Tuesday, January 23, 2018

My night wasn’t exactly sleepless, but I didn’t feel all that rested when I got up. The wind and rain started up (again) overnight and it is still blowing. I was awake and reading for about an hour and then finally got back to sleep around five. I turned my alarm off (I usually set it on a bee day) but just before it would have gone off on a normal day a contact of Pat’s (in North Carolina) called; I didn’t get up to answer the phone but I didn’t go back to sleep either.

Due to the wind, no ferries have come in today from the Island. There was lots of talk at the bee about the tsunami warning that was posted early this morning; we weren’t affected and I didn’t even hear about it until the warning had been lifted.

I was a bit late getting to the bee but I still managed to get more mini blocks done than I usually do. I spent some time last week pre-cutting all the blocks and, instead of my usual four blocks, I managed to get eight of them done. We have a UFO day on Saturday and I’m hoping to finish all of the mini blocks; I have enough left to make that I doubt I’ll be able to get to the border or attaching the blocks to the quilt but I’ll get the cutting done ahead of time just in case. I still have to make 120 half-square triangles so there is lots of work ahead.