.

The major event covered was a bomb in Russia.  

Teddy Roosevelt was President in 1906 and it was the year he won the Nobel Peace Prize.  The canal mentioned above must be the Panama Canal.

What a picture into the past.  For me the funniest article was about the woman attempting to wallpaper a room with canceled stamps.

Zentangle Show

 My Zentangle work is in a virtual show. Click on the poster below for the link and look for me: Marcia Brown.

Puzzles

 

Granddaughter is enamored with Star Wars and since she likes to do puzzles like I do, she brought over a box with 6 that have that holographic effect.  She had done the one on the right at home and we worked some on the one on the left.  I ended up finishing it but it wasn't easy.

Emily had been to the thrift shop and picked up two more puzzles for me.  I opened the Penguins one and tried and tried to even get the border done.  When granddaughter came over with her dad who also likes puzzles they gave up pretty fast.  I gave up too.  Just look at the photo on the cover, you wouldn't think it would be difficult, but it's too much of the same colors.  It will go back to the thrift shop for someone else. Actually it didn't look like it had been put together before.

I purchased this one from Shutterfly made from a photo of our barn.  Granddaughter took it home and completed it.  It will be my turn next.

But first I'm working on this one also purchased at the thrift shop.

It looks easy from the photo but look at the size of the pieces.

No bigger than a penny and all shaped the same.

It's also small.

I managed to get all the edge pieces, though on the left edge I had some in the wrong spot - they really looked like they fit there but then other pieces didn't fit into them.

I'm sorting by color to help figure out where pieces go.  No one's come over to help yet with this one, but they are always welcome.

When spring finally comes, puzzles will be relegated to evenings since there will be lots to do as I get back to gardening again.

Calling Humor

 

[That pull toy phone?  I still have one from when daughters were toddlers.  Granddaughters still like to play with it because of the noise it makes when they pull it.  What was so surprising was when granddaughter #3 first encountered it when she was a toddler she knew what to do with it and put the receiver to her ear.  It looks nothing like a phone these days so how did she know?]