From Hog Butchering to Apple Varieties to Family Chronology, William Gimler's 1830s-40s Pocket Ledger textile Carved of pine I believe

Carved of pine I believe and would guess mid 20th century or so

with the house feeling as much of a protagonist in its own story as any human might be

and I have to imagine making it gave him quite a lot of pleasure

and a pronounced vertical warp visible on the exterior

From Hog Butchering to Apple Varieties to Family Chronology, William Gimler's 1830s-40s Pocket Ledger textile Carved of pine I believeThere are few things that give me as much pleasure as opening a notebook that I can tell from the paper cover has about 200 years on it in this case the cover a pretty soft blue, and the notebook kept by a William Gimler, spanning the period 1834 to 1852. Gimler was clearly a farmer and here tracks, sporadically it seems, bushels of oats and wheat and corn sold, as well as pork butchered, including noting the weight of Joseph Figley's hog (163 pounds)