Busy day today

Spent the morning at a groundbreaking ceremony for the new library. Our old library shared space in the local town hall and for the three days/week it was open, the staff had to spend a few hours wheeling bookcases out of a back storeroom and setting up only to have to tear everything down at the end of the day. The new facility will have ten times the floor area and will be able to be open seven days/week. It is also right across the street from the local elementary school and will serve as a great resource for them. This has been an amazing several-year-long project as since the library is located in the unincorporated County, they are not able to levy a tax or a bond for funding. They are now about 2/3rds fully funded, all from private donations. The thing I love about the county system is that it has a very good inter-library loan system. I can request books from the local University or from a library in Seattle. It will take a couple weeks but I eventually get them. Spent the afternoon running some errands -- went yard sailing and picked up a nice old ceramic power pole insulator for 25� and hung out at the store for a bit after that.