Prawn Trap Mystery

Boating, prawn fishing and gardening aren’t enough to occupy 24 hours a day, so I joined a quilt group today!

A group of local Egmont, Earls Cove and Pender Harbour ladies get together every Tuesday for a few hours of quilting, sewing, crafting, knitting and crocheting and asked me to join last summer but I never managed to work it in. This year all the stars and planets aligned and so did my time schedule. I already knew some of the ladies and met a a few more today. They’ve been meeting for years and have completed lots of projects and have lots more on the go. The current group quilt is an assortment of red scraps in small squares with corner triangles which each form a square where 4 corners meet. It’s vivid but beautiful - and a perfect choice as they plan to donate it to the Egmont Volunteer Fire Department to raffle to raise much needed funds.

The previous project was a split rail fence design lap quilt and I saw quilts in all stages, some completed, some still attaching borders - but all lovely to touch and so inspiring. I’m looking forward to joining these motivated ladies each week and hope to complete a project or two of my own as well as ‘group quilt’.

Part of my initiation was helping to sew knitted squares together to form a pretty pastel baby afghan. The squares are a take-off of the knitted dishcloths but done with Mary Maxim yarn to be soft and cozy. Each square has a design in the center of an animal or shape. We nearly finished sewing the squares together and my ‘homework’ for the week is to crochet a picot edging. I like crocheting and worked at it this evening,completing the first round of single crochet and half finished the second round of double crochet. Next is the picot which will take a few hours but it’s a small project and perfect for working at on the boat.

Back to reality now - the weeding is still waiting and if I don’t get at it all the flowers will go to seed and create 8 million more weeds for next Spring.

We’re not doing very well prawning and have to find a better area to set the traps. We also lost two traps today - we found the buoy, with 4 feet of line left attached, floating a few miles from where we set and the line looked as though it was caught in a boats propeller perhaps. So, that’s two less traps we’ll be fishing for a while - and an expensive amount of gear to replace.

Kent has been doing a lot of trimming and clean up as well as repairs and maintenance to equipment. We have a ton of clean up before the big (95th) birthday party/family re-union and lots of preparation required.

Yesterday, I cleaned much of the command bridge and washed the navy canvas covers. The floor still needs scrubbing and the fridge needs the mildew removed - yuck - who forgot to leave the door open last winter???