Barn Pixie

So, to replace the wallet the raccoons stole from the car, I have This Fabulous Thing!! It is Really Really ORANGE.

I have to admit I was torn between this one and the pink one, but I was sucked in by the orange. I was hoping for a kind of Christo orange, and this is much more international orange, or highway cone orange, but it works really well. The velcro is solid, the folds are good, there is room for lots more $$ than I actually have in the $$ compartment (plus it will fit foreign currencies that are different aspect ratios), and all the cards I need fit into the various slots. I can even fit the tiny booklet I made to keep track of my finances. And Al gave me a new pen to keep in it, to replace the ones the raccoons have. The coffee shop replaced my card with 10 coffees on it. Life is looking up again in the wallet department.

It is funny what you want from a wallet. It has to open and close and hold things, but the stuff you put in is pretty personal. I guess both universal and personal. You kind of want it to fit in the same pocket the old one did, and not get hung up in your pockets or have loose flappy bits that are aggravating. I looked all over town, and all over the intertubes to find this one. I followed other people's recommendations, and couldn't understand what they saw in them. It got really frustrating. I'm pleased with this one, and with luck it will last another 35 years.

If you click on the second Christo link, it takes you to Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Valley Curtain site, and you can see that the curtain was designed by Mitko Dimiter Zagoroff and John Thomson. That is my dad. John, not Mitko. I remember them putting a model of the valley in a wind tunnel and making different curtains and testing various anchor points, and figuring out how to hold a cocoon around it closed until they wanted it to open (crochet!! of course). I saw it unfurl in Colorado. That was pretty cool.

Anyhow - new wallet, working well.