Note: This is the sequel to yesterday’s post, The DrHGuy Alternative Southwest Missouri Tour – Part I. After reading the account by fellow blogger and McHenry County co-inhabitant, Cal Skinner, of his family’s vacation in Southwest Missouri, the region where I spent my childhood and adolescence, I was moved to proffer my observations on some [...]
Entries Tagged as 'collectibles'
The DrHGuy Alternative Southwest Missouri Tour – Part II
July 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off · Fascinations
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The DrHGuy Alternative Southwest Missouri Tour – Part I
July 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Livin’ ain’t easy, Bloggin’s twice as tough1 The Vulnerable Soul Of The Blogger One can blog ones little heart out to bring what Matthew Arnold called “sweetness and light” to the public, asking for no other gratification than occasionally imbuing the reader with a bit of wisdom to enhance that individual’s life, only to have [...]
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Family Home Photo Safari: Items From Other Rooms
December 17th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Items From Other Rooms Now On-line Churns, China, Figurines, Miniature Bottles Photos of another group of those doodads, antiques, gadgets, widgets, junk, tchotchkes, collectibles, oddities, curios, odds, ends, and much, much more that fill my mother’s home are now available for viewing. A more accurate but also more awkward title for this category would be [...]
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Family Home Photo Safari: Basement Items Part II
December 15th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
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Family Home Photo Safari: Basement Items Part I
December 12th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Basement Items Now On-line: Cider Press, Churns, Wrenches, Saws, Bee Smokers, Block & Tackles, Ironware Photos of another group of those doodads, antiques, gadgets, widgets, junk, tchotchkes, collectibles, oddities, curios, odds, ends, and much, much more that fill my mother’s home are now available for viewing. If the living room contains my mother’s most impressive [...]
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Family Home Photo Safari: Loft Items
December 11th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Loft Items Now On-line – Colanders, Buttons, Scrub Boards, and Sewing Supplies Photos of another group of those doodads, antiques, gadgets, widgets, junk, tchotchkes, collectibles, oddities, curios, odds, ends, and much, much more that line the walls and reside in the geological layers of miscellanea that arise from nearly every table and shelf as well [...]
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Family Home Photo Safari: Deck Items
December 5th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Deck Items – Carved Geese, Yokes, Saws, Horseshoes – Now On-line Photos of another group of those doodads, antiques, gadgets, widgets, junk, tchotchkes, collectibles, oddities, curios, odds, ends, and much, much more that line the walls and reside in the geological layers of miscellanea that arise from nearly every table and shelf as well as [...]
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Family Home Photo Safari: Bedroom Items
December 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Bedroom Items – Razors, Shaving Mugs, Button-hooks, Strops – Now On-line Photos of a portion of the doodads, antiques, gadgets, widgets, junk, tchotchkes, collectibles, oddities, curios, odds, ends, and much, much more that line the walls and reside in the geological layers of miscellanea that arise from nearly every table and shelf as well as [...]
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Family Home Curios and Oddities Photo Safari
December 1st, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Stalking The Wild Ozarks Tchotchke – Earlier Expeditions I introduced the world to my mother’s home and its contents in an early Heck of a Guy post, In My Mother’s House Are Many Tchotchkes, with this description: For you fans of geosociological phenomena, my mother’s home is the nexus of Ozark kitsch and that principle [...]
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Maternal Tchotchke Inventory Hits The Charts
October 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Friends-Family, HOAG Site
Thanks, Mom Because my ongoing bandwidth problems have caused delays in several projects, I spent much of yesterday afternoon glomming onto Border’s Wi-Fi. To complete one of those deferred chores, I directed my browser to Google Analytics to check my blogs’ stats, only to be greeted by the Heck of a Guy Daily Site Visits [...]
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