Flypaper thoughts Berkeley edition

• Landed in Florida and now doing a week in Berkeley helping out with my granddaughter
• My DIL is at a reunion
• Berkeley is the easiest place in the world to dress in
• Walked the baby in the stroller with what I had warm in my suitcase
• A beret and raincoat
• Cropped pants and Fair Isle socks
• Clunky shoes
• I asked the kid how I looked and she laughed
• However I felt the height of fashion
• Purple linen pants are the little black dress here
• Older women are unapologetic in Berkeley
• Unlike the lady my age on the plane who couldn't close her mouth
• The skin had been pulled too tight
• Women should be unapologetic everywhere
• Mother is a verb not a noun
• Love being able to help out
• We are down the street from the Berkeley Academy of Bull fighting
• Which if you have trouble finding it is across the street from the Socratic elementary school
• Half a block from the Herbal Apothecary and soap making classes place
• Which is next door
• Dropped by a fermentation bar yesterday
• We were running low on Kombucha
• Picked up some fermented lime pickle
• So excited about that
• Time to get fermenting in the RV
• One more week in Florida then off to Texas via New Orleans
• But first I have some fabric shopping to do here
• In Florida we get to see my dad's best friend
• A man who laughs so hard when we tell dad stories that he can hardly talk
• They used to live across the street from us
• The kids waved to each other in the morning
• Picture window to picture window
• Now that whole family comes down for March break
• Next year for sure
• The Texas situation is TBD on my son's work anyway
• Do you know that my dad's first name was Norval
• You can't make this up
• He wished we could
• His dad had a drugstore and he named my dad after the president of the company that was his best seller
• Yup. Modest sanitary napkins
• My grandfather called my dad Skip 
• No wonder
• And no surprise that my father was known best for his sense of humour
• What was the choice I ask you?
• Off to settle someone for their nap