The Legs Fall Off If You Move It

This is my first actual day off in six weeks, and killing busy again starting tomorrow, so I’m going to give you folks many pictures and few words.  Other things on the agenda for today:  1.  Much sleep (already achieved in two parts — first 9 hours, and then 3 hours, broken up by a drowsy viewing of “Yours, Mine and Ours” starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda; 2.  Drinking coffee and eating cold fried chicken for a brunch-y type thing on the patio on a cool fall … WTF IS THIS TEMPERATURE??  Is it 90 degrees out here?  Bleh.  Back inside.  3.  Sitting still next to whichever kitties are willing to be sat next to, for as long as they will allow.  Poor babies have been sorely lacking attention.  4.  Quick blog post, sentences not required.  5.  Piddling around, doing whatever the hell I want.

Here’s the skeleton the Texas Art Asylum entered in the Siege of the Skeletons at Houston’s Health Museuam.  He’s called “I’ve Got the Music in Me”.  Paper mache, with a top coat of old sheet music for the DJ, vent hood filter and clothes drying rack, scrap particle board circles and two old records for the turntable and stand.  Looks great! 

Trip to NC for ReuseConex was great.  Cool to meet so many folks in this new-to-me business.  There were lots of folks just starting out, one lady with a very sad story after 10 years, and a few with 20+ years of operation under their belts (NY, San Francisco and NC), so where’s everybody in the middle?  Does this indicate a fruit fly life cycle for startups, or are the 2-15 year old reuse centers just too busy or broke to make their way to the meeting?

Food in steerage on Continental flights no longer free, but $5 will get you this. 

And, on a plane this small, it’s all steerage.

Back in Houston, we cranked out a few ill-tempered Halloween decor items.  The Halloween Tree looks better in person, with creative reuse of a cruddy old xmas tree, some pretty hideous artificial flowers, and the requisite doll head.  Under $20, including paint.

This is pretty creepy.   Old photo, cool old shell and glass buttons, perle cotton, old candlesticks and really gross old candles.  Total cost, under $15, and most of that is for the buttons.

Also fresh in my mind from ReuseConex is the very slow Greening of Houston, and how far behind this city is in a lot of important ways.  For our part, we have stopped using paper towels and drinking bottled water at home.  Pretty much everybody agrees that plastic water bottles are the devil.  However, a plastic water bottle does prevent unfortunate scenes like this.

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