Lovely work, everyone! with a special shoutout to @LaineyAZ. The endgame for the elderly in this country is very rough and it's scary to be dependent on others in our last days. Just having the peace of mind that she'll be able to get into her bed at night is such a gift to your neighbor.
Hrm, I can't say that I've been particularly good to man or beast lately. I've continued on my usual volunteer work but this month it's been mainly planning meetings, postponing them, and sending emails saying that the meetings were postponed. I did initiate a craft circle at a building of low income seniors... have secured funding promises, made the flyers and am collecting yarn etc., and I'm hoping that bringing the seniors together will become a regular thing that they can sustain themselves, to reduce isolation in this community. It's scheduled for next month and I'm looking forward to it. It's kind of a maverick event that I threw together out of frustration with everything else that I'm having to do by committee.
Good on you! I've recently learned that there's a group of ladies who meet in the community room at our library. The first part of the meeting is kind of a materials swap. Then they settle in for another couple of hours of needlework of all types, and conversation. It was delightful to see.
Dicey: "Ooh, we had a lot of knitting books donated before the last book sale. There were more than we had room for, so we kept some of them for the next book sale. They're in my garage, would you like them?"
Group: "We donated them."
Later, at the Thrift Shop, a conversation with a fellow thrift shop/library volunteer: "Dicey, the shop is low on cookbooks and craft books. Do you have anything?" And that's how my groaning bookshelves have fewer cookbooks and the crate of knitting books is out of my garage, yay!
To stay sort of on topic, we were at the library multiple times so DH could do extensive repairs on the storage shed where The Friends accumulate used books. It's the former trash enclosure, in the alley behind the library. It has no power, so we have to mooch it from the community room. Bonus: DH scavenged most of the materials. In the course of scavenging, someone had some unused, brand-new windows along with the materials we were picking up, so we took them and dropped them off at ReStore. The Friends had the money to buy new materials, but that's not how Mr. Dicey rolls. Now The Friends have extra money to spend on library needs. In the Spring, he will repaint the building with material he's already sourced. Free, of course.
