Wednesday, September 5, 2018

I spent all morning at my desk getting ready for the three meetings I have between now and Friday. The work for the meetings on Thursday could have waited I guess but since I was digging through papers I kept at it until it was all done. After sitting so long I felt like I needed a walk so I delivered 15 posters along Marine Avenue for our next Cranberry Hall event.

I need a rest now so as soon as I find a mitt pattern I’m going to settle in for an afternoon of reading.

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

I didn’t get much sewing done at the bee today. I loaded three more Farmer’s Daughter packages into my bag (as per my get-three-a-week-done plan) even though I still had two blocks to finish from last week’s batch. But I thought I should start my day going through the books and my listing of those books prior to the meeting on Thursday. I was only going to do one shelf but the first shelf went so well I went through the whole library, with the exception of the CDs and DVDs. So it was almost lunch time before I even started any stitching.

The library notified me that they had a book waiting for me to pick up. Although they told me the name of the book I had no memory of ordering it or even what it was about. When I looked it up it is one that still sounds like it will be a good read; I picked it up today (when I returned a book) but there are two library books ahead of it. I’m going to have to find some time over the next couple of weeks to read more than my normal half-hour before bed or I’ll be paying fines.

I’ll be busy for the next couple of days getting ready for a Cranberry Hall meeting (tomorrow) and the first Guild meeting of the season on Thursday. I have a showing at the Hall tomorrow afternoon and I have more than a dozen posters to get up on bulletin boards and windows around town – another project for tomorrow.

Monday, September 3, 2018

We had a busy weekend and I’m going to need some extra sleep before launching into the fall schedule that begins tomorrow.

The concert on Friday night was very popular; we were at capacity with the crowd that came out. The Hall was co-sponsoring the event with the music festival, which meant that we gave the space rent-free. But me, being me, stepped in when I thought things should be done or taken care of. The festival provided coffee, tea and a few cookies but I found myself constantly filling water jugs and picking up tea bags and used cups and glasses throughout the evening. Although they had volunteers (who sat in the audience) I was asked to look after the merchandise table; I did that but I also promoted membership for the Hall. At the end of the evening the festival folks did the dishes and I swept the floors. It was more work than I anticipated for the evening; I’ve made the suggestion to the festival that next year the Hall should run the concession and they seemed to be agreeable to that. Our own volunteers are much better trained and if we’re doing the work we should at least have something to put in the bank at the end of the night.

We were on the first ferry to Texada on Saturday morning. The party wasn’t until 6 PM but they suggested that we come a bit early. I made up my Mexican Dip (you’d be hard pressed to call the sprinkling of olives, green onions and cheese actual layers) and then Pat and I spent the afternoon in the hammocks. I put everything except the dressing on the Spinach Salad and off we went about 5:30. It was a nice party and not the “shit show” Heather (Jamie’s wife) warned that it might be. We met a few new folks from Texada but I spent most of the evening chatting with Bev, our neighbour at the bottom of the hill.

We were back on the first ferry to Powell River on Sunday morning. We had enough time at home to unload everything before we headed out to a day at the music festival; Pat did sound on Friday night and earned each of us a festival pass. It wasn’t very warm and I wore my sweater most of the day. About the time I wondered how I was going to keep warm for the evening performances it started to rain so we bailed on the festival and came home about 6.

I spent most of the morning working on Cranberry Hall stuff. Our Board meeting is on Wednesday so I needed to get the agenda out today and that meant I had to get the financial reporting finished to go along with it. And there were a few follow-up e-mails I needed to get out and a couple of phone calls that I needed to make.

Sunday is usually my day to work on sampler blocks and cards but since I was busy yesterday I’ve been working on them today. I have some hand work to do on a couple of cards (along with the quilting that can be done ahead of time) and I have the current block of the Splendid Sampler 2 project cut out and ready to go. I still need to find a pattern for one card; let me rephrase that – I know what I want to make for the card I’m just not sure I have time to get it done and in the mail before my cut-off date.

We had friends drop in for tea this afternoon and now it is almost supper time so I may not get to any sewing today. It’s a good thing I have a project that is easy to pack for tomorrow.