- Really nice day walking around San Antonio Texas with my husband in a newly acquired cowboy hat and Daisy in a stroller
- Yes he did
- It was hot and he needed a hat
- And the next thing I knew
- Suits him actually
- Have you ever been there?
- The downtown is like a limestone surface of streets
- And walk down some stairs and it's Venice
- River walks, sidewalks along narrow water no guardrails
- Really like Venice
- Who would have thought?
- It was so beautiful I held myself back
- Didn't suggest we find that fabric store
- Filed that away in my personal account as a behavioural credit
- Sure to be cashed in
- Do you know there are roads in Texas that have an 85 mph speed limit
- How good are you at serging in clear elastic in shoulders?
- Working on a new top in the rv
- Always tape my shoulders to stabilize but should do the elastic
- When I try it I cut it into ribbons
- Just lay in down and serge over it says Trudy
- It lies down on her serger but jumps up on mine
- Exactly the sort of thing I am in the rv to work out
- In private and in another country
- So if it takes forever to do right
- We can keep it to ourselves
- Interesting top
- Sort of flared with pockets
- For some reason it reminds me so much of one of the little bags old ladies have for clothespins
- Like I wish I had
- You know the ones with the bias binding that hang on a hanger
- Well this one is going to hang on me
- I am going to find it very handy when I hang out the wash at home
- There is a man in this state park who rides a recumbent bike
- He has a pole mounted across the back
- And two Dobermans attached one at each end
- Sort of like propellers on a plane
- They fly around here while he whispers to them
- Never have seen his wife yet
- Probably in the camper wondering how she got here in her life
- So glad I am not the mother with five small kids in a tent
- Or do I wish I was
- On second thought not sure
- Pretty sure about the man on the recumbent bike
- Lots of DYI around here but none involving flying dogs
- Yet
- More like cooing to Daisy in a dog stroller
- Short legs can only sightsee so far
- My son in Austin keeps texting me
- More fabric arrived here mom
- Circling around back to Austin for 3 weeks
- Staying in the vicinity means he can still live his life with us in town
- When he can duck out and do that
- Gives me time to think about clear elastic too
- And find that fabric store
- Believe I have a credit
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Continue to have a great trip. Hope we can get together next year when you head south.
ReplyDeleteLet us know, please, if you figure out that elastic. Moi, I gave up.
ReplyDeleteI put my clear elastic in the little slot in the foot and pull it through and it goes on right where it should... when I say that's what I do, I've done it a few times. I either use little ribbon that I save or the elastic. I don't make that many knit things.
ReplyDeleteI had read about that little slot, too, and thought "boo hoo, mine doesn't have that" but it does! Threading through it with 1/4" was the hardest part, but then yes! It does go right where it's supposed to! Kinda made me squeal, it was so much fun :-)
ReplyDeleteCan't help on the elastic. I have been too chicken to try, knowing I would probably make a mess. Please let us know if you figure it out. It probably depends on what type of serger one has. You always sound like you are having so much fun, and I hope you are! Of course, I remember the clothespin bags that hung right on the clothes line. Don't remember it needing a hanger. Have a great week!
ReplyDelete25 years ago, I insisted that my husband decline an assistant professor job in San Antonio after my house-hunting trip. Knowing that I was working on my PhD thesis, the university sent me out with a real-estate agent who kept touting how cheap housing was in SA and I can be a stay-at-home mom.
ReplyDeleteWe talked to other young faculty and they were very discouraging about the job market. At that time, Texas lead the nation in violence against Asian Americans and I was already sick of all the verbal abuse I received in Colorado for my race.
I put my foot down and insisted we move back to California, even without a job in hand. My white husband thought I was hysterical, but is now glad that he listened to me.
Interesting comment badmomgoodmom. We are in Austin now which is sort of a Brooklyn with room and loving it. We love Texas but with a nephew in law at home legally in Canada who was once undocumented here I have been thinking a lot of different experiences.
ReplyDeleteYou didn’t miss anything at our fabric stores here in San Antonio. I’m glad you enjoyed your visit down here. Austin has a really great sewing community so hopefully you were able to find some goodies there. Thanks for all you do!
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