If you're going out to play in the snow, then don't forget your pocketbook.

In our household, we called a pocketbook a "ridikūlis."

Ridiculous!

Kaunas, Lithuania, 1927. My Mom poses for a snow-bunny shot.

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I'll bet that was a red ridikūlis. This one certainly was red:

Suburban Chicago, January 1962. I stand on the area of grass separating our house from that of the neighbors. The little spruce behind me is the tree that my Parents planted to commemorate my birth.