We thought spring was here along with a taste of summer last week now we’re back to cold and rain. The flowers and gardening happening around our house make up for the cool and cloudy days. Yesterday was the first Saturday in four weeks that I was not out in a garden in some fashion. [...]
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Summer reading, beauty in the garden
It’s summer reading at the library and we’ve been swamped. My programs are all full with some of the waiting lists longer than the actual number that I can accept. We’ve been so busy and this summer has been a great success. We’ve blown all of the previous years’ records out of the water with [...]
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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 [...]
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Every year the local libraries in the KC Metro area participate in the Metro Youth Services Librarian’s Read Challenge. Our library is participating and I’ve been reading a ton of juvenile and teen books lately, not that it’s really anything new for me. While the challenge is to get more people to read juvenile and [...]
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It was bound to happen sooner or later. At my library, I’ve been running a teen writing group. It’s been quite successful and the teens that have come each month have been really enthusiastic. At last night’s meeting, we had a video conference with Sarah Darer Littman, an author of teen novels. It was a [...]
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Life in the little homestead is treating us well. Besides the garden we’re definitely in that full-time job mode where most things only get done on the weekends. I’ve been doing a lot of reading, some to prepare for my first class visit to the library. The perception of a librarian getting to read all [...]
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I haven’t blogged in just over a month because I honestly have only knit about 10 rows since moving to Kansas. Considering this is a knitting blog I tend to not think about blogging. Life in the new homestead is great. It’s definitely beginning to feel like home. My new job as a youth/teen librarian [...]
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