The weather has finally gotten me back for complaining about how warm it was. The daffodils that were open did get clobbered as I had feared: the stems froze and bent over right under the blooms, so they hang down as if they were already dead. No big deal though, I picked most of the blooms and brought them inside the night before the storm. And luckily the ones that weren't open yet (which are the vast majority) seem unaffected. I also put fresh straw over the bay leaf, but I forgot the figs and the gerbera daisies. Oh well, I knew it was a longshot for the daisies. If they make it, they make it.
Now that's cold and looks like it will stay that way for the forseeable future, I have to offer a few words of praise for one of the nicest things Georg has given me in recent years: the Slanket. The Slanket is a big fleece blanket with loose sleeves, so I can read a book, type on my computer, change channels, knit, or whatever without my hands and arms getting cold. It's amazing. I get cold so easily, especially my hands. My only criticism is that, being made of fleece, it collects dog hair. And with Jane and Thirteen both shedding so much we could knit another dog, there's an alarming amount of dog hair to collect on it. But as warm as I am right now, I could care less about that.
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$50 they're getting for that thing? Oy. I could go right over here to JoAnn Fabric and buy a length of fleece fabric twice my height from shoulder to ankles; fold in half wrong-side-out (if it has a wrong side), seam up each side from the loose end to about 12" from the fold, then make a slit thru about the center third of the fold, turn it right side out, and have something very like that for probably half the money and minimal effort. The nice thing about fleece fabric is that it doesn't ravel, so you don't have to worry about hemming. We've got a bunch of fleece throws around here that are just 2 yards of fabric, no special care required.
to get pet hair off of things like fleece throws, sometimes i just run them through the dryer on the air cycle (no heat). this usually knocks most of the hair off.
Lee: I sew a lot, and I know what cheap fleece from JoAnn's costs, and I know what good fleece costs. And I think the Slanket was no ripoff. But thank you for identifying a gift from my husband as such.
Lisa: That's a good idea! The slanket is a little big for our dryer, but I'll try it this weekend.