Nothing has to stay how it's been.  Can be completely different.  And maybe only for a day.  Or,   The Time Being, and then can change again,  change Back or to something else entirely.  Even very small things.  

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i like to keep the very SMALL scraps in shallow flat baskets.  Easier to see.   But as i am still pinning and drying all those Cat Hair scraps with no end in sight,  i realize i don't want to do that again.  And no matter how i try,  those flat shallow baskets will forever appeal to Tazmeena.   I'd rather do other things with hours of any day.  

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and still,  in keeping with Dana's THINKING on organization,  i had freed this basket from the shelf in the bathroom.  It had been full of outdated things….Bach Flower Remedys from years ago,  old travel soap containers,  hair clips that i haven't used in YEARS,  Neosporin tubes with exp. date of 2010.  Ok,  i have an empty basket.  What to do with the basket?  Does it have a New use here?

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ok…it's Deep and not any kind of place that would appeal to Tazmeena,  but also is deep and not good for looking at very small scraps.  Deep enough to keep them clean,  but too deep to really See them.    Thinking about this, 

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thinking about this,  my attention was pulled to the very Large flat basket that normally is just standing on edge against  the vent of the swamp cooler doing Nothing except disguising the vent of the swamp cooler.  Kind of a purpose,  i guess

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but it's Big and i thought that i could take out handfulls of the very small scraps and put them there to look through and maybe make something of or not, but maybe and i could then put them back in the Deeper basket and prop this one back up to disguise the swamp cooler.

It really can go any way at all.  It really can go any way at all,   for a minute,  for a day,  for a year, for for for

Things can be Anything

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18 responses to “funny thoughts”

  1. Dana Avatar

    One of the hard things about upsetting the status quo is that everything must be rethought. Stuff that was forgotten or on auto-pilot must be dragged into the light of day and considered. That is how it gets re-energized, but its certainly easier to let it lay. If the wide/deep basket combination doesn’t work, something else will. Maybe net bags could be hung somewhere? They would keep at least some of the fabrics visible, while preventing Cat Bed Syndrome.

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  2. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    So many beautiful scaps of fabric…oh the possibilities. Is it possible to find a place that Tazmeena would prefer…maybe a basket of felted wool scraps? What is a swamp cooler?

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Bach remedies and homeopathic remedies don’t actually have expiration dates. They stay potent for years unlike herbals. That said, I love looking at your basket scraps. Maybe you could have a hanging three tier wire mesh thing and put baskets in it, but do leave Tasmena a basket for her alone. A cat in a basket is worth two in the hand 🙂

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  4. julie Avatar

    I am with Tina: what is a swamp cooler??

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  5. dee Avatar

    I organized one of our medicine cabinets and threw out quite a few items with expiration dates in the 90’s! Yikes. I like clementine boxes for small scraps… but I suppose those would appeal to a feline companion, too?

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  6. beth Avatar

    With 4 cats, I do understand this. Even if they are not sleeping on your stuff the fur gets everywhere. I still use baskets a lot, but when I am not actively using them I cover them with old cloth napkins. Easy enough to whisk the cloth off and shake it outside once in a while, or wash just the one cloth. You’ll find something that works for you.

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  7. Liz Avatar

    What if you were to nest your wide baskets of cloth scraps, one inside another, topped by a basket lined with a Tazmeena-cloth to keep her fur from sifting down into the baskets below … just a thought

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  8. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    these are all good suggestions. . .my cat/fabric problems are different. . .we have chairs that are definitely meant for the humans of the household and have to hold negotiations for them when we want to sit down in the evening. . .I have one kitty boy who thinks he outranks my son in this, and lately he has been challenging me a bit. ‘have had to reassert a dash of control though I don’t agree with the alpha female model much. and then there is that creative energy that is being discussed around the web. . . . .if I begin to use something, even as simple as the cord that links camera to computer, same cat gets interested and moves or hides said object. . . . .I don’t know his hiding places yet, which can be pretty whimsical. . .so I play it cool and wait for the item to re-materialize. this co-creation business is for the birds.

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  9. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    I don’t think I could ever blog because we’d have to have a committee meeting and assign tasks for each post. hard to do when your co-creators sleep 20 hours of the day.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am answering this on Thursday just after posting and it is
    even MORE relevant in this moment than it was when i first read
    your words two days ago.
    Status quo. Everything must be rethought.
    Yes. Your thoughts here…very very much Yes.
    how we would like to think of things in terms of CatBedSyndrome when it’s more than that

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s the Place Where The Morning Sun hits. So i have given over
    a flat basket to her and i check and see where she might like in that early sun. Soon, it will become warm and she no longer will want
    to lie on that counter in any basket. It changes. Changes with the Season.
    a swamp cooler is the most efficient cooling system in DRY HOT areas of the world. It’s like a FAN that whirls as a small amount of water drips down the sides of the box that contains the fan. There are panels in the sides…can be shredded aspen or can be some kind of synthetic stuff, plasticy, that as the water runs down these side panels, that must be replaced every year, the whirring of the fan causes evaporation and so, Cooling of the air that is blown in. It’s off for the cold months. in about May, i’ll need to get it all going again and will take pics of that then. It’s really quite wonderful and efficient but only works in places that basically have no humidity.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    Tazmeena deserves her choice of space. Just not ALL spaces. So
    we work at compromise.
    and i’d forgotten that…thank you for saying….that the Bach
    remedies do not expire…to late for this moment, but i will remember now. I need the same remedy off and on over and over. I read
    through the book yesterday again, and yup, same thing. It’s just me. So I’ll get some more and remember this time your words.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    see above, dear You

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    it would. it would appeal Very Much.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. i’ll find something. I don’t like to cover them because then
    i can’t “hear” the scraps mumbling

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    need to be spread out

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    no…no alpha Anything, but really, we all live together and
    i am very care FULL to mind THEIR space, so feel like it’s ok
    to take care of my own needs.
    I rinsed the final batch of washed scraps this afternoon and there still are a billion that need to be hung and dried which takes
    TIME and this is time while dear and beloved Tazmeena is snoozing

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. the differences. the differences make a difference.

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