Yikes! Another crazy busy but fun week!
And tomorrow is the first day of December. Time to get the house decorated, the baking started, and the Christmas music playing!
Probably ought to do some shopping, too! Speaking of shopping, did you do the whole Black Friday fun stuff? Okay. Black Friday is the opposite of fun to me.
But I couldn’t resist checking things out on the Internet. The packages are still arriving. (All for me. I haven’t done any Christmas Shopping yet! I like to save that for the last possible moment. I work better under pressure!)
So what’s going on????
Had the “Volunteer Appreciation Dinner” for the festival volunteers on Tuesday. Over 70 volunteers at the festival. Can not do the festival without them!
I have been fortunate enough to see Terry do many talks at conferences before he retired. He was a very charismatic speaker. (I know, charismatic no longer has a good connotation.) He always knew the subject, the audience, and made it interesting. Even though he was usually talking about concrete or concrete trucks. (Warning, don’t ever call concrete CEMENT)
And he was that guy at the dinner. Just a really brief talk but it started out the party out on a great note.
Then Connie took the stage. Definitely another charismatic person.
We had some gifts to give out and she volunteered to do the giveaway. She asked for volunteers to give out the goodies and Paul Ritli jumped up. They were a good team.
Almost everyone won something. I won a keychain. Terry got a fishing t-shirt. (Terry usually gives whatever he wins back to the pot to be regifted but I had threatened him that he best not do that again. And hey, that fishing t-shirt was just my size!!!!!!)
Food was great. Company was great. GREAT DINNER!!!!!
Then Wednesday the Homosassa Ukers got together. 19 Ukers. OMG! Our little ukulele group started out with friends Connie and Laurel and I wanting to learn ukulele. Seems that there are a LOT of people in our little community that want to learn how to play ukulele!
Once again I want to shout out to our volunteers for the Uke group. Anita is teaching the beginners. Torrey is the Homosassa Ukers leader. Anita also teaches the kids ukulele in the after-school music enrichment program. And there is one volunteer per child. That’s what you need to keep 6 to 9 year olds to hold still and learn. Anita also feeds them before we start. And during. And after. This week it was French fries. Anita is amazing!
And then today was the Sew Cool! Workshop. Okay. You might not thinking that sewing is fun. But with us it is.
I’ve got to know so many wonderful people through all these activities.
And that’s what it is all about. The Homosassa Civic Club is turning into a true community center. All these people are coming together and making a community.
It’s so cool for me to be part of this change!
Have a GREAT weekend!
Kathy