Canadian Gardening: What's Happening in Your neighborhood-visit with friends #19, 1 by fancyvan

fancyvan wrote:
I have somehow missed this thread for several days - guess I accidentally clicked unwatch!
Been kinda busy - worked at the House on Sat, Sunday afternoon a meeting of as many of the recues volunteers as could make it to start a reorganisation because the lady who started and has been running the rescue almost single handedly is resigning so we are all picking up new jobs, Went well, everybody pitched in including Winston a 3 yr old Sheltie who keep getting up on a chair at the kitchen table and sampling our lunch . My new job is Communications and Intake coordinator which means I get to monitor the website/email/phone and respond to or forward to appropriate person everything that comes in! Well I am the one who has the most time and spends the most time on the computor so................!

I was given access to the email Sunday eve and immediately started to check things out. Was astonished to find former director never deleted anything since it was set up. Over 4000 emails in both sent and received files! Guess who is hitting the delete button? not even reading them - if it is not 2009 out it goes! Then I will start reading before deleting!

Then a big panic happens Monday when it is discovered our website is down, the person running it wants to turn over ownership/management etc to one of us ( she is outside the group) and we have 30 days to do this! Because somebody didnt pay the annual fee! After much emailing back and forth to make the needed changes
I said so why ca't I please just pay what is owed and who too - got the answer, did it and the site is back up. Now we have time for the other website issues! About which I know nothing but I am set to be the new owner of the domain name! Wow! Never owned a domain before!

Rally class with the dogs Monday eve, Bailey just wanted to sniff the floor, Fancy kept looking at me like she didnt know who I was!

But yesterday a nice day with a friend, lunch and checking out her garden , handing out advice on what she should enter in the upcoming competition .( I am going to be a judge this year!)

And today one of our former fosters who moved back to Toronto (silly lady!) visiting,over for lunch with her hostess and visiting my garden and then to the House for a quick tour.

Tomorrow the car in for spring check up and then maybe get back to normal? Hah!
Sorry this is so long - needed to play catch up!

This pic ( which I earlier posted for an ID on the iris forum)is from my friends garden. It is called Blue Batik. I hope she will let me have a tuber in a year or two. And glory be my peonies are starting to bloom!