Library Sidewalk

The electric company had maintained power through all of the worst winter weather - blizzards, sleet storms, numbing cold.  It was last night's thunderstorms that proved too much though and around 9:30 p.m. the lights flickered a few times before finally going out completely.   Glad the flashlights were all juiced up.   I used one to navigate to the bedroom.   Whip was already there - thunderstorms aren't a fav of hers.  At 1 a.m. I was suddenly listening to someone give me a guided tour through Milwaukee.  Oh, yes.  I'd been watching a PBS mystery when the power went off.  Wonder who-dun-it?

As a teenager I remember my sister rebuking me, "You're always looking in the mirror."  Think it's a common phase for that age.  On the constitutional this morning I realized I had not even looked in the mirror yet nor had I combed my hair.  To passing cars hoped my vibe was more 'windblown' than 'mad old woman'.

Later (after combing my hair) I bopped into the library.  I'd already shut down/locked up the cash register last night when our lone patron in the library had printed four pages.  Librarian Trevor had taken the dollar the patron had paid and put it in his cashbox and I'd reached into my pocket to give the patron his forty cents change.  Not a lot of money I know but I wanted to enter the transaction in correctly today.   The sidewalk in front of the library was full of chalk drawings.  Trevor said 25 kindergarteners had been in this morning to visit the library and give him some of their Earth Day artwork to display.   The library had provided them chalk to draw on the sidewalk.  I made a note of their visit on the stats sheet - will explain why we had more people this Friday come in than normal.