1886 + 1888 Almanacs with Handwritten Daily Diaries hand-painted wooden animal My favorite things though are

My favorite things though are two tintype portraits--one of beautiful woman looking very much the gypsy

I read this figure as a woman

both will full sets of needles

with definite age to it

This is one I'd be especially happy to hold on to

1886 + 1888 Almanacs with Handwritten Daily Diaries hand-painted wooden animal My favorite things though areI find these very tender things and the perfect thing to share with a young person who thinks life is hard: day after day of mopping, and baking, washing dishes and chopping wood, and killing hogs just before Christmas, with the weather report tending to correspond to what chores could be completed on any given day. One is an almanac from 1886, the other 1888, the former completed for just for part of the year, the other all of the way through. I just