Our house is about 150 years old and we dug down to the dirt floor in one of the downstairs rooms. We found suspicious white bits, and had to send a sample off. Luckily it came back clear. It was unlikely anyway, as asbestos wasn't in widespread use here in the 19th century.
However, we do have corrugated asbestos roofing on our "scullery" but it's in one piece so can be left until we renovate that part, then disposed of safely. It's pretty common to find it on sheds and outbuildings here.
My girl cat slept on top of me all night. I'm now hurting from not being able to change position while sleeping. (I guess I could have moved, but she's too sweet to disturb)
Michael Hobbs reading the bit where JD questions his sexuality cracks me up.
It's starting to get cold here, which means more cat cuddles!
Thank you for your dedication to the search. I love this.
Well hello!
Love that the "eyeliner flick" is on the opposite side.
Yeah, I was quite surprised by this as I'm so used to how capitalism ruins everything.
https://adirondackgirlatheart.com/feed-sack-fabric/
This is what I read and it was a shock to me that companies not only improved the quality of the cloth when they realised people made garments from sacks, but also strove to provide fashionable designs and wash-off labels. There are some really gorgeous prints on here.
Nowadays, it feels like they would make the original packaging more coarse, then sell the product with nicer packaging at a premium, whilst making sure their logo was indelible.
Thank you for sending me down a delightful little rabbit hole looking into this
I thought someone might have already shared this...
It was in the comments on another post a few weeks ago and I ended up watching the whole thing.
There is also a good You're Wrong About podcast episode on this.
Someone I know was working with a person who has a therapy dog. Apparently the dog is trained to understand when they become overwhelmed and just sit on them. It sounds like it has a similar mechanism to these techniques.