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But television is boring sometimes and I have sleep issues.

We're putting on an exhibit starting May 6, doing demonstrations this coming Saturday and Sunday (and promoting our exhibit), and the newsletter editor quit six weeks ago. So I get to send out all the updates, keep the dates for activities straight since the committee members cannot seem to do that, and try to get more participation.

In addition, I try to work on my needlework in my copious spare time - since that is the reason for being a member of the group!

I've been clearing off my DVR, which is nice. For a while it was so full it was dropping programs I had no time to watch. And I read books - I collected all the books of the Inspector Lynley series by Elizabeth George and am trying to read them in order. But I misplaced the first one, read the fourth one second, and the fifth one is a "flash back" to before the series started. So much for maintaining the order of character development! I'd watched the BBC series and read one or two of the books but never all of them. It's great fun.

Last month we planted trees - bare root seedlings from Arbor Day Foundation. Every single one is growing like crazy, even the red buds that didn't leaf out for two weeks. In a few years when they bloom in the spring they are going to be gorgeous - red buds, dogwoods, crabapples and Washington Hawthornes.

Some of the books my Mom had to travel to university libraries to get an afternoon with, I have downloaded and can go over the family history at my leisure. Plus, since Mom did a lot of her research when photocopiers were either not available, expensive to use, or made really poor copies, I can get clear high definition scans of the pages rather than try to decipher Mom's notes.

Archive.org also has some old needlework books and magazine - though the AntiquePatternLibrary.org has more on all sorts of handiwork. At Archive.org I found the first issue of the magazine, Bird-Lore, that my husband's great grandfather had an article on photographing birds in. The family knew he'd written it, but no one had a copy we could see. Now I have the first several years of Bird-Lore with his article and his reports of birds in Minnesota that he contributed for decades!

I really don't remember ever visiting this site.