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September 19, 2007
Living With It For A Whole Year
If they haven’t already, very soon calendars for 2008 will start arriving at your local mall, Joseph Beth Booksellers, Barnes & Noble, and many other stores. I have a calendar hanging in my bathroom. If any event is coming up such as a birthday party, school trip, doctors appointment, or even the beginning of TV shows which have been off all summer - it is written on this calendar. I keep in my own bathroom and not the “company” bathroom because I don’t care for everyone who walks in there to know what my plans are for certain dates. I am funny that way, but if I want you to know I will tell you or you will read about it afterwards on here.
Sometimes a person’s calendar holds very personal information. While mom was in the hospital for a month, I would bring her scrapbooks from her attic and we would look through them together. In several of these scrapbooks were my Grandmother Scott’s calendars. I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed reading her entries for each day. They really are like tiny blog entries. You can’t even begin to imagine the feelings that would well up inside me when I read something she had written about me when I was little; how much joy I brought to her, her going shopping for my birthday and so on. She has been gone since I was in second grade, so these calendars are tiny treasures and once mom has finished with them, I will hold them dear to my heart forever.
I am getting off track though. Calendars - I love them. I can spend an hour looking through the calendars at bookstores, but I always end up choosing the same ones.
These:
I have said I am not a country person and I am not, however these calendars are wonderful. I have bought other calendars such as Norman Rockwell or Anne Geddes. Rockwell painted fantastic paintings and Geddes has a wonderful eye for photography, but I like looking at details and there is only so much detail one can get from a photo of a single object; pretty or not, there it is and you’re not catching a glimpse of anything new for thirty days.
After thirty days, I am sick to death of it and ready to change the page … only to find another picture holding very little detail which holds no promise of anything … for another thirty days. Oh, misery!
These Lang Folk Art calendars have so much detail, the photo never gets old. You see something new each and every time you look. Of course, the holiday photos are especially beautiful and full of detail. I’m sure you could guess my favorite month. October! Here are some of the October photos:
Yes, I do keep these calendars. For one thing, as I have said, the photos are beautiful, but also that information I spoke of earlier can come in handy. For instance, one time I needed to know the date Ashley had tubes put in her ears. Well, I couldn’t remember exactly and those medical bills had been shredded long ago, so I went to my calendar and voila! There it was! So you see, it is a good idea, at least it is for me, to save them.
As you saw above, normally the calendars are titled Lang Folk Art, but last year, I found a Linda Nelson Stocks Folk Art calendar. I favor her work over the others I have seen, so I bought her calendar and have not regretted it for one month:
Oh my! Look what I just found: The Linda Nelson Stocks Folk Art 2008 Wall Calendar!! I will be buying this! It makes me happy to think about it. Calendars and books, yes, little things like that make me happy.
I am thankful to my mom for introducing me to these calendars many, many years ago.
Do you have a favorite calendar?
Posted by tami at September 19, 2007 10:16 AM
Comments
My mom and myself do the samething. My mom has kept a calender journal since she was 15. We can go to any given day and see what we or she did that day. It is so much fun to look back. I have been doing the samething since I was in 5th grade. We don't use the wall calenders, but pocket calender...well actually more like appointment books.
Posted by: Chastity at September 19, 2007 2:22 PM
I like Thomas Kinkade calendars and pictures. I have a perpetual Thomas Kinkade calendar hanging in my kitchen. It has four different scenes that you can change out for the seasons, but I don't mind since I love his artwork so much. My favorite scene is the winter scene: there is a beautiful Victorian style, white two story house with trees surrounding it. Everything is covered in snow, and there is a snowman in the front yard and every window is lit with a warm, yellow glow.
Posted by: Stacey at September 19, 2007 3:09 PM
THis year the beach struck my fancy, there is no telling what I will have next year.. the year before it was cartoon animals.. it changes from year to year, I think brad wants a spiderman one this year.
Posted by: Ellice at September 19, 2007 3:23 PM
Those are beautiful. I use calendars like that too, sort of like diaries.
Posted by: Lori-Lyn at September 19, 2007 5:55 PM
I've become so lax at writing anything down in a single place, what with having the computer and PDA. I should write stuff down, too. Or should I? LOL
I remember seeing one of my grandparents' calendars years ago when we went through the house after Grandpa died. On one date, September 14th as a matter of fact, my grandma had written that it was the last day they saw hummingbirds at their feeders for the year. I don't know what happened to that calendar, but I remember that date.
I like using calendar pictures in my scrapbooks. :)
Posted by: gw at September 19, 2007 8:15 PM