It's dark outside...

and it has been a long week for most of the library staff. We had a wonderful event at the library on Sunday. It was a Tea Party -- or a Tea Pot Extravaganza. The party was one of those examples of a plan coming together for the good of the community -- or the library in this case. Campbell County is blessed with long-term employees who really have a lot of expertise about a lot of things. So in the midst of reorganizing our staff structure, in the middle of a series of author visits, in a continuation of heavy duty events from rummage sale, to book sale, to fright nights, to regular working hours and expectations, we hosted a tea party.

And it was beautifully done with staff donating hours of planning and work, decorating tables, borrowing teapots galore, and cooking and creating tea-foods. How lucky is this institution! How lucky is this community that you have employees who go the extra mile.

Now it's Friday night. It's dark, and it's cold. We have had our second attack of winter, and everyone was ready to go home tonight.

At home I have an interesting challenge. I've had an unused computer in my house for two years. I bought it for my mom as a bribe to get her to return to WY. She did not. Now I have a series of her manuscripts to type up for family. And I have a series of oral history tapes from a Buffalo pioneer to transcribe. I have no word processing on my computer. How did that happen? I don't know. But I am determined to get a new program installed tonight. So I can't be tired, or hungry, or cranky tonight. I still have work to do. You do know the old adage "no rest for the wicked." Somewhere along the line I must have been very naughty. Yeah. Right.