It's January, and so far in Chicago we've had a relatively
mild winter. We've had some cold days, but in the last week or so we had
temperatures in the 50's and I was grilling outside without the need for a
winter coat. There has been almost no snow. Yet I have grown to hate winter as
the years go by, and I still can't wait for it to be over. Hearing others
complain about the lack of snow made me remember growing up in the 1970's, and
how much I used to enjoy winter.
The first thing I remembered was the winter clothing we had back then.Buy today and get your delivery for £25 on a range of plasticmoulds for your home. Mothers would constantly remind their children to "bundle up and keep warm." This could be taken too far, in that you could end up completely unable to move, like Ralphie's whiny kid brother in A Christmas Story. What moms either failed to realize, or ignored for other reasons, is that kids would rather deal with the cold than be caught in clothing that was considered uncool. At a certain age,Features useful information about fridgemagnet tiles. for example, mittens were perfectly acceptable for boys, but later, only gloves would do. I'm not sure why, other than I remember having better control of making and throwing snowballs with gloves -- an important consideration back then.
No one wanted to be the kid who had to wear galoshes over his street shoes, you had to have boots -- and heaven forbid they were moon boots (remember those?). No, they had to be work boots, those tan-colored leather boots you laced up. It was also acceptable to wear those greenish-brown and mustard yellow rubber boots if you were building a snowman or shoveling snow. Besides galoshes and mittens, it was also considered uncool to wear a scarf.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable injectionmold supplies and accessories! Scarves were considered to be for girls and Momma's boys. If a boy had a scarf, you could bet he had mittens, along with a clip so they could be fastened directly to his coat. And he probably had galoshes and a pocket protector, too.
In a previous post, Back to School in the 70's: Razzles, Bullies and Primary Colors, I described my first winter coat. It was an electric blue fake fur coat with a hood, making me look like a little blue teddy bear, and I was thankful when I grew out of it. Then it was time for CPO jackets, made of wool and lined with fleece, plaid and cut like a shirt, as if to say "it's not cold out here." For more "formal" occasions, you had to have a pea coat, a double breasted wool coat, usually in black or dark navy blue. Some guys even had sheepskin McCloud jackets, like Dennis Weaver wore in the TV show, tan colored with white fleece. No one really wore cowboy hats in Chicago -- unless you were playing Cowboys,Source drycabinets Products at Other Truck Parts. of course. That was more of a summertime or indoor activity, though.Creative glass tile and cableties tile for your distinctive kitchen and bath.
What about winter hats? First of all, there's no consensus on what all the styles are called -- the names vary wildly from region to region and sometimes within a certain region. At least where and when I grew up, those "Elmer Fudd" or Catcher in the Rye hunting hats were considered for old people. There were also more European looking hats, that you could imagine being worn by skiers. They were long, enough to cover the ears, with "strings" that would hang down so you could tie them under your chin. There was also a string that hung off the top, supposedly so it would fly in the air as you zoomed down the mountain. The preferred winter hat was what can be called a "skull cap", either with or without the little pom-pom on top. You could cover your ears to keep them warm with these hats, so apparently that was OK, but having a hunting hat with ear flaps wasn't. I'm not saying that makes sense, that's just the way it was. I have heard the term "beanie" used to describe a skull cap, which baffles me. I always associated the term beanie with a baseball hat with a propeller on top, probably because of the old TV cartoon Beany and Cecil.
You would also see what we called "ski masks" which were basically extra-large skull caps that you could pull down to cover your face, with cutouts for your eyes and mouth. As these became more popular with bank robbers and other criminals, they became less popular for casual wear, at least on the South Side of Chicago.
Ever felt inadequate when you step onto a boat and the skipper bawls out a bewildering series of commands that involve the movement of rope? Most Strawbridge Pointers understand this feeling of inadequacy, but made great leaps to overcome it on Wednesday 16th January by holding a “Know your Ropes” day in truly magnificent conditions on Eastern Cove.
No longer will there be spousal friction when David Churchill orders the warps to be belayed with a lanyard... Glen will immediately know that her husband wants another cup of tea.
The grossly inadequate crew on Rubicon will now take heed when Andy Wood orders a catharpin be employed above the telltales to secure the starboard shroud and when Henk’s all-Dutch crew hear the call to attach the nippers to the messenger to haul the rode, they’ll legitimately blame a foreign language for their ineptitude.
A bright complement of eight boats had gathered at the wharf and roped in 27 Pointers, including eight first-timers, where a course to Kangaroo Head was decided upon.
It was then money for old rope as Klee Wyck, Bone Idle and Angels Wings bolted on the falling tide, followed by Dauntless, Rubicon and Astoria with Ann Tidd and Winterwind slower to cast off the mooring lines. A steady 8-10 knot ESEasterly sending the fleet on their way on a long reach before, coming to the end of their rope, coming about for a Baudin Beach luncheon rendezvous.
Stay tuned for radio silence from Klee Wyck in the coming months as a rueful Brian Moon was made to pay for his gratuitous advice to Astoria over the airwaves, as the breeze faltered. Ah, yes... enough rope and he’ll hang himself.
Warps, cables, lines and of course ropes were in abundance as rafting up proceeded and eight vessels soon resembled a Christmas package as all crews dined under the voluminous canopy over Astoria’s cockpit. Debate then ensued over whether all this rope terminology was necessary or merely pretentious nautical balderdash. As matters heated up, the combatants rapidly leapt or were pushed into the sea for a refreshing dip, mindful not to dislodge Brian’s iPhone into the briny.
Lesley Beck is living proof that when a gal knows the ropes, she won’t be tied up, sunning herself atop Winterwind’s deck and kindly offering both ends of the rope to a floundering John Gray.
The first thing I remembered was the winter clothing we had back then.Buy today and get your delivery for £25 on a range of plasticmoulds for your home. Mothers would constantly remind their children to "bundle up and keep warm." This could be taken too far, in that you could end up completely unable to move, like Ralphie's whiny kid brother in A Christmas Story. What moms either failed to realize, or ignored for other reasons, is that kids would rather deal with the cold than be caught in clothing that was considered uncool. At a certain age,Features useful information about fridgemagnet tiles. for example, mittens were perfectly acceptable for boys, but later, only gloves would do. I'm not sure why, other than I remember having better control of making and throwing snowballs with gloves -- an important consideration back then.
No one wanted to be the kid who had to wear galoshes over his street shoes, you had to have boots -- and heaven forbid they were moon boots (remember those?). No, they had to be work boots, those tan-colored leather boots you laced up. It was also acceptable to wear those greenish-brown and mustard yellow rubber boots if you were building a snowman or shoveling snow. Besides galoshes and mittens, it was also considered uncool to wear a scarf.Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable injectionmold supplies and accessories! Scarves were considered to be for girls and Momma's boys. If a boy had a scarf, you could bet he had mittens, along with a clip so they could be fastened directly to his coat. And he probably had galoshes and a pocket protector, too.
In a previous post, Back to School in the 70's: Razzles, Bullies and Primary Colors, I described my first winter coat. It was an electric blue fake fur coat with a hood, making me look like a little blue teddy bear, and I was thankful when I grew out of it. Then it was time for CPO jackets, made of wool and lined with fleece, plaid and cut like a shirt, as if to say "it's not cold out here." For more "formal" occasions, you had to have a pea coat, a double breasted wool coat, usually in black or dark navy blue. Some guys even had sheepskin McCloud jackets, like Dennis Weaver wore in the TV show, tan colored with white fleece. No one really wore cowboy hats in Chicago -- unless you were playing Cowboys,Source drycabinets Products at Other Truck Parts. of course. That was more of a summertime or indoor activity, though.Creative glass tile and cableties tile for your distinctive kitchen and bath.
What about winter hats? First of all, there's no consensus on what all the styles are called -- the names vary wildly from region to region and sometimes within a certain region. At least where and when I grew up, those "Elmer Fudd" or Catcher in the Rye hunting hats were considered for old people. There were also more European looking hats, that you could imagine being worn by skiers. They were long, enough to cover the ears, with "strings" that would hang down so you could tie them under your chin. There was also a string that hung off the top, supposedly so it would fly in the air as you zoomed down the mountain. The preferred winter hat was what can be called a "skull cap", either with or without the little pom-pom on top. You could cover your ears to keep them warm with these hats, so apparently that was OK, but having a hunting hat with ear flaps wasn't. I'm not saying that makes sense, that's just the way it was. I have heard the term "beanie" used to describe a skull cap, which baffles me. I always associated the term beanie with a baseball hat with a propeller on top, probably because of the old TV cartoon Beany and Cecil.
You would also see what we called "ski masks" which were basically extra-large skull caps that you could pull down to cover your face, with cutouts for your eyes and mouth. As these became more popular with bank robbers and other criminals, they became less popular for casual wear, at least on the South Side of Chicago.
Ever felt inadequate when you step onto a boat and the skipper bawls out a bewildering series of commands that involve the movement of rope? Most Strawbridge Pointers understand this feeling of inadequacy, but made great leaps to overcome it on Wednesday 16th January by holding a “Know your Ropes” day in truly magnificent conditions on Eastern Cove.
No longer will there be spousal friction when David Churchill orders the warps to be belayed with a lanyard... Glen will immediately know that her husband wants another cup of tea.
The grossly inadequate crew on Rubicon will now take heed when Andy Wood orders a catharpin be employed above the telltales to secure the starboard shroud and when Henk’s all-Dutch crew hear the call to attach the nippers to the messenger to haul the rode, they’ll legitimately blame a foreign language for their ineptitude.
A bright complement of eight boats had gathered at the wharf and roped in 27 Pointers, including eight first-timers, where a course to Kangaroo Head was decided upon.
It was then money for old rope as Klee Wyck, Bone Idle and Angels Wings bolted on the falling tide, followed by Dauntless, Rubicon and Astoria with Ann Tidd and Winterwind slower to cast off the mooring lines. A steady 8-10 knot ESEasterly sending the fleet on their way on a long reach before, coming to the end of their rope, coming about for a Baudin Beach luncheon rendezvous.
Stay tuned for radio silence from Klee Wyck in the coming months as a rueful Brian Moon was made to pay for his gratuitous advice to Astoria over the airwaves, as the breeze faltered. Ah, yes... enough rope and he’ll hang himself.
Warps, cables, lines and of course ropes were in abundance as rafting up proceeded and eight vessels soon resembled a Christmas package as all crews dined under the voluminous canopy over Astoria’s cockpit. Debate then ensued over whether all this rope terminology was necessary or merely pretentious nautical balderdash. As matters heated up, the combatants rapidly leapt or were pushed into the sea for a refreshing dip, mindful not to dislodge Brian’s iPhone into the briny.
Lesley Beck is living proof that when a gal knows the ropes, she won’t be tied up, sunning herself atop Winterwind’s deck and kindly offering both ends of the rope to a floundering John Gray.
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