Re: Cat hunters do yourself a favor
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:24 pm
LOL I'm glad I'm not the only old fogey that still wears wool! Around here, I'm something of a novelty...That's just one more eccentricity.
For years, I had an old dress coat that was a double-layered wool cape down to my ankles, with baggy sleeves. I could fit as many layers under it as I wanted, including a belt light. It had a hood big enough to accommodate a cap with a brim underneath--I usually wear a hard hat because I slip and fall a lot.
I wore that cape out in the woods all winter, and sometimes slung a hammock and slept in it. It was loose enough so that I could rest with a hound or two huddled inside it, which worked well for everyone! All that loose enclosed space worked really well to keep the heat in. Wish I had another one, but it was a one-of-a-kind Italian thing that was my dress coat when I worked in the city. Still looking for someone who can deconstruct it and make a new one for me.
After tramping around the thick woods here in it for a dozen years, the bottom of it was in tatters and kept getting snagged on twigs, my snowshoes, etc. I retired it to the back seat of the car and the hounds sleep on it when we travel. I use that old cape when I have to leave a coat for a dog thats still out. I nap under it when I get back to the car and am too tired to drive. One of the pups chewed all the buttons off it.
It got to smelling so bad of hound dog that my husband complained about it staying in the car all the time, and took it to the dry cleaner. It was so disreputable that the dry cleaner refused to have anything to do with it!
For years, I had an old dress coat that was a double-layered wool cape down to my ankles, with baggy sleeves. I could fit as many layers under it as I wanted, including a belt light. It had a hood big enough to accommodate a cap with a brim underneath--I usually wear a hard hat because I slip and fall a lot.
I wore that cape out in the woods all winter, and sometimes slung a hammock and slept in it. It was loose enough so that I could rest with a hound or two huddled inside it, which worked well for everyone! All that loose enclosed space worked really well to keep the heat in. Wish I had another one, but it was a one-of-a-kind Italian thing that was my dress coat when I worked in the city. Still looking for someone who can deconstruct it and make a new one for me.
After tramping around the thick woods here in it for a dozen years, the bottom of it was in tatters and kept getting snagged on twigs, my snowshoes, etc. I retired it to the back seat of the car and the hounds sleep on it when we travel. I use that old cape when I have to leave a coat for a dog thats still out. I nap under it when I get back to the car and am too tired to drive. One of the pups chewed all the buttons off it.
It got to smelling so bad of hound dog that my husband complained about it staying in the car all the time, and took it to the dry cleaner. It was so disreputable that the dry cleaner refused to have anything to do with it!