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My most prized find of the year was when my friend and boss bought 2
twenty-five lb. sacks of raw peanuts and I discovered they were in real
honest to gosh burlap bags, what we always called bran sacks. I very
quickly asked her if I could have the sacks, to heck with the nuts.
They're small but better than nothing. I can remember when we never
thought we'd ever run out of bran sacks, got several 100 lb. each week. I
have been known to go to the fabric store and buy burlap yard goods and
MAKE a sack so I could have one to store potatoes, etc in. Ruth
At 10:36 AM -0500 11/3/08, [log in to unmask] wrote:
The first Twybil shack in NYC, an illegal residence loft on John St, was
decorated with the "Collyer Line" - a dining table fashioned from NY Times
gathered from the street, stacked and epoxied together. The tall reading
lamp was a stack of paperbacks, wired for a light, one wall was "papered"
with lost gloves from the downtown streets. The floor color was determined
by gathering a ball of dust-bunnies, throwing them in the blender, and
matching the resultant blob on the Munsell system and getting a custom Ben
Moore floor paint to match.
Mrs. Twybil was not in the picture.
I think there is a new line of PYwear in the making here...can you still
get gunny sacks?
Tw
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Ruth Barton
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Dummerston, VT
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