Sunday, September 16, 2018

I went up to the Fall Fair yesterday afternoon; next time I’ll have to take a bit more money. I checked that I had my $5 admission and I certainly didn’t expect to be spending any money. But the firemen had a Fill the Boot fundraiser for MS so in went some money. My first stop was the barns; not exactly up to PNE standards but there were some sheep, goats, chicken and a llama. On my way to see the garden produce and 4-H sewing displays I ran into a friend selling fresh-pressed apple juice. They were offering it by the glass or quart bottle but, since they had run out of glasses, I had to buy a quart. Next stop was at Carola’s booth – fortunately she offered the bee’s wax wrappers as a birthday present. I walked through the grounds, chatted with several folks and then was ready to go home. But then I remembered that I was out of the pine tar soap I like so I picked up a bar. Then I remembered that all summer I planned to get up to the market to get some of the salve the first-nation folks were selling – works good on sore hands after a long stitching session. By the time I left I had only a bit of silver left in my purse.

I finished binding the community quilt last night. Although I didn’t make any of the blocks in the quilt, I made a number of other blocks that went into other quilts. One of our on-going challenges at the Guild last year was to pick up a bag of scraps each month and make a 12″ square. When we got together to put the blocks into quilts some of the blocks really didn’t go with others ( I had one of the better ones with a blue theme). We’re going to do the same thing this year except each month will have a colour. This plan should mean the quilts will be more pleasing to the eye. I had practiced a quilting design on cards and it was nice to know before I started exactly what I was going to do.

Today was the Terry Fox Run but as soon as I woke up this morning I could hear the rain pouring down. I don’t mind walking in a bit of mist or drizzle but there was no way I’d walk in a downpour. The rain lasted until early afternoon when it rolled out but by then the walk was over. Although I didn’t walk, I have sent in my money.

I don’t have a project to work on this evening – what will I start?