Flypaper thoughts Valentine’s Day version

Hello my readers, both new and those who have followed me here from my now retired, but still available, sewing blog. Here is a personal update.

• Well what do you know?
• I have cancelled three flights in the last year to see my boys in the US
• But was there in the fall and be back in the spring
• Honestly
• That’s all there is to say about that
• So where have I been?
• Sewing for family all over the place and sending it out
• Question
• Packing tape
• You know I think if they can figure out a way to find the end of tape on a roll
• That person should get a Noble Prize
• Also been writing
• When you can’t go anywhere in your body you might as well go somewhere in your head
• Getting better at it I hope
• Takes time
• Things happen like a character showed up the other night
• Where did this guy come from?
• Not sure if I trust him
• A hurdle for me is the bad stuff
• I am personally not a murderer
• But I am discovering my past life working with politicians is helpful
• Best things of this year
• Got to say it is this cat
• A rescue we got on a whim
• Also because one night when I was along four mice ran across the floor
• They are long gone
• My old damaged rescue dog Daisy
• Freed from the puppy mill
• And I am sure friendless most of her life
• Has bonded to this cat
• They play every night, sleep together, groom each other
• When a miracle happens in your living room
• You really have to pay attention
• Down the street from me there is a giant magnolia tree in someone’s yard
• What business does an extravagant magnolia have to do living in Nova Scotia?
• When it blooms we can’t believe it
• Does it know where it is?
• The other day I was walking in the ice and snow and wondering when it would all end
• I walked by that tree and noticed that it was covered in buds
• Grey fuzzy bundles on its bare branches, like Pussy Willows
• Is it supposed to do that?
• But then I thought
• That tree is adapting and it remembers
• That the flowers of last summer
• Are coming back this year
• I mailed my last two packages yesterday
• A pair of pants to one sister
• ‘And four tops to another
• Dropped off a cardigan to a granddaughter
• Today I am going to see why this character showed up
• And write a description
• Of a press secretary who once yelled at me in a hall, backed me up to a wall
• He might finally get what he deserves today
• And he’ll never know
• In my breaks I am going to start my summer sewing
• For myself
• Because when it comes
• I need something new to wear