365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Brocade
Day 78: I've never won anything at a lottery, never got a prize at Bingo, and if there are 60 attendees at an event and a door prize for each one, my name will invariably be the last one called. I don't have bad luck. I simply don't have any luck at all. That said, I do know some tricks to work a silent auction, and therefore was able to score the one item I coveted when it was offered at the Park Christmas party. This sumptuous piece of heavy Thai brocade (fiber content unknown) is a shawl approximately 44" x 80", and was begging to be part of Capt. Morgan Corbye's wardrobe. I managed to walk away with it for a mere $12. As her official biographer, it would have been unseemly for me to have failed to present the Captain with a gift. Even pirates enjoy Christmas.
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