This not-so-old Arlo & Janis is from September of 2017. I think many of us can identify. I’m a big sheet man myself. By that I mean, I know good sheets when I encounter them. I can talk percale, Egyptian cotton, thread count, all that stuff. You see, I grew up in a town that, literally, produced some of the most highly regarded bed clothing in the country. I remember as a boy, my visiting aunts all would want to visit the factory outlet for bargains on high-quality bed linens, towels, too. I didn’t get it! My cousins and I thought it was so boring. I wish I could go there today. Of course, it is all gone.
Little Arlo in Slumberland
By Jimmy Johnson
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18 responses to “Little Arlo in Slumberland”
I’m a sheet man, too, Jimmy. I think thread count should start at 800 TPI; below that it should be expressed in grit.
Sheet snob myself. After sleeping on high thread count sheets, you can’t go back to the “sandpaper” feel that anything lower seems to have. Jimmy, did you grow up in Moulton AL?
Or just up the road from Auburn at West Point where that huge outlet was off of I-65?
Edit:
…..Sorry, I-85.
As it happens, I just saw a Sheex ad on TV last night, and was checking their website to find out the thread count. I couldn’t find where they tell the number, but they do have a whole page about thread count, basically saying it’s meaningless. They brag about the spaces between the threads of their fabric as allowing air circulation. I’m not sure I’d pay their price for air spaces. I’d definitely have to spend a few nights on them first.
Right now, my sheets are all microfiber, and very soft.
During Utah winters we have flannel sheets. Come summer, we switch to our best high-count linen sheets.
If you’re ever in a hospital or ER, and they offer you a blanket, what you’ll get is really a flannel sheet. Not that it matters, as long as it keeps you warm, but it’s nice to know.
I have always found that the warming blanket/sheet offered in a hospital is next to worthless. They are just too thin and incapable of even holding in my own body heat, much less supplying its own heat for more than a few seconds.
Flannel all year at home. Spent nights in sev motels this spring, sheets all seemed fine [= I hardly noticed].
Peace,
A mom to her son who had returned home on leave following USMC boot camp: “Was your bed comfortable?”
Son: “I really don’t know. Every time I was in it, I was sound asleep.”
Re 6-19-19 real-time cartoon: Bad Arlo!
At least it appears he did something right, judging by Janis’s afterglow. Before he killed it. 🙁
So when I buy new towels I end up with little thread balls (lint) on my body and the lint trap is full of them. Once they are washed and dried several times that tends to go away. Are we buying too cheap of towels?
Sleep? At this time of year, you can always watch this webcam instead. Barrow is 71 degrees N.* Arctic Circle is 67, so it’s in constant sunlight for a few weeks. *N-most pt. in USA.
https://explore.org/livecams/birds/arctic-snowy-owl-nesting-cam
Peace,
At one time, this town was full of factories. All but a couple are gone, and they are struggling.
Hard to believe that this place was once known as Glass City.
Birmingham, AL used to be known as the Magic City and was filled with all kinds of factories. Pollution controls and foreign competition drove most of the factories away, and these days the nickname is Murderham.
Sad. Very sad.
Even worse is the fact that it happened all across the country.
All this talk about sheets fails to address the innuendo of the actual cartoon. What did that change of scenery do for ya, Arlo?