Thursday, June 11, 2020 (Day/Block 87)

I had another morning of online training – today’s topic mainly covered planning through the pandemic and planning for a re-opening. There were some useful ideas none of it was really something the Hall can use.

I also got the Agenda out for the Hall Board meeting on Monday. I was happy to include some of the things I learned in the first session. I don’t know how the changes will be received but I gave it a shot.

I may not accomplish much more for the day. Stacia, Deloise and I trade photos of what we have accomplished for the week and I didn’t have anything to show them. As an excuse they were told they’d already seen all my daily blocks and the quilt backing I made. I also had photos of my four birthday cards but they don’t get to see those until the birthdays arrive.

I’ll get back to my June UFO now – I haven’t made much progress on it and the month is almost half over.

Wednesday, June 10, 2020 (Day/Block 86)

It felt like things were completely back to normal today – I spent almost the entire day working on Hall stuff. I’ve had a chance to use the new accounting package for both Pat’s and my accounts but, with a meeting coming up next week, it was time to get to work on Cranberry Hall accounts. Setting up the package for the Hall was easy and since there has been very little activity since our year-end in April entering the first set of transactions went very quickly.

Then I attempted to reconcile my bank statement with the accounting package and ran into problems. Long-story short it is the way the new package deals with outstanding cheques between one statement and the next. I finally found the solution online and I also found a lot of requests for the developers to change the way things are done. I can only hope they are listening because I think my “work-around” will have to be the normal until they change.

Late this afternoon I managed to get my daily block finished. Today was meant to be a card-making day but that didn’t happen. I had three cards ready to be photographed and wrapped for mailing so I at least touched a few cards today.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020 (Day/Block 85)

Today’s block should have been an easy one but somehow I managed to get one row attached upside down. Does it mean I’m improving if I noticed my error before I took a photo? These aren’t the colours the calendar photo used but I couldn’t help but think of our drives “over West” to see how the crops were doing so I added a bit of green.

Did I ever post this photo of a wall hanging I made at our last Thursday group retreat? Today I pieced the backing for it. I generally don’t like a pieced backing but I had strips left from the panels I used on the front so wanted to use them up. If I align everything properly the quilt could almost be reversible (no guarantees on that though). I’m sure no one will notice there are not one, but three, Eiffel Towers on the back.

And here is the real thing. This shot was taken from the plaza across the street from the Tower. You had to be quite a ways back in order to get the whole thing in the photo.

Monday, June 8, 2020 (Day/Block 84)

The day has gone really quickly. I wasn’t up and about until 8:30 so everything was late getting started. My daily block wasn’t finished until noon even though I was able to pull most of the four-patches from my scrap bins.

Last night, when we took delivery of several packages of prawns from a friend, I told Pat I would use the last of the apples in the freezer for a crisp for dinner tonight. At some point during the night I thought I had already finished the last bag but didn’t bother checking. As I was having lunch on the deck I noticed Pat across the street chatting with the neighbour. He had a bag in his hand; dare I hope that it might be rhubarb?

I had a few cards to quilt this afternoon – three of them were easy and the last one gave me a few problems but I worked through them and I’m caught up for June cards. The library called as I was finishing up to say I have another book waiting for me. These books are like small presents as I have no clue what they are sending me; I know that I’ve ordered them at some point but I guess with the isolation going on people are getting things read and returned so they are available to someone else.

Although I have more quilting I could tackle today I’ll stop for now and go make my rhubarb crisp! I still haven’t looked to see if I have that one bag of apples in the freezer. While I wait for the crisp to bake I’ll do some reading – I’ve barely started my 700-page book and who knows what is in store for me after tomorrow’s pickup.