Sunday, March 30, 2008

Winding Down

Sorry no music yet. Hipcast seems to be under the weather. I'll keep trying periodically.

It's still cold and windy today, much too cold for a boat ride--in fact, even too cold to fill the gas tank, which we do manually from individual 5-gallon containers. We just came in from spending more money, this time on a pair of jeans for Steve at one of the many discount outlet malls here. We took a walk down by the ocean, just long enough to have our breath taken away by the cold ocean breeze! From here on out it should be pretty quiet. We'll pack up tonight and hit the road very early tomorrow morning, to be home before noon and take up all the put-off weekend chores. I'm churning up ideas for some good, meaty posts, and look forward to the luxury of lengthy cogitation during the week.

Have you tried to buy bluejeans lately? A mainstay of the outlets here was Levi-Strauss, and they're gone! Have to put up with Gap or--oh, no--Guess!jeans. Oh, Boomers, how we have fallen! Has the uniform of protests and be-ins gone the way of the zoot suit, the raccoon coat? Unthinkable!


7 comments:

Cuidado said...

How was the pie?

Ralph said...

It was great and it still is! We have two pieces left for dessert tonight. I'm going to send you a pic of it when I get hme to my own computer.

Seems to have lots of possibilities for variations....

Kat said...

Ralph,
The stores till exist but none in Delaware. You'll have to go farther afield

You picked a racoon coat and a zoot suit? How about tie dye and bell bottoms?

Ralph said...

What can I say? My imagination goes back to before I was born....

It's surprising for a Levis store to close here.

Eclecticity said...

Tag!

http://www.eclectipundit.com/2008/03/six-word-memoir.html

Anonymous said...

I'm always happy when I can find a pair of jeans that fits and then able to find them again. Too many styles and some so high in price - gasp, gasp, gasp.

We had an Army/Navy supply store in my neighborhood and when I started purchasing jeans I was paying $8-$10 for a pair of I think it was Levy's.

They seemed to be more durable back then. A few years back, I treated myself to DKNY and although most of Ms. Donna's clothes hold up well - the jeans didn't. Sad - very sad!

Linda
SE PA

Ralph said...

I know, Linda. What has the world come to?!