Green Decade

I don't really know as much about Newton Green Decade as I should. It's an environmental group that promotes recycling, energy conservation, and all kinds of 'green' issues around the city, but I can't be awfully specific. When I used to go to the city bicycle and pedestrian advisory committee or whatever it was called, there would be a representative from Green Decade there. At any rate, we went over to a house on Hyde Street to stuff envelopes for them tonight. It ended up being stuffing a single sheet into an eight-page newsletter, folding it in half, and putting an address label on it. Over and over, of course. About eight industrious people showed up and got a mailing to 400 Green Decade members all set to go in one hour flat. Arlene was very pleased that, as she put it, "the people who organized it were well-organized." We got going right away, all the parts were there, they told us what to do right away, and it all worked.

I got the underarm and side seams of the red-orange shirt flat-felled this morning. This evening, after coming home from the Green Decade work, I was mostly sawing wood. Not the way I do in department meetings, but with a real table saw, cutting stamp mount strips to the right length for rubber stamps. We got several orders yesterday and today, including big (for us) multiples of a new design that I did as an eraser carving.