{"id":573893300,"date":"2021-06-14T21:53:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T01:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893300"},"modified":"2021-06-16T00:26:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T04:26:27","slug":"these-look-fancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/06\/14\/these-look-fancy\/","title":{"rendered":"These look fancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I completed the last of my pocket square project. I have &#8230; way too many of these things now. But my breast pocket will always look colorful. It&#8217;s not quite homemade, not hardly bespoke and definitely not artisanal, but some of them will look good on me.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june21\/june18.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You know what I&#8217;ve learned recently? There isn&#8217;t a logical way to store and present pocket squares. The best option I&#8217;ve found so far involves rolling them all up. Think of a giant recipe box or a card catalog or something. Then again, I don&#8217;t think most people go into an accumulation stupor as I seem to have done. Just yesterday afternoon I added these eight to my collection. I&#8217;ve got the whole process down now, it takes very little time. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june21\/june19.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Good thing I&#8217;ve called the collection complete then, no? Most people think paisley is a gateway design, but I think it&#8217;s a moment of clarity. It says &#8220;You&#8217;ve used everything you like and you should stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the ones that I&#8217;ve made are all cotton. I could try my hand at making some silk squares &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerreeds.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>She said it, and I&#8217;d been thinking it, but listening to the cicadas has become a soothing thing. Seemed weird at first, and sure, if you find a big cluster it&#8217;s so loud it hurts. But if you&#8217;re hearing them from a distance, or from inside, the ebbs and flows have a certain enchantment.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VQxXqekBYQM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stay all summer, you guys. But stop trying to land on.<\/p>\n<p>That recording doesn&#8217;t do them justice. But I might be looping it a lot, anyway.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerreeds.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We took a nice and casual bike ride this evening. This is at a turnaround spot, just under two-thirds of the way through the route.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june21\/june20.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We go this way a lot. And it is easy, after a time, to know where you&#8217;ll drag and where it&#8217;ll feel like you are flying. And while it was more former than the latter, I managed to set six Strava segment PRs in that particular portion of the ride. <\/p>\n<p>So what we know is nothing, basically. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another installment of Barns By Bike, though. This has to be one of the nicest barns in the area. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june21\/june21.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I always wonder what is inside. I bet the floors are immaculate. I bet there isn&#8217;t the first streak on that glass. The glass alone should disqualify it from barn consideration. It&#8217;s probably less of a barn and more of a &#8220;Somebody finally got my spouse to agree to what I want&#8221; structure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I completed the last of my pocket square project. I have &#8230; way too many of these things now. But my breast pocket will always look colorful. It&#8217;s not quite homemade, not hardly bespoke and definitely not artisanal, but some of them will look good on me. You know what I&#8217;ve learned recently? 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