- 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
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Oh, what joy to sew for 6 days straight through!!!!! I wonder if I could pull that off around here. Still too much yard work to get finished before planting flowers. But I am eyeing my sewing machine and giving her a little kiss on the forehead every chance I get. Cheers to you!!!
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