Sometimes… you just have to say to yourself….

Life doesn’t get any better than this.   Better than…. Lincoln Logs, Cheese Pizza, and any televised football game on a Sunday.

Yes.  What a joy these things are, especially when they are shared with the ones you love.   Kids, Grandkids, Spouses, Friends.

But… enough with the sap already.

Let’s talk Lincoln Logs.

Oh… you know what they are.  Lincoln Logs are the little wooden toys consisting of notched miniature log segments.  You can  use them to build small forts and buildings and skyscrapers and such.

They are cool-io toys.  You can create whatever it is you want.  You can dream-build.

Most people don’t know that they were invented by John Lloyd Wright, second son of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

How about them architectural splinters?

The toy sets were originally made of redwood.   Wouldn’t you know…  In the 1970s…..  the ding-dong parent company unsuccessfully introduced sets made entirely of plastic.  Bad idea.  I mean… what the crap.  Who ever heard of a plastic log cabin?  They soon reverted to real wood on all their sets.  Good idea.

So… back when it all started in 1916…. when John Lloyd Wright was working in Japan with his father.  The mold for the toy was based on the architecture of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.  Now that was Franky boy designing that honker.  It was commissioned to be “earthquake-proof”.

At any rate, John came back to the U.S.   He got busy, and finally was  issued U.S. patent 1,351,086 on August 31, 1920, for a “Toy-Cabin Construction”.

(The original Lincoln Log set came with instructions on how to build Uncle Tom’s Cabin as well as Lincoln’s cabin.  In the day.)

Most think they were named for President Lincoln.  But truth of the matter is…. they were more likely named for  Frank Lloyd Wright’s original name, Frank Lincoln Wright.   And of course, the slang…. which is the alteration of the name, ‘linkin’ logs.

But enough history.  They are fun.  Like I said… you can be creative and build.

Yes.  You can build dreams.   And what is better in life then to put your elbows on the floor, and build dream after dream… with the one’s you care about the most.  Like I said.   It just doesn’t get any better.

This indeed is a really good linking toy.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.  — Walt Disney