A podcast interview

Well folks for those of you who might think I just have to be better organized and more serious in person than in print well here's evidence that I am not.

A fun interview I did just before the holidays with the Clothing Mavens is now up.

Enjoy.

Flypaper thoughts one and a half more days at home edition

• Tuesday morning we hit the frozen road
• We are like sailors waiting for a break in the weather
• Yes I know it is still frigid in the South
• But I am wearing two pairs of fleece leggings on top of each other here right now
• Plus two stops are to see my boys and my DIL
• Nothing going to stop that
• The grandchildren here assure me they won't forget me
• Feel so bad I yelled when they poured Dawn dish detergent on the fruit cake last week
• Said it was an experiment
• Their mother doesn't endorse this kind of science
• And I know their mother
• One tough customer
• When she had time outs as a child 
• She used to pass notes out under the door that said I love you Mommy
• Hard to break that spirit
• Glad I didn't
• Probably couldn't
• Now the check list of things to take
• My list is different than my husband's
• His includes things like tire pressure gauge
• Mine includes things like four different kinds of interfacing
• Going to post updates on my travels on Instagram
• We go through rural American and state parks
• Meet interesting people this way
• Last year a traveling church organist
• Formerly a music teacher from New York
• And four lost hikers on a mountain
• Boy were they glad to see us
• Don't let me forget to take my seam roll
• Going to have two dogs this time
• Miss Daisy of course who always wants to know if we are there yet
• And Birdie, my son's dog, who we are delivering to Austin
• A border collie, he's going to have trouble herding us around the rv
• His great on border patrol, doing a regular circuit of the house at night
• That should take him about 4 seconds in the rv
• Then I guess he will start again
• Mmm
• How many miles?
• Love road trips
• So much better than flying
• No security
• Unless you count being sent back into the house with the back-up serger
• You keep your shoes on
• Until you change them for slippers in the rv
• Leg room
• I use an exercise ball to put my feet up as we drive
• Food you can afford and is worth eating
• Husband has the crockpot sitting in the sink and plugged in
• He can control the temp by a switch in the driver's seat
• I am not kidding
• "Sounds like it might be bubbling" he says
• "Should turn it down"
• And he does
• Of course this is a man who once cooked pork chops in a George Forman plugged into the cigarette lighter while he was driving
• Who says we don't travel first class?
• Also no flight cancellations
• We are leaving Tuesday a.m. no matter what
• If the weather gets bad we will pull over and open that crockpot
• BTW I have a request
• For some reason my traveling partner has this brilliant idea we should play cards at night
• Thought it would be a nice couple activity
• It figured watching me sew counted as that
• Anyway I am not a game person
• Only card game I ever liked was a Greek one called kalisinta
• But can't remember all the rules and can't find them online
• Every card game my husband knows has 900 rules and is obscure to Nova Scotia
• That means really obscure
• To a province where there is lots of time to play cards
• And make up lots of rules
• He is happy to explain the rules to me between here and Texas
• You can see my dilemma
• Any suggestions for alternatives I can offer?
• In the meantime I have to find my twin needles
• Pretty sure the cover hem will mean I am going to have to pay excess baggage
• And I want that money to buy fabric
• Don't let me forget the wooly nylon either
• Better get cracking