Sep 06 2019
Books
It wasn’t all sloth on this long weekend, however. I found time to help set up the library book sale, along with countless other volunteers, young and old alike. My high level task was to haul handcarts of books through the alley behind the library to the Veterans’ Hall across the street.
We had a pretty good system going. One of the volunteers pushed boxes of books down a chute to a loading area, where another volunteer stacked the boxes onto the handcarts so they could be dragged across the street, up the ramps, and into the Hall.
There other volunteers decanted the books onto tables set up by genre, arguably a less appealing task than the book haulage itself. Having said that, though, each load seemed to get heavier, and I began to feel about 90 years ago. At last, we got to the “special price” books, the last to go. These only had to moved around the corner into the room where the Board meetings are.
It looked great when everything was set up:
And I am pleased to report that the library made close to $9,000 from the book sale. How’s that for teamwork?
A YEAR AGO: Dodge gets the thumbs up from the vet.
FIVE YEARS AGO: My computer was brand new. And somewhat shinier.
TEN YEARS AGO: Still love those Chanel rain boots. And I rarely use an umbrella now that I live in the country. Mostly it’s just a hat. And non Chanel boots.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO: Art on the streets of San Francisco.
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