Did you know you should only wash down with special cleaning solutions such as "down wash" right? I am just checking because many people think you can wash with regular detergent or woolite. When you wash with detergent you are affecting the loft of the feathers. What keeps you warm in the coat is that the feathers create spaces by repelling each other. After washing with reg detergent a down coat might be destroyed. the feathers lay smashed thus the coat will be colder. :( that is also why it is never a good idea to buy a used down coat unless you know the person and know that they use the correct cleaning products.
The amazing thing about this coat is, it's still very, very warm. I think the compartments are watertight--they don't breathe. Which may not be the way a true down coat is supposed to work, but surely if this thing had polyester in it, it would have lumped and died years ago? I kid you not, Kit, this coat is 25 years old.
I have a blimpcoat! Laine gave it to me years ago, result of her "retail therapy" habit of shopping. not as long as yours, and unnoticeably black, but warm, warm, none the less.
I don't have a blimpcoat but I have a maroon and ochre flannel pullover shirt that comes out whenever I feel flu-ish or chilled. It makes me look like . . . well, something I can't even label, but wotthehell, it's warm and soft. So yep, I understand.
I have a pretty blue quilted jacket from (believe it or not) Holyclothing, which is currently my go-to winter coat. It's large enough to layer underneath, and has kept me warm in blizzard weather.
I just found out about Holy Clothing, and will definitely check them out when I am flush for new shirts.
(I still have the old magic. I can't get to my winter clothing in the storage shed--can't lift that much for several more weeks--so had to finally get a new jacket after 17 years. My friend's cat found it with no trouble while we were elsewhere in the house!) Hope to get to blimpcoat before traveling north.
I have been treating myself to a reread of Spiral Path. Most satisfying. I'm still surprised about Esme - she is not like I had guessed she would be at all! I do hope that we will see more of her (and Shaw) and I am also longing to learn more of the Glenngarseea.
I am glad that Esme is not what you expected. It's part of the family line's strength--they are not what either their potential allies or enemies expect! Yes, she will be back, and Shaw, and the glen--Allie has a few more adventures in cities to splice into her life before she returns to the forests for adulthood. So glad you enjoyed it. Some people do not get it in the sequence. But Allie cannot know what she wants if she doesn't see other places, other possible lives.
I wish I could promise an Allie book next year, but I've been doing the last gasp (I hope) of bad health left from Life, Interrupted and other medical adventures. I am rolling along with a longish Allie short story, but it takes place twenty years in the future. So some people may not want to read it yet! (I explain it as, you may think you know what will happen--but you don't know *how* it happened. That will eventually be revealed. So, a peek into the future tells you how a Seer feels...)
But yes, a new Allie book should start rolling soon...
Good luck with your health. Lyme is a rat-bastard. I've just been gifted with a mysterious new allergy ... possibly to some sort of food. Not a good time of the year for that! Yay Allie doing more travels. I presume that the orange cat will also be in her environs. (not WITH her. Cats are too independent - just ask them!)
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But it has been washed once in 25 years.
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(I still have the old magic. I can't get to my winter clothing in the storage shed--can't lift that much for several more weeks--so had to finally get a new jacket after 17 years. My friend's cat found it with no trouble while we were elsewhere in the house!) Hope to get to blimpcoat before traveling north.
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I wish I could promise an Allie book next year, but I've been doing the last gasp (I hope) of bad health left from Life, Interrupted and other medical adventures. I am rolling along with a longish Allie short story, but it takes place twenty years in the future. So some people may not want to read it yet! (I explain it as, you may think you know what will happen--but you don't know *how* it happened. That will eventually be revealed. So, a peek into the future tells you how a Seer feels...)
But yes, a new Allie book should start rolling soon...
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Yay Allie doing more travels. I presume that the orange cat will also be in her environs. (not WITH her. Cats are too independent - just ask them!)
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