Book Sale

The Annual Library Book Sale begins today.  In about 10 minutes.  The layout, opening and unpacking of book boxes went well.  I always have a moment of real panic at around 11:30 wondering if the remaining volunteers will show up, if we will manage to finish etc.   The little circled numbers under the categories on my "map" are the number of big heavy boxes.  Travel had 48.  Children's had 238.  I set things up for the "usual" size boxes and, obviously, the sorters are now using smaller boxes. Lots of wide open spaces.  Less books than the organizers thought they had.

 I opened and unpacked Cooking and Hobbies.  96 boxes and 104.  I also moved boxes for volunteers who couldn't do it for themselves.  I had to, this year, hand over Gardening to a volunteer.  Made her day as gardening is her favorite area.  Well, that made me happy.

I missed the 100 plus heat in the greenhouse on book sale day.  I heard it was awful.  I went back to work on Thursday, after a restless night and no sleep due to the noise (?) being made by the new window AC unit (really, I am amazed at the things that drive me crazy).  While watering the greenhouse plants, I slipped and fell.  Landing on my hip and butt.  My pants, my underwear and my skin were now soaking wet.  In five years, I have often slipped in this spot where the cement is too smooth, but I have never, before, fallen down.  I am lucky I was so tired and didn't even stretch out a hand to break my fall.  I just went down.

The aches and pains in my body could be from the fall or more likely from the hundreds of heavy boxes I moved, lifted and emptied the day before.  I am certainly getting too old for this, but I was not as bad as most of the volunteers who had to call it quits after 2 hours.  I worked the entire day. Finally sitting down on a pile of boxes to eat my breakfast at around 11 am.  Ham slices rolled around a stick of cheddar.  I never did eat the lunch I had packed.  I ate that at WORK the next day.

Another milestone of my yearly calendar marked off.  Taxes.  Back to Work.  Book Sale Set Up.  Now, I am content to wait for the Garden Produce section of the year.  The Yin and Yang of waiting for stuff to grow and then the wailing of "what am I going to do with all this stuff".  I tried this summer to only plant things that I actually eat.  We have onions, garlic, three types of peppers (hot, green and orange), tomatoes (regular and cherry), zucchini and yellow squash, cucumbers (one has been eaten by bugs so far), pole beans (they come in later) and G planted beets, purple carrots and regular orange carrots.  Only my radishes are up so far.  This morning I planted a few cabbage plants in the middle of the tomato bed.  G pounded in the tomato stakes.  I did plant some oriental eggplant.  They are still alive but that's all I can say right now.  I also planted spaghetti squash.  And nine corn plants (which will NOT be knee high by the 4th of July).  I think I need to reseed the herb garden.  Not much came up where I planted parsley and dill.  I also need to start some basil.  Then it's just fertilize, water and dust for bugs.