Woman's Club of Spokane Event Weekend Meets Artic Front

Well, our luck is holding, again.  A planned event is falling during sever weather.  So far that has not prevented our success in drawing in people , but I do wonder what our draw would be with a little better cooperation with Mother Nature.  Last night, while Spokane slept we had a blizzard.   Ten inches of swirling snow and it is very cold.  Fifteen degrees when we started shoveling at my house at 8:15AM.  My good man, Ralph Humphreys, was hard at work shoveling the Woman's Club of Spokane.  With two weddings and a Holistic Women's Helath Fair [Care for Caregivers is the theme] scheduled this weekend at the clubhouse, that snow needed to be removed before the ice cap formed on the sidewalk.  Did I mention they predict -3F for Saturday morning. This was the view from my dining room window this morning.

                                 Just 3.5 more weeks of winter, I hope

Exploring Energy Conservation in Old Clubhouses

February in Spokane is still winter.  After surviving the worst of it,we hope!, our minds turn to spring and work projects. Last year our house committee wrote a vision paper for our renovating our clubhouse.  We have completed several projects this year, with lots of volunteer labor. It is so exciting.   Our 100 year old clubhouse needs a plan for increasing it's energy efficiency. Last week our club house committee chair Correen, and I toured our clubhouse with Josh, from Sustainable Works Spokane Sustainableworks, and a lovely gentleman from Banner Furnace.  It was an eyeopener to see our building through experienced eyes. We probably will never qualify for LEEDS certification but there is lots of room for improvement.  And many projects we can do ourselves that will save operation cost money next year.  Green jobs are great for our local economy and we want to encourage this by looking close to home for ways to educate both our club members and the general public.   Because we have a commercial building not covered under their grant we can't take advantage of their full program, but now we have the seeds for a plan.
By the way, this week, both Correen and I had Sustainable Works audit our homes [a 1940's house and a 1904 house]. Wow, what a great project this non-profit has, we both learned so much.
Next post, conservation, education and a landscaping project.