Thursday, June 1, 2017

I’ve been report writing all day today. Not exactly what I wanted to do but it had to be done. The good news is that the work I did today for the Cranberry Hall Annual General Meeting puts me in good shape for getting everything to the accountant for our year-end review and tax filing. At least I’m making myself feel better that somewhere down the line the work I did today will have benefits.

I’ve got all my reports ready for the Guild meeting tonight. This will be the first event in our new area; it isn’t as great a space as we have had but I hope the members all get behind the change. I wrote annual reports for the Library (9 new books purchased; 150 books removed), Facebook (55 members), Blog (34 posts; 1806 views; 594 visitors), and CQA (4 reports for publication). When that was all finished I had to write my regular monthly report for June. I may be crazy but I’ve signed on for another two years with the Library; volunteers were hard to find so my partner and I both agreed to stay on. I’ll have to take a more active role in writing the reports and displays, and Nina will keep her eyes open for new books we should purchase (although with our limited space we doubt we’ll be buying anything).

With what time I have left this afternoon I’m going to relax with more cross stitching.

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Between now and Sunday I have several meetings to attend and write reports for. The first one is a regular Cranberry Hall board meeting tonight.

I started my day out in the yard; Pat had an appointment this morning so I was left unsupervised. I had a corner of the yard that I was determined to get weeded but also determined not to spend too much extra time at it. I started early but finished up right at 11 AM which was the plan. After a shower I sat outside with my coffee and read a couple more of my quilting magazines. It seems odd to me that the patterns I marked at the time I got the magazine don’t necessarily appeal to me any longer; these first two magazines had Sunbonnet Sue and Joe in them and I think I have enough of those patterns in other books. However, I marked a couple of articles that I didn’t even notice before; one on needle-turn appliqué and one on quilting patterns using circles; those ideas will work well with my rulers.

Before stopping for lunch I finished up the reports for my meeting tonight. There was a message on the phone from when I was in the shower and I hadn’t noticed it. The fabric shop was calling to tell me I had some patterns in. I stopped in after lunch and I also had a $25 reward card waiting for me – I won’t tell you how much I spent in order to get that reward. What to do but bring home another lovely pattern book full of skinny wall hangings. I also found some lovely fabric in the 50% off bin.

I’ve been working on a cross-stitched card this afternoon and I’ll continue with that until it is time to head out to our meeting.

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Today was moving day for the Guild and, since I needed to be available at several different times, I didn’t go to the bee. I started my day at my computer working on the Guild’s library listing. I didn’t quite get that job done before I had to head to the Senior Centre to help pack up the library; that was a quick job so I helped packed up the other two storage cabinets. We finished about 11:30 but the movers weren’t expected until one so I came home for lunch.

In the little bit of time I had I started work on my reports for the Guild’s AGM, which is on Thursday night. Before finishing it was time to head out to our new meeting location to help unpack. We don’t have any library shelves yet so the books remain in boxes, stacked two deep. I helped unpack the many boxes that came out of the other storage cabinets and we got everything put in place by about 2:30 PM.

I’ve finished up the library listings, my Guild AGM reports are started and will just need a review on Thursday before the meeting. For the rest of the afternoon I’m going to get busy on my Cranberry Hall reports – one for the AGM and one for our regular monthly meeting.

Monday, May 29, 2017

Pat has had a fellow helping with the yard work for a couple of years. Willie is unreliable and often does what he wants to do rather than what Pat wants him to do. He’ll listen to what Pat wants, go off and do his thing, and then not get to the things he was supposed to do. I will admit that he does a good job at the things he does do.

He was supposed to come over last Tuesday to do some weeding in one of the beds so Pat could plant some gladioli; he didn’t show up. He called that night to say he’d be here on Wednesday; he didn’t show up then and we still haven’t heard from him. I went from being angry with him to now wondering if he is okay. Over the weekend Pat was worrying about getting some things planted so I offered to work for him three days a week for two hours in the morning. Today was my first day on the job.

I weeded the bed that Pat wanted done and we planted the bulbs. I weeded another bed and Pat was able to spread some mulch over it. There is still a lot of work to do but I think we got a lot done in the time we spent. Pat also said my weeding is just as good as Willie’s!

After a shower and lunch I went out and did a few errands. Last week I picked up a set of project boxes from Costco for a friend so I dropped them off to her and then made a deposit for Cranberry Hall. I was going to go to Staples to pick up something to hold my rulers (a tip from the class I took a couple of weeks ago) but all I wanted to do was come home.

When I was sewing the binding on one of my projects last night I realized I hadn’t put a hanging sleeve on it. I took care of that this afternoon and I’ll finish up the hand stitching tonight. I pulled and cut fabric for three more cards today and have started to stitch together a couple of borders for another project. For the rest of the afternoon I’ll return to my cross stitching.