TIME: 7:22 PM
PLACE: Library
SUBJECT: Windows
At the library tonight with Stella.
Yay books!
TIME: 6:59 PM
PLACE: Library
SUBJECT: Marble stairs
Went to the library tonight to pick up a new book on CD.
I like to listen to them during my commute back and forth to work.
Our Carnegie library has this fancy marble staircase.
Just think of all the people who have used these steps since the library was dedicated in January of 1916.
TIME: 7:10 PM
PLACE: Library – Archives & Genealogy
SUBJECT: Card Catalog Files
After dropping Stella off at the comic book store for some Werewolf Apocalypse game time, I stopped by the library to drop off items and pick up another audio book to listen to during my work commute.
“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.”
Groucho Marx (American Comedian, Actor and Singer, 1890-1977)
TIME: 7:14 PM
PLACE: Library
SUBJECT: DramaQueen
To the library this evening to restock our reading material. StellaDella and I also dropped off our reading slips for the summer reading program. She wants to win a giant Hershey’s chocolate bar. One of the prizes in the adult program is a Nook - that’s what I’m going for.
The true Chameleon is small,
A lizard sort of thing;
He hasn't any ears at all,
And not a single wing.
If there is nothing on the tree,
'Tis the Chameleon you see.
Carolyn Wells (1862–1942), U.S. poet. How to Tell the Wild Animals (l. 31–36). . .Fireside Book of Humorous Poetry, The. William Cole, ed. (1959) Simon and Schuster.
TIME: 1:43 PM
PLACE: The Library
SUBJECT: StellaDella and a chameleon
As part of our library’s summer reading program, they invited the owner of a local reptile shop – The Tye-Dyed Iguana – to educate the kids about exotic reptiles. There was a lizard, boa constrictor (a female named “Jack”), a Madagascar hissing cockroach, this chameleon, and a very long, very large albino python. I confess, I forgot the name of this chameleon, but I do remember the name of the python – Aphrodite. The owner, Matt, let the kids come up in groups and hold her as she was stretched out. At the end, about six of us parents were holding her and she had enough – we got snake musked! Not the most pleasant aroma…but it’s what snakes do when they get fed up with everyone holding them.
Now StellaDella wants a lizard. That is so not happening – we have too many pets as it is right now.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.' "
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. writer, poet & literary critic. The Raven, (L. 1-6),
first published in 1845
TIME: 1:31 PM
PLACE: Public Library (Downtown)
SUBJECT: "Raven" - by Dale Rogers, Massachusetts & MonkeyBoy
My kids, especially DramaQueen, love to read. Our library has a summer reading program each summer. We went today, but found out that the program does not start until next week. That's ok...we usually go to the library on a weekly basis during the summer months. So we will definitely return next week to sign them up.
A new sculpture was recently installed in front of the library in conjunction with our city's "Sculpture in the City" program. A local law firm was the sponsor of this particular piece. Of course I had my camera with me. MonkeyBoy gladly posed with it for me.
