Subject: Bridge & trip

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:56:55 -080

Dear Casey

What a BUMMER. To have to spend your trip money to have a tooth-job. I'm SORRY, SORRY, SORRY! How soon will you be involved in that painful procedure? I'm sure you won't be wanting company during that time. John Westwood will be very disappointed, I'm sure. I'm sorry you won't get to see all those neat things and also that you won't get to have in-depth conversations with him so we will know how things are in his life and also his sister's lives. Darn! Nosey little beast, aren't I!

We are having another quilt-a-thon in our ward a week from Sat. Last Mon. I went down to Freddie Copier's to look over the quilt kits our R.S. Pres. had picked up and what an unpleasant surprise. Many of them were still just quilt blocks about 12 inches square waiting to be sewed. Then those that were sewed together were very poorly done. That isn't too surprising, however, as they had been done by people who work there (at the D.I.) and are in training. I brought home two that were sown, one wasn't too bad but the other one was the worst sewing I've ever seen. I ended up spending 4 hours trying to salvage it. Should have gone and bought a single sheet that looked good with the backing and prepared it instead.

When the Pres. saw what a mess things were she went to an outlet place that sells sheet seconds (other stuff too) and bought a whole lot of sheets and brought them while I was still at Freddie's. We were trying to match up things that looked good together and some of them had big holes or were too small or there was nothing that could be matched. In other words, it was another mess. Bless Freddie - - - this isn't even her calling but she had been worrying about it so had called the Pres. who was totally unaware that anything might not be OK! If Freddie hadn't called Pat would have brought all that stuff over on the Sat. just the way they were and it would have been a disaster. As is, Freddie called people who took sheets for a quilt, took out the hems, washed them and ironed them so they will be ready for the quilting frames. Last year we tied nearly 30 in one day and they were given to the battered women center. This time they will be given to an organization that takes kids who are out-of-control at home and tries to straighten them out. Freddie told me that two of the girls are from our own ward! Anyway, I prepared the material for 3 quilts but I don't get any brownie points for doing it because I was so ornery about the whole mess. We are aiming to do 17 or 18 this time. It is for everyone old enough to come help - - - - women, men, and teenagers both male and female.

I'm really glad you are doing so well on your computer. Some days I think I really want to learn all those things and other days it looks like too much work. I still am more interested in e-mail than anything else and then I still would like to be able to do my life story AND if I live long enough, to do Family History. Seems like that is a whole big project without getting involved in all the other fun stuff that sounds more fun. Ahh, me.

It's about bedtime so more later. Love, Robi