Picnic

Our students this summer have been working on another long and mind numbing project. We are doing an inventory. We haven't done one in some time and I am curious about the agreement between what our catalog says we have and what is actually on the shelf.

So far, we have discovered a lot of unexpected issues like incorrect call numbers on books, and uncatalogued items and strange records in the online catalog. We hope to finish the circulating collection upstairs minus the oversized and the juvenile literature collections. Our students have been doing a wonderful job.

Every summer, we invite the students and their families/spouses to a picnic, usually held at Sharon's place since it is fairly close to the Library location. We grill hamburgs, have potato salad, watermelon, baked beans, chip and dip, brownies, s'mores - the usual picnic fare. This year we have a delightful group relaxing in the lawn chairs around the firepit, chatting and munching.

The weather cooperates by being neither too hot nor too chilly or rainy. The sun is shining but we have shade to cover us. How delightful to kick back, play a game of bean bag toss, catch up on everyone's life happenings. Even the ants stayed away. The sun was slanting in the west and the air growing chilly when finally we broke camp and headed home. In the gentle twilight, Drew and I saw a deer grazing.

Peace. How savory. How I will treasure the calm and quiet of such a gentle unhurried evening. Hang on to these times. They don't come often enough. Deep sigh. Ahhhhh.