Catching Up

Obsessing, rather than tackling the projects and decisions I must make has not helped with my tiredness. I decided to ignore the yard for a couple of days and work with my mind.

First up was the plaques I must give out for the Town of Windermere Centennial Trees. Saturday morning, I downloaded the spreadsheet Vicki sent listing all the recipients. I added the others our Public Works director sent. I spent the next hour or so texting/emailing the 30 families, letting them know when I was available next week to present their plaque and take their picture. By the end of the day, I’d scheduled 9 families on Sunday, 2 more on Wednesday, heard from 2 people who had not received their trees (one lady thought a tree was being delivered!), learned 1 woman who moved and was selling her house, and arranged for several others who are now traveling to contact me when they get back. 

Getting that process started is 1 thing off my mind. It will just keep rolling, although I am skeptical we will have planted “100 Trees for 100 Years” by year’s end like the Centennial Committee envisions. Not my problem. I just volunteered to give out plaques, take pictures, and create a map of the tree locations. I am also sending the families their pictures for their albums. They can look back and see how they and their tree have aged. 

Next up: undated membership application for Bloom and Grow Garden Society. I harangued the club into having an email address. No, I was not going to create it, because then I’d own it. When I finish my term as Membership Chair, I won’t want that. It took me a while, with much emailing and texting, to learn that, back in the day, when the club’s website was created, someone used Google Business to create club email addresses. Sadly, no one remembers who that person was, and more importantly, what the password is. After much hemming and hawing, our webmaster Chris and his B&G manager Joyce conceded if we paid money for club email addresses, it could happen. I assume the executive board agreed, because Info and Membership@BloomandGrow.Club now exist. Hooray! 

With that done, I attempted to update the membership application with the new email address, taking out any suggestion that the person could mail in a check (just use the provided “pay now” link). My changes all looked good, formatting was correct, link worked. I just couldn’t save it as a fillable form. Perhaps if I bought some software, but no, not something I need. Another search for the person who created it. No one knows, however the best guess is that it was done by Erin, no longer a member. Now Chris is suggesting we have the application on the website, rather than the Membership Chair forward this form to prospective members. Fine by me, however that idea was nixed by the board in the past. To be continued at board meeting July 8th.

Third obsession was deciding which tree trimming bid to take. Grant and I talked, chose the cheapest which is who our neighbors across the street used. I quickly sent emails to the other two companies, thanking them for their bids and explaining we were going with another company. I also emailed the company we chose, asking the salesperson to call. So much less energy than I’d spent worrying it. One would think I’d learn. Hah!

Last major project/hurdle was adding tags and videos to EarlyBird Toastmasters’ blog site. So easy to agree to do. And it turned out, easy to do. By magic, Ana’s recap of our meeting appears on the blog. (Note to self: learn how this is done. Chris said it comes via email link. What, exactly, happens?) 

Since I use Blogger for this blog, I know the basics about adding labels. I just needed to add the 2 speakers’ names to each post. Done. Second, I added the YouTube meeting video. Only hiccup was we missed recording 1 meeting, and another meeting was recorded locally on someone’s computer. We will have to figure out how to get that uploaded. 

Cycling back to garden club, I’ve emailed all the people inquiring about membership and have reorganized the potential membership list. 

So nice to be caught up and have all those little engines chugging along.