... it's 365 days of Florida sun beating down on it, changing its colors.
I keep old t-shirts around as seat covers in my car. Once they get too ratty / tattered on the seat, they get refurbished as cleaning rags.
I've kept a New England Revolution shirt as the driver side seat for several years now, and it's high time it gets changed out. The holes are starting to become pits and the inside is shredding to the point little cotton dust bunnies are roaming around my car.
Side note, allegedly lint from your dryer can be used as fire starter if you're out camping or need heat in your fire place at home. It's not to be confused with the stuff Amazon sells, as the website has boxes of pellets that look like lint but aren't (they're a mix of charcoal, pine and or other materials). It's pre-wrapped and ready to be sparked. Versus the stuff you scrape off your dryer trap, which is all the materials from your clothing, including hair and other nasties you might not want to think about. I've read that if you put a decent amount of a lint ball inside a (finished / used) toilet paper roll, it's got enough of a bang to allow you to save a couple pieces of small timber for your pit. It's almost the equivalent to using old newspapers to line the bottom of the fire and start cooking that way.
But I digress. I'm not going camping any time soon and my condo doesn't have a fireplace. So I don't need to save the cotton; I can rid the bunnies one dust buster cycle at a time.
I did want to show what years of sun can do for fading on things, though. Which is the whole point of this post.
I took various photos:
In the living room
In the guest room
and outside on the lanai
Just to show various light sources and that I wasn't trying to do any trickery.
It's so weird to see how the colors are transformed through out the shirt. You can tell at the sleeves and bottom of the shirt how dark the blue originally was, and how the constant sun has faded it to not a light blue, but a very well mutedly lighter shade of dark blue. Almost dirty dark blue. Some points are whiter than others in the natural light, but overall in the house, it looks like it needs a good washing.
My car is a 2013 Hyundai, and it's starting to show the fading on spots around the vehicle as well. The handles to open the doors, the internal seat belt "push" button is now a soft but very light salmon pink instead of a deep red. The Boston Red Sox decals are now a starched white instead of the red we're all used to.
It boggles my mind to see the slow creep of things fading into the past. I try to take good care of things, and the longer I seem to be keeping them, the more prone to slipping away they become.
Which is weird because I have one of those Himalayan pink salt lamps in my bedroom.
I've had it for at least six years already, if not more, and there's no sign of it wearing down. There are some spots where it's starting to clump off, but a simple brushing over it, solves everything. As if it's still brand new.
The night table that it's sitting on, is as old as I am. It's been sanded down and repainted so many times, I'm surprised it's still standing. I've got so many stickers on it, that it's a crazy advertisement for various bands, quotes, protests, and everything in between. I acquired them either from (band) promo days at a local (New England) music store (okay, Newbury Comics) or through various promotional advertisement with things I was looking in to at the time of receiving. With some of the bumper stickers (quotes), I found them to be inspiring. Or just cool and interesting. Or as an ally for friends and family.
I keep rambling off topic because I've got other things to post as far as pictures are concerned.
The other day I was in the passenger seat of the car and we drove through the resident side gate into my community. I always like to see who's got their Wi-Fi up and what my phone catches.
Well, there are some neighbors around the gate with pretty epic and weird sprays:
I did edit the generic ones out - like the security system the community uses. By the look of it, someone likes Dr. Seuss and I happened to not catch "Pink Fluffy Unicorn", which usually pops up every once in a while. Someone obviously has a Google Nest, but I don't know what the hell "The Chinese" is. Someone doing random Asian take away? Who knows. That's the first time I've seen that one. I tried Googling that "we piranha" one and have gotten mixed reviews. No one can really answer it, but it seems like it has to do with Comcast's modem.
The holidays are nearing closer and for those who love wine (my mother needs to pick up a bottle of Kosher wine to take to a house we might be going to), there's some pretty interesting wine bottle holders on the market. We have something similar to this table, but it doesn't hold glassware. It holds about a dozen bottles, all spaced out.
What got me thinking about the drinkies, was that I saw this holder in one of the stores the other day:
I thought it was different and rustic. I wish I got a different angle of it, so you can see the sides. But it's a giant bottle of wine (outline) that holds four bottles. I tried searching for a "wine bottle shaped wine rack", and all I got was this. Several different hits but mainly single holders or more than 4 bottles, holder. I wonder, for those who don't drink alcohol, if you can fit cola bottles in the spaces? 1 liter bottles or even two liters if you're lucky? I know racks exist for water and soda bottles / cans, but it makes me wonder if a wine rack can hold a thinner bottle of something else? I might have to try it on ours one day.
I feel like I have squirreled enough on today's post and have listed way too many odd things for one shot. So I will stop here and let everyone decompress. If you're not a wine drinker, there are other "Holiday gift ideas" on Amazon, but the first page is food, clothes and a couple gift cards.
Should you choose the snacks option, keep in mind, Christmas Calories Don't Count. Just be nice to one another.
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| Yes, that's a decal and a skeleton on my bathroom door. I keep them up year round. |
Until next time...
Cheers.
See also (photos taken / editing):
* All photos taken on an iPhone 11
* All editing done with Photoshop
Stickers on table:
* Bon Jovi promo sticker for Lost Highway
* Eleanor Roosevelt quoted bumper sticker: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
* Mickey Avalon promo sticker for Stroke Me
* (HRC) Equality sticker
* The OBX sticker is "Don't Drill off OBX". Not available on Amazon.
* Recycle decal
* "Tank" is from the Surf's Up movie
* Jiminy Cricket Umbrella sticker
* Spongebob Squarepants faces stickers
* Alien head sticker
* Union Jack sticker
* Australia flag sticker
* There's a JLab sticker that came with the Go Sport earbuds
* plus many more that are not in blurry background pictures
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