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Friday check in: the corollary kicks in, but there's progress from With Strings Attached

The 24th annual Zion-Benton Senior Resource Expo was Wednesday at the Zion Park District Leisure Center. This year Zion Woman's Club had a table along with area agencies including libraries (Zion-Benton (mine) and Waukegan), Lake County Forest Preserves, banks, home health care, and state and county officials.

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In the studio:

A house is the template for the chapter highlights display at the P.E.O. state convention. Any medium is welcome (many chapters do scrapbooking-type collages). I use fabric, of course, and here's how it turned out. The lettering is printed on adhesive label plastic (8-1/2 x ...

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Weekly update: a Convention-al weekend from With Strings Attached

No quilts in today's post. I'll have a report for that department on Wednesday.

The 122nd convention of the Illinois State Chapter of P.E.O. was held at the Westin hotel in Lombard this weekend.

I didn't attend last year. It was so good to return and be in the company of P.E.O. sisters from around the state. (504 of them, per the credentials report.)

Two days before the convention I got a call from the
state organizer (board-level officer) saying that the chair of the International Peace Scholarship was ill and could not ...

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Weekly update: adjusting, and progress on goals + reading from With Strings Attached

Stevens had laprascopic surgery on Friday afternoon. The results were good. "I went from one end of the bowel to the other," said the surgeon when he called me, "and there's nothing there." It's taken S all weekend to recover. He was half-awake when I visited Saturday morning and asleep this afternoon. Thanks again to all of you for your concern and support.

The thirteen Lake County Round Table P.E.O. chapters held the annual Founder's Day luncheon on Saturday. I'm round table president so I was the emcee. This was the second year the ...

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Weekly update: two luncheons and WITB leads to a finished quilt from With Strings Attached

"Destination Heartland History" was the topic at the Clara Cummings Book Club luncheon on Thursday. Cynthia Clampitt enjoys discovering lesser-known sites and attractions as she travels. She began the program explaining that the historical midwest covers a lot of territory -- Ohio to North Dakota, Michigan to Kansas. She reminded us that Laura Ingalls Wilder (=pioneer) and Frank Lloyd Wright (=modern) were born in Wisconsin, four months and 150 miles apart. Pioneer museums, the oldest still-operating restaurant/bar in a town/county, windmills and lighthouses -- so many interesting places.

We've been to a number of them. Now we have a ...

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Weekly update: fundraising, two flings, a flimsy, a finish, and flowers from With Strings Attached

The weather was perfect on Friday for the 23rd annual Jack McElmurry Golf Tournament at Shepherd's Crook golf course in Zion. That's our Rotary Club's big fundraiser. With a nearly-full complement of 140 golfers and many Rotarians pitching in how could it not be a success? Oh, and I did mention the weather? (77 and full sunshine).

Registration was at 11, tee time at noon, dinner and raffles at 5, and it was over at 7:30. It will be a while until the final results are calculated but the proceeds will be in the neighborhood of ...

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Reflect and Celebrate: P.E.O. convention 2023 from With Strings Attached

I left home on Friday with plenty of time to arrive at the convention hotel in west suburban Lombard. I planned to check into my room and then attend a committee meeting at 3 p.m. When I got on I-94 and accelerated to merge with traffic the front end of the car started shuddering. Badly. [It had done that, but not as badly, when I went to Peoria in early May but I made it there and home okay. It's been fine all month -- but I haven't driven at interstate speed, either.] Shuddering both personally and vehicularly ...

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Weekly update: farewells and new beginnings (with music) from With Strings Attached

2020: a drive-by birthday parade to honor Sally

Saturday morning I attended the memorial service for Sally Zeit who passed away in December at age 94. I first met her in AAUW as our branch voter registration chair (coordinating training for voter registrars and then registration events). She connected my husband to the Lake County chaplaincy agency where he served as a nursing home and hospice chaplain. We attended many church services for which she was the organist. But I'd only known her as a fierce and feisty senior citizen. Her memorial service provided a life story of decades ...

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Midweek: a daisy dozen and a nice surprise from With Strings Attached

OMG April #1 is finished! Here are a dozen daisy mug rugs for our P.E.O. chapter project.

I made the green and yellow slab backgrounds while I was working on the daisy bouquet wall hanging earlier this year.

I made a panel with the left over green slab pieces. No plans for it yet.

There's still a bin of daisy fabrics in the stash.

Linking up with Wednesday Wait Loss and Midweek Makers

The surprise? I was featured in Jennifer's WWL post today! Thanks, Jennifer!

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Friday check in: finished! from With Strings Attached

I finished the daisy wall hanging. I adapted a design from a pattern in the National Quilting Assn. magazine. 20" x 20".

It will be presented to the outgoing president of the P.E.O. Lake County Round Table in appreciation for her six years in office. The P.E.O. flower is the marguerite, or daisy, and there were seven founders.

I've made crumb-pieced backgrounds for several projects and I like the effect.

This is one of my OMGs for February.

Linking up with Alycia's Finished or Not Friday and Wendy's Peacock Party and Sarah's ...

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Weekly update: the social whirl, Blue Heaven, and a burst of flimsies from With Strings Attached

Holiday gatherings this week were great fun.

Tuesday noon: I was co-hostess for the Zion Woman's Club luncheon and used my vintage tablecloths on each table. In lieu of a white elephant gift exchange we each packaged "festive food." (I gave a gift box of Penzey's spices and received four different kinds of treats from Trader Joe's.) We collected hats and mittens for kids at Elmwood School in Zion.

Tuesday evening: my P.E.O. chapter had dinner at a great Italian restaurant. There was another festive food exchange. (I gave Penzey's, again, and got a ...

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Weekly update: golden autumn woods, lunch with friends, and piecing the back from With Strings Attached

Here's the commemorative medallion I got for completing Hike Lake County 2022. That's a rusty-patched bumblebee which is a critically-endangered species.

I do not have a wooden hiking stick to which to nail it, nor do I have an RV to which to glue it, but I do have a bulletin board. <g>

And I'm still walking!

There cannot be too many golden autumn woods photos.

These were taken at McDonald Woods (Thursday) and Lyons Woods (Sunday).

Such a beautiful time of year!

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On Friday Stevens and I took our friend Pat out to lunch. The restaurant ...

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Weekly update: Sisters gathering in love from With Strings Attached

The 119th convention of the Illinois State Chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood was this past weekend in Springfield. It was wonderful to meet in person after cancelling in 2020 and Zooming in 2021.

I thought I took many more photos than it turns out I did.

I was my chapter's delegate.

We had a packed schedule.

There were 328 voting members representing 288 chapters (out of 310), 5 state board, 20 past state presidents, and 15 committee chairs, plus 115 non-voting members.

The Time of Remembrance (sisters who have passed away since the last convention) is very ...

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Midweek: positive is not good, but some small finishes from With Strings Attached

Both of us were sneezy on Sunday. My husband suffers from allergies year-round (dust and mold as well as pollen) but I only react in late spring when pollen is very heavy. We took quick Covid tests and both read positive. I don't have a fever, just sneezes and sniffles and a few aches. He, meanwhile, is grumbling because we got our second booster shots last week so we should be immune, right? Umm, no. I've pointed out that sniffles are a lot better than being hospitalized. CDC guidelines say to self-quarantine for five days (=through Friday). I ...

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Weekly update: turtles, music, sewing UPDATE!, and reading from With Strings Attached

It rained all day Friday -- 1.8" accumulation, which helps compensate for the severe drought we had in 2021. Saturday was glorious: 80 degrees and sunny! I walked the entire 2.5 mile trail at Pine Dunes. I saw two turtles and three hawks.

The Lake County Symphony Orchestra's annual jazz + classics concert was Saturday evening featuring five compositions by Dave Brubeck followed by Dvorak's New World Symphony. Wonderful music!

There was a Covid outbreak among the church choir members after the Easter service. No choir this morning and we were back to alternating pews and masks required ...

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Friday check in: a busy first week and a flimsy from With Strings Attached

The first week of the month is always busy with regularly-scheduled meetings.

It was wonderful to have dinner with P.E.O. sisters on Monday after months of Zooming. We had great fun with our white elephant exchange (sidelined for two years due to Covid). I'd had custody of one of the perennial white elephants -- a funny plaster pig--and successfully handed it off.

Deb got the bead-and-safety-pin basket. Lenee got the owls--we think they are travel jewelry holders. One owl has been around for 20 years. I got the other owl and the basket at this estate sale way ...

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Weekly update: gatherings online and in-person and two parks from With Strings Attached

[Next post will have quilting updates and the one book I managed to finish this week.]

The 75th International Convention of the P.E.O. Sisterhood was held virtually this week. Because it was virtual any member could 'attend' at no charge. I registered months ago and fully intended to tune in -- but Life In General intervened. I did watch the opening ceremony on Wednesday and one of the workshops. Now I need to go back to see the results of the voting on amendments. There were many. Like so many organizations P.E.O. is striving to improve its ...

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Weekly update: a few wildflowers, convention and scrappy multitasking, and reading from With Strings Attached

Each year I search for flags -- wild iris. This afternoon I found them everywhere I looked. I think that's because it's been so very, very dry (as in ZERO rainfall) that the other vegetation is not as lush as usual. Even so I'm surprised that the iris are blooming in such profusion. The wild ones like wet feet. This year they're high and dry.

See the exposed roots? (Yellow are invasive; blue are native.)

I found another patch of hybrid iris. (Last week I posted a photo of the clump that comes back annually.)

Daisies are ...

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Weekly update: wildflowers, new projects, and reading from With Strings Attached

Spring wildflowers on my walks this week:

(clockwise): skunk cabbage leafed out (the flower is the purply-brown "horn"), violets, swamp buttercup, white trout lily (aka dogtooth violet -- "trout" because the leaves are mottled brown/green like a trout); bloodroot.

Saturday morning: six of us from Illinois Beach Sunrise Rotary joined other District 6440 Rotarians at a warehouse in Northbrook. We sorted the shoes our clubs purchased through Operation Warm -- new sneakers for kids in our communities. IBSR's share was 92 pairs that will be distributed through two local agencies.

Operation Warm also provides new winter coats for kids. Our ...

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Weekly update: OMG finished + all the houses from With Strings Attached

I am an inexpert gardener, but I love to cook with fresh vegetables, so every year I buy tomato plants, seedlings, and seeds. Ever hopeful!

It was in the high 80's Sunday afternoon when I walked in Spring Bluff Forest Preserve. I saw a crane, five egrets, and many red-winged blackbirds. Most of the people I saw were on bicycles, heading farther east to the marina.

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My OMG for May is finished. It's a tote bag for the outgoing chair of the Illinois P.E.O. Home Fund . P.E.O.'s colors are white and yellow and ...

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Weekly updates: tote bags, counter tops and frolics (holiday and quilting) from With Strings Attached

The tote bags I made for the school children in Nepal have been delivered. Margaret, my friend who supports the school and asked if I could help out, sent this photo of the kids. It was taken by the school's U.S. coordiantor. (The sign says, "Thank you dear Nann Hilyard.")

[For those who are interested in the school and the parent organization: Impact Schools ]

The counter tops were installed Friday. I had no idea there were so many choices for faucets until I had to choose one. (The first one I sort of liked was $1400. The second ...

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