Doll-A-Day 2019 #76: Sausage Curl Skipper

  I'm baaa-aaaack!  Happy St. Patrick's Day! Lori and I got back from Georgia last night. We looked at a few houses, and Lori thinks she might have found one.
  We left Wednesday afternoon. Tammy World was raring to go.

"Who said you were even going?" Tammy: "Me!"

  We went pretty far down in Georgia. It was very warm Thursday. We looked at some houses where tons of flowers were in bloom. When I left home the temperatures were not nearly as warm. My poor daffodils aren't even up all the way, but they have buds. This is why Lori wants to move south. She's sick of the cold. Of course, today it snowed here again!
   I was hopping happy when I spotted some Shoney's restaurants! I thought they were hard to find these days, but they were everywhere down there. I hadn't been to a Shoney's in years, since the last time we took a vacation in the south. Ivy, who will be 20 this year was probably about 3 the last time. Shoney's do a great breakfast buffet, with the fluffiest scrambled eggs and a really good,(although probably artificial) cheese sauce. I got a buffet breakfast to go on Friday. I couldn't eat it all at once, but it lasted me all day.

It's hard to tell, but there are pancakes, biscuit, mixed mystery fruit, spiced apples. fried potatoes, grits, and cinnamon bread sticks. Bit heavy on the starches.

By Friday though, it was really windy and starting to get cold, even in Georgia.

Lori's dog Dante' wasn't enjoying the wind.

There was sand!

    It was chilly, and the strong winds made it even colder. It was drizzly too.

Peanuts and pecans, two of Georgia's biggest crops...

...and swamps, another one.

These little flowers were blooming in a cotton field belonging to one of the properties Lori looked at.

Lori travels with her dogs, including this one, a nine week old sheltie she has only had a week.

It got so cold that I went back to a long sleeved shirt on Saturday.

And Tammy World changed to a sweater.

  The south is literally covered with Kudzu, and it's honestly kind of creepy looking.

  We headed home Friday night, but were still in Georgia when we set back off on Saturday morning.

It was chilly, but the skies in Tennessee were blue on Saturday.

A little farther North, Kentucky was also sunny and cold. I ended up putting my winter coat on.

The trees were blooming in Kentucky

It looked sunny and warm as Lori let the new sheltie potty again. It was sunny, but not warm!

  When I got home I found that while I was gone Ken had caught up on the laundry, cleaned up his stove messes, refilled my prescriptions, and restocked my deodorant. When he got home he surprised me with a belated birthday cake he made for me. It's the kind I make for him, and it takes ages to make, so he had spent a while on that and then gone to work that day. What a sweet guy!
  Tomorrow we'll look at my birthday present doll, what Emma brought me for my birthday from her recent trip to London, and what I bought on my trip.
  Today is a brief post looking at this doll.

She's a Sausage Curl Skipper.

Sausage Curl dolls were produced in 1969 and 1970.

They have rooted eyelashes, twist waists, and click bend knees.

This girl is wearing a rare coat, from the 1969 Sears gift set Bright 'N Breezy. and a shirt, from the Sears exclusive fashion set, Young Ideas, which was sold from 1970 to 1973. The Bright 'N Breezy set came with a blonde Sausage Curl doll.

This 1969 Sears ad is confusing me.

  See you tomorrow!

Spring Finally Springs and Skipper Teeters

  It seems to be finally Spring! Ok, so it snowed on Thursday. But on Friday it was warm enough to hang laundry outside. I also worked around the yard. I picked up trash out of my yard for the THIRD time this Spring. (We live on a corner, so the neighbourhood's trash always blows into our yard,and it's been a VERY windy Spring.) I pulled up the rest of the old growth from last year out of  my hostas,peony,mint, and garlic. I had already pulled up some of it,but some of it wasn't dried out enough. If you pull it up when it's not ready, it takes the bulb out of the ground with it,or roots, in the case of the peony and mint. I even mowed the yard. So to celebrate Spring, and the other thing I was finally able to do that day,(Take some doll photos outside.),here is a very Springy Sausage Curl  Skipper.

She is wearing the Skipper fashion Teeter Timers.

The fashion came with a teeter board.
 

I saw the endocrinologist earlier this week. That was pretty much pointless.

  She is already telling me stuff I have no faith in. For one thing,she said my thyroid is not enlarged,as I was told by the other doctor who had the ultrasound done. Ok, she should know better on that one. However,she also said the four nodules I do have aren't big enough to be causing the swallowing trouble I've been having. Well, I  suppose there could be another reason I feel like I'm being strangled, and I choke on my own saliva, and can feel a lump every time I swallow. On the other hand,the two larger nodules measure 1 1/2 and 2 centimeters! How can something that size NOT cause you swallowing trouble?! I have to go back in about a month to have the nodules biopsied. When we see if they are cancerous we'll discuss what we're doing about them.
   Her only suggestion as to my feeling strangled etc. was to send me for a swallow test. What's the point of that? I know I'm having swallowing issues,and I can feel that larger nodule every time I swallow, just where she said it is. That pretty much says the nodules are my problem. So I turned down the swallow test for the time being since I can't afford it, and we haven't checked out these nodules yet anyway.
  For another thing,I've read that thyroid problems can be caused by iodine deficiency. Vegetarians can sometimes have an iodine deficiency because they don't eat seafood. When I tried to ask her about iodine and tried to tell her that I've been vegetarian for 30 years, she wouldn't even listen to me. She just shut me up and started saying how in this day and age it is almost impossible to have an iodine deficiency because iodine is added to everything. As she said,fast food,processed food,and soft drinks all have it added. Ken pointed out to her that I rarely eat fast food,or drink soft drinks,and don't very often eat processed food. She ignored him and just told me to go buy some over the counter prenatal vitamins because they have iodine. Well I read that most processed foods etc. don't bother to use iodized salt in their preparation. I have also read that it's dangerous to take an iodine supplement without the advice of your doctor, because you can easily get too much. Shouldn't they test my iodine to see if I have a deficiency,and how bad it is, so a dosage could be recommended? So I'm already not trusting her much.
  So that's where it stands at the moment.

On the good side of things, even though we have had snow and freezing temperatures lately,things are budding around here.

These little flowers are blooming in my yard,as are the wild violets.

My pear tree has buds.Apparently they were camera shy though.
 

The lilac bushes have buds.

The peony is about a foot and a half tall now. The Rose of Sharon hasn't come to life yet, but when it does it will bloom well into the Fall. The Dogwood tree has little blooms too. It's a Spring bloomer,so it should perk up soon. It's beautiful,with tons of pink flowers. It blooms early and then drops leaves ALL summer. How can a tree even do that? You'd think it would run out of leaves at some point. But that thing drops leaves until all the other trees join in and run out themselves.

I'm hoping the strawberry plants Ken won last year will come back this year. SO far they aren't looking like that's going to happen though.
  See you again soon for some doll goodies.

Doll-A-Day 203: Skipper Saturday: Java Brown Sausage Curl Skipper

  Today's Skipper Saturday doll is a java brown Sausage Curl.

 This doll needed redone when I got her, but her 'sausages' turned out beautifully.

 

 She has little 'spit curls; at the sides of her face.

It would have been interesting to see some titan Sausage Curl Skippers, but they only came in blonde or java brown.

This girl needs a few eyelashes replaced, and her twist and turn waist is a little loose. Otherwise she is pretty nice.

She's wearing Jeepers Creepers from 1969-70.

Jeepers Creepers consists of the top, 'pedal pusher' pants, clear red plastic visor with blue fabric tie...

...striped rubber ball, and light blue flats.

There's one button on the back.

I don't have the ball. It's hard to find. And my girl preferred to play barefoot on this hot summer day.

 A boat is nice to play with when it's hot: in the water.

And of course, an ice cream soda can help to cool you off.

There are two versions of Jeepers Creepers. The one this girl is wearing is the printed fabric version. The dots and stripes are printed on to the fabric.

The version she is holding is one where the dots and stripes are woven into the fabric.

And yes, she borrowed Francie's hanger. She couldn't be bothered to dig out her own.

It's easy to tell which version you have.The dots and stripes are sometimes faded or worn off on the printed version. Mine is a little worn. Or just turn the pieces wrong side out. The printed dots and stripes don't show as much on the back of the fabric. The woven in dots and stripes are easy to see.

I'm not sure if I'll be posting for the next few days. We're taking a couple of days' vacation before Ivy goes back to school.