Friday, May 19, 2017

I’ve done nothing but work for the last two days and the only pay I get is the satisfaction of a job done. As I type that I’m smiling as none of my jobs are exactly done and I often wonder if I’ll every be completely caught up.

I spent three hours yesterday morning working on the Guild library. Our new sewing space will have much less room overall, and therefore much less room for our library. It was the Library Committee’s job to downsize our collection; there are only two of us on the Library Committee but I was lucky enough to be working with one of our founding members and someone who knows quilting (and quilting books and authors) backwards and forwards. After the morning session I brought home four boxes of books that will be offered for sale to our members after the move.

As Thursday is a paperwork day for me I spent the afternoon at my desk working on some Cranberry Hall stuff, Pat’s accounting, as well as some of my own work. I also updated our library inventory based on the books we had culled in the morning session.

After dinner I was back at the Guild for demo night. I signed up to learn how to make a folded star but Nina and I ended up spending another two hours in the Library. I added another five boxes of books to the ones I’d already taken out; all those boxes are currently sitting in the trunk of my car. We finished the sorting so we’re ready for the movers on the 30th. I don’t know if we have to pack up the books or if movers do that but, in my mind, the hard part is done. The good part about all this work is that I get first dibs on which of the books I want to keep for myself. In all we lowered our book count from 344 to about 250!

My back and shoulders were quite sore this morning but I wanted to do a bit more desk work. I finished updating our Library sheets; on Tuesday I will go back through the books to be sure my list matches what we still have on the shelves. There were a couple of things I needed to circulate to the Board to prepare for some Cranberry Hall mail-outs so I got those drafts prepared. I had a payment I needed to pick up for the Hall and we needed to stop at the Credit Union to sign some papers so we went out for lunch. On the way home we stopped at the Hall to pick up the mail and then to the garden centre for something a little more fun. I wanted some flowers to plant in a pot under Mum’s mixer (thanks to Barb for the idea) and was looking for pansies. I ended up with some alyssum instead (I couldn’t resist the smell). The centre didn’t have any pansies but they sold me a packet of seeds; I won’t hold my breath on getting them to grow! Pat also got a basket for the table on the front deck.

With what is left of the afternoon I’m going to finish my cross stitching project. I have only a few back stitches to do and then it is done. I’m never caught up on that side of things either as this morning I purchased a new pattern from one of my cross stitch groups.