Work Order Day

The word of the day is busy busy busy. The work is never ending, it takes a lot of cleaning to keep our clubhouse clean. Every one contributes their cleaning skills and if they don’t know how to do a certain job their is always some one to show you how to do it.
Keeping our clubhouse clean is just one of the jobs we do. Outside jobs are a major part of our work order day. The kitchen group caters meals for different group meetings such as the CQI meeting that meets ever second Thursday of the month and the Advisory Board that meets quartly are two of the major catering jobs. We also do other cating and everyone raves about the food. Some of the favorites are our fruit salad, chicken salad. Brownies and Jacks bread pudding, Yummy yummy. The cooks who make all this delicious food work hard to make every thing as good as they can. They are alway complimented on the great job they do. We are getting well known for our catering and that has lead to other catering jobs, like the Life center, and the Peer special group.
Then there is our Floral shop. We make and sell flower arrangements. Some of the arrangements are on display at the Farmingtom office and at Parkland Hospital, we are always contracted to make flower arragements for the annual ‘Seeds of Wisdom’ event.
Mrs. Karen Miller is very much involved in our Floral shop. She comes over and give demonstrates on how to arrange and use colors that complement each other. It is just not sticking flowers in a vase and letting them poke up where they can. The first step is always thinking about what you to accomplish with the arrangement, where it is going to be displayed, the size of the area where the arrangement is going to be set. You have to think about the colors and the style of the flowers that are used and the container it will be in. It is fun to see what beautiful things you can make. It gives you self-esteem a gratified boost when you know one of your creations has sold.
We are still selling some of the paintings that were left over from our Art show in March. Dawn takes painting to the different sites to hang on our traveling wall. Paintings on this wall are still for sale. It takes a lot of work to keep up with all the paintings and the money collected and the precentage taken out for the clients totaled up and keep on record is a job that is time consuming. The calander for 2015 is an ongoing process. There are cards to be made and sold and it is never to early to start on paintings for our 2015 Art show,
Other jobs like keeping our canteen open and opening our little store are a daily clubhouse job, cleaning and setting tables for lunch cleaning the tables after lunch, keeping our bathrooms clean, sweeping and mopping the floors, calling members to reminding them that they are signed up for the next day. Calling members who haven’t been here in awhile, sending our cards, making new cards, are just a few of the many jobs we do on a daily basis. We try to make sure that everyone if included in our daily work. It is always a mood lifter when someone tells you that you have done a great job.

Betty W.