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Saturday, October 8, 2016

Blog's 6th Anniversary / Blogiversary

My how flime ties (time flies) when you're having fun! TODAY is the blog's 6th Blogiversary and I am almost totally unprepared!! I designed a new masthead last month but then got sidetracked, sooooo I'm guessin' it's time to start workin' on that again. But here's our day: wake up, play with grand baby. Spend day either at work or playing with grand baby (weekends), come home from work, play with grandbaby. All these photos you see on the blog are taken and edited in the few moments of free time I have - perhaps a half hour here or maybe just ten minutes there - IF I'm not totally pooped. Bettina has the same schedule except she stays home to help with the baby. Our little grandbaby Melody is now in her terrible two's and has taken on the role of The Little Dictator doing what 2 year old's do - test boundaries and limits (that's in theiir job description). Her language skills are getting better and she talks more and more in English vs. Baby Talk, and she has this miniature nuclear reactor inside of her powering her unlimited energy aaaaarrrgh!

All that being said we enjoy the blog and the feedback we get from readers. Here's a great big

MANY THANX and VIELEN DANK

to all of our readers for staying with us over the years. I do have projects bangin' around in my head for future posts - let's hope some of them even materialize!

As always - Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Toys and Stuff 5th Blogiversary (3 Days Late)

Three days ago, Oct 8th, was the blog's 5th Blogiversary. Did we forget it? Well yes and no. I remembered the anniversary a day or two before, but then with the granddaughter not feeling well this week and trying to care for her, the whole blogiversary thing just sort of faded away. We do try to squeeze in a post when we can but...

Anywho, one of our readers, John 'Mal' Malcovsky sent us an e-greeting for the blog. Check it out here:

http://www.123greetings.com/send/view/10808615615639833116

Looking back on the year I guess we've managed to get a few things done. It was a busy year welcoming a new baby granddaughter in the family, and a busy year trying to care for her. Trust me, she's a handful - that little Schatzie is wearin' us four adults out!!! 

We  covered:
- the Moon in all it's glory and caught the Super Moon Eclipse
- featured more birds and Las Vegas Big Sky Pics
- our trip to Sparks, Nevada and the return trip through Carson City and the Nevada State Railroad Museum
- the entire range of American Dreams plastic vehicles
- nearly the entire range of BMC/Americana American Civil War toys
- built a display for photographing the Civil War toys
- featured a whole bunch more vintage space ships, airplanes, and vehicles
- found and featured more vintage paper buildings
- started a new series on beer/wine/spirits paraphernalia
- re-started Play Along Toys AOME LOTR figures (something we'd stopped doing four years ago)

...and much, much more!

Oh, and BTW, I was busy re-doing the shelves in The Cave, trying sell off the collection (as much as I can but keeping the stuff I really enjoy), and scanning hundreds of family photos...

...and working full time

I have no clue what the coming year will bring, but sincerely hope we can continue the blog - perhaps a tad scaled down, but hey, we'll see. Wwe hope you've enjoyed checking in on us and perusing the gazillion photos!

Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina