Pat Hering

…h me herself, so I knew before I picked up. Mom has stopped eating. She sleeps most of the day, and the hospice nurse says days, perhaps a week. Sub plans are on the desk. Patricia said go, and not to think about the book fair. R. will stay here with Gus until I call. I leave at six. The roads are clear to Tomah.

…at 3:30 and told her that next year will be the last. She said she had been afraid of that since R. retired, and then asked whether I would stay through the spring book fair, and I said of course, as if I had been thinking of leaving in March. So it is said. I walked through the stacks before I left.

…I had asked for none. Patricia spoke. She said that in thirteen years she had never once found the library locked when the bell rang, and that I had taught a generation of children to say "May I renew this?" Lorraine spoke after her and told the story of the 1994 conference and the hotel fire alarm, which I had aske…

…. Community room, Hawkstone Branch Library. To be typed clean and sent to Lynette for the newsletter by the 25th. Called to order 6:32 by Arlys Benedict, president. 47 members present, 3 guests. Minutes of the June meeting: approved as printed in the newsletter. Treasurer (Sue Dettmann): balance $6,418.22 after th…

…d: "Exceptional machine appliqué. Colour true to the tradition. Quilting in the ground is dense and even." 194 entries. Best of show to Pat Hering, by hand.

…rsday for five hours with Connie, and my back has opinions. I entered June's baby quilt, borrowed back from Portland for the purpose. It took a third in its class. Pat Hering stood in front of it for some time and then said that the machine work was "very even." The taxes went to Denise on the 7th. R.'s labs are Tu…

…ky and Hannah's graduation quilt) and showed neither. Hannah's is still a top; it goes to Kathy for quilting in April. The $20 is the guild's. 198 entries. Best of show: Pat Hering, hand quilted, at 81. Jeanette Wollin wants entries by February 1 next year.