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!