July 2013 Meeting

Everyone was present and accounted for at the July meeting! With vacations and various family obligations, it had been months since we'd all been able to attend, so it was great to get to catch up and all be together again. We enjoyed a scrumptious dinner of chicken salad sandwiches, which Margie re-created from a dish served at a favorite restaurant, and Linda brought a tasty and healthy kale salad to go with them. Later during the meeting, we enjoyed key lime pie ice cream sandwiches from Randi -- yum! That was a surprise taste to bite into.

Next Meeting

*** Tuesday, August 27 at Helen's ***

Food has not yet been decided.

Meeting

Again, we didn't have business to discuss, so instead we celebrated Linda's induction into Medicare. She showed us her card and ran us through the process of signing up online. That reminded Tricia of how excited she was to get a lifetime senior pass to the National Parks for only $10.00 on her recent trip to Yellowstone. So many benefits to being a senior citizen -- sigh...

 

Then, to continue the festive spirit, and maybe just to be silly, Linda shared with us a hilarious game for which she had brought the necessary equipment, consisting of toilet paper rolls and toilet plungers. Let's just say it would be hard to describe, but here is a video of some people (thankfully not the Bees) playing the game.

We adjourned to a park across the street from Helen's house and gave it a go (except for the party poopers Dawn and Ellie). We didn't draw a crowd, but we noticed a few passers-by surreptitiously edge closer to see what we were doing. That gave us a good laugh, and we even got a little exercise. By common agreement, no photos of that activity will be posted. 

Show & Tell

Peggy made trick-or-treat bags for her grandchildren. 

Randi's Helen made a very cute tote bag from the quilted bedspread samples we received last year. We all agreed that was an exceedingly creative and clever way to use the samples. Randi asked if anyone had more of the samples in that particular design, and no one knew for sure. Tricia later discovered that she has some and will try very hard to remember to bring them to the next meeting. 

Linda finished a quilt she started five years ago for the mother of a 16-year old boy named Drew who was killed in a car crash. The quilt is made entirely of the young man's T-shirts, which clearly portray a picture of his life and interests. What a brave and compassionate project for Linda to take on. Although the pain of such a tragedy will never go away, we all hope that with the of passing of time, this quilt will be a comfort to the young man's mother.