Wednesday, October 12, 2016

It’s been awhile and I’ve been busy, mainly with Cranberry Hall and Guild work.

I spent most of the day on Thursday working to get my Guild business ready for the meeting that night. The evening included the regular business meeting as well as a quilt show meeting so there was lots to do. We also went to an afternoon movie that day. Thursday is my “office” day and I barely got to my own work so I took most of the day on Friday going through e-mail, filing, and getting Pat’s year end off to the accountant. I took time in the afternoon to have coffee with Carola; we had our own Show and Tell session as she made some purchases at Hands Across the Water and I was able to show off my Portland purchases.

Saturday morning was the bee at the Cranberry Hall rental house – it was a bee if you count only two people working as a bee. I arrived ahead of Dee and, although it is dark and creepy inside the basement, I headed in. I didn’t feel qualified to make many decisions but I found some loose screws scattered about and I thought I could at least gather them into one place. All was going well until I found a dead rat in one of the bins – I barely remember getting outside and into my car but that is where Dee found me when she arrived. I wasn’t keen on going back in but Dee said she wasn’t squeamish and anything I didn’t want to touch she would handle. She was amazing and we were done in a couple of hours. We have a pile to give to the economy shop, a pile to sell through some of the local auction sites, and a whole lot of stuff for the dump. I commented to Pat in the afternoon that my legs were sore – I think it was from being ready to run every time I moved a box or looked into a container!

We had a lovely day on Sunday and celebrated Thanksgiving with a turkey dinner in Lund. The Boardwalk is better known for their fish and chips, but they had a four-course turkey dinner for Sunday and it was very good. We enjoyed the drive out and sat on a bench in the sun by the ocean before it was time to eat dinner. Since we had gone out for dinner there were no leftovers to enjoy on Monday so I went out and bought a roasted turkey breast; with potatoes, dressing, carrots and gravy it was just like a leftover dinner.

Yesterday was a bee day and I showed you the birthday banner I finished. The banner did double duty as it was also my mini project for the month. I worked on hand stitching and got a bit more done on my second I’m A Farmer’s Daughter block.

I had an appointment this morning with the accountant that handles the Cranberry Hall accounts. I went directly from there down to the hall. One of the Board members generally does a weekly cleaning but she had some surgery this week so I volunteered to take it over until she is back on her feet. I’m not sure I did all that great a job (it certainly isn’t House Concert standard) but after an hour and a half my back was aching so I had to leave.

We are to get the first in a series of three storms tonight. We’ve been getting warnings about them for a few days now so we should be prepared. We lost our power one night last week (there had been no warnings); Pat had to walk upstairs in the dark for the flashlight so we’ll try to be better prepared tonight.