WWQP Bulletin Board Chat

Must be the heat!!

Doris, there are no markings on the fabrics other than the first word Bohemian...and I've cut through the rest. You know, there is no way you can applique a good clean edge with most of the cottons today and I'll tell you why...whether you want to hear it or not...lol....I was going to give you my 2 cents worth anyway...there are too many softening resins put into the 100% cotton today...as has been the case since the 1980's when 100% cottons came back onto the marketplace after the decade of the cotton/polyester broadcloth. Why in heavens name the manufacturers decided to give people cotton that did not wrinkle, I don't know...the quality has gone so far downhill it's sliding on gooseshit. Did consumers really not want cotton that wrinkled...well, the answer is, yes, and we are paying for it now. There is no way you can get a good edge now with cotton unless you back it with paper. I find the cotton used for the tie-dyes and that's not the word I want (I've been swimming in chlorine for the past few days and my brain cells are fried with toxins I guess) is a tighter weave and more like the old cotton of the 40's,50's & 60's before the poly fibre was put into the cotton. I LOVE the old wrinkly cotton quilts. That is what makes them so charming. I don't mind if my clothes get wrinkly either but less so and so there is a use for the resins they put into cotton to make it less wrinkly but in so doing, the body of the cloth is lost. It's like handling jelly-cloth. In the old days all I had to do was press the edges under and they'd almost stay. I basted my edges under and I did not have all these little points and if I did have some, I could easily run my needle under my edge and smooth it out. Now, it's a major production without paper backing, which drives me utterly and hopelessly bananas.

And talking about that, my friend Margaret, a locum in a pharmacy in Toronto called tonight and some gentleman wanted 40 Viagra. I asked her how long that would last...thinking a year maybe, as there are 52 weeks in a year and if he needed Viagra maybe he was too old for all that jiggy jig anyway...She said, three weeks. Cripes, can you imagine how many 'sessions' that would be or do some men take more than one Viagra at a time. She could only find three and sent him on his way and said that she hoped that didn't compromise his plans...the rest would be in later this week.

It's so hot that bunnies are getting hit with golf balls on the nearby resort greens. My friend and Geordie's breeder, WendyP, is nursing a wee bunny back to health. He was hit by a golf ball and she brought him into the pro shop in a cardboard box. She worked late, by the time she got back to the shop, it was locked up and Roger Rabbit was left there overnight. When the pro shop opened the next morning, Roger had recovered and was racing around the office and escaped out the door and back to the golf course. By that evening he was laid out by the swimming pool, not feeling well. Wendy now has him at home. Also rescued yesterday were two painted turtles and one snapping turtle making their way across the golf greens on their way to the ponds down over the hill. They too got a lift in the beverage cart to the other side of the resort.

Geordie, Ceilidh and Hope all had a spa day today and lost a pound of undercoat. They now have their furry bikinis on...(not really...but they smell a whole lot better and have less coat to deal with in this hot weather).

And so much for the hot weather here in Ontario...imagine if we lived in California...I'd be whacked out most of the time...I can't stand this heat for too long.

Rosey

posted by RoseyP @ 9:19 PM