chatter

I've been gone from this blog long enough. Haven't I? I'm finding I don't have as much time to devote to this as I had hoped. The buzz here this week is naturally the economy. Everybody has an opinion and wants to share. Right here in Farber this is a more popular conversation that the politicians.

we have a resident homeless person. He is living in our city parks. He moves from one to the other. It is not often we see homeless people stick around Farber. A lot of our residents have been feeding him. Maybe that's why he's still here. He isn't bothering anything, but winter is coming. The nights are already cool.

my neighbors are moving. This makes me sad. They were nice neighbors. People change locations at the drop of a hat. Now, us, we built our little house in 1962 and still live in it. We've accumulated a lot of stuff, but we're still in it.

time

I have an unexpected blessing - a few free moments, so I'm taking the time to play for just a bit. This is a wonderful day. We were so flooded over last weekend that any day without rain is wonderful. Had a wondrful story hour yesterday. I don't know who looks forward to that hour more, me, or the children. I feel old when I see 2nd or 3rd generation storyhour children.

way behind

I had such good intentions when I started this to keep telling my stories and adding stuff, but as usual, I'm falling behind. Bear with me. I'm searching for a new computer, and I will be back.

Rain

This has been the rainiest summer I can remember in quite a few years. Our boss decided ti have a staff meeting at Headquarters (25miles away) this morning and it poured all the way. I went to Wal-Mart for 3 things and spent $30. This feels almost like a Monday.

Had an ambulance call down the street in front of me and a UPS man made a delivery. That is excitement here. On dreary days like this one, the call can go either way either the library is full of patrons or everybody stays home. Today has been a stay home kind of day. Even so, I've got work to get finished and I feel like I need to go to the nursing home tonight to visit my 98 yr old mother, who can still make me feel guilty for neglecting her. Back in a day or two

Back to my blog

I've had a slight vacation from my daily run through the internet. Today was supposed to be the first session of my preschool story hour. One little boy showed up with Mama. My most faithful day-care person called and said she had one child throwing up and two more with the runs. I told her we would catch up next week. Whew. The little boy must have been on a diet of chocolate this morning because he had a lot of energy.

I'm changing my direction just a little bit, so stay with me and I'll tell you the joys and sorrows of living and working in the middle of nowhere. I am 68 yrs young, and I've worked in this little branch library since 1966. I think that is 42 years. I've seen a lot of changes. We started operation in an old tavern. The sign was still swinging in front of the building. We put up shelves and the county bookmobile stocked the building. That was the operation from 1962 to 1966 when they hired me. It was staffed by volunteers , but that got old and some of the volunteers quit showing up. I went to work for 24 hrs a week at $1.25 per hour. I'm still there. I guess I like it. Don't I?

I'm gone for this session, but I'll be back.

California trip

Happy Labor Day

I consider this holiday a blessing. I needed the time to clean up after all my visitor (brother and family). Lots of laundry. Did that. Corky found a recipe for hot rolls that he thought looked easy and delicious in one of my doctor's waiting room. He didn't rip out the page. Good boy! He asked the receptionist to make a copy for him. He hasn't seen or tasted them yet, sut I'm betting he's going to be disappointed. Of course its my fault.

Had a really good visit with my brother and his three grown children. We live so far apart it seems like it is hard to communicate sometimesbut we share a 98 year old mother so we still have a connection.

About 98 year old mother. She has such wonderful stories to tell about her growing-up days. She was born on December 5, 1909. She rode a horse to a one-room school. She started school late because she waited for her younger brother to be old enough to go, too. She tells about a spectacular barn fire wher she felt guilty for putting her horse back into the barn that burned instead of tying her to a fence post. They thought maybe the cause of the holocaust was a tub of wash water that my mother's mother had been using - thinking she hadn't put the fire under the tub completely out. If you keep following me, I'll tell you more stories from Mother.

We had a wonderful Lord's day. A gentleman our Elders had prayed over was healed. It was pretty obviously healed, because it was a skin thing. He got staph infection in a poison ivy blister. They probably would have called that leprosy in Bible times. It really looked awful. I won't tell you it was all gone, but we could all see it was 90 percent healed.We all are so thankful.

Corky is playing golf today. They have this scramble thing. (I don't know much about golf) every holiday. He got up at 6:30 a.m. to get to the country club to play. For me, a holiday is getting to sleep late, so I did.

I am gone for today, but I'll be back tomorrow.