October 25, 2006
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Traction Pants
I’m a sucker for a bargain. These brown corduroy pants were
reduced for quick sale at the thrift shop, only fifty cents. The
elastic waistband still has stretch in it and the knees aren’t
threadbare. What more could I want in a pair of pants?
Well, about six more inches of length in the legs, for starters.
These pants would fit a much shorter woman than me.But the pants are soft and comfy. They fit, even if they do show
a lot of shin above my shoes. They’re okay for pajamas, I said to
myself. Then I slept in them. If you’ve never slept in
loose corduroy pants, it’s a real experience. When I roll over in
bed, I roll over in the pants because the inside is smooth and the ribs
on the outside drag on the sheets and keep the pants in place.Live and learn.
[EDIT]
Mercury is slowing down for its retrograde station this weekend.
That’s my excuse. The pants with great traction were not all I
had to blog about today. I also wanted to mention the
weather. It’s solidly frozen out there, after three days of
below-freezing temps. We have been burning up a lot of old, wet,
rotting wood to save the good stuff for when it’s truly cold and we
need more heat. I have to put one of those heavy wet chunks in
the stove about three hours before we want it to burn. It takes
that long for it to dry out enough to burn. I’ve spent a lot of
my time feeding the stove, but there’s some perverse pleasure in
knowing that I’ve cleaned a lot of rotting wood out of the yard and
saved some of the good stuff for later.The winter dark is coming on. Today, we have nine hours and nine minutes of daylight. *sigh*
PPS:
adifferentkindofbeautiful
asked how cold it is now. That sounds like the setup for a joke: “It’s so cold….”It is 18.7 F, -7.4 C. Night temps have been in the teens and
daytime temps in the twenties for days and daze. I’m waiting for
the ice on the muskeg to get thick enough to walk on. It’s rare
to have ice out there without snow.
Comments (12)
how cold is it?
Corduroy capris? Hm.
It’s getting chilly here too.
Ha! Great pants story!
of course you know what i thought of when i saw the title traction pants.
and? i can’t stand jammies that cling to sheets. erg.
and? hi suse. i’m so behind in reading here and there and everywhere, it’s embarrassing. but? i do pay attention sometimes.
How cold is it? It’s so cold, I had the car plugged in for an hour and a half this morning and I still had to try five times to get it stated. I guess I’ll have to keep it plugged in all night when I want to get an early start–which I don’t like to do, since the circuit breaker for the cabin shuts off when I have the car plugged in, and the microwave AND the heater going. makes for a lot of turning off and on–and the circuit box is in my neighbor’s cabin, which makes it really fun.
PS–I blogged about rhe gun show.
WOW! I would die without daylight and in all the cold.
lol
I live in Alabama, it’s 38 degrees Farenheit here :p
I’m not ready for winter.
Enewai, with regards to the shotgun – - “OH YEAH!” I remember. Thank you! Again!
As for the pants, sew the bottoms up, stuff ‘em with something, sew the top up, and you’ve got yourself a heckuva pillow.
Are you mindng the cold weather yet?
Damn… it’s cold there! It’ll be cold here soon. Too soon, as far as I’m concerned.
lol! Amusing story about the pants. I don’t know how you stand the cold. Thanks for writing about your experiences…that’s about as far into winter and freezing that I care to get….