Beaver:

Focusing on throwing bowls; texted customer tonight to check on colours. AOK. Hoping to get fair number completed before trip back on 18th. Remember to order a couple dozen of our fav muffins (carrot/raisin) from our fav bakery, to pick up en route. Stop for music event in Belleville and home before dark...??? Time change Sunday...

In the meantime: have to park on road due to plow having made a mess. That's OK since only about a dozen vehicles go by in a day re the few homes up the dead end road. Still about 8-10 inches of frozen snow on deck but my paths are still OK. Today it was dicey so I sprinkled sand on the paths. I suppose some will come indoors... Someday I will vacuum! In April.

There was an event at Community Trust today, attended by our local member of provincial parliament. Talked with his nice young assistant about our health care problems and the desperate need for affordable housing; they get calls about these issues frequently - GOOD! The Trust is geared to helping low income folks and those with drug problems, and managed to get permission from the Town to have a warming centre - Finally! Still trying to get permits for apartments on second floor of the donated building.

Well, that was my event for the week! I could not stay long as I suddenly got so hungry I had to go home. I did my pottery work before I went and hoped to do more after lunch but went to bed instead. Realized the weather had come down on me and a cup of green tea helped but the day was too far gone by then. I put plastic over the un-trimmed pots to hold them 'til tomorrow.

Then spent way too long on internet (it costs when I am overtime). Lost a carefully written email and will have to start it again tomorrow. But managed one to a friend on Cape Breton. We worked together 50 years ago on a new project at the Yellow Door - finding ways to be supportive of the older people in the neighbourhood. The folks running the program now are asking us for memories of the beginnings so I need to dredge mine up and compare notes. I can try to use my early morning thinking time...

(This, written on Friday, will go out next time I connect to internet - Sometime Saturday)