Loose Leaf Notes

1. Adding polyester to perfectly good cotton, linen, rayon or wool clothing is like adding a pink slime filler to beef. And the fact that the polyester filled clothes cost the same as the natural fabrics adds insult to injury.

2. Years ago, a fabric artist friend told me how to test a fabric to see if it was natural or polyester. Take some thread or a small piece of the fabric and burn it with a match. If it’s polyester or acrylic it will burn into a plastic ball. If it’s a natural fabric it will burn into dust.

3. On the lead up to attending the Pink Floyd tribute band event at the Pine Tavern on Saturday, I kept calling “Pink Floyd” the “Moody Blues” by mistake, maybe because they’re both British bands from the ‘60s and ‘70 that made concept albums and had niche followings, but most likely I think it’s because both bands have a color in their name.  More HERE. 

4. I didn’t listen much to Moody Blues back in the day, but I wore the hell out of Joni Mitchell’s album called Blue.

5. On Sunday Joe went to a skills day workshop on making fire using sticks. He invited me to go, but I told him it’s like a learning to change a tire. I know it’s a good thing to know but even if you show me, in the end, it just ain’t gonna happen.

6. Mystery solved. Over the weekend I posted a photo called Country Mouseketeer. It was a shadow shot of me with mouse ears and I had no idea how the ears got there. A reader pointed out a yellow color above my head, so I blew up the picture and zoomed in.  Turns out there were a couple of yellow pompom marigolds and their shadows in the shot.

7. I don’t think the bark boring bugs that made the designs in the first picture above were actually boring because their creations seem to have been made with such industrious imagination.

8. The more I know, the more I know I don’t know.

9. Are poems like autumn leaves / forgotten after they fall? / Do we only pay attention / to the bright red maple/ and ignore the buried brown?

10. Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don’t think I should be doing something else. – Gloria Steinem

11. My grandsons like to put on music shows that I videotape. Their latest is a Happy Halloween production and is dedicated to Ron from Scrambled Not Fried. Watch HERE.

12. I have some small crop circles cropping up on my face. They’re called wrinkles.

13. It’s good to live with someone who can make fire by rubbing two sticks.

________Thirteen Thursday