All libraries, great and small

On the way to the knitting group at the regular library, I dropped off the last few books from my Freecycling at the Little Free Library 

It's in the parking lot of the Arts center which used to be the Firehouse. And here's a few friendly greetings on the ground around the little library 

At the Big Library, there's currently a display of arrowheads, found in local fields,  and created by the Lenni Lenape, on whose ancestral land we live, and whom we celebrate with the long  weekend coming up.

The knitting group was small, probably because of the  long weekend, Monday being Indigenous Day, and here's a completed sock,  the second sock being finished in time for a birthday this weekend, also the first sock I've ever seen at the knitting group other than my own

the sock knitter, librarian C., was wearing one of her own tops, in a fine linen thread, a beautiful fabric. She's the maker of those marvellous fantasy animals I showed you a while back, very talented maker, musician, and children's librarian.

And there's a Halloween gnome in progress by F., who brought you the cute hats I showed you recently

A small group and a merry one, talk ranging over haunted houses, corn mazes, pumpkins, stiff necks and the latest exercise for them, children's art, board games, and more. There was also companionable silence sometimes, very comfortable.

Rain today, just right for more stitching on the wallhanging accompanied currently by Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan on YouTube. I did prune the butterfly bush, so it won't be pulled down by the rain, yay me,  great timing 

Happy day everyone, enjoy the season, the holiday if it's one for you, the weekend if not. And remember the indigenous people who first cared for the land a lot of us live on. 

If you're Australian, I hope they get your support in your upcoming indigenous people referendum. The US can't brag -- it's not so long since native Americans finally got citizenship and voting rights, and they have to fight endlessly against vote suppression. We all have work to do. 

Did you know that native Americans looked on transgender people as sacred, with insights into more of life than single gender people, to be protected?

Little Library and other musings

This week one of my knitting friends mentioned that her husband is planning to build a little free library outside their house as a birthday gift for her this year. It reminded me of one of the local ones, which I took in during a really successful day yesterday.

You know what little free libraries are? A little structure on a post, glass door, room for a few books, take one, leave one. Great fun. I've left cookbooks and mysteries now and then, which go fast. You find them all over once you start looking. Often nicely decorated, too. People build and stock  them as community services, or scouting awards, or just because.

Anyway, yesterday. I finally forced myself to go to the gas station and get air in my tires. No idea why this is so daunting, must be a previous life thing.

And went to the post office to get my sample get out the vote  post-it material weighed, and buy a roll of stamps. Which cost me a surprisingly large amount. Another thing I hate,local post office not being friendly, no idea why, but I did avoid the rudest man.

Two small victories, then the little library being en route, I finally donated an art book. It's located in the parking lot of a local art center, seemed appropriate.

And the universe reached out to me and said  well done, thou good and faithful servant, here's a Georgette Heyer in exchange for the art book. Very fair find. The Corinthian.

More piecing at work, but see https://beautifulmetaphor.blogspot.com for that.