where the blame game replaces daybook

 

I honestly intended to write up a daybook this week, but a few things got in the way…

Monday morning I think I was finishing a library book {a brainless vacation-type of thing}.  My bad.

Monday afternoon, the Cowgirl suggested we use book tape to mark our history reading books, so that they would be easier to find and re-shelve.  Sure, great idea.  But then she went and found the rolls of book tape and thought we should do it now.  Oh?  I told Tim later that she is a slave driver!  We worked until 10pm Monday night to get through 1865 in our chronologically ordered history guides.  After three days on this project, here’s what the shelves look like in the basement {working on top of the table still devoted to/covered with  their inductive Bible study}

  

Our ‘history’ books somehow expanded from 3+ shelf units to fill all five of the first picture.  Full.  We moved the science books {and higher level literature books} out to this ‘new to us’ shelf shown below.  And pulled duplicate books {piled on/under chair} to box up for someone’s future library, if the Lord tarries long enough for the kids to establish their own homes someday.  And we pulled all of the general juvenile fiction off of the BIG double-sided library shelf, dusting and reorganizing {hmmm, I think we ignored the encyclopedias on the bottom shelf there}…

     

Below you can see the backside of the double shelf… It was fully loaded before we found room on the other side for several books.  Still need to determine what will live on the ‘new’ shelf and what will live on this old one.  {science and how-to books and magazines, ‘higher’ literature classics, dictionaries, music, theology and devotional books…}  Still much dust to battle.  Aaa-chooo!

So much fun.  Why are you laughing?

So that was the Cowgirl’s bad:  This is taking a lot longer than I thought it would.  Yep.  Especially since we are dealing with all of the books, not just the history shelves. {sigh}  I do love books.  And even libraries of books.

Then there’s my friend Conny.  Who is blogging A-Z this month.  So I have choose to wrack my tired brain for witty alliterating comments to reward each of her posts.

 

In other news:  Did you know it is almost Easter/ Resurrection Sunday?!  I just have to keep reminding myself.  Seriously?!  We don’t have any plans with extended family, let alone our own little immediate family is missing our college kiddos.  I am planning to serve gyros for our holiday feast.  The choir’s cantata will be Sunday morning.  It will be a time to remember and celebrate Christ’s sacrifice for us, whether I feel like it’s Eastertime or not.

Related to that, I recently found that a favorite {but somewhat forgotten} author has a blog, and a new church home out East {he was in California last I knew}.  Anyhooo, here’s a link for his latest post which relates to Easter –> to be read asap, before Sunday!

This isn’t supposed to be about the jelly beans, right?  But I sent some to my college kids anyway.

 

So that’s all for now.  Off to piano lessons we go!