Happy Father's Day!

   Happy Father's Day! I'm getting really bad at remembering to actually shoot some new pictures in time for things! I worked all day on the junk store post yesterday, and forgot to do anything for Father's Day. (I did get Ken a couple of presents!) But Tammy wanted to make sure her dad, Wally got the appreciation he deserves. So she wants me to post some pictures of her with her dad, from previous Father's Day posts. If you haven't seen those, you can always click 'Father's Day' in the side bar.

  And for the record, one of my favourite dads, Ken, here with Emma and Ivy in 2015.

And my other favourite dad, mine.

I'm the little one.

Happy New Year! It's 2024!

   Happy New Year!

 I wasn't gone long, was I?! I just wanted to pop in and deliver some new year greetings. The picture of Tammy World celebrating is from 2017, in case it looks familiar. I'll be back soon to show you some doll related Christmas gifts I got. 

The Twelve Days of Tammy World, Day Twelve: A Merry Christmas

   Tammy World was feeling a little down on Christmas eve. She was here, and her family were far away. She wished she could see them for Christmas.

 Suddenly she heard someone call her name.

She turned to see who was calling her.

"Dad!" shouted Tammy, running to Wally as he came in the door. She jumped up and Wally caught her in his arms. "Merry Christmas squirt!" said Wally, giving her a big hug. 

"I 've missed you Dad!" Said Tammy. Wally squeezed her tightly. "You don't know how much we've missed you Tam.

"Yeah!" Tammy looked to see her little brother, Gareth, dropping his coat in the floor. Gareth joined the hug. 

This is going to be a great Christmas!" exclaimed  Tammy.

  Tammy wanted to show you her favourite Christmas present, a book, of course.

 

Tammy hopes you all had as good a Christmas, (or whatever you celebrate),  as she did.

  Thanks for joining us for The Twelve Days of Tammy World. She was getting bored sitting around here! Please check out today's regular post too.

The Twelve Days of Tammy World, Day Eleven: Tammy Goes to the Cheese Barn

  Tammy World has taken you to the cheese barn before. You might have seen her trip in 2018. It's a trip we make at least every December. Ivy must have her cheese. Actually, we all love cheese. Grampa's Cheesebarn has loads, and other stuff besides. But it was Ivy who became the reason for visits to the Cheesebarn. She had to have her cayanne cheddar. It became a tradition. She has a little gift box she gets her cheese in every year, so when she sees it, she knows she's getting cheese. Kind of ruins the surprise. Especially because it has a gift tag that says, 'To Ivy from Cheesy Claus". The first year Emma's husband saw that he said, "Who's 'Cheesy Claus'?", and Emma simply replied, "That's the Santa Claus who brings Ivy cheese." Well duh! I have to say, Cheesy Claus outdid himself this year!

  It's also a pretty place, with this pond on the property.

  There's also a candy store . That's it on the left. As you can see, we parked a distance from the store. That was as close as we could get. My feet and one leg were having a thing, so I wasn't looking forward to walking all the way to the store, and upstairs to the room where the cheese is. But I made it, even if I was moving pretty slowly.

  They sell ice cream too.

  Tammy wishes you a merry Christmas!

  That's it for Day 11. See you tomorrow night. Merry Christmas!

The Twelve Days of Tammy World, Day Ten: Tammy and a Christmas House

   Today, on Day Ten of the Twelve Days of Tammy World, Tammy is showing you this cute Christmas house.

 I found a whole box of these at the bin store. Obviously they go on a light string, but I thought they'd make cute 1/6 scale Christmas decorations.

  I need one of those little balloon lights to go inside it. Until then, Tammy is showing you how cute it looks lit up, by sitting it on a battery operated tea light.

It's hard to photograph it with the lights low enough to see the glow. 

  Tomorrow Tammy will be on the road. See you then.

The Twelve Days of Tammy World, Day Nine: Tammy Shows Off Some Vintage Christmas Stuff

   Tammy finally got out of that Christmas sweater! She wanted something else Christmassy, but she doesn't have all her clothes here. She settled for a cozy sweater that is non-Christmassy. At least it's warm. 

  Today Tammy wanted to show you some vintage Christmas decorations she likes to have up at Christmas.

 The little house just arrived this summer, in a bag of vintage Christmas minis at a yard sale. I think it might be a cake decoration.

It's hollow, but the opening isn't big enough to get a light inside.  At the moment it's lighted by sitting on top of a battery operated tea light.

The other things she wanted to show you are super tiny and old, and not in the best of shape any more. But they are really nice.

The one with the antlers is a reindeer. But is the other one a female reindeer, without antlers, or a sheep? It looks more like a sheep, but if it is, its a sheep as big as a reindeer!

 

They're celluloid, so they are very delicate...and also flammable! Both reindeer have lost one antler, although I have one of the missing ones somewhere.

I love them because they are just like the full size vintage celluloid reindeer I have. Full size, as in, for table decorations that is! Not full size reindeer!

  It looks very cozy with everything lighted. Tammy is sitting in front of an advent calendar sent to us by our friends in Germany. We stayed with them on our trip last year. One of these days I need to get to that part of the trip and actually finish those posts. I'm forgetting things. And I'm so close to finishing! It was the last 4 or 5 days of the trip. I never finished the posts on the last trip, so I swore I was going to finish this time.

  So that's it for today. Poor Tammy is missing her family, but I daren't drag a load more dolls into the house, especially since Emma and AJ are moving next month, and, hopefully, so are we. (Into our house, I mean!) They have bought their first house.

  Maybe Tammy can see some of her family for Christmas. We'll see.

  Tomorrow we'll check in with Tammy World again.

The Twelve Days of Tammy World, Day Eight: Tammy Takes a Rest with a New Christmas Lantern

   Tammy decided she had done a lot of  tour guiding this week, and deserved a rest. So she thought today she would slow down, and show you the new Christmas lantern she got recently.

The lantern came from Walmart in a set of three for $2.48.

It's a fairly convincing fake wood, with plastic greenery and a real tiny pine cone inside.

  If you wanted to you could remove the stuff inside, use some paper, or even coloured plastic, inside for glass, and put one of those button lights in there. It would make a pretty lit up lantern. 

  It's a good size for 1/6 scale. I almost didn't grab these, but I'm glad I did.

  Tomorrow Tammy will be up to something else, and yes, she's getting sick of that sweater too.

The Twelve Days of Tammy World, Day Seven: More Presidential Sites Around Marion, Ohio

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  Tammy World has been showing you the sights around Marion, Ohio. Today she  continues with some other sites relating to President Harding. 

Tammy showed you the Harding home yesterday. Directly behind it is the Harding Presidential Library and Museum.

By the way, I got my camera working again. The battery I had just charged had already pooped out. The other two I was brought from the house after the fire, (One in my camera, which was n the landing, near the fire, and the other, which was on the landing too.),have stopped working entirely. I think the het from the fire killed them.

  And pretty much across the street from the Harding home is the family home of Mrs. Harding, the former Florence Kling. If you knew what you were looking for you might have spotted it in the picture of the Harding Home front yard I showed you yesterday.

See that tiny blue and white sign in the distance, to the right of the 'Warren G. Harding' sign? That's it.

And here it is behind Tammy World.

It's the big, cream coloured building on the left. But keep in mind the white house with the picket fence, between the flag and the traffic cone. We'll get to that.

The Kling home is now the Central Christian Church.

  It was a huge house, with a carport thingy so people could go straight into the house if it was raining, without getting wet.

The left side of the house. Carport on the right, covered walkway/arbour from the door, on the left.

The right side of the house. There's that carport again on the left, and another arbour walkway from another door, on the right.

These days it has an addition almost as big, built onto the back of it, for the church.

The addition, from the parking lot behind the house/church. Note the trees on the right. I'll get to those.

  I went to an awesome church sale there once. They also held some sort of old time days thing, where I remember watching a lady making apple butter over an open fire. It was a super hot summer day, and she was stirring the apples over that hot fire, wearing an old timey pioneer dress. I don't know how she stood it.

  The Klings planted this beautiful alley or 'allée' of trees on the street next to their house. 

  It runs along the street to the left of the house. The trees are on both sides of the street, so I suppose that at one time that whole piece of land belonged to the Klings.

This is from the direction of the Harding home end of the street.

The view of the street from the end opposite the Harding home. The Kling home is way in the distance on the left. There's a pretty little bridge with a stone wall too.

Better view of the bridge.

  A few years ago the city was going to cut down the trees to fix the sidewalks that were buckling from the tree roots. Complaints from the citizens, including me, changed the city's mind. They fixed the sidewalks without removing the trees. If they could do that in the first place, why didn't they just do it?

And just across the street from the former Kling home is the little house that served as the Hardings  guest cottage.

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It's  a private home.

You can see the corner of the Kling property on the left.

  The consequence of living in a town where Harding lived is, every yard sale claims to have something that came from the Hardings, the Harding home, or has some relation to the Hardings. I myself own a pair of vintage sugar tongs that supposedly belonged to the Hardings. I got them, where else, at a local garage sale. They also had a supposed Harding rocking chair.

  That's it for Tammy World's tour of the Harding sites around Marion. I'm sure there are more. After all, he lived there, worked there, owned the newspaper, campaigned for president there. He was all over the place, I'm sure.

  Tomorrow we'll see what else Tammy has up her sleeve.