- 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
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