Flypaper thoughts Fall edition

• OK I admit it
• We are into fall
• No going back until we go through the ice and snow thing
• Went with my husband overnight to a job site he had to check up on in the country
• "If you go for a walk, stay on the roads"
• There's the bears
• Of course the coyotes
• And it is hunting season
• In rural Nova Scotia that means stay inside
• The hunters apparently are not able to distinguish a tall woman in a shocking pink jacket from a deer
• Something I am sure the bears and coyotes can do
• In case you think I am one of those bloggers who talks about sewing but doesn't actually do it
• That is not the case
• The spouse has taken over supervision of the late-father-in-law's chair
• You know the sturdy model A Lazy boy the FIL sat in for 40 years
• The one I have been trying to drag to the curb ever since I inherited it
• Apparently everyone's favourite most comfortable chair
• This thing has 87 parts and each part has 9000 staples
• I had plans to sew silk pants this weekend
• Instead I have been working for a foreman who says things like
• "You sewed the curved piece to the straight piece instead of the straight piece to the curved piece"
• I am not enjoying this
• I have been trying to sneak the 87 parts to the curb
• Nothing doing
• Laugh of the weekend was "Now we know how we can do this we can do this again if we want another colour"
• Yes well
• The next wife can do that
• This one is about to down tools
• Reminds me of someone who I used to work with
• He was a genius, someone you stood in awe of
• He had doing absolutely nothing down to a fine art
• It actually takes a lot of effort and brains to never do anything at work for an entire career
• How many of us could actually do that?
• So easy to slip up and forget and complete an action item
• So easy to make the call at least out of boredom
• It takes a tremendous amount of self-control to never lift a finger for decades
• Whenever you cornered this guy with a task he would say
• "I would rather stick needles in my eyes than do that"
• I realize now he was speaking of upholstery 
• Hunting season makes me think of a woman I knew in Newfoundland
• Her husband was RCMP in the middle of nowhere
• Which no offense covers a fair amount of that province
• Every fall they would go the pair of them into the woods
• To hunt moose
• "I cut her in half and tie one half of the moose to me and the other half to Joan and we haul her out"
• The rest of the time Joan sold embroidery machines
• When I am gone no one in the family will have known folks like that
• Best the kids are going to do is one day know someone who keeps five urban chickens and blogs about it
• Yes I am aware of the irony 
• Speaking of hunting
• Which is worse you think?
• The sight of mouse poop behind the bed or the sight of a nice little mouse in a trap
• Who can blame them it's getting cold outside
• Those crack canine operators around here are falling down on the job
• Least they could have done is wake up
• I mean I can cut cheese up ten miles away and they hear it
• You know silk pants would have been pretty nice this weekend
• It's getting cold outside

Lobster pots in a yard in rural Nova Scotia