Flypaper thoughts Comfort Inn edition

• Five days on the road now
• Currently in Georgia, tomorrow in a state park in Florida, in Panama City
• Been pretty chilly
• Tour director says if we stay in the rv it has to be without water
• Pipes freezing etc.
• Mommy doesn't do no water
• So it's been road side Comfort Inns because they take multiple dogs no problem
• Have Miss Daisy with us and Birdie, my son's dog who is on to relocation in Austin
• At night I go and walk the treadmills in the hotel "exercise rooms" to unkink

This is the team as documented by the tour director whenever I leave the room at night:

• No need to ever ask me why I have a dog
• Who says older women are invisible?
• Do you know it is possible to order a significant amount of fabric on an iPhone with a dog wrapped in a blanket on your lap
• With a pillow on that lap
• The blanket and the pillow and the head under my elbow is so someone can pretend she is not where she is
• Hang on guys
• We're parking soon and Benny is at the other end of this trip Birdie
• You just hang on
• Listen
• Whatever are the Big Four going to do?
• Four pattern companies now owned by one entity
• So many patterns that already look identical
• I am waiting for the call
• Even got my phone plugged into the front of the car just in case
• Waiting for them to call and ask me what to do
• You'd help me out
• Well, I would say, maybe you can start with the instructions
• Like stop telling new sewers to staystitch knit necklines
• Or make basting stitches and ease in sleeves in T shirts
• Try writing the word serger in
• And stop listing "faille" as a suggested fabric on the back
• You don't even remember what that fabric is
• Admit it
• And how about not having all the coats unlined so a sewist has to figure that out herself
• If Google doesn't stop changing sewist to sexist
• I may just have to stop Googling
• That would show them
• I'm going to be adding to the list all night in my head
• Of what the Big Four should do
• In case they find where they put my number
• My husband did a DIY security system
• An iPhone and thermometer pointed at the front door from the inside
• He gets an alert when someone moves and he checks it out
• Did that man duct tape this to my china cabinet
• Don't even have to ask
• Best not to picture that
• So far we can report that the relatives are coming and going
• As expected
• Some are studying in the quiet
• Some sleeping over after concerts
• Is that mail on the table?
• Decided he isn't going to respond to the alerts any more
• Turns out home security is a violation of privacy
• Do you know that instead of packing enough underwear
• I packed enough fabric to make enough underwear
• I am pretty sure I am going to get a cowboy hat in Texas
• Miss Scarlett says sure Babs just don't say my name out loud when you wear it
• She is growing up
• Kind of too bad
• Her sister and brother will think I am beyond cool
• 6 and 3 are good ages
• Gee I love these trips
• Except the no kids part
• Apart from that every minute of it
• The truck stop where they pack up six rolls with two chicken pot pies to go
• Two days' supper out of that one meal
• The fact I know every place a dog can pee between the giant plastic peach in Georgia and the Canadian border
• Seeing other's peoples homes flash by my window
• What are their stories?
• This week it was 25 years since my wonderful dad died
• On the exact anniversary the phone rang
• He won a prize from the gas company
• His name is still on the bill 
• A quarter of a century later he is still lucky
• A sign says my mother
• Of course this is dad
• Kind of comforting
• Next week going to fly back to Winnipeg for her 90th
• Having a party
• Here's a list of my friends she said
• Over a 100 people
• Turns out nearly all can come
• We are renting extra coat racks
• You've been to Winnipeg in January?
• Those policemen on Portage Avenue still wear buffalo coats?
• If they do we are going to need those coat racks
• I think we had better roll some extra sandwiches too
• We are all wearing fascinators
• Google it if you are too young
• And if you are still Googling
• Not out in protest
• Haven't worn a fascinator since we put on white gloves for church
• And felt particularly fasicinating
• About 800 years ago when I was 8
• Apparently 90 feels the same as 8
• Kind of comforting too
• And to finish, another picture
• The one I told my daughter I wouldn't show
• She's far away right
• Jalie's wonderful pyjama pattern on Christmas morning in some nice thick flannelette
• Pretty beautiful daughter for someone who was up early with three kids I thought:

•  I never looked this good when it was me