Monday, August 15, 2022

The show at the Hall on Saturday night was excellent. I thought it might be my last “working” show but I think there will be one more before my term is up at the end of September. The duo were ones that Pat and I cancelled due to Covid and it was a real treat to finally have them here. There were a lot of new-to-the-Hall faces in the crowd, as well as a lot of our house concert people. The Hall will be taking over the Home Routes (House Concert) tour for the coming season – there will be work involved but I will be able to just sit and enjoy the shows.

I was full of energy yesterday morning and finished up the September calendar block. When I left off on Saturday I realized I’d made a mistake and had to do one section over. It didn’t take long though and I had it completely done by lunch time. Pat and I ate lunch while we watched a TV show and I spent the rest of the afternoon working on my Sashiko project.

I didn’t get much of a start on my day today. Pat was going to Texada and he wondered if I had been able to “fix” his headphones yet. I hadn’t even touched them, and he was actually lucky that I was able to locate them. He just wanted some padding added to the top of them so it was a quick job even if I had to do it twice because the piece I made the first time was a bit too small. They were done in time to take with him.

Our new yard-person was here this afternoon and I felt I should stay handy in case he had questions. His estimate of time was off a bit but, from a distance, it looks like he did a good job. I saw him digging out blackberry roots in one spot and even if it doesn’t get rid of them completely they will have a struggle to start up again. He did a good job of cleaning up after himself. We’ll have him back to do some power washing in a week or so.

While Simon did his thing I sat and played games on my iPad. Not very productive but I don’t think there was anything that really had to get done. I’ll get packed up tonight for sewing tomorrow; I have a Tuesday project that is ready to go so it is just my sewing machine and a few tools that need to be packed.