Work update

It's officially fall and I have gone through my first sports registration at the Community Club where I work. 
It was hectic, and crazy busy as I like but I learned alot and it was fun.

Yes, my volunteer job there turned into a paying position and I get paid for 4 hours a day.  I usually work around 6 or more but you all know me, so enough said on that.  I am happy and love the work, so that is the important thing. 

I never realized the work involved in keeping a community club going.  And I never realized that it costs so much for the kids to sign up for sports.  There were many cheques written for over $1000 for a few kids to play.  As I have to explain to many parents, the club does not set the bulk of the fees.  They go right to the sports association.  Of that $450 hockey fee, we keep the $35 registration fee.  Who would have thunk????

The L1011 and Chris

When my Dad's widow died a few years ago, my brother and I went to Nova Scotia to settle the estate.  I brought home some of the Air Canada airplane pictures he had, the Viscount, the Vanguard, the L1011, all of the planes from his era.  A few were from the manufacturers signed on the back to my Dad. 

I took a few to the Air Canada office to adorn our bare walls and one of the Managers noticed them.  He mentioned that his first Air Canada flight was on an L1011, so I looked and sure enough I had one of those pictures.  I brought it into him, but for a few years it sat in his office on the floor.

Yesterday when I was visiting everyone, I dropped into his new office to see him and his assistant. 

My Dad would have been very proud to know where his picture ended up.  That manager is Chris Isford and he is now the Controller of Air Canada.  

Happy Retirement Sharon

One of my favorite people from Air Canada retired yesterday.  And of course my photos did not turn out!

The celebration was already started when I arrived about 11:40 and it was still in full swing when we left around 8:30!    I will write more when I get some pictures, but for now:

Thanks Sharon for all the fun, productive times we had!

Almost September

Summer has just flown by!

I love working 4 hours a day at the community club.  Ok, you know me, it turns out to be longer but I am having fun.  Who would have thought that my volunteer job there would turn into a paying job!  And I get to keep it while I am away. 

I am the only one in the office so I do everything from opening the mail, showing the hall, writing the specifications for the washroom renovations, dealing with the contractors, accepting and counting sports equipment returns, to typing letters for the President of the Board.

Two days a week, I also volunteer at th hospital early in the morning (early for me now - 8:00).  I am even teaching one of the long time patients to quilt.  

Blaine is still working at the golf course and since his boss was fired recently, he will be learning more of the open and close procedures, which will keep him working a bit longer.  

I love having two cars again (a Zoom Zoom Mazda6).  I still ride my bike to the club and hospital but it is nice to have the other car in case it is raining or windy.  And I dream of the extra room we will have when we go south (or better yet when we come home - lol).  Since we don't have our companion with us this year, we plan on making a few stops along the way.  First to Dallas as Blaine is a JFK buff and then to Corpus Christie to see the USS Lexington aircraft carrier.  We saw it once in Florida many years ago, but we wanted to see it again. 

 

  

Lovely laces

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Quilt group and our park

We have such a great quilt group down here in Texas, so willing to share and teach.

We had our wind up lunch on Friday and one of the gals made spool ladies for each of us.  They were sitting on our wine goblets.  How special are we?

By a process of elimination, I was made the secretary on next year's executive.  That means I take minutes, write the articles for the park's newsletter, etc. 

Someone wrote the other day and thought we were in a small trailer park.  Quite the opposite, there are over 1000 cottage homes, sea cottages (3 story homes), very expensive RVs, and some smaller ones as well.    Quite a mixture.  Many people live here year round. 

It is not classified as a 'retirement' village, in fact the owners of our place are in their early 40's.  They bought it as an investment (selling now for $240,000) and use it as a summer cottage.

But most of the people that are here in the winter are retired or like us, semi-retired.  If you are bored here, you will be bored anywhere! 
 

Fabric bowls

On Friday, Peg taught the quilters how to make fabric bowls. 

We only had about an hour to work on it as we were having our wind up lunch that day but I was able to finish.  I am not too happy with the result, as I put the end on the handle and it is noticable, but I wanted to ensure I knew all the steps.  They are so fun to make.