{"id":1410,"date":"2012-02-09T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/quilters-are-the-nicest-people\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:23:22","slug":"quilters-are-the-nicest-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/quilters-are-the-nicest-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilters are the nicest people!"},"content":{"rendered":"
I belong to a great group of quilters here where I live; we’re the Green Valley Quilters. When I first joined the group after moving here in 1999, we had a telephone “tree” to inform each one of what we needed to bring to the next meeting. It was a royal pain! The people who did the phoning had to catch each member at home at a convenient time, read off a list and wait for it to be written down. It was time consuming, to say the least, and no one really wanted to do it. <\/div>\n
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<\/a>Enter the internet. After some discussion about privacy issues and that sort of thing, we switched to an email list, and I began sending out messages for our monthly meetings. After all, how long does it take to write one<\/i> message and tell an email application to send it to everyone in a specific group? I’ve been doing it for about ten years now, and it’s never been a problem. In fact, it’s been fun, because I get to know everything that’s going to happen! \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n
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We had another meeting today \u2014 this time with a surprise I didn’t see coming. One of our members, Brenda, had organized the others to bring in FQs of lovely batiks, all as an unexpected thank you for what I’ve gladly been doing! I am still overwhelmed.<\/div>\n

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Look at those gorgeous colors and designs! I’m going to have such a good time using these! \ud83d\ude00<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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