Showing posts with label big butter and eggman - merle haggard. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 09, 2009

theme thursday = egg

Moving from a big city to a rural area
is
a most interesting lesson
in how things might have
used to be.

Aside from stores, many people
leave a box and sign near the
end of their driveway and
trust you to leave your
money in a box.


photo: Harris & Ewing Collection 1930
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Being a city kid, this is helpful
in
understanding real
egg production.


photo: unknown

Those must have been the
days of
lots of baking and cooking.

photo: Jack Delano at the Farm Security Administration

Never realized you had to clean eggs.

And for those of you too young to have seen
Pink Flamingos by John Waters at the Midnight Movies
way back when, here's Edie
who just loved
eggs and couldn't wait for a visit
from the Eggman ; )