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Update # 5 bear project
Category: Dooley's bear project | Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:51 am Thanks to a rainy day, step # 5 is done. Yea!! Now, on to step # 6. Need to go buy some ribbon. Dooley This blog entry has been viewed 500 times
Summer Reading Program
Category: Daily Happenings | Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:57 pm Today was the last summer reading program. We had a good time with the kids. Today, we had 14 kids and several moms. We gave away the prize books. Two went to kids in the same family. Their dad had commented that they were sure to win a prize since they had the numbers. They have ll children with another on the way. Only six came to the summer reading program though. One was only two but her name went into the box each week because her older sisters helped her. She won a book that she probably won't be able to read for several years. We played a game today with balloons. I wrote a direction on a slip of paper, inserted it in the balloon and blew up the balloon and tied it. The teams each had a box with balloons in it. One member had to run get a balloon from the box, take it back to the team. The team had to break the balloon and do what the direction told them to do. Sometimes the whole team did it and sometimes they chose one member to do it. The first team to get all the balloons broken and the tasks finished won. Wouldn't you know the team with the youngest members on it won. They had a boy who just turned seven. He was wearing these cloggy boots and they would put the balloon on the floor and he would jump on it and it would break. The other team tried jumping on the balloon, but they were mostly wearing flip-flops and they just wouldn't work. They did have a lot of fun and the mom's had a lot of fun. One mom was taking pictures with a camera that made a video or CD, I'm not sure which. It was a very small camera. They were turning points in for prizes. We had hot dogs, chips, juice and Otter Pops. You know, I think we forgot the Otter Pops. We were going to give them to the kids as they left the library and they are still in the freezer. I'm surprised some of the kids didn't mention it. Our animals on parade went clear around to within a foot of where they started. Two sisters claimed the prize because they had put their sticker up side by side and one fell off. It was a gift certificate to a book store so they will go and find something they both like. A helper from the school won the adult gift certificate. Some of the other mom's didn't think it was fair because she didn't come these last two weeks. But, she did help with all the school children when they came and her name went into the box everyweek. There were 790 animals on parade which is a total of the books the children listed on their reading charts. There were a few more than that because some kids came after the prizes were drawn and given and they had about 40 more books but they couldn't be counted for prizes. Some kids left their books in the book drop too and these couldn't be counted because they weren't listed. So, all in all it went well. Only one organization failed to show up for their program and Dan had talked to them on Monday and the program was on Tuesday and they had totally forgotten about it. That was the wild animal program. So, it is over for this year. Next year the theme is "Get a Clue at the Library." Mysteries! Already thoughts are in the works. Magnifying glasses! Sherlock Holmes! Detective badges? What fun! Dooley This blog entry has been viewed 540 times
Update # 4 bear project
Category: Dooley's bear project | Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:51 pm Step # 4 is finished. I think # 5 will go faster. I hope so anyway. I have to go out to the shed and look for material. DR says that's where it is, not down in the big shed. Dooley This blog entry has been viewed 396 times
Update # 3 -Bear project
Category: Dooley's bear project | Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:01 pm I have nearly finished half of step number four. I had to have DR buy some more thread yesterday. He had to go to the material department at WalMart and a lady took exception to the amount of time he took to make his selection and told him to get out of her way. According to him his reply was very polite. I wonder what it was according to her. Dooley This blog entry has been viewed 510 times
This and that
Category: Daily Happenings | Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:59 pm Well, I think I've been keeping busy. I don't know what I've been doing though. I made zucchini bread yesterday. The zucchini keeps on coming. DR says we need to freeze some for winter. I guess I should put freezing bags on my shopping list or his shopping list. The days seem so short lately and it's still summer. I leave here at 5:15 and get back about 9:30. DR comes along and does shopping then comes to the library and reads all the papers and then retires to the southwest room and writes stuff. We don't spend a day shopping now. He does some each night and gets the list whittled down as I add to it. We can catch the specials that way. The times goes fast at work and I've been getting the carts empty most nights. Yesterday, the director called me at home and said how pleased he was with the job I was doing. He wanted to change my hours some. Not adding, just rearranging. I'm not sure how I like the new hours. It doesn't make much difference what hours that I work but now I won't go in to work until 10 am on Saturday so I won't have those two hours before the library opens to get things done in the high traffic areas. I guess the people will just have to look around me for books. Also, Brian won't be able to drop me off and go to the flea market. He says it's okay, he can go on Sunday if he wants to go. He says we'll try the new hours a couple of weeks to see how they work. Maybe, I'll go back to the old ones. Yesterday, I had to go an hour early and do a computer class on sexual harrassment that's mandatory. They just discovered that I hadn't done it. Wow! I will get paid an extra hour for it. The library director dashed in from a meeting last night to meet me. He goes home before I arrive and doesn't work on Saturday so he hadn't met me and he was hearing good things. Whoopee! He didn't stay a minute, I bet. Off he went, satisfied with what he saw, I hope. Yard work hasn't been getting done as fast. I need to go cut some horse nettle. Brian says it has pretty purple flowers and it does, but it spreads fast and is stickery so I don't like it. There is some other lacy leafed weed that is trying to take over too. It's supposed to be only 78 degs. tomorrow so maybe if I get up early I can get them cut out. The coreopsis has been blooming great and this morning I saw a cosmos starting to bloom. The poppies are about done, but the Mexican Primrose hasn't started to bloom yet. I have two tomatoes almost ripe enough to pick. I was thinking of picking them now before the bugs discover them. There are two or three that are being dried by the hot sun before the get ripe. Maybe I'll have sun dried on the vine tomatoes. The ground is still wet so I think they are getting enough water. I don't want to drown the plants. We got the big pot and the potting soil for repotting the mimosa tree. I may get that done this morning. I think I'll put it in the shady area in the herb? garden. No herbs in the herb garden. Maybe, I'll move the pots of herbs from the garden to the herb garden. They don't seem to like the hot sun too much. Take daily watering. Something is eating on the basil. There are brown tunnels in the leaves. I need to cut them back some anyway. Oh, well, I'm rambling on about nothing so guess I will go work on the Bear Project. Dooley This blog entry has been viewed 499 times
Bear project update #2
Category: Dooley's bear project | Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:44 am Step three is finished. Tomorrow I will start Step four. It will take longer to do. While I am working on Step four, I can also gather what I need for Step five. I know where some of it is, but I need more. I think it is stored in the big shed. I will have to get DR to bring me the box. Dooley This blog entry has been viewed 581 times
Bear project update#1
Category: Dooley's bear project | Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:01 am Step 3 is two thirds done. Another hour and a half on it. I had to quit. Did you ever try to sew with your eyes shut? Kind of messy. Must be about bedtime. Dooley This blog entry has been viewed 475 times
Dooleys bear project
Category: Dooley's bear project | Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:30 am I thought I would keep a blog on my bear project. It's a secret project so I won't say what it is. I went and bought material on Monday. That took about 20 minutes. I knew what I wanted and I was on my way to work. On Tuesday, I spent half a day looking for the pattern because it was where it was supposed to be. I never seem to find something when it's where it's supposed to be. Dr says it's because I never put things where they belong. Step one took about half an hour. Step two took about one hour. Step three is one third finished and I've spent about two hours on it. Maybe a little less. I've been trying to count up the steps. Lets see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, well, I think there will be about 12 steps to finish it. Some will be short steps but others will be longer. I think Step three will take a total of about 5 hours. Step four will take the longest. I'm thinking about ten hours. Step 5 won't take too long, maybe an hour. Step six will take about five hours, maybe. Then, seven will take maybe half an hour. Step 8 won't take as long because I will use the sewing machine for it. Step 9 will take a couple of hours. Step 10 will take two or three hours. I'm not sure about Step 11, some of it needs done by hand but maybe I can baste it and do it by machine. Step 12 won't take long. Less than an hour, I'm sure. So, that's about 27 hours. I bet the whole thing can be done under 30 hours. That's not all in one sitting of course. I've done this project before so that will make it go faster. I'll have DR take some pictures that I can post when it's finished. Then, eventually you will know what I know. Dooley This blog entry has been viewed 497 times
Stop signs
Category: Herb Garden | Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:56 pm We live on a street that is not claimed by the county so no one takes care of it. It goes onto an asphalt road that goes through the community. There is a slight S curve where it joins the asphalt. People drive much too fast on that street and come around the curve in the middle of the street. To make it worse, Our neighbor has grown a large hedge along the end of his property that is on that street. He says it keeps down the noise and the dust. A few weeks ago, said neighbor, complained to the county supervisor because the guy across the street never stopped at the corner when he went onto the street. There was no stop sign because none was needed. If you were going and didn't need to stop it was a little safer getting out onto the street with the blind corner. You cannot see around the corner because of the bushes. Well, they put a stop sign there and it just made it more dangerous because now you are going from a dead stop and someone driving fast on the wrong side or down the middle has more of a chance to hit you. Sunday, I was reading and I heard a loud thunk and a rattle of metal. I hurried out to see the neighbor leaning over his fence asking someone if they were all right. There was a large truck sitting in the middle of the road. It had came around the curve in the middle of the road. A kid on a quad going toward him was in the middle of the road, too. The kid swerved and the quad hit the stop sign. The kid was wearing a helmet and it flew off and rolled down the street. He fell off but says he wasn't hurt. He was more worried about getting the quad started and getting it home. He pushed it back into the street and got it started and took off. The driver of the truck got back into his truck and left. The stop sign was facing the wrong way and leaning at an angle. DR wants to e-mail the county supervisor and tell him the stop signed worked. It stopped the kid on the quad before he hit the fence. It hasn't stopped the kid from roaring up and down the street on the quad though. All hours you can hear him and his friend roaring around on it. It isn't street legal because it has no license and the kid isn't old enough to have a license. It does no good to call the authorites. The kid is no where to be seen when they show up, if they even show up. The stop sign does no one any good except people breaking the law. Oh, well, that's life in a small town. The neighbor refuses to trim the hedge. He says it's not a problem. We won't argue because we don't want strife on the block. Dooley This blog entry has been viewed 573 times
Strawberry jam
Category: Daily Happenings | Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:40 pm Last evening when I went to work, we went a little early because I wanted to stop at WalMart. After, we had a sandwich and it was a little early so we stopped at the grocery store. We found some strawberries on sale so bought a few. This morning I was going to get up early and make strawberry jam. It thunderstormed during the night so I woke up for awhile. So, I didn't get up quite as early as I wanted. DR cut the strawberries while I got the jars and lids ready. I bought some No Sugar Pectin. You can use Splenda or just make it Low Sugar. I just used low sugar. We made 11 six ounce jars of it. DR already gave one to the neighbor. That's okay. We have grape jelly left from last year so we have more than enough. Whenever we give jelly or jam to neighbors, friends, relatives or whoever I always ask them to return the jars. Most do, but some don't. The ones that don't return the jars don't get any the next time. Jars are expensive to buy so I like using them again. The grapes will be ready soon so I can start making grape jelly again. I guess I should start watching yard sales and the flea market for jars. People give me big jars but I don't like putting jam in big jars. It gets sticky or hard before it gets used. No kids to help out. Dooley This blog entry has been viewed 571 times
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