Ducks in the Library

Summer Reading Program is still going on at the library.  Tonight's theme was 'Colorful Birds'.  I hadn't expected the birds would be inside the library but there they were on tables in the back.  One cage had chickens of various types and one had ducks.  The first activity for the night was the reading of the book "The Little Red Hen" to all of the assembled children.  Then one of the children who brought in the birds explained about each bird and had eggs to 'show and tell'.  He will take these birds to the fair next month so this was good practice for him.  Any child who wanted to touch the birds or cages had to wash their hands w/ sanitizer first.  The owners were more concerned about bacteria going from the children to the birds rather than vice versa.  For a treat frozen popsicles were passed out - again inside the library.  Sticky hands and live animals next to all those books had me concerned.  (I should loosen up.)   I didn't have time to worry though since once again I was checking in books and checking out books as fast as I could.  I also had to be on hand for the children who wanted to spin the wheel for their weekly prize and stamp their paperwork.  The activities actually finished right at 7.  However, there was still about 30 books to put away and the usual shut down activities to perform.  Decided to do the shut down and leave the books for the morning volunteer.  I don't like doing that but tonight was the Town Board Meeting.  I'd met w/ the Planning Commission chairman earlier in the week and passed on all of the paperwork from the Planning meeting held in his absence but wanted to be at the meeting should there be any questions from the rest of the board.  I was 15 minutes late for the meeting but fortunately the Planning Commission was near the end of the agenda.  When I finally got home Whip was dancing around me, tongue lolling out.  Whenever I come home from volunteering at the library she gives me a warm welcome.  Have no idea what's going through her mind but I do enjoy her enthusiasm.