Spotted at an open air market
Yes, it’s a genu-wine ermine collar. It was kind of ratty and nasty, but this was a junk stall.
Posted: January 30th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 9
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Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 30, 2025, 7:44 pm
Brevity is the soul of…nah, I had work drama to deal with tonight.
Comment from RushBabe
Time: January 30, 2025, 10:25 pm
Stoaty, clicking on the Dead Pool (sidebar) icon takes you to an old one. The only way to get the current one is to scroll up and up and up and up…
Thanks!
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: January 31, 2025, 2:31 am
Reminds me of Black Adder “Dish and Dishonesty”
– a line from Edmund.
“I’ve got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.”
And in the end he was made a lord, and was wearing an “Ermine Robe…” which turns out to be made of cat, proven by a collar of Mr. Frisky with the inscription “If found, please return to Emma Hamilton. Marine Parade, Portsmouth”
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: January 31, 2025, 3:02 am
I’ve been watching Facebook marketplace for old furs. My idea is to sew a patchwork of furs and make a floor length poncho or something similar—maybe a long skirt—to wear while star watching (I can’t take the cold like I used to—old age!) I thought I’d use my heavy duty sewing machine to punch holes along the edge of the fur, and then hand sew the hides together. So it doesn’t matter if the furs are a bit tatty.
Comment from Carl
Time: January 31, 2025, 10:33 am
re Fitbit. I use my Fitbit mainly to monitor my sleep. I liked the idea of wearing it round my ankle in bed. However, Fitbit themselves say that it is not reliable for sleep when worn round the ankle. One way of checking whether it is reliable for you personally is to borrow one from someone else for a week and wear two – one on the wrist and the other one on the ankle.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: January 31, 2025, 10:51 am
@Deborah HH –
I bought 2 pairs of these a couple years back for son #3 who works on the windswept plains of DFW loading and unloading planes. And occasionally I throw them on when the dogs decide they need to go OUT! at 3:00 AM during one of our January cold snaps and I don’t feel like getting dressed to stand guard over them ( the three of them together mass about 24 lbs and we have coyotes and bobcats looking for breakfast just outside the fence ).
These have zippers and velcro all over and slip on over whatever you are, or are not, wearing. They can be thrown on over boots with ease.
Not as exotic as your furs idea though, the thought of which I rather admire being a wool caped Greatcoat man myself.
But these are cheap to buy and already made and good quality.
Plus I figure we paid for them already with our tax dollars.
Good to below 14f, which should work even up there in the windswept snow zone of the Panhandle.
👍
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 31, 2025, 2:20 pm
Fixed, RushBabe.
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: January 31, 2025, 2:42 pm
Thank you Durnedyankee. You mentioned these before and I forgot about them. They look perfect, and cheaper than buying one scrappy fur. I have a Lands’ End coat that has 7 lbs of down (I call it McMurdo) and ends mid-calf. I just need more on my legs.
Yesterday the weather forecasters had a great day: we had warmer temps and sunshine (the original forecast), plus rain, snow, and graupel!
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: February 1, 2025, 12:49 am
Deborah – I don’t recall if you’re originally from somewhere where shovels, cross country skis and toboggans are useful from November till March but I admit these remind me of the ski pants I had growing up – quickly outgrown, to be replaced by long johns, and dungarees which could stand by themselves after coming in from outside.
These are much nicer.
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