Flypaper thoughts: still homebody edition

• Life is where we left it
• Still physical distancing
• So against the grain for a Canadian personality
• Folks cross the street to avoid being too close
• I am so sorry we say
• Don't want to be rude
• I am sorry they reply
• We are sorry enough for the whole world
• Just in case
• Daisy is on the mend
• Two more weeks in her upgraded cage rest to a blocked off living room
• She is OK if she can see me
• Can you cover me?
• I ask my husband
• Just a minute to go get something
• I'll be quick
• I notice that people are getting a bit touchy
• We are all like Daisy not so good when our people aren't around
• Little things not big things
• I watch my husband sew the masks 
• And I want to tell him
• Clip your threads, clip your threads
• Almost nothing upsets me as much as people who don't clip the threads
• I once taught a woman who sewed jackets for her children who were all in the navy
• She never cut one thread
• In fact her garments were coated with random loose threads
• They can but those off themselves she said
• I used to have visions of sailors on the decks in the North Atlantic
• Trying not to fall overboard while they trimmed threads from the ends of seams with nail scissors
• My husband wants to know what kind of person 
• Puts a pellet of soap in the dishwasher without taking the plastic wrap off it
• And then wondering why the dishes aren't clean
• I know exactly what kind of person
• Someone who cuts her threads
• I miss the kids the most
• I am craving little people
• The littlest one in California Facetimes
• Dog she says and I show her the dog
• The other guys a few streets away call me on the phone
• They call to talk to me in funny voices
• To ask me to bring over my board games and leave them at the end of the driveway
• They know I have board games from when we play them here
• They know I don't play cards
• I am terrible at cards
• Just an interruption in the conversation
• What kind of grandmother can't remember how to do 
• Go fish they want to know
• This kind of grandmother I say
• The one who lets you each bake something different in the kitchen at the same time
• And cleans up
• Maybe I should use this time to learn a card game
• That would really surprise them
• How's your hair?
• I cut mine and with my sister's encouragement by text
• Am trying the Curly Girl method
• This involves using lots of conditioner and brushing your hair with your fingers
• Why are you wearing one of my T shirts on your head
• My husband wants to know
• I am doing the Curly Girl method I tell him
• Absolutely nothing surprises him
• Maybe I should consider that fact
• Not sure my technique is down though
• I look in the mirror and remember something my dad used to say
• Hair looks like a cat sucked it 
• Maybe it's the wrong kind of T shirt
• I am experimenting with low sugar baking
• Made a bunch of oatcakes they could use in the NHL
• An excellent Swedish apple pie with no crust
• A carrot cake that was mostly carrots
• The thing is we don't have much sugar
• Next thing will be war cake
• The one without sugar, butter, or eggs
• I am sure there is a diet that belongs to somewhere
• Vegan Keto?
• I am going to be sewing for the young women in my family
• I have a question for you
• How come when we had babies we went up a size
• Women used to say " well before I had kids..."
• When describing their figures
• It was assumed that your belly would settle in
• Like it was supposed to, like your own mom's did
• Why does your stomach feel like a pillow Babsie
• My grandson once asked
• Because I had babies I said
• My mom had babies he said
• She doesn't feel like that
• So why do young women give birth these days and end up by summer with a flat abdomen?
• What do they know that we didn't
• Do you think it is the oat hockey pucks?
• The pies and the cake on my counter?
• Should we be eating war cake?
• Life is full of so many mysteries
• And now I have time to solve them