The way it was in 1934...abbreviated :P

Here I sit each day with a sweater on and my heater going to keep my feet warm. Where I work wastes so much money on AC! They keep it a toasty 65degrees!!! Brrrrr winter in July!! and I wonder why I have nasal drip and a cold I can't get rid of!! Going from 65 in the morning to 90 for lunch then back to 65 until 5pm.....grrrrr There's only 2 of us that complain lol so it's not going to change any time soon but 65!!!???
On the home front...Yea! We sold the old Allis-Chalmers tractor. The guy came and picked it up last night. He's a very nice man and he and his wife raise beef cows. He told us to let him know if we want to buy some and he'd give us a nice deal. We're thinking about getting a half a beef later on closer to winter. With the tractor out of the big barn it really opens up some space. Sunday we took out one of the stall walls (well, Hubby did ;)..) so we could put firewood in the barn and begin emptying the woodshed. We will get a newer tractor at some point but will look around for awhile. We need one with a front loader and a finish mower wouldn't be turned down. The plan is to empty the woodshed and chicken coup and tear them down. In their place put up a pole barn about the size of a 3-car garage. At that point we would tear down the current 2-car garage leaving the cement floor as it is. Then we would like to add a deck off the back of the house and use the old garage floor as a patio. Sounds like a plan, huh? It will be a work in progress for years but we will get it done. Would rather do it a little at a time and do it ourselves if only to save money. Well, that's the long-term and short-term plan. Want to get some things ready for when we are finally able to retire!
Anyone who has been stopping by here or following Johnny Depp's movie roles will know that today is the 74th anniversary of Dillinger being killed. Here's some other things that happened in 1934:

"Li'l Abner" by New Haven, Conn.-born comic-strip cartoonist Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin), 35, is set in the fictitious hamlet of Dogpatch, Ky. Capp has been ghost-drawing "Joe Palooka" for Ham Fisher, whose eyesight has begun to fail owing to diabetes; the new strip will soon be syndicated to hundreds of papers.

"Flash Gordon" by New Rochelle, N.Y.-born King Features comic-strip cartoonist Alex (Alexander Gillespie) Raymond, 24, is a world-of-tomorrow adventure strip that competes with the popular 25th-century strip "Buck Rogers."

Shirley Temple makes her first full-length film at age 6 and follows Hamilton McFadden's Stand Up and Cheer (in which she steals the show by singing "Baby Take a Bow") with Alexander Hall's Little Miss Marker and David Butler's Bright Eyes (in which she sings "The Good Ship Lollypop"). Born at Santa Monica and now all dimples and curly hair, Temple will go on to star in half a dozen other Hollywood films in the next 4 years.

"The Beer Barrel Polka" ("Skoda Lasky") by Czech songwriters Jaromir Vejvoda, Wiadimir A. Timm, and Vasek Zeman (English lyrics by Lew Brown will appear in 1939).

The Hammond organ patented by Chicago clock maker Laurens Hammond, 39, is the world's first pipeless organ. The 275-pound instrument has a two-manual console with pedal clavier and power cabinet but no reeds, pipes, or vibrating parts; it costs less than 1¢ per hour to operate and will lead to a whole generation of electrically-amplified instruments.

The board game Sorry introduced by Parker Brothers of Salem, Mass., frustrates players under age 8 who cannot bear to have their pieces sent back by rivals. Based in part on pahcheesi, the game will remain popular into the next century.

U.S. men's underwear sales slump after moviegoers see Clark Gable remove his shirt in the film It Happened One Night to reveal that he wears no undershirt. Sales of men's caps have declined because of their association with hoodlums in gangster movies.

The Washeteria that opens April 18 at Fort Worth, Texas, is the first launderette. Proprietor J. F. Cantrell has installed four washing machines and charges by the hour.

And check out these pictures from a Sears Catalog! Love the prices! What a hoot! Open in new window for larger pictures.

On the left, are ladies cotton dresses. I think they look pretty good now-a-days. Yet some things haven't changed all that much. The lounge wear (right) looks pretty much like today's stuff. The Chiffons (bottom) I avoid like the plague! As low as $.20 a pair! (Still can't believe they took the 'cent' key off the keyboard!!)