Photography

Miss Cobb does not teach me

Shelly

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Clark, Marion G. and Wilbur F. Gordy. The First Three Hundred Years In America. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1931.

This book (obviously!) belonged to Miss Earlene Geneva Cash of Stroh, Indiana. According to the vital records I was able to dig up, she was born February 12, 1923, married Gordon Louis Clark on August 13, 1946, and died on November 15, 1993.

From marking the beginnings and endings of assigned readings to underlining important passages to repeatedly writing her name in the margins, Earlene left her mark all over her little history book. I love finding books that bear the scars of their histories.

Photography

Today

Shelly

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I’m not sure what Sod Cash is, but I bet it’s not legal in Indiana. (That was actually a veggie pizza. All the specialty pizzas are coded as supreme in their system.)

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I’m a little tired of the French Embassy.

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If you enjoyed Sinks! In! Bags!, you’ll love this latest offering from our very own maintenance department. Starring: Giant Concrete Chunks That Fall From the Ceiling, a large sheet of plastic, one perturbed cataloger, and a cast of several. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, it’s way better than Cats (but what isn’t?).

Pets, Photography

Disapproving Dog Does Not Approve

Shelly

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Miss Brown has not had an easy day. She woke up with a stomach ache and couldn’t eat her breakfast. Then she turned her nose up at Second Breakfast. Then she turned her nose up at peanut butter toast. She finally went outside and ate a whole bunch of grass, after which she ate about half a serving of kibble and half a piece of peanut butter toast. Very sensibly, she waited awhile before finishing them both. She ate her lunch without any problem, though, so she seems to be back to normal.

Understandably, unamused dog is not at all amused. Nor does she approve. Not one little bit.

Art, Journals

Stone Paper

Shelly

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I went to Target this morning to pick up glue sticks, and while I was in the stationery section, I looked through their notebooks. I was looking for something with graph paper, but this one caught my eye instead. I’d never heard of stone paper! The first thing I noticed was that the notebook is heavy. It’s also (allegedly) acid free and 100% tree-free. The paper itself has a suede-like texture and is incredibly strong, like plastic sheeting. I tested both Sharpie and another brand of broad-tipped permanent marker on it, with absolutely no bleed-through. It does take slightly longer for gel pen to dry than it does on normal notebook paper, but given the rest of the positives, that’s a small point.

The only real negative is that it’s perfect bound, not sewn. That means that there’s no working across the gutter, and depending on how strong the glue is, pages may fall out. I’d be careful using wet media in it, because it could degrade the glued binding.

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Pen Test