Monday, August 13, 2018

We had another good weekend on Texada. I caught the last ferry over on Thursday night; I enjoyed travelling as it got dark, but it wasn’t so dark that I couldn’t see the two humpbacks beside us. The last two trips over I’ve seen whales but today it is so smoky I don’t think I’d even be able to see from one end of the boat to the other.

It was Sandcastle weekend on Texada but the weather wasn’t great on Saturday so we stayed indoors. We had a few rain showers in Van Anda but apparently there was nothing in Gilles Bay at the site. We spent most of the day Sunday at the event, starting with a Pancake Breakfast put on by the fire department. Pat did his beer slinging for a couple of hours and that gave me time to head to the beach to see some of the works-in-progress. As soon as Pat finished his shift with the Legion he was on stage for his set. We stayed until all the music was over, but didn’t wait to see who won the sand castle events. I haven’t been able to see online who won but I enjoyed seeing the creations in the youth events; the adults were doing major building and you really couldn’t tell what they final sculpture would look like.

We were aiming to take the 9:20 ferry home this morning, which would put us back home by ten. We packed everything up at the studio and were on our way in plenty of time to get some coffee and breakfast while we waited for the ferry. As I was heading to the coffee shop I noticed that the earlier ferry hadn’t left yet so I ran back to the truck so we could move forward in the line-up. As it turned out Pat had misread the ferry times and we were able to take the early ferry. It was delayed leaving as they waited for an ambulance to arrive; we had seen the ambulance just a few doors down from the studio when we left. We had breakfast when we got to Powell River, got some groceries and were home before the ferry we planned to catch left Texada.

So what did I do with my day? For the most part I worked on Cranberry Hall stuff. I had minutes to get out, some reports I needed to get done and I sent out a few e-mails to take care of some planning.

Before supper I had time to package up the final five Farmer’s Wife Sampler blocks. I will probably only manage to get a couple done at the bee tomorrow but it is a good feeling to be this close to done. I wanted to have the blocks finished by October so Stacia and Deloise could help me place them in the quilt. I have another project that I’d also like to have the blocks finished for but that one is a long way from done. Both projects are for the quilt show in March.