Pink Afro Puff

Sak o' Sammies,
ground scores of the day

I'd like to add a gadget in my sidebar under my donation rotator called "Sak o' Sammies, ground score of the day." I thought of this last winter when I snagged a particularly well timed treasure from the snow. When I spotted it from the chair lift, I thought the brown paper sack might be a q.p. of "giggle twigs," "electric lettuce". When I got to it however, it turned out to be a Morman family size sack of sandwiches. I was super hungry. I zipped the sack into the front of my puffy coat and rode it down to the bottom of the lift, looking for its long lost family. The shuffling touron cattle snickered at my query, but no one claimed it. Ravenous lifties and I then tore into it like vultures. Voila! Ground score of the day.

I tend to score trash treasures daily. I believe and live wholeheartedly by the maxim, "waste not want not." Re-using is the greenest form of recycling. As a kid, I relished the whole Chronicles of Prydain series of books by Lloyd Alexander. In the novel "Taran the Wanderer," our hero meets a dude that lives off the land, not just as a farmer, but finds everything he needs, just within reach by opening his eyes and being creative and resourceful with all that is right there.

Can't say I scored, much today but 2 candy colored feathers to add to the collection of such feathers I've sewn on my roomie's hat. We started this collection at the Phish show at the Gorge this summer. There were a lot of stray feathers from hottiepies' moopy feather boas. We picked them up, smashed, broken, stray, full of dirt, doing our part to keep our gorgeous surroundings tidy. To our suprise and delight, the wind fluffed and cleaned those suckers right nice while tucked into Joel's hat band. So I sewed them on later, to keep them on there.

Here are some links about "moop" if you are unfamiliar with the word:
http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/moop/
http://tmonsta.livejournal.com/130163.html
http://www.burningman.com/environment/playa_restoration/2007_moop_map.html
http://www.burningman.com/environment/playa_restoration/line_sweep.html
Burning man is the biggest Leave no Trace gathering in the world. Glastonbury Fest is perhaps the original. Read their history, its groovy.
Most memorable moop scores of the summer: Pink afro puff found at the trash fence at Burning Man '09. Then, do you believe, another afro puff, brown this time, rolled right into Joel's lap at Lovelution SF a month later! The wind was epic both score days. Those wigs just go airborne I guess.

I must mention one more item on this note, the Montery Bay Decorator Crab.
I got to watch one of these cute critters in their natural habitat during my first and only cold water dive. I worked briefly for AquaSafaris in Santa Cruz. I went on a group dive with them as a perk of the job. It is a very different experience, diving Monterey Bay, to say the least, than diving in Tropical waters, say in Thailand.
Thanks for the Photo, Shawn DeArmond.