Wednesday, June 6, 2018

I’ve spent another full day at my desk. I met a renter at the Hall this morning at nine but I was only home for about an hour before heading out the door for another appointment at 10:30. I had a few errands to take care of and it was noon before I was home again. I did a bit of cleaning while I waited for another renter to come by the house, and then I headed back upstairs for more sorting out.

I have a full day tomorrow and I knew there would be no time to get my Guild reports ready so I finished them this afternoon. Not only is it our regular business meeting, but it is also our Annual General Meeting. Three reports for each meeting leaves me with six reports to present. Next I’ll have to start work on my Cranberry Hall reports for Friday.

I had a bit of time yesterday to sort through some of my Farmer’s Daughter blocks. I had a revelation regarding the project while we were at Quilt Canada and I bought a few more fabrics from the same designer in order to have enough fabric to work around the changes I plan to make. I didn’t get very far, but I know I need only a few more blocks of some of the neutral colours so I’ll start on those.

My Challenge for June (because I swapped out some of the projects to make it happen) is my Farmer’s Wife quilt. I thought I had about 80 of the blocks done but it turns out my notes show me with 93 blocks completed. I may want to redo some of my early blocks but I’ll work at getting the remainder of them sewn first. So, in case I ever do get back to sewing I at least have a couple of projects ready to work on.

I sat and enjoyed a bit of crocheting last night. I’ve decided to use the pattern I’ve been working on in another afghan that will use up my scraps of yarn. The pattern will be the same on this scrap project, but the rows won’t be planned; I’ll work with a colour until it runs out and then add another whether or not it is at the beginning, middle or end of the row.

I’m off to the movies tonight – it has been so long since I’ve seen a movie and I’m really looking forward to this one.

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

I arrived home yesterday afternoon and I’ve been “sorting myself out” since then. I unpacked last night but that was the easy part – I had laundry to do and it took more than a few trips to get all my new purchases upstairs. I’ve spent all day today catching up on my e-mail, work for the Hall and preparing for a couple of meetings later in the week.

I spent a weekend plus a couple of days at Christy’s; if you don’t visit on a weekend you don’t get to see much of the kids as they are in school. I met their puppy (yes, they tell me George is still a puppy) and after initially not taking to one another we got along fine after a few minutes. Taylor and I taught him to swim – can you believe they already are swimming in the creek on a regular basis. Dylan kept me company at home on Monday but they were both off to school again on Tuesday. There was a bit of mending and hemming to be done but, aside from reading, I didn’t do much.

There was much excitement when Rick’s classic car returned from an extended stay (7-8 years) in the States. And speaking of Rick he was very patient with Taylor when she “did” his hair!

On Wednesday I met Stacia and Deloise for the Quilt Canada conference. So much shopping and so many beautiful quilts. Trevor met us the first night for supper, he joined us on Granville Island for supper one night (yes Christy, I stopped at Rogers), and he provided an evening full of entertainment when he took us to the Facial Hair Fashion Show at one of the establishments he works in.

On our last day we had a good visit with Caye, Paul, Frank and Willa. The only bit of rain we had was walking a few blocks from our bus stop to their facility. We could have transferred to another bus but it meant waiting 25 minutes for a three minute ride – so glad Deloise caught that!

I brought home a fair number of new things – a lot of gadgets, a few patterns, fabric for specific projects I will be doing, and a couple of things I purchased because I wanted to. Somehow I will have to find time to add them to my already-long list of things I’m working on; before we head off to the next show in Edmonton (in 2020) I want to have at least a few of them done!

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

I didn’t intend to do any weeding yesterday but I couldn’t stop myself from pulling a few from the pots on the deck. Once that was done I did some watering – both inside and out. I’m very bad with houseplants but the ones we have are very obvious about needing water.

I did some more tidying in the sewing room. All the scraps are cut and put away but I wasn’t quite ready to vacuum. I was busy off and on all day with Cranberry Hall and Guild business; I opted to stay home from the bee so I could take care of a few things before leaving.

There was an event at the Hall last night and I had to open the doors and then go back and lock them at the end of the event. I could have stayed as it was open to the public but I decided to come home between.

Pat arrived back from Texada early this morning; once he was unloaded we loaded up again and took about 20 bags of green waste out to the dump. 20 bags pretty much fills the truck. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to get that many bags again.

I finished cleaning up my sewing area (still not vacuumed though) when we came home. After lunch I decided to replace the straps on one of my bags. I bought replacement webbing for it when we were in Houston; it seemed fitting that since I bought the fabric at one show I should have the “new” bag ready for the next.

I ran a few errands this afternoon – the post office, the bank and Walmart. I think I’m ready to start packing. I’ve collected a small pile of things to take but I plan to travel light so I have lots of room to bring home purchases.

I have time before supper to do the vacuuming, but do I have the energy?

Monday, May 21, 2018

Another morning spent outside and I’ve finally made it around the whole yard once this year. Of course the first areas need to be done again and I’ll be going in circles for the rest of the summer. It is nice to look outside and see that I’ve made a difference though. We need some rain; I had to dig the hose out and do some watering again today.

I finished quilting my last card top this afternoon. I’ll do the hand stitching on the binding but I’m done sewing until after I’m back from my trip. I spent some time clearing off my cutting table; it was buried deep in fabric from various projects. I still have a ways to go before I’ll be finished with the tidying but I’m determined to get it done and vacuumed before I leave.

It was a sad evening last night. I was so delighted to find another season of Call the Midwife but every episode in this season seemed sadder than the last. I just checked and there will be at least two more seasons but I expect I’ll be waiting a long time before they come to Netflix. I’ll have to find something else to watch in the evenings now; maybe I’ll go back to Friends because after Call the Midwife nothing will seem very good for awhile.

I’m making some progress on my crocheting project; I’m finding it a nice change from knitting.