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When this whole COVID-19 Coronageddon Work-From-Home thing started a few months ago I tried to look on the bright side and thought: "I'm going to have plenty of extra time to roll cigars, formulate new pipe blends..." etc. Then crushing reality sunk in; busier than ever work wise and, because I'm home all the time, I didn't have any excuses to put off that ever growing list of honey-do's, home maintenance, and misc projects. I haven't rolled a single cigar in over two months! My humidor is almost empty! Has anyone else found themselves in a similar position???

As examples, just the past three weekends I've:

Built a Koi Pond where the old Fig Tree used to be,
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Repainted Thing #1's bedroom (he moved out a few weeks ago and the wife called Dibs! on his room before I could, thus the Lemon Curd Yellow color)
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Built a Cat tree for Thing #1's kitten Maple.
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I'm definitely rolling this week come hell or high water!
 
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GreenDragon said:
When this whole COVID-19 Coronageddon Work-From-Home thing started a few months ago I tried to look on the bright side and thought: "I'm going to have plenty of extra time to roll cigars, formulate new pipe blends..." etc. Then crushing reality sunk in; busier than ever work wise and, because I'm home all the time, I didn't have any excuses to put off that ever growing list of honey-do's, home maintenance, and misc projects. I haven't rolled a single cigar in over two months! My humidor is almost empty! Has anyone else found themselves in a similar position???

As examples, just the past three weekends I've:

Built a Koi Pond where the old Fig Tree used to be,
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Repainted Thing #1's bedroom (he moved out a few weeks ago and the wife called Dibs! on his room before I could, thus the Lemon Curd Yellow color)
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Built a Cat tree for Thing #1's kitten Maple.
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I'm definitely rolling this week come hell or high water!
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Well at least you where home. Me, I spent the whole 5 weeks in Hospital, that's where I was when we done the lockdown thingy. Still it was all good, I got all the attention as I was just about the only patient.
Cheers Oldfella
 
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Hmmm. Nobody to tell me what to do. Nobody to blame. I'll have to take full responsibility for this. The buck stops here.

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These Wrangler jeans are so old that they were made from heavy denim. They are so old that they have two extra belt loops in the back. They are so old, that the fabric is now suffering from numerous comorbidities, and at high risk of severe failure.

The neatly bound patch (from last year) was an attempt to make an obvious patch seem less covert and desperate. A week ago, I had to patch the patching. I used fabric glue to apply a patch (on the left) to both the inside and outside, then reinforced it with stitching. Once the glue was well cured, I threw these jeans into the washing machine and then the drier. So far, so good.

But then, within a day of wear, the thigh of the right leg began to fray. I have no idea why my jeans wear out on the front of the thighs. Only the very old jeans do this. It's not from kneeling, since the knees are just fine. But gradually, the fabric on the front of the thighs (maybe from machine agitation or tumbling, maybe from the stress of being pulled onto my legs, who knows...) becomes so threadbare that it just disintegrates. Now, these are at least 20 years old--likely older.

So my next patch was not glued (no fabric glue remaining). An internal patch was stitched to an external patch, and then that outside patch was stitched around its perimeter. Sounds straightforward. Just stitch a patch onto the leg. But to do each patch requires that I get out the seam ripper, and split the stitching of the inner leg seam for about 15 inches--and it's a double-stitched seam. Then all the gazillion tiny bits of cut stitches have to be picked out, the patch(es) applied, then the leg seam pinned back together and re-stitched.

So even though I am a survivor of fabric fatigue, I have voluntarily stepped up to the plate, taken matters into my own hands, and now proudly wear these venerable jeans once again.

Bob
 
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