Tallahassee Area Mensa
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Tallahassee Area Mensa a local chapter of the High IQ Society, American Mensa. The Tallahassee
area serves Florida from the Apalachicola River east through Taylor County including part of
Madison County and even a bit of Dixie County. Our area is also the only area in all of Florida,
Region 10 of American Mensa, to include a portion of Georgia. For a full view of the area we
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Robin's Roost - rest your feathers!
Welcome to March! The old saying goes that March comes in like a lion. This year, the lion is not predicted until the middle of the first week of March. With luck it will only be a cub and not a full grown maneater. Spring flowers have begun to bloom, and some are already fading. I'm hoping we will not get another serious cold snap that will hurt the still-starting blooms.
Some of you may recall my talking about the Michigan-themed quilt I made for my immediately older sister last spring. I ordered a small fortune in Michigan-themed T-shirts and flannel sheets for the backing and borders, worked like crazy, and presented it to her when we went north in July. A couple of months ago I was speaking with my younger sister about the collection of T-shirts she has from her years of doing plays during her teaching career. She was talking about how much space they consume, but she never wears them and can't bring herself to get rid of them. I said she should get a quilt made of them, to which she replied, "Are you offering?" Cue the screeching record needle. I said she would probably be happier with the result if she had a professional make it. She disagreed. At that point, I realized what I had just walked into. So, I said I would make it for her. She sent me a huge box of T-shirts and sweatshirts and I was dismayed to find there was no standard size to the designs - some were huge, some small, some circles, some rectangles, some squares. I let it percolate for a long time before I started cutting. I ordered some theater-themed material for the backing and borders and finally began working on it in earnest about 2 weeks ago. She and her husband spend spring break in south Florida and will be passing through here on their way back home at the end of March. My goal is to have it finished by then so I can give it to her and not have to mail it. There were enough scraps left over, I also made a dog blanket for their dog.
I missed the MagLab's Open House this year, did any of you attend? It is usually a good time. March is a busy month with events around town, our anniversary, Springtime Tallahassee, getting the yard work going again, and preparing for our first trip of the year. It is just a weekend camping trip with some of Ray's family, but it will be a good chance to test out the changes we have made to the RV since our last trip.
The Region 10 LocSecs selected Elissa Rudolph as our Regional Coordinator until a new RVC can be elected.
I recently acquired 2 pieces of furniture from my recently deceased friend Fox. Putting them into the house had a cascade effect of shifting furniture and purging stuff. One of the things that left was a HUGE bookcase that was put into the library back in the early 1990's. It was a massive thing, homemade, from 6x8 planks of wood and weighed about 200 pounds. Among other things, it held my music books from my singing days. I was delighted to find a young lady, a singer attending FSU, who was thrilled to receive them. I was thrilled for them to go to a good home. I also let go of a lot of my old piano music, some of which dated back to when my grandmother studied piano in the early 1900's! I found someone who wanted all of them and she was so fascinated by finding my relative's names on the music, she went online to try to find more about the people to whom this music had belonged. That lead her to the site I created years ago when my parents were still alive that contains stories about my family, my parents' childhoods and early years, and all of us kids (https://stephensontales.com/). I was amused to get a message from her with a link to that site asking me if I knew about it. I assured her that I not only knew about it, I was the one who had assembled all of those family stories from my dad and had put them online. It made me smile that she was so excited about finding this history of people she never met or knew, but encounted through sheet music that had survived over 100 years.
On of my little dogs, Tiny, has injured his ACL. I have no idea how he did it, he ran out with his sisters into the backyard and came back limping on his back left leg. A trip to our regular vet confirmed his ACL was damaged and we have been referred to the animal orthopedist. We have an appointment in the first week of March and I anticipate it will require surgery and I further anticipate it will not be an inexpensive repair process. He has been pretty unhappy, refusing to use the dog stairs or the ramp, can't weight-bear on that back leg (which is hard for him because he often stands on his back legs), and he gets crabby if anyone tries to touch it. I hate to see him suffering with it, so I am eager to see the vet about it. We will drop him off at 3, return an hour later for the consultation with the vet and get their prognosis and recommendations. I don't know how quickly they will be able to get him scheduled for a repair, but I hope it is soon. I miss my bouncy little guy.
We need to plan on locations for the upcoming monthly dinners. We have locations through April, but we need to have locations for the summer. Do you have ideas? Suggestions? Places you love? Places you have wanted to try? Let us know!
Hope to see you at Mission BBQ this month! Until then, I hope you get a chance to get outside and enjoy this beautiful time of year!
Robin
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