last Tuesday of Nov.

Morning Readers...We went to Louisville yesterday to the Galt house to listen to Debbie Hipes give her latest talk about YA books and how to use them in the classroom. Great ideas for the classroom and lots of books I want to read and get on the shelves that aren't already there. I got all the available tech challenge blogs fed to my bloglines. So all you folks doing this should be able to see the posts I write as well. Careful what you say here! My hands have all these itchy little blisters on them. This happened last summer too. I think I have figured it out. I wore latex gloves last week to put the stain on Katy's table. I remember doing something last summer with latex gloves on one hand and the breakout last summer was only on my right hand. Deductive reasoning big time going on here. You would think it would get better but it seems to be getting worse. Of course scratching it makes it a lot worse but scratching it satisfies this primal urge...and makes it itch worse. I've got some medicine Mary gave me a scrip for last summer but what I really need to do is put it on at night and wear cotton gloves to bed. That would fix it. Now what I'm going to do today...Add a babushka to the painting...the end of the table needs her. Put my clothes away. This is week two they have been in the laundry basket and I am running out of drawers in the drawer. That makes sense. Finish the Truman Capote book so Sandi O. can come in and get it at the library...hope she didn't show up for it yesterday. Maybe have time for a walk before I have to start getting ready for work. That should be plenty...and pretty optimistic. Better get it started. TTFN

read the 23 pages

OK Emily, that was a lot of information. Don't get me wrong, I think all this stuff is great but with all the information overload out there how does anyone stay up on all this? There were a couple of things I really liked...the idea that the kids could use Youtube to create videos at the library using library equipment...filming and posting karoke sessions. I really liked the part where the kids were helping the librarians with their my space and telling them how lame it was when the librarians did it. That sounds like reality. But this is day one of 46 so I guess I have a lot to learn. The last entry seemed the most useful. The flock thing. I hope we get to do that, it seems like it would make everything easier to keep up with. Carol

2nd post for Challenge

This has been a fun exercise in resetting my password. I still don't know if it is correct since I got in here by resetting the password and I put down the very same thing I had the last time I was in here. Anne and Catherine have blogs now too and I have to figure out how to be able to see them. If that is what is expected. I'm not sure about that yet. Thanksgiving was good. We went up to Lexington and picked up Ron's Mom and met his brother and new girlfriend at Cracker Barrell for a turkey dinner. It was surprisingly an enjoyable Thanksgiving. No cooking, no cleaning and no all day relatives. Katy went which made it more family for me versus "Ron's family". No shopping today other than Ron picking up a drill press on sale at Tractor Supply that was at a good sale price. Ralph let Ron borrow his Jeep to transport it since he and Betty are in Berea for the weekend. When we drove to Lexington yesterday we were amused that the bug is the biggest car we have since we had to take Katy up there and then make sure we had room to take his mom with us to the cracker barrell. Ron's car has as much room but he travels with more junk in the back seat than I do. Yesterday we had time to go to church, play ping pong, walk a few miles, and do thanksgiving dinner. No muss, no fuss. Ron's mom did say she kind of missed cooking the big meal and I can see that but when you think about cooking all that stuff for just a few people, it just takes a lot of the fun out of it. I imagine we had 20 people for thanksgiving when I was a kid. Unless we had the relatives from out of state too. That is just the folks from B-town. Ron's mom did say she was up to knitting a baby blanket to go with the cradle Ron made for Jessica's baby. We have to go out to Walmart and pick out some yarn. That and go catch a movie except the one Ron wanted to see, "Flags of our Fathers" is no longer playing here. Maybe we can catch it on DVD soon. I suppose that is enough...I neeed to get some paint on that canvas sometime this weekend. I have finished the bottles and am working on the plates, bowls and glasses. The glasses are coming along but it really shows if they aren't straight up and down. Something else to fix. I stained the coffee table Ron made for Katy for Christmas. I think this is the best thing he has done...well, no, it isn't better than the easel but it is very nice for something out of the dark, screechy space of Ron's garage. Hope she likes it! TA TA, Carol

First blog for the prize

Hi, I'm Carol and I'm doing this as an assignment for the library. Emily, our new "techie" has made certain (mostly self-paced) assignments for all the librarians to learn some of the new features available on the web. This is the first on the list and I hope it will prove to be fun. I'm not sure if anyone ever reads these things. I can't imagine surfing the net just to read the flotsom that comes out of people. But just in case somebody does read this stuff, I suppose I should write something that some one would find interesting if they did happen to read it. I work at a small library in Kentucky. All you big city folks can just stop right there but most of the country knows that all of us who work at librarys aren't at the NY City Public Library. Our population in the county is somewhere around 40 thousand and the main town is around 9000. I think we have a good library considering our size. We are building a new library and hope it will be finished at least by the 1st of March 07. The building we are in now was built in 1914 or so and was built as a post office. It is a pretty building but too small and impractible. It is on the court square and very convenient to downtown (all 4 blocks of it). Our town has one of those old courthouses that sits in the middle of the street and everyone has to drive around it in a circle. Quaint but confusing to many. What I do at the library are as follows: Work the main desk, plan programs and collection development for Young Adults (with the help of the afore mentioned Emily - she's more than 1/2 my age and much closer to the target audience) and programming for adults. I'm also the facilities go-to person and one of two assistant directors. I have worked at the library for 9 years and very much enjoy my job. It isn't really a job job. It is what I do. I do have a life outside the library...I'm married, have kids who have moved away from home and like to be creative whether by doing something to the house, painting, gardening or whatever. I do read quite a bit but tend toward the less popular works, i.e. not Danielle Steele or Nora Roberts. Right now I've picked up the book "Truck, a love story" by Michael Perry. It is so funny. I love this guy and the way he thinks. Where was he when I was 39? I suppose that is long enough for a blog post...I haven't really checked into these to see what folks do on them but I guess they are as individual as the bloggers. At least I hope so, I would hate for this to be just one of those "in style" things that if you don't do it like everyone else you are considered hopeless. So there it is!