What we have here is a 24X1.95 used up bike tube. It only has a couple of patches but it also has a an overstressed rotten spot. No amount of patching is going to make it hold air. Needing desperately to make something, anything, to satisfy some inner need I decided to make something I desperately do not need. I don't think I really decided. It's more like I charged ahead like some crazy blindfolded Don Quixote with the lance at the ready and no clue.
So I cut out this long 1 and ⅜ inch (3.5 cm) wide strip to make a belt. I must have at least 10 belts but this one is different. It's a statement I think. I just don't know what the statement is. The last time I made a statement with belts was in 1977 on the way to Hawaii on the good ship "Serenity". I lightened the load en-route by sacrificing to the Gods of the great Pacific Ocean boxes of receipts and records of things that I no longer wanted to prove or remember. I also cleaned out an accumulation of belts and ties. The witnesses said fearfully that "It looked like a madman coming up from below and throwing handfuls of snakes into the sea". If I could draw like my old friend Dave I would sketch a picture of that statement that they forever etched into my memory.
I cut two long slits in the strip and did an enclosed braid thing, added a solid brass buckle from my thrift store buckle collection, a couple of rivets from my 1965-66 hippy sandal /belt making stuff and ended up with this crude thing. I really should do one with a little more finesse and care.I do not care, in the morning I'm putting on my tweed jacket, knickers with this belt, brown knee socks, big black shoes, gray wool driving cap, taking my shillelagh and going to the thrift store. They have enough crazies there that I'll blend right in.
2 comments:
You have had some interesting post as of late. I liked the one you did on the plane especially. Very nice reading indeed. I had to catch up on them because I too had trouble getting the Old Fool to load up. Once I loaded up the Firefox browser, I can read you...still can't with explorer.
I don't know what is going on with IE. Some who have it have no problem others get nothing but the gauges at the top. I think MicroSofthead is getting even with me for dumping their inferior software 5 years ago. I am all PCLinuxOS its free and an easy replacement for MS.
I use Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera.
I'm on Chrome now. It's really good.
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