Just nine days. It would be of course alarming if after the solstice, the amount of daylight we are getting stayed the same. This would mean that the earth was tilting too far to the left and about to fall off its pedestal. And there we would all go, into the stratosphere. Actually, we would not go into the stratosphere. I just said this because I like this work. We would go out into the atmosphere.

There may be other words for all this, but I am tired and know that it would take me hours to mull this over and come up with the exact words.

The day started with our listening to the Big Cabbage Radio second page story. We were the featured subjects. Very good to have this on the day before the parade. The hook was that we got books from the Mat-Su School District’s schools that are closing and distributed them.

No surprise, I well knew that this was going to be a long day. It was just too bad that I was not at home and out riding my horses because days like this one are rare. Instead, my day started out in the former banquet room of the historic Eagle hotel. I began it by putting floppy children’s books in groups of five and then putting them into the Ziploc bags that Three Bears Grocery provided us. Then, Scott, our disabled friend, appeared and asked if he could give me a hand. He helped, and after I realized that he did not have to use his fine motor skills to carry out this task.

This was a good lesson for me – if possible, find someone else to give an assist.

Then after a bit, it was time for Friday Fling, a Palmer, Alaska event that is on steroids. This takes place weekly, on Fridays of course. We are in the side yard of the Palmer visitor’s center, adjacent to all the ho haah.

A few weeks ago, another nonprofit had taken over the yard. Today, a for-profit organization had taken the space. I got over there and one of our volunteers was cussing out a woman who was working for the Palmer Chamber of Commerce. Both were going at it, with the chamber of commerce woman saying we could not be where we usually are; rather, we had to go around the corner.

I quickly negotiated and we got our regular spot and a place to do story time. The down side was that there were many, many children playing with many, many games. The up side was that this was good for business – we had a lot of people come to our table.

It was a good day. And we did make $100.00 in donations today. This included a donation from a fellow who locally is a land baron somewhat reticent. He took a book and gave a donation.

I hope that I properly promoted Summer in the Park(s).

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