Saturday, September 8, 2018

At many times in my life I’ve played instruments; when I was younger I was able to keep up with the practicing. Mum, Miss Burkowski, and Mrs. Raycroft kept me on track with piano and it was just plain fun playing and performing with Roberta and Jackie on my guitar.

As I’ve grown older I’ve tried a few other options. When one of the kids had a flute left over from school I took up lessons – for about six weeks. I wasn’t good at it and I hated to practice.

Since coming to Powell River I took up the ukulele. I took lessons, I joined a ukulele jam session but, again, I didn’t practice. My excuse for not practicing was that I couldn’t sing so it wasn’t as much fun as the jam nights, but without the practice I wasn’t up to par for the jams. I haven’t been back for at least a year, probably longer.

I sold my ukulele today and no matter what fun instrument shows up on the doorstep I’ve given up my dream of ever performing again!

Friday, September 7, 2018

After a really warm day yesterday it started to rain overnight and it really hasn’t stopped much all day – the sun certainly hasn’t been out and I’m trying not to turn on the furnace. The forecast says we have several more days of rain but I’m not complaining as we certainly need it. It would have been nicer if it had held off more than a half-day after Pat did a vinegar treatment on the weeds though!

Yesterday was busy – sewing in the afternoon and meetings in the evening. Most of yesterday morning was spent cutting fabric for my afternoon session but I also dug out the card pattern I’m hoping to make. I think the design is possible but do I have the time? The Guild meetings in the evening were good but they resulted in a bit of computer work for me.

We’ll be continuing this year with the Scrap blocks but they will be more coordinated this year – each month will focus on a different colour. When we were putting last year’s blocks together for Community Quilts many of the members had nightmares about the blocks that went into some of the quilts. This year at least the blocks will be in the same colour family when they are put together. They are also having a Secret Pal program; each month we’ll bring a “little something” to our Secret Pal and receive something in return; we won’t know our who our Pal is until the potluck at the end of the year. And if that isn’t enough “extra” I also picked up the Guild challenge for this year – a lovely piece of fabric that we have to add two colours to and make a bag. And just when I swore I wouldn’t make another bag!

I spent this morning getting the Cranberry Hall minutes written up and distributed. I also had a showing at the Hall mid morning and a stop at the bank on the way home. Since lunch I’ve been working on my Guild updates.

Pat went across to Texada this morning; I’m going to get busy quilting now and I’m not going to stop until I have my miniature quilt ready for binding.

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.