Cajun Corner - Vol 1 No 22

Cajun Corner – Vol. 1, No. 22 – OCTOBER 30, 2009


Bon Jour! Welcome to Cajun Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.

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Poor George has had some major dental work done recently, which means that I’ve been sitting in the reception area reading all of the magazines. I noticed that there is a new trend, especially for travelers, of a bed bag or dream sack. It is a bag/sack the size of the top of the bed, made of sheeting fabric, some advertise silk, with a pillow pouch. Some do not have the pillow pouch and are intended to simply lay over the hotel bed, pillow and all. The purpose is for times when you stay in a hotel and you are concerned about hygiene. Instead of sleeping under their bedding, you sleep in your bed sack. Two sides are open. I guess it’s like a very large sleeping bag but not as bulky and no zippers. Here is one of the advertisements:

“Suspicious of hotel bedding? Pack your own silk DreamSack®. Those hotel sheets may look clean, but you're wise to be wary. Best bet: Pack a soft, luxurious DreamSack in your bag (it stuffs into its own 8 x 4 x 1" pouch). 100% silk keeps you cool and dry in the summer, and warm when the temperature drops. DreamSack has a built-in pocket for a pillow, and a side opening that closes with tab fasteners. Machine washable; quick drying. (93 x 69")”

I wonder if anyone would be interested in these sacks. Of course, they can be personalized. I have seen them from $25 to Hundreds of dollars. If anyone is interested in this, let me know and I will do further research and come up with a price. It really is a shame that we have to be so wary of hotel linens.

Speaking of bedding and sheets, did you know that not all Egyptian cotton is luxurious. The fabulous Egyptian cotton that you hear about comes from one specific area of Egypt. The good ole USA has a cotton of equal quality called PIMA.

Also, the higher the thread count on bedding is not necessarily the better. A really good thread count is 300-400, maybe even 500. Above those figures is a rip off. The way I understand it is that they count the threads on the warf and weft (up and down, and side to side) per inch to arrive at the thread count. There simply is just so much that can be placed into a one inch square. After about 400 threads, the math becomes fuzzy and the count starts to double and sometimes triple due to multi-ply. The multi-ply is simply twisted threads that are counted in multiples and are not as strong and luxurious as single ply. Be careful out there looking for high thread counts when purchasing bedding.

By the way, Cajun Stitchery now has GIFT CERTIFICATES. The gift certificates are in any denomination that you like. Give them for birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, whatever the occasion. Have you ever wanted to give a gift but you just weren’t sure what the person wanted? Give a gift certificate to assure they receive a gift of their liking. Are you giving a gift of a towel or shirt? You’d like to personalize it but you really don’t know if the recipient would prefer their name or initials. Give the gift with a gift certificate and we can personalize it anyway they want. Unlike the gift cards that cost you $5 or so just for the card and then the amount for the recipient, there is no extra or hidden charge for these gift certificates, except for sales tax if you live in Florida.

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The phone rings in Iberia Parish Emergency Services and the new girl answers her first call exactly as trained.

“Emergency Services, dis is Marie, what’s the nature of your emergency?”

An excited voice yells, “MARIE, DIS IS BOUDREAUX. ME AN’ OLD MAN JOHN IS SQUIRREL HUNTIN’ BY DA BAYOU. JIST NOW OLD MAN JOHN, HE DROP HIS GUN, HE GRAB HIS CHESS, AND HE FALL DOWN. HE FLOP AROUND A BIT, BUT NOW HE’S REAL STILL – MARIE, I TINK HE BE DEAD. I GOT MY CELL PHONE AND CALL. WHAT I GOTTA DO?”

Marie replied using her most calming and reassuring voice just as she was trained to do. “Mr. Boudreaux, calm down. You’ve done the right thing. We’ve handled things like this many times before. Now this sounds like a possible heart attack with victim dead. Sheriff Thibodeaux made up a list of things to do in this situation. You and I will just work our way through the list and everything will be all right. Are you with me Mr. Boudreaux?”

“Yeah, okay”, Boudreaux replied in an anxious voice.

“Good. Now the first thing on the list is,” Marie said still in her calming voice, then reading, “Make sure the victim is dead … that means --.”

But Marie got no further. She heard the phone hit the ground, then a metallic clank, followed by a loud BOOM. Her ears were still ringing when Boudreaux got back on the phone.

“Okay. Now what?” Boudreaux asked.

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French phrase of the week: joliment (adv.) very; pretty much. Ça va joliment bien aujourd'hui. (It's going pretty well today.)

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Fall is ending and you are getting ready for the first frost but you still have green tomatoes on the vine, what do you do to ripen the green tomatoes? Pinch off all remaining flowers. The flowers are not going to make it to maturity anyway.

There is controversy over pruning the suckers on the tomato vine. I definitely remove the suckers. It just seems to make the plant healthier and produce more. My theory is that if it doesn’t look picture perfect, get rid of it. If a leaf is turning brown or spotted – I remove it. Whatever doesn’t look perfect is usually removed from all of my plants.

Use soap in your garden. It gets rid of the little mites and stuff in there. The soap is sticky and the bad stuff gets stuck and washed away.

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C’est tout, mes amis

Peggy Henshall

Cajun Stitchery

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cajunstitchery@yahoo.com

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