Thomas Arthur Turner, yearbook cartoons Hollywood High School: books

Thomas Arthur Turner, yearbook cartoons Hollywood High School@1932 or 1933.

A wheelbarrow full of books, and a sad face.

I knew my father well enough to understand that inventing was his passion, but certainly not book reading.  (those genes he passed on to me…. I hated school…even though he got an honorary degree, and i got a PhD, it was certainly not through the written word.

Thomas Arthur Turner, yearbook cartoons Hollywood High School

Thomas Arthur Turner, yearbook cartoons Hollywood High School, sometime in the early 1930s.  I guess this cartoon was about some teacher who was giving a student a hard time.  No way of knowing.   The original ink drawing is on the bottom, the vectorized and colored cartoon is on the top.  FUn to remember my dad.  (Love the pricklie sweater, likely very itchy wool.

Gingerbread christmas tree, family project

Gingerbread christmas tree, family project by 6 (kids and adults). All scraps, and fun, maybe cute, but certainly a quick afternoon and touchup project.


All this stems from a gingerbread house from 37 years ago when my then 6 year old son said…. “this is the best day of my life”.  It is a tradition that has paused many times, but some grandkids are now participating.  This was the first ever time I have constructed a base looking like a “tree”, more practice is needed.  LOL. Prototypes are a good place for improvement.  And a little more in the way of structural design elements would have helped guide this into a more orderly tree.  Previoius gingerbread houses had rooves and towers and windows which were obvious places for kids and adults to add candy and cookie, this was a pretty much blank slate and therefor shows little coordination in effort.

 

Mosaic – large strawberry pot

Mosaic – large strawberry pot, all tesserae are from the “trash, or second hand store, or Building Value store here in Cincinnati, where people send things for a “second life”.  Pot is a rescue as well.  I did have to buy new grout…. so that is the only expense.

This is not my favorite pot, I would have liked it better if i had added a row of white, maybe square, tiles somewhere in the middle or upper part of the pot. I plan to plant it with perennial ground cover that does not die back in the winter, and in the spring, sprinkle in a few reseeding impatiens seeds.

It is pretty heavy, and filled with dirt i do not believe i can lift it. LOL, so it will stay outside.