Flypaper thoughts, crabapple but not crabby edition

• Due to global warming or the return of the bees to my yard I have an alarming number of crabapples 
• On the tree next to the driveway. 
• The boughs have been bending right over
• I have actually had to learn how to back into the driveway to avoid them
• Backing up being something, like parallel parking, I have worked hard to keep out of my skill set
• At least up until this crop related emergency
• I have spent two whole days of good sewing time standing in the kitchen cutting up little apples
• Will trade jelly for fabric
• However the repetition of cutting off blossom ends and stem ends
• Has freed up my mind to contemplate life
• And the next 47 things I want to sew
• Theory number one
• I think people should put in a little work on having somethings they don't do well
• All this well roundedness stuff and having it all is very diluting
• What is wrong with writing off a few areas of competence to makes some space?
• A woman I knew had a life of great duty and perfectionism
• Can't think now of anything she did that she didn't do well
• It was a lot of hard work that life
• Now it is over
• I was thinking over the apples today of the things I didn't ever see her do
• Did she ride a bike ever?
• Eat chocolate bars in the car real fast before she got home?
• Did she ever pull the shower curtain over the bath before the company arrived
• Because she didn't have time to clean the bathtub?
• Or didn't want to?
• Did she ever walk around her yard in her barefoot?
• I certainly hope she did
• But I am not totally sure about that
• I am thinking this week we should all give some time to the things that we have decided we do badly
• Even work at it
• I have taken this approach to golf this year
• Going to save me a fortune on golf lessons
• Lets me out of Ladies Day
• I have picked a really high score and decided that's how I golf
• That's as high as I reach
• And as good as I want to get
• This is also the year I have noticed all the baby squirrels climbing up the trees along the fairways
• And even saw a weasel
• Man are those little things cute when they pop their heads up and look you
• Not at all like coyotes who look right into your eyes and through you to the other side
• No young weasels are just darling
• Only word I can think of
• Find it hard to believe what my grandfather told me
• That there is no animal meaner than a weasel in a woodpile
• That man knew nature
• He once saw a black bear flatten a car with it's paw
• OK it was in the thirties and maybe the cars were flimsier then
• Or bears were tougher
• Before global warming and crabapples taking over the world
• I choose to believe that golf course weasels or nicer than woodpile weasels
• The point is that people who are keeping their eye on the ball might miss seeing one and having to consider this point
• You only really have to do the stuff you like well
• Hopefully the other stuff can be covered by the other folks who have that as their best thing
• And you can pick up the slack on the things they are not good at
• I think I have just figured out a pretty good plan for world order
• And made jelly too
• Bit of a two for one deal
• But this whole system is only going to work if we all start dropping the ball every now and them
• And become experts at not being experts at everything
• What if we started to say we actually, come to think of it, didn't want it all?
• Because having it all would eat into time to think about weasels
• And cut into someone else's chance to feel they were doing their part
• You think about this and let me know
• Right now I am going to go outside and walk around the yard in the dark
• In my bare feet

This one's for Clare - rear shot of the Duet pants

As requested here is a shot of the back view of my Duet pants. I hesitate to show this as the cotton poplin, here after I had worn these pants most of a day, is super wrinkly and I am afraid this will look more like a design issue with the pattern rather than a fabric issue. Bit like asking what's wrong with a dress pattern when it is made in linen after a day in the car.

I would put in my two cents worth too on the very common problem of a horizontal fold under the seat - I have found that famous "Clown Butt" alteration tactic works really well to fix that.

I have written about this in my book but also on this blog somewhere - if you search with that term in the search box it should turn up.

Back on topic, here is my back view of the Duet pants: