We have the best flannel sheets now--super soft and warm but not too warm. Also, we snuggle in our sleep but not all night!

FB just made me cry. I know my daughter is crossing the stage in May. I have been working on plans for the trip. No surprise, right? But I got a FB invitation from her to the commencement ceremony and instant tears.

I need to be less erratic regarding sheet washing. Some times they are washed every other week sometimes not quite so regularly.

My pool towel is one I got back when I was maybe 10, so that makes it over 25 years old. I liked my brother's better, but somehow left it in South Africa.

My favorite sheets at my family's house were the old ones, worn to silkiness, probably from their marriage. That's why I love the beech: it achieves that level of silky out of the package.

I have my grandmother's dishtowels. They are linen and embroidered by her and falling apart in places. But I have my grandmother's dishtowels.

Yeah, now I want to wash my sheets too.

Of course, yesterday, we slept on the sectional in front of the fire, in case of cold, but we needn't have, it was fine.

But I'm already tired now, and the SO isn't even close to coming home yet. It's probably wrong if I was asleep when he left, took a nap, and am asleep when he gets back, right? Yeah, I thought so. Dishes it is, then.

I can't impulse wash sheets right now, though. I should have impulse washed them earlier when we started talking about it, but I was impulse painting my nails. And then I had to take a bath so I could ease off the polish misses. You know, in contemplation, this has not been the most productive of days. An enjoyable one, though. That's okay, right?

I think I have most of mine. Throwing things out is not my strong suit.

t /haven't as many pairs of undies as msbelle, but a shocking amount

right now we have two set a super silky cotton and a tshirt set --- the last two sets we had until we put holes through them .

every two weeks in theory , but since I wash everything ( cat hair) it is as I can.

I have towels that were wedding gifts to my parents.

we snuggle more now than we did before . Dh wears lots of clothes in the winter , bt I am mostly alsways au natural

I have some sheets that are at least 40. My family has a saving problem.

See. I don't see this as a problem. Quite apart from the frugality thing, the older the fabric, the less skritchety, scratchety. I LOVE old, many-washed things.

In fact, my summer time sleep shirts are my exhusband's grey athletic ts that have been washed so many times, they are virtually transparent and more comfortable than skin. I can't sleep naked and these shirts are the next best thing.

Sue, the Danes call that grey "Isabella colored" since Isabella was known for not laundering her clothes until Ferdinand gave her the money to send Columbus across the ocean blue. I don't think it is a pejorative.

I have enormous bathsheets that I bought in 1995. They are still cream colored, but one has sprung a hole. So sad. I don't want new towels. These are just now broken in!

I have nothing to report on the sheet front.

However, I did go to North Beach this afternoon, where I...

1) Ate a most delicious roast pork sandwich at L'osteria; and

2) Browsed at City Lights for a good long time; and

3) Received a compliment on my pink Converse from a random teenage girl ("Dude! Those kicks are sweet!"); and

4) (most pleasant of all) Ran into Juliana!

Who promptly treated me to a drink at the Comstock Lode, and we chatted for 20 minutes and it was all delightfully serendipitous.

I have my grandmother's dishtowels.

Oh, yes. Me too. Plus, I have a set that I embroidered myself in the mid 70s. My choice of themes was less then sophisticated, but predictive none the less. You guessed it...puppies and kitties. I can't believe my step-mother allowed them in her kitchen.

I bought a new set of dish towels in the black and white theme of my kitchen. They were so thick and difficult to use, I now put them on the floor as thin little rugs and have gone back to the absolutely shameful linens of the last 60 odd years.

The virtues of old towels, I cannot sing highly enough. I have a stack next to the front door in the sort of neon colors that made the 70s notorious. They are disreputable and potentially seizure inducing, but they do the trick on the pooch's paws.

That's the great thing about stuff you don't care what happens too...it gets used the most!

The only sentimental linens I have are the remnants of the matching sheets and towels from when we got married, seventeen years ago. We were sleeping on a teeny tiny bed, and have never had that size bed again, but I still love them. I was thinking about repurposing the pillowcases or something.