tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post7459614632601935133..comments2024-01-03T01:40:26.911-08:00Comments on Life Drawings: 24 June 1956 “Popeye, Color TV, My Vintage Predicament”50sgalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09250940806307766624noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-10529538532197511502010-06-28T04:51:45.384-07:002010-06-28T04:51:45.384-07:00Keeping up appearances can be a bit of a chore, it...Keeping up appearances can be a bit of a chore, it is true. However, though you may be spreading yourself thin, you once mentioned that cleaning, cooking, creating and being the 50's HW is the joy for you. If you can only publish a thorough blog post one a week, I agree with the girls: that is fine! You are the inspirational creator of this community, but you are also a real human being with a life to live full of duties and fun to be had. Wouldn't coming online more be a bit of a contradiction to the 50's lifestyle?<br />My two cents. All of your wisdom, wit and cleverness are highly valued both online and off.Renee of the Faehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13081022805749169331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-28477202832559041392010-06-27T13:12:28.513-07:002010-06-27T13:12:28.513-07:00Post when you feel inspired, or else it will be co...Post when you feel inspired, or else it will be come a drudge. Some kind of schedule is fine if it helps you, but not if it becomes a burden. Mary R.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-34413366530382703922010-06-25T19:50:00.331-07:002010-06-25T19:50:00.331-07:00You said:
"That is a very modern aspect of o...You said:<br /><br /><i>"That is a very modern aspect of our lives today, documentation. With the ease of digital cameras, computers, video etc, we find endless aspects of our everyday lives being documented."</i><br /><br />I have had the same thought recently. <br /><br />And I agree with Sanne, even a once a week post would be perfectly fine. Then it would be easier to include photos of some of the things you have done instead of having to constantly think of taking pictures of everything you do. (o:Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-30202013394185549492010-06-25T18:23:55.884-07:002010-06-25T18:23:55.884-07:00Well if I ever happen to be down on the cape I'...Well if I ever happen to be down on the cape I'll be sure to stop by and have a cup of tea in your barn ;-)Rhondanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-58982191705104573472010-06-25T09:08:19.976-07:002010-06-25T09:08:19.976-07:00Sanne-You always put it in perspective and it is t...Sanne-You always put it in perspective and it is true that you are always busy at home AND at work and find time for it all. For me, it is not that I cannot make the time for the blog, but I have been so into my daily living in the moment that to sit down and put it into 'posterity' as it were has been increasingly hard. I think, again, because I am so much enjoying my life and projects that it doesn't happen. But, I also know it is much to do with the weather and being inside, other than to do my chores, is just not an option. Even when I take my 'lunch break' with my vintage magazines and tea (now iced tea, we Americans LOVE ice!) I sit in the garden, watch the chickens, and dream up more gardens and how I will landscape around the new chicken house/studio addition (which of course does not have its cedar shakes as of yet, just the ply exposed and such. The last time hubby and I were sitting on the terrace, he reading, I with a magazine on my lamp and a dreamy stare, he said, "Your planning more projects aren't you?" "Yes," I had to admit, "how can you tell?" <br />"I can see the wheels spinning and the smoke coming out of your ears" he replied, smiled and returned to his book. <br />It's true, much of my day is dreaming up and planning the other bits of my day. I find it so easy to keep myself amused and busy and yet I really want to this fall, if my barn is presentable, to try and force myself to be more social and more apart of my community. It will be a concerted effort, but one worth trying I think.50sgalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250940806307766624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-66675025083564234832010-06-25T06:38:24.011-07:002010-06-25T06:38:24.011-07:00I can highly recommend a vintage car, but since th...I can highly recommend a vintage car, but since they are old and worn and therefore not 100% reliable, I will recommend it as a second car. Perhaps I should find time to write my guest blog about vintage cars during my Summer holiday. Right now I am working myself to death at my new job, so I don’t have energy nor time for much in the evenings. I still have all my household tasks to take care of and I am tired and have to relax and go early to bed these days. I haven’t been much in the forum lately neither, since I am so envious of you fulltime homemakers and I have to admit that I cannot bear hearing some of you complaining about not having time. If you would change life – just let me know! ;)<br /><br />I also love vintage things and appliances since they often are strong and reliable and have so much more soul than their modern counterparts. And most often you get them for nothing at flea markets.<br /><br />Think of the website and your blog as something you do because you enjoy it, if you don’t, then you shouldn’t do it. I don’t want you to go around feeling guilty and bad about what you have started. I’ve mentioned it before, and will do again: You could dedicate two days a week for updating your blog and visiting your forums. Write the two days on the main page of both your blog and your website, so everybody knows and don’t expect you to be around every day. And again – I think it is natural that we spend more time outside and away from the pc during Summer than during Winter. Winter is time for inside cosyness, and that might include sitting in front of the pc.<br /><br />I’ll go home and fight the meter-high weeds in my garden all this weekend, ough!<br /><br />Have a lovely weekend, dear. :)SANNEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12973437247117000140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-91035421026814663192010-06-24T17:25:25.001-07:002010-06-24T17:25:25.001-07:00You're so right about how instantaneous and ea...You're so right about how instantaneous and easy it is to document our live's now, it's almost become expected of us. The easier that progress has made life become, the more it also seems to clutter it back up.<br /><br />I see this in my own home, literally. It was plenty roomy for 4-5 people back in the Fifties and Sixties, but today with only two living here there's just never enough room.<br /><br />ps. You can never go wrong with William Powell... Thanks!Space Commanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03980773832050906325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-31873112585749859262010-06-24T14:36:58.826-07:002010-06-24T14:36:58.826-07:00Thank you 50sgal for this interesting post. Pleas...Thank you 50sgal for this interesting post. Please don't feel guilty in any way if you haven't written for awile. You do have a life to live and by all accounts, you're doing a great job! We're here waiting (while keeping busy in our own sphere, working 'along side you')for when you do have the opportunity to write. Don't feel pressure. There are different 'seasons' to our living. I do love reading all your ideas and accomplishments which are so very inspiring! Bring on the 10 page treatise. LindaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-35651503889244066412010-06-24T14:34:00.204-07:002010-06-24T14:34:00.204-07:00Just remember that it's not a black or white i...Just remember that it's not a black or white issue....it's not "be in 1956 100% of the time" or "be in 2010 100% of the time." It's all about balance.Betsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961949757283263982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-71261332455043798542010-06-24T12:05:11.944-07:002010-06-24T12:05:11.944-07:00I remember when color tv came out -- wealthier fam...I remember when color tv came out -- wealthier families had them and would invite their less-fortunate neighbors in to watch Bonanza or The Virginian (westerns were very popular; so was showing off your latest gadget) or Disney's Wonderful World of Color. The less-fortunate neighbors would watch it, thank their host for having them inn, and then go home and say, "Aaah, the faces were green...who wants a color tv? Not worth the money!" (Green faces were the drawback of color tv back then -- guess they couldn't get the flesh-tone quite right.) Kind of a sour-grapes attitude. Pretty soon, though, everybody started getting color tvs. Mary R.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com