Daily Notes- Memorial Day

From Goodwill.  I could think of no purpose for this cloth but could not leave it behind (the print is quite large). I purchased something else yesterday that I can't figure out either.  I can needle it but the needle leaves holes. Punctured.  I washed it and now in the dryer.  I didn't buy a white sheet- Suprema or something.  It didn't feel like cotton even though the tag said superior cotton.  It felt like it would "resist" softening. Perhaps processed to not wrinkle.  Not be absorbent.  Not be soft to the touch.

When I pick up a cloth I am considering .... I ask if it feels warm or cold.  I buy the warm.  I did buy a dusty pink blouse--100% silk.  I think I will wash it--see if I can get rid of the slippery/cold feel of it. I am not familiar with silk other than the many ties G owned but does not any longer.  I sort of wish he did.  The ties at Goodwill are never silk.  So...this silk blouse which I will wash and mordant with soy and see if it prints for me in the steam pot.  My first experience with silk.

We did not see the rabid fox that our neighbor across the street emailed us about.  Not yesterday and not today on the walks.  I am reminded that the previous owner of that house had mentioned sick foxes in the back yard.  Fox tend to breed in the same place year after year.

I have 8 Georgia peaches under a dome with a vent (meant for the microwave but I use it to ripen peaches).  Just the faintest aroma of peach coming off them.  It may take a day or two more to get them to soften a bit.  I "pulled" rhubarb from my friend's plant yesterday and washed and chopped it and put it into the freezer.  For a future pie (or 2).   My plants overnighted in the vestibule and are back outside on the deck.  I have to sift some compost out of one of the large compost piles--and fill up the garden bed and then plant my flowers in rows.  Each flat should contain 12 small plants.  Which will, hopefully become 12 large plants covered in flowers.

I am reading 18below.  Danish and Swedish police procedural.  I like the Danish policewoman but so far things are not going well for her.  She was a detective.  Now just a street cop.  I keep hoping she'll cross over and work in Sweden or finally kill her nasty ex-boss.  I get quite bloodthirsty when reading these sort of books.

The Swedish crimes (not solved as yet) involve identify theft--the thief seals the poor rich guys into a freezer.  They open the door and let him and the freezer--on a dolly--in the house. After getting them in the freezer and turning it up to maximum, he puts on makeup and pretends to be them and cleans out the bank and stocks. The Danish crime is young people brutally killing homeless people. I got a whiff that the young people doing the killing live in Sweden and one of them is the son of the lead detective.  That Danish cop is coming to Sweden.  Let the good times roll.