Pre Green

Well tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day. And I have worn green almost all week! Not that I am Irish. But it is a great color and I felt it was the right thing to do. So today was a very successful meeting with staff about summer. we are almost ready to get the materials ready for press and I feel good about everyone's involvement.

It'e been a week since I last wrote, but this week was spring break here and I presented 3 kite programs at different facilities. Here is what we made.


Pretty easy to make - scotch tape and scissors! I think all the kids liked it, even though it took some time to do. About 160 people made kites.

This week is full of medical tests and author Alan Gratz wwho wrote Samurai Shortstop.

Wednesday Redux

Well, today was as busy as the others. Except for beinf scared about my health. So will have a stress test in a few weeks to make sure tings are okay and if not, fix them.

I was thinking about why we do things and can't explain them. Sometimes it's a basic reaction - to pain, joy, frustration, jealousy, etc. But sometimes God does have a path for us. Now if you don't believe in God, you can substitute a Higher Power, if you like.


I believe that God sent me here to be among people who are more concerned about me as a person - my health, my sanity, my overall persona. Not that my former city had people who didn't care. It's just that they were so busy with they own lives, they didn't have time to help me with mine. I tended to help them was the thing, at least I thought I was helping them. I do miss and love them all so very much as individuals and hope to see them when I visit in late spring!

Enough for today. Can't wait for the next Dancing with the Stars!

See these two? They are Rob and Shelly. They met at the library and have been dating for 2 years - almost! They are smart, sweet, and fun to be around. I miss them.
As well as the other teens I formed a friendship bond with.

Well, one day, I may find some teen friends who are as dedicated to doing cool things for the library as these 2 are.

Got some more stuff done and hopefully the program on Sunday will be great.

Monday busy Monday

Well it sure was busy today. I needed to finish up a lot of projects - some ending this week - others later this month.

Yesterday, I had a wonderful chat with a former staff person. It's nice to keep in touch. Unfortunately I am so very bad with keeping up with folk, must make that more of a priority this year, along with losing weight, paying off bills, etc.
Same kind of stuff lots of other people work on as well, I expect.

So I bought a headset with a microphone attached and have downloaded an interesting program called Audacity !
So one of these days - pretty soon, I think I will try doing a podcast. It sounds like fun. I've heard others before.

Another day another $.50 in Alabama

brain burps

Well, long time no write! I got distracted with nothing and got lazy.
This is what happens when you don't follow a pattern - you lapse into doing nothing productive! Need to stop that!

Anyway, here is a picture of some beautiful tulips and some paperwhites.
I love tulips and daffodils. And you can really get some beautiful flowers here. The weather is mild enough to grow all kinds of lovely things. I enjoy that and will turn my patio into a garden this spring.


Also, I wanted to share my fireplace with you. I have never had a fireplace and it is fun to have one. Granted, I haven't used it much. But until Marsha and Fran showed me how, I just wished it would operate by itself! Silly me. Anyway, now I know and I am hoping to use it once more before it gets too warm for a cozy fire.


I am trying to finalize several programs here - 2 in March, 1 in April, and a big summer program with lots going on. I need to wrap all of that up before Mid-March - so have my hands full. And I am running for a national office, so would like to see if that happens. But I will try and keep up.

BTW, everyone is okay here after that awful weather last week. I was looking at all of the black clouds and thinking that in Florida they look like this and produce lightning and lots of rain.
In Alabama they look very similar,but not only do they produce lightning and rain, they spawn tornadoes! Anyway, I am happy it was over and am sad that those students were killed in Enterprise.

Well, I MUST do my taxes today, so will get back tomorrow - I promise!