I am always on the lookout for old books when David and I go antiquing. I’ve found some wonderful books throughout my searches. I also have some old books I’ve kept from my childhood. Books you can tell were read over and over by the shape they are in.
Before I show you some of my old books, I have a few things to tie up.
We are at the end of Autumn, my favorite season. It’s gone so quickly, Halloween and Thanksgiving already turned over on the calendar.
The foliage on the trees was beautiful. This maple outside our bathroom window really looked like gold.
For the first time, my burning bushes were bright red. I planted these years and years ago and they have never displayed the red leaves like they did this year. We had even talked of replacing them, but I guess we won’t now.
The light coming through the windows this time of year is so different from any other time.
Here is a paint by number I just completed and the light shining through the windows gave it such a beautiful look. I’ve really gotten into paints by number and have another one ready to begin after Christmas.
The dogs always seem to find the warmest place to lay and sleep.
This just shows how close Molly, Lucy and Sugar have become. The puppies pile up on Molly and they are all toasty warm.
Speaking of puppies, a funny story. The other night David and I were in the living room watching a movie when the door bell rang. David went to the door and a neighbor down the road had all three dogs with him. They had evidently gotten out of the yard and who knows for how long were playing around the neighborhood. Molly looked absolutely exhausted. Anyway, we had to bring them through the house to get them back into the back yard and while bringing the puppies through, they got loose and began to jump on all the furniture. They were wild. They found my yarn and started grabbing it and running and David and I were chasing them all the way! One of them got a ball of yarn and ran through the house, trailing yarn behind her. We finally each grabbed a pup by the scruff of the neck and got them outside. Then we had to find out how they got out. We walked the yard and all we could figure out is they jumped the gate, so David built a higher gate by adding wood and screen. They haven’t gotten out since so hopefully it’s fixed. I’m still wondering how fat Molly got over that gate. I’m sure she felt the need to stay with the puppies to protect them and she got over somehow.
We went to the Artist’s Colony restaurant in Nashville with our daughter and her family. This is what they served. It was all delicious, and I didn’t have to cook!
Now for old books.
I’ve been going through my books and found some I forgot I even had.
This is very outdated but very interesting. Some of the countries don’t even exist any longer, I don’t think.
Korea is around but split in two. This picture was before it happened,
I have a feeling Canadian children don’t dress like this any more.
Norwegian boys “coasting.”
Evidently they only took pictures during the Winter.
No, here are two darling children dressed in their traditional clothes. Not sure they would be comfortable to play in.
Romania spelled differently?
We were watching Alice Though the Looking Glass a few weeks ago and I found this book I didn’t know I had.
Lewis Carroll drew the illustrations.
Alice and Humpty Dumpty. Did Humpty Dumpty come before or after this book was written? I don’t know. I may have to investigate this.
Beware the Jabberwocky!
Enough to give a child nightmares if this were read right before bedtime.
I was collecting Wizard of Oz books for a while, but they have become quite costly.
A story behind this book. I loved this book when I was a little girl and I still had a very vivid imagination. There is a time in the book when Princess Ozma is put into a peach pit and kept there. It just so happened my mother was doing peaches at the time and I took one of the peach pits and put it beside my bed. I just knew Princess Ozma was going to come out of that pit and be my friend forevermore. After a few nights, I knew it was not going to happen, but I really did think it would. To this day, I think Ozma is still in that pit!
I always loved this story of who killed Cock Robin. “It was I,” said the Sparrow, “with my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin.” I thought it was the saddest of tales.
I haven’t read this book yet, but as you can see the lady who wrote the Little Colonel wrote this book and I loved the Little Colonel.
Oh, the “Jalna” books by Mazo De La Roche. Books about a family who settled in pioneer Canada. You can still buy the books and I have almost all of them. It follows the family as they build this wonderful house and raise their children. I just may have to read these again.
If you like to read gentle stories about good people who care for one another, read the Miss Read books. She writes about a village in England called Thrush Green and the school that is in it and all the characters in the village. I absolutely love these books and snatch one up anytime I find them because it’s hard to find some online.
I learned to read from these books. I saw new Dick and Jane books were being produced.
This pictures tell a story even if you couldn’t read.
I’m not so old that I learned to spell out of these books, but my parents were.
Even in the classics, there were pictures most times.
Haven’t read this, so not sure what is happening with this spider. I will have to find out.
Back in time this was not politically incorrect, but you won’t see a picture like this in any book today. It’s hard to imagine now.
I got this book cheaply at a sale.
I got it for the beautiful pictures inside of garden produce and flowers.
I had purchased this next book years ago and thought I would frame some of the pages, but since I’ve changed my mind and will keep the book intact.
In the days when they didn’t use photographs, but actual painted pictures.
Silas Marner. Anyone read this in school. I did.
This is well used book.
I am going to read this book. Years and years ago back when I was a second or third grader, we had a little library in a hole in the wall at our school and I remember going there with my best friend and would you believe, this is the book I picked out to take home. I was a reader already and began to read it, but never finished it. It’s on my list to complete.
This isn’t even a little bit of my personal library. I’ve been a voracious reader all my life. Right now I like reading psychological thrillers intermingled with feel good books about relationships and love. I read mostly on my Kindle now, but I found this page I tore out of a magazine years ago.
It tells of the importance of books. Words on paper. I still like to pick up a good book and read it. I still love the smell of bookstores and libraries. If you love to read as I do, you know what I mean. Are you a reader? I can’t imagine not having a book ready to read at hand. I fall asleep reading, after I say my prayers. They say you are never alone when you have a book to read and you can travel anywhere you’d like to go.
So, here’s to wonderful books and their authors and puppies who love to run with yarn. Bye.
