Gardening at our own risk
Our lives have been pretty quiet lately. Of course, a new haircut always warrants a photo session.
Last week, we traveled to Wichita for the annual Kansas Library Association conference. It was such a great experience and we both came away with so many good ideas for our libraries.
The last couple of weekends we’ve spent working in the garden. Despite two garter snakes being accidentally killed in our yard (one with a rototiller, the other I ran over with the lawnmower), we are working to get the gardens ready for planting. We’re doubling the size of our vegetable/food garden and have also added a couple of gardens (one flower, one strawberry) using the lasagna method. The lasagna beds have absolutely beautiful soil.
In the basement, we have two tables full of vegetable and flower seedlings at various stages of life. I haven’t been as good this year as I was last year about documenting their growth at different stages. Maybe because we about 150 plants growing in the basement as compared to about 85 last year.
I already posted this on the Y Shush? blog where a couple of Library School friends and I gab about being librarians and working in libraries.
March 27 was such a wonderful day. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the DNA Children’s Literature Festival hosted by our wonderful local children’s bookstore, the Reading Reptile. Seeing and meeting authors is always an amazing experience.
What struck me at the end of the day was how inspiring, different and similar each author and illustrator is. They each have their own style and their own way of putting books together, all with amazingly wonderful results. I was so touched by Patricia Polacco’s family and personal stories that have become her books The Keeping Quilt and Thank You, Mr. Falker.
After meeting Adam Rex, who illustrated one of my recent faves Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem, I’m definitely going to have to sink my teeth into the ARC of Fat Vampire that I have in our book basket. I just loved his odd and strange sense of humor.
March 29 – Sorry, I just realized I forgot to mention the other authors – Kate Klise, who I realized after I got home that I own her book Shall I Knit You a Hat?; Brian Selznick, author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret; Judy Sierra, author of Wild About Books and The Sleepy Little Alphabet; and Uri Shulevitz, author of How I Learned Geography. Being fairly new to the children’s lit world, I came home with some new favorite authors and more to check out!
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