Spring came in like a lion. This is the view out the front door on Friday morning.
Fortunately there was no wind behind the snow and it stopped by noon.
The Zion Woman's Club had a small but enthusiastic turnout for our first spring Bunco party.
Marilyn had the high score, Evie had the low score, and I had the most buncos. (A bunco is 21 points, achieved by rolling three of a kind of the pip in play. A baby bunco is 5 points, achieved by rolling three of a kind of a pip not in play. (E.g. 3 3's when 5 is in play.))
The raffles were a gift card basket ($200 in store gift cards), a wine/cheese/chocolate basket, 50/50 cash, and Sparkling Triangles, which I made.
Proceeds go to a high school scholarship, a week-long art camp for a high school student, and contributions to local agencies.
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On Wednesday I wrote that I looked forward to Diane Harris's improv curves Zoom workshop. I wasn't able to sit in on the entire 6-hour program but I got the concept. Here's what I accomplished. More to come.
* The blocks in the stack were 12.5". I sewed and re-sewed them so that I had 7" panels from which I cut the triangle shapes. I used Deb Tucker's V block ruler. (Lynne uses Tri-Recs.)
Another new start. These are homespun plaids with "regular" neutrals. Units are 5.5" to finish at 5". As of Sunday night I had 75 HSTs and 39 nine-patches.
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The ALA Retired Members Round Table Fifth Sunday Book Club met yesterday, the fourth Sunday, because next week is Easter. Because we are librarians we are conditioned (perhaps hard-wired) to read extensively and recommend a lot ("there's a book for that!" as the saying goes), so this book club uses prompts rather than specific books. The prompt this time was a Western -- however we chose to define it. Several people recommended mystery writers including C. J. Box, Tony and Anne Hillerman, J. A. Jance, and Craig Johnson, all of whom I've enjoyed. I talked about Smoky the Cow Horse (Newbery Medal, 1927), The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig, and Bold Spirit by Linda Lawrence Hunt.
(I'll have some recent reading to report on later this week.)
Linking up with Design Wall Monday Oh Scrap!
P.S. No walks this past week -- crummy weather and meetings. I missed the exercise!