Winter is hanging on tenaciously, like a dog with a strong set of jaws. And spring is dancing around, attempting to keep from getting bit. I thought this tonight, when I went outside and discovered that it was snowing – the texture of the precipitate was like those flakes that you see in the shake ‘em up balls, the ones with the reindeer and Santa Claus.

No ho ho ho. Just awe, as the gray clouds lifted and the sun came out. It was strange, the sun being out as it was snowing.

I took the dogs around the loop. Neighbor dogs followed and barked – wish they would go away. Don’t feel comfortable these days, taking the horses around the loop.

Pete and Ryder on an ice ride

A long day at work. It began with a phone call. The owner of the Koslosky Center building had told me last night that she wanted all but one of the bookcases out of the building. This morning Bill talked to her, and they agreed that the woman’s health and pregnancy bookcase should be removed. I ran into Bill as I was posting signs, together we took the books and bookcase to the Meeting House.

This owner said that she and the person who runs the gym agreed that the downstairs bookcase should be relocated. So it may end up going into the gym area. I am not going to volunteer to do this.

I decided to do two day’s work in one day, so that I don’t have to go in tomorrow. This turned out to be quite a challenge. First, I dropped off three boxes of books in town for the homeschoolers. Then I went and put up the correct signs for Friday’s open house. Pete had put the wrong date on the fliers.

I then got to work in the Meeting House. I categorized all the books in the book cave, each and every single one. There were some that seemed impossible to categorize – I ended up, later in the day, putting them out in the bookcases. I finally emerged from the book cave and worked upstairs, putting the hard covered fiction on the shelves, and reboxing the paperback fiction.

As I was doing this I thought – why are all these books free? Grants cover the costs of needed items and shipping, but I do not see any form of a salary on the horizon. The answer is this – I need to approach the board and brainstorm about ways in which we might generate more kind donations. Donations are not necessarily for a specific type of funding, but rather, are for operating expenses. And salaries are included in operating expenses.

It is amazing what I am learning about all this.

Anyhow, I began to fantasize about having a bookstore, one in which patrons would come to a shop and get books and pay a small fee for them. We’d still have the bookcases and, yes, these books would be free. But the rare books and picture books, they’d be an exception.

Dreaming, just continuing to dream.

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