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Autumn Preventive Measures.

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My 1990 Made in the USA Boy Scout knife is still coming in handy.

I’ve read a few accounts of the center pages (and, in one case, even six sets of pages!) falling out of the center of a Field Notes Autumn Trilogy notebook. This is certainly not unheard of, if you’ve ever used a Two Rivers book. I am rough on my notebooks, and I tend to use them for “important” (to me) notes and scribbles. So the idea of pages falling out makes me not want to use them. And that would be a shame. They are gorgeous books, and I do not collect notebooks besides. So I found some cotton string in orange in my kids’ craft supplies, took my old Boy Scouts of American knife (that I won for selling the most Trails End Popcorn in 1990), and I got to work making sure that my pages do not fall out. *I should note that none of my pages have fallen out yet! I just started this notebook this morning and won’t hit the staples for another day or two.* Details follow.

First you stab yonder book with your awl. Be careful not to stab yourself in the leg. Or arm. Or stomach. Seriously. Don’t mess around.
Get your string or thread through yonder holes. I used the awl for one and a pencil for the other. Neither of these points worked very well, and I’d avoid them if I were you. There has to be a better tool for pushing thread through like that.
The orange blends so well that it almost looks like I planned this.
Tie yourself a nice square knot — tightly, but not too tightly, lest you make the holes bigger. I did that.
Carefully trim yonder excess thread, unless you’re into that (and that’s cool, man, that’s cool).
You’re ready to write and roll.

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