Flypaper thoughts post Seaside Sewing edition

• I am home after six days of sewing away at a retreat
• 10-12 hours at the navy yacht club
• Home to sleep and get more thread then back
• Will post the clothes as I get pictures done
• I married my husband
• Because when I tell him I ran out of the bright pink pills that I am supposed to take every other day
• Two weeks before the boring ones yellow I take on alternate days
• Because I always reach for the nicer colour first
• He says well that makes sense
• And means it
• Even though he is a person who uses the scales
• To make sure the quarter pound hamburgers are in fact a quarter pound
• All that sewing makes me want to do more
• Like an performer who hears applause
• Feels like more
• What can I do next?
• Every once in a while a child will have a period when you are particularly important to them
• Right now a middle grand daughter wants to dress like me
• We are just alike, we are practically the same person she says
• Cancelling the decades
• These quick moments in time require
• Cozy cardigans for two
• An election here this fall
• The secret to good politics
• One politician told me
• Is always just to ask people about themselves
• We all remember with affection 
• Anyone who lets us talk about ourselves
• Good advice to those who are 15 
• Or find cocktail parties make them feel that way
• I am considering a tattoo 
• Of grandchildren's names
• First I have to find someone who does cursive
• Might take a while
• I am pretty sure I spent the first four years of my education
• Learning cursive or having it corrected
• Elbow on your desk
• And I went to school in modern times
• Define modern
• Listen I was there when cartridge pens replaced fountain
• Now that was ink
• A tattoo nearly ended the marriage of a woman I know
• For her anniversary she had her husband's name put on her ankle
• Thing is it took him three months to notice
• That would do it
• You know in that four years I could have learned something else
• But I was in a system that had me learn Latin instead of typing
• Now that came in handy
• Or it would have if I had ever gone to Britiannia
• Conjugate that
• At least we had Home Ec.
• Which I believe I failed
• Got dragged down by cooking
• Maureen Campbell and I dropped our batter on the floor
• And tried to tell the teacher those were raisins not ants
• You get the drift
• Fast track to an F I can tell you
• Our self esteem was no one's priority
• Although it seems we had lots
• Maureen and I made all our own clothes starting in grade 7
• We kind of freelanced and sewed everything with the same colour thread
• An allowance went only so far
• Fabric we got by the pound at a place called the Farmer's Supply store
• I am not making this up
• Been there lived that
• Maybe this explains why I turned out not to dress like a French woman
• Maybe it explains a lot