Hello, villagers ~
Today's Ta-Dahs:
* dishes
* DPCs & Emails
* printing for sewing group
* filing for sewing group
Yesterday's LEGO Club only had 3 kids come but we had fun. I was able to use the time to sort and put away most of the pieces that we'd used last month. Then, because the kids finished their projects and left a little early, after I put away the LEGO pieces I did the librarians a favor and vacuumed the whole room. The group before LEGO was a garden club and they had left plant leaves and cookie crumbs all over the room.
(They get to meet there for free, you'd think they could clean up after themselves.) I didn't want my LEGO kids to be blamed for their mess.
I chatted with the children's librarian a few minutes and she is making a little list of what she needs for story time craft supplies. (They sing a couple songs, read a few books, and make a craft project at every story time for the preschool age kids.) Sometime the first week of December we will put up a small tree and use paper ornaments with a craft item written on each, so library patrons who want to donate something small will know what the kids need. They have had great success with the giving tree in past years.
One thing the children's librarian mentioned that I would not have thought of is
glue dots. She started using them this year and she said it has made her job so much easier than trying to use bottles of glue with the little kids. Glue dots are relatively expensive, but save a lot of clean up time in the library. The parents also appreciate not having to deal with wet glue and sticky hands.
Major irritation yesterday, good thing I was running early for LEGO Club. When I opened my garage door to leave to go to the library, I found that a truck and trailer were parked across the end of my driveway. There was no way I could get around them. I went out and walked around, didn't see anyone at first, and finally a guy came out of the trailer. I said, "Hi there, I need to leave and you've totally blocked me in." He replied, "Oh yeah, I guess I did." I asked if he would be moving shortly, I could wait a bit, and he said no, he'd be there another 2 or 3 hours. Then a woman came out of the trailer and was rather confrontational, saying no they couldn't move the trailer because they were in the middle of running a bunch of cables.
I was trying very hard to be friendly and cooperative, because I felt bad that they were having to work in the bitter cold, so I just said, "Oh my, but I have to get to work now, so what can we do?" It was way too cold for me to walk to the library. They finally figured out that they could unhitch the truck from the trailer and move the truck, which gave me barely enough room to drive around the trailer to get out on the street. I had to go a little bit in the yard/storm drain and was just lucky that we hadn't had more snow or they would have had to push me out, because my little car is not meant to drive through ditches.
As I said, I felt bad that they had to work in the cold, but at the same time I thought I acted pretty nice considering that it is totally illegal for them to block a homeowner's driveway like that. I even thanked them both for moving their truck!
Tonight I have a sewing group board meeting. I'm trying to figure out the most efficient route for errands in The Big City because I hate driving all that way for just 1 thing.
I had been hanging around the landline waiting for a call. That's done now so I can get moving again. I don't need to take off for errands yet so I will see what mini-jobs I can do before I hit the road.
DH was being kind, as it was about 65* in here, first thing this a.m.