Yup, that’s me, with a needle pulling thread… aka: ‘sewing’.
Now, at this point, a few questions might be popping up in your head. Let me see if I can anticipate those questions and save you the trouble of asking them…
You know how to sew???
Why yes, yes I do. My mom did many wonderful things whilst raising me and my three brothers. She took us to museums and art galleries, even before we wanted to do that stuff. She instilled a love of reading, and of travel in us. And she taught us how to cook, sew, and do laundry. If you don’t teach your kids these things before they go to college, you are doing them a disservice. They will be reliant on other people for these things… and they will all have blue or pink underwear for the first few years of living away from home, because they won’t know how to separate their darks, colors, and whites…
But Arthur, real men don’t sew, do they?
I feel sorry for you. That is a stupid question. Now go vote for Trump.
Uh, what are you sewing exactly… it looks like a pile of bushes?
Good eye! That is because I am sewing up the ‘escape hatch’ in the front of a pair of ‘Call Of Duty’… (a violent computer game, and the reason for part of my clever title for this post)… soft sleepy-time shorts.
Okay, but why are you sewing the front of your shorts closed?
You haven’t been paying attention… I am living at my mother-in-law’s place… for at least a month… and, when I am relaxing in my beddybye shorts, with the militaristic computer game motif, I don’t want my ‘disk’ popping out.
I know you have told us before, but sometimes, I pass right over the words in your posts and just look at the funny pictures… why are you living there?
Because right now, our house looks like this…
Sorry, that one is blurry… I used my old camera that hates low light… let me try again…
Oh yeah… home remodeling…
The good news is that the old guy who is our contractor got all this done in one freekin’ day… so maybe we won’t go over schedule… just over budget.
Pouring My Art Out 
What do you mean real men don’t sew? Donald Trump will sew you for defamation of character!
wait… I thought he liked to Sioux people…
Real men not only sew, they also sow.
well played…
Did your 1 old man have a big red S on a blue top with a cape?
I have no idea what that means… but I have two capes… (one is technically more of a cloak, red inner lining, hood)… but I have a superhero cape with a big red A on it, courtesy of our godson’s parents… I did a post about it…
I looked at the wreckage of what was your home and read you blog that said you were amazed that 1 old man had done all that in one day and this popped into my head (Damn, you are getting fuzzy lately Art – must be the pressure):
I am under a lot of pressure
So, if like a balloon that is full of pressure, we were to stick you with a pin would you fly around the room hitting the floor and the criling and making a sputtering noise?
well… I would sure the hell make a sputtering noise…
Always over budget! The bane of the upwardly mobile; I once did a thing once that had a budget, and yes, you guessed it, I went over it, but I felt much better when I saw all those people on tv do it…oh bless you tv, without whom I might be the loneliest cabbage in the patch…
we are more downwardly unmobile… but have I mentioned how nice it is to have you back?
I think that’s the same thing…no you have not mentioned it, I just assumed it was the case 🙂
well, I thought I did mention it… but yeah…
I think you did too now I come to think of it…
I thought as much
I thought a smuch
ha… I had a pet smuch once…
Pictures please!!!!
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