These Boots Were Made for Me

What you wear says a whole lot about your character. Boots say I'm In Charge! Why do you think generals wear them? Not because they're super sexy... Well, that too actually. But also because they are actually very practical and comfortable...

When it rains...

When it snows and the air is freezing...

After a day's cross country ski outing...

When I feel utilitarian...

With a cowboy hat and plaid blouse...

With a cute skirt...

When I feel... um, bossy...

Over my jeans.

These boots were made for ME.

Someone's Trash, My Treasure

Garage/Yard Sales are a way of life. If you've never gone garage/yard saling, then you're missing out on a lifetime experience. Literally, a LIFETIME experience.

I picked this up at an estate sale.

Pinking shears.

pink-ing shears (ping'king) pl.n. Shears with notched blades, used to finish edges of cloth with a zigzag cut for decoration or to prevent raveling or fraying.

-The American Heritage® Dictionary

I found a sale stub under the manual for the shears.

Who was Rose Wenner?

Order of the Eastern Star

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Order of the Eastern Star is the largest fraternal organization in the world that both men and women can join. It was established in 1850 by Rob Morris, a lawyer and educator from Boston, Massachusetts, who had been an official with the Freemasons. It is based on teachings from the Bible,^[1] but is open to people of all monotheistic faiths. It has approximately 10,000 chapters in twenty countries and approximately one million members under its General Grand Chapter. Members of the Order are aged 18 and older; men must be Master Masons and women must have specific relationships with Masons. Originally, a woman would have to be the daughter, widow, wife, sister, or mother of a master Mason, but the Order now allows other relatives^[2] as well as allowing Job's Daughters, Rainbow Girls, and Triangle Girls to become members when they become of age.

Rose Wenner was from a time when women and men were separated by what they were supposed to do. Women stayed home to raise the kids, cook, sew, and clean. While men were the bread winners.

Who took the pictures then? The woman or the man?

For those of you who have been sheltered by modern technology, this is not a fanny pack.

This is the great-great-great grandaddy of the camera we use today.

Kodak Retinette 1A

Whose faces did this piece of equipment capture?

What places did this memory catcher behold?

Whose was the eye behind this Retinette's lens?

Ok, so the Kodak Retinette 1A was the lower class nephew of the granddaddy Retina...

But how can you not appreciate the invention of the Timer Release. (That's the little red dot on the knurls under the letter N in Pronto.)

For all you children of modern technology, this is the lever that advances the film.

What is film?

It's that plastic strip of brown transparent ribbon with notched edges, rolled up in a felt lined tube for use in cameras.

So where's the treasure, you ask?

It's the secret hidden inside the box of shears,

and the photos taken by the camera.

Rose Wenner... What would she have looked like through this Retinette's lens?

Now I live another day knowing there was once a Rose Wenner who lived in Twisp, WA, and belonged to the largest fraternal organization in the world. And I appreciate my Nikon D60 more than ever. That's my treasure!