The Book Search

Living in South Florida certainly has it's perks.  While many of our northern family and friends have struggled through a record setting winter, winter in South Florida tends to be pretty consistent.  It's warm and sunny and fairly dry.  In fact, our winter has been much warmer than usual (not to brag) and we're running our air conditioning at a time when most people are running their heat. Someone told me the other day that they really missed living where there are seasons and I thought that was sort of funny because we DO have seasons in South Florida, but they are more subtle than seasons in more northern climates.  We don't get dramatic leaf turning displays or snow storms, but I always notice spring in South Florida, maybe even more than some of our other seasons.  Suddenly, the days are longer.  It's not dark at 5 any more, now it's still light at 6:30.  The mockingbirds are out and reminding everyone that they are here and why don't we notice ...

This morning I was out working in the yard. We have the day off for President's Day because we live in a place where we don't have snow days (although we do have the occasional hurricane day). I was out pulling weeds and throwing down mulch and sort of admiring how tidy it mostly looks (my mom was here for a long weekend and she LOVES to pull weeds, go figure). Anyway, as I was pulling weeds out there, I was thinking about the inventory I've been doing in the media center. I've been pretty heartless about weeding some of the books that are old and tired looking. I thought weeding in the yard isn't really that much different from weeding in the library. As you weed, you're pulling out things that are old and tired or don't belong. Although at school when I'm weeding, people tend to be a bit more alarmed than when I weed at home. "You're throwing that away? I love that book!" The good news is at school we have a bin where we can put...

Gees, it's been more than a month since I posted last. So here's what I've been up to. First I caught a cold, which morphed into a sinus infection (my FAVORITE!). I finished the antibiotics and two days later, I caught the flu. Which, if you don't know the difference between a cold and the flu, having them both in the same week is a TOTALLY awesome way to learn. So I was just feeling better from that, when the Governor showed up at our school to make a budget statement (and if you've never had a dignitary show up at your place of work, let me tell you, even if you don't agree with their politics, it's still a BIG DEAL). Then my parents came for a long weekend. We had many important things to do like shopping and golfing. They also have slightly short attention spans, so we needed to give them projects. My dad built some benches for my media center and my mom tidied up the yard and fixed a parachute for the coach at school. She had never seen a par...