Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Just as the Texada ferry was pulling into the dock this morning Pat spotted a large pod of dolphins surrounding it. I’ve seen Facebook reports of dolphins for several days but we’ve never managed to catch them out our windows. It wasn’t a huge pod and they were quickly moving south.

I’m still catching up on a couple of stitch-along projects. One has instructions distributed once a week; I finished the five weeks I was behind but since a new instalment will be out tomorrow I haven’t put the bin away. A second one is a monthly pattern. I finished February’s portion today and I’m working on the border right now. Two of my three stitch-alongs (the Ornament of the Month is the third one I’m participating in) are put out by the same designer; I’ve been looking for updates and noticed that she posted that she is delaying the next steps due to a bad reaction to her Covid vaccine. She promises to get the patterns out soon; I don’t really mind as if I get behind it gives me time to catch up.

I made bread this morning and both Pat and I had a slice at lunch, warm from the bread maker. And while the bread maker did its job I stitched together a backing and some batting for a couple of quilts. Since I missed the best day for sandwiching last week I had Pat check the forecast. Today seemed like it would be good but tomorrow will be even better so I’ll wait until then.

Bread today – sandwiches tomorrow!

Monday, March 29, 2021

Our first Covid-19 vaccination went off smoothly this morning; we received the Pfizer vaccine. They checked out appointment at one stop along the way, then another stop to take down our health number and then I went straight into the vaccination room. Pat thought I would never finish as my session took a lot longer than his, even though the Dr. who administered the vaccine said I was the best prepared of anyone she had seen. The delay for me was in sorting out whether the shingles vaccine would mean I could or couldn’t get the Covid vaccine.

I’m feeling no ill effects from the shot and I’ve been enjoying a quiet day catching up on some of my hand stitching projects. I was five weeks behind on one of them but I’ve managed to finish up two weeks and, hopefully, can get a third week done before dinner. I have two hand stitching projects back to back on my task list so I’ll be enjoying the next couple of days. And I promise I’m not slowing down just so I can spend more days at them.

The vaccination came just in time as BC has shut everything down again for three weeks. All indoor gathering are cancelled so that will mean some Hall work that has to be followed up on. Other than that nothing really affects us; restaurants and bars are closed except for take-out but we haven’t been “out” for dinner in, well, 378 days!

Sunday, March 28, 2021

I just finished watching a Home Routes concert featuring The Mavens – Shari Ulrich, Lynn Miles and Susan Crowe. It was the best online show I’ve seen since online shows became the norm.

Shari Ulrich has performed in Powell River several times with various groups. I first saw her perform at a house concert – not one we were hosting. I don’t remember if it was before or after we started hosting, but I do remember it was a lovely house (which sadly burned down a short while later) and a great show. Shari opened the show with her song, “These Lines”.

Pat brought The LYNNeS (Lynn Miles and Lynne Hanson) to Powell River for a show at Cranberry Hall. They both stayed at the house but Lynn Miles stayed with me an extra day while Lynne Hanson went across to Texada for a show. It is amazing how many “famous” people we have hosted over the years.

Although I’d heard of Susan Crowe I don’t recall having heard her music and I certainly never saw her perform. She has sung with Cindy Church (who also passed through our house) and I’ll be watching for more performances from Susan.

Today’s online show had some fun interactions between the performers; they all have a great sense of humour. When artists are able to perform together again I will watch for The Mavens in concert. Dare I hope they might come to Powell River?

Tonight is Cranberry Hall’s Coffee House. It is an all-women show and I’m looking forward to it. I thought I was going to get away without doing any work but this morning I got an e-mail asking if I would handle a give-away draw. Not too onerous but it means I need to be at my computer and we can’t watch it on the TV.

I’m almost finished Pat’s accounting and I have an afghan finished. Well not quite finished as when I brought it upstairs I noticed a knot I hadn’t woven in. I have another one done as well but it still needs the knots to be woven in, and there are a lot of them.

Saturday, March 27, 2021

I had all of my Log Cabin quilt blocks finished before lunch. When I crossed those off my list I noticed that two of the next three projects were hand stitching and I was really looking forward to them. At the top of the list was Pat’s accounting but I’ve been asking for his paperwork for a couple of weeks and didn’t even consider it would come until after the handwork tasks were started.

I dropped my books off at the library and then headed for the post office. The letter I had for the mail wasn’t urgent as it won’t go anywhere until Monday but I wanted to see if the mailboxes had been fixed. I’m sure it was in no way related to my complaint but one of them was okay today; I drove off without checking the second one.

From there I went up to the quilt shop. Stacia had told me about a product she uses for taping pieces of batting together. I normally use a zigzag stitch to piece them together but I thought I’d give this newer product a try. I also am getting low on my paper piecing paper so added that to my mental list. I also wanted to look for a thread colour that I never seem to be able to find in stock. I guess one out of three isn’t bad; I managed to get the thread I wanted.

By the time I got home Pat had forwarded me his accounting documents. So my dream of spending a couple of days hand stitching is shattered and I’ll probably spend the next couple of days at my computer.