Changing of the season
Today is washday, and my weight-lifting gloves are in the second load. From last week until April or May I'll wear the plastic bicycle gloves that fit under fuzzy gloves, and I like things to be clean when I put them away for the winter. The cotton backs of the gloves have faded to gray, but they still bleed like a stuck pig -- presumably from the black leather. So I've got a very small load consisting of black socks, one pair of black gloves, and one pair of dark-brown grubbies. I wonder whether "grubbies" for clothing worn for dirty work is dialect or idiolect? Definitely not very common -- it's not in my spelling checker. I must not be taking my writing seriously. I don't even know where the very cheap quick-reference dictionary I used to keep beside the keyboard is. Now and again, I wanted to use a word that I wasn't sure all my readers would understand, so I'd look it up in that small book, and if I didn't find it, I'd define it on first reference. # asterism # Gloves hanging in the laundry room -- I hope that I remember to put them away before spring! I also washed my sheer linen scarf and put it away -- I'll wear fuzzy cotton-linen until silk-scarf-with-a-wool- liner season. We skipped over medium-weight linen season, and it hasn't been more than two weeks since I put away the white linen do-rag. In addition to laundry, I managed to finish cutting out twenty-eight parts for a sewing project -- almost. I had marked the last few pieces with a dying pen, and hadn't noticed. One piece -- I *think* it's *one* piece -- is so faint that I couldn't see to touch it up, so I've set it aside until I see what's missing. Lovely evening out there -- I may go for a walk after supper. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
Changing of the season
A premature season change: I washed clothes on Monday, rode to the hospital on Tuesday, and rode to Goodwill on Thursday. On Saturday I discovered that I have only two pairs of thick wool socks. I wish I'd known that when I stopped at Big R on my way home from Goodwill. My Fox River socks are thin on top, and the ragg-wool socks were exactly warm enough, so I wore one of my two pairs of purple "wool" woman's socks. They are no thicker than the ragg socks, and have only traces of wool among the mystery fibers, but I also have a pair of gray man's socks of the same fibers and weight, which fit nicely over the purple socks. If I were to put a newspaper sleeve over that, I'd sweat in a blizzard. It's way past time to sort out my winter clothes and see what I've got. I'm *sure* I have some non-cotton tights! But the weather stayed sunny and dry until I got back from the farmers' markets. We had a wind-wall storm during my afternoon nap. But I don't expect to find pieces of willow all over in the morning. We had the weak bits trimmed off it last summer. The Chinese- porcelain effect of the remaining half still looks odd to me. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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