Flypaper thoughts, well it's tonight edition

• Last week in the Bay area then wind our way home
• So beautiful here, so green, so almost excessively gorgeous
• Makes me wonder if folks here know this 
• I can think of a few places that could use some of this beauty 
• Seems as if California has some to spare
• Kids bought a house in Berkley
• First house and they are so happy
• Across the street is a house with a sewing machine in the front window
• Looked across at that and it brought tears to my eyes
• My son will be far away but not so far
• When I go home I am leaving happy kids here and in Austin
• And going back to my grandchildren and daughter
• Miss Scarlett wrote me an email
• "It's kind of boring around here without you"
• Going to drive that rv steady in that direction
• Well actually I don't drive
• I knit
• Well
• I wish Daisy was that right now
• Seems to have put her back out again
• She's too tough and the idea she is in pain is too much for me
• Off to the vet in the morning
• She is always an episode away from surgery and it's a long way home
• My baby girl
• Patience and rest healed it last time
• Not much else to do those thousands of miles
• It has been a great trip
• I found out that a landscape without anything in it is just as beautiful
• Rocks in the desert express silence
• I found out that Stonemountain and daughter is the best fabric store in the world
• And 43 minutes on foot from the kids' new house
• Do you know there is a converted garage in their back yard?
• A granny flat
• Wonder what that woman across the street sews
• Think she is serious, serger thread on a spool holder feeding into that Janome
• I found out my husband is talented
• He has designed a fabric print pattern of windmills to have made up for ties for one son
• Needs seven for a convention and I will sew them
• I found out that I can sew cork handbags
• Will post pictures soon
• Not hard to sew 
• But interesting to do something that didn't have armholes
• Found out that the world is smaller than you think
• And that this is a relief
• Found out that one thing I have to do when I get home is teach little girls to sew
• Miss Scarlett has friends
• Found out that every window in Berkley has a bumper sticker in it
• Found out that when you get older your kids can give you happy tears as much as they used to give you sad ones
• Remember teenagers
• Still catching up on my sleep
• Found out that the nicest things some people say to you are not in words
• Like my daughter-in-law letting me destroy her kitchen making kumquat chutney
• And load her dishwasher
• Found out that the more you travel the more you are comfortable outside of your zone
• Either that or your zone gets bigger
• And now includes more rocks
• And cacti twice as tall as me
• And campground neighbours who are underwater medics