September 15, 2016

Sawyer takes possession of his new home today. It’s a tricky business getting a card sent for a specific date in the future but not getting it in the mail too early. So, as a compromise, I’m posting the card that is due today but it won’t go into the mail until tomorrow. Hopefully it will be among the first pieces of mail that Sawyer receives at his new address.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

I thought today was going to be an easy day – boy was I wrong!

I started my morning with grocery shopping. I have a Guild potluck tonight; I’m taking Deloise’s Corn, Black Bean and Mango salad and I required a few ingredients. I went to Quality Foods because I know where things are there – or at least I thought I did. No problem in the produce section but when I looked for beans in the Mexican aisle I had no luck. There were lots of refried beans but no black beans. I found brown beans right next to rows of chocolate bars (!) so I had to look for someone to help. He told me to look for beans in aisle 6 (they turned out to be in aisle 8) and when I asked about the beans and chocolate he told me that was their British food section. I never did find the chopped ginger I was looking for but I was glad to get out of the store with what I really needed.

I didn’t think I had a lot of paperwork to do today – wrong again. I was mostly caught up on Cranberry Hall work and there wasn’t much Guild work to be done. My own paper and e-mail (and Pat’s accounting) took me until well after lunch. I’ll have to spend a bit more time on Pat’s books as his year-end and GST reports are due before the end of the month.

I’ve got four cards ready for the mail tomorrow. I have to meet someone at Cranberry Hall tomorrow at nine so I’ll take them to the post office on my way home. Every now and again I like to weigh the envelopes I’m sending just in case I’m not putting enough postage on them. I’ve only had one returned, but I felt badly that the card was late.

I don’t have much time before I’ll have to get started making my salad. What shall I do? Ukulele, cross stitch, paper piecing, continue with paper work? The choices, as always, are endless but some are more appealing than others.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Although today was a card day I had a bit of paperwork to gather together for the Cranberry Hall board meeting tonight. The accounting work was done and my reports were printed but I needed to spend some to organizing my thoughts and making notes about questions I need to ask. Once that was done I finished the last of my September cards – it’s done except for hand stitching the binding.

I practiced a bit on my ukulele this afternoon. I paid some attention to getting my chords sounding clearer and there were some strumming pattern changes that I struggled with at the club. I’m a bit more focused on wanting to get things right, particularly when I’m sitting beside someone who is a much better player (which is most of the time). I make lots of notes on my music sheets but it doesn’t help that when I get home I can’t make out what my notes say!

I pulled some fabric to start work on the donation birthday banner I want to make. It will be in three parts – a paper-pieced birthday cupcake with flags, the words happy birthday that will be appliquéd and a bottom portion that needs to have a slot for a photo to fit into. I’m still unclear on how I’ll make the bottom part work but I’ll worry about that once the other two pieces are together.

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Ukulele Club worked out fine last night. We played songs that were familiar from last year and they were the ones I practiced (for the bit of time I did any practicing). It has made me want to get back into it and we are going to start working on some Christmas songs soon (because apparently they are harder than you would expect). We had three new people join last night and our leader says she has a class that will be graduating to the Club at the end of the month.

Since we are at the smaller clubhouse on the second Tuesday of the month I usually leave my sewing machine behind and work on some hand stitching. I got a good way into one of my I’m A Farmer’s Daughter blocks. I accomplished more than I expected; must be because, unlike this summer when Stacia and I were working on our blocks, I wasn’t stopping for a refresher on drinks all day!

I had two parcels waiting for me when I got home from sewing. My birthday gift from Saskatoon also included some cross stitch thread that I needed for a project. I found fabric for the backing to my second project from France from “my shop” in Calgary and it arrived today. I wasn’t sure what my Finish It Up Friday might be but I think I know now!

With what I have left of the afternoon I’ll do a bit of practicing and get some papers gathered together for our Cranberry Hall board meeting tomorrow.