What happened to February?

The weeks are just flying by. And the days have been filled with rain and fog here, with a few sunny days tossed in to see who’s paying attention.  Everyone says that this may be a banner year for the bluebonnets but I have to wonder if the weeds will grow higher than the wildflowers because of all this rain. So many dark and dreary days since the first of the year.

I have been busy with the after-school Book Club... making reading games for the students, to help them with their spelling and punctuation. Scrabble is one of the games, the kids getting to pick words out from the books they are reading. I set up two boards, so it’s boys vs. the girls, and the boys of course are the most competitive. The girls are just having fun making the words, but the boys go to war... The War of The Words.

I found a game called Book Buzz on eBay... bee hives filled with book titles... first one to fill up a hive with all the titles wins the game.  The third game is one I made myself... ordered the playing cards and the clue-cards and spent days and days printing everything out... don’t want to give too much of it away because wouldn’t it be nice to actually manufacture this game!

My kittens Julius and Peaches... growing into chunky monkeys, as my cousin F calls them. No longer tiny kittens, more like chubby little cats now. Both of them are calm and quiet and content... Julius is a Romeo of a cat, content to sit on my lap whenever I sit down, or he would be perfectly happy if I carry him around the house wherever I go. Given his pudgy size, my arms quickly get tired of holding him.... a papoose would be the perfect cat accessory for Julius.

I have been reading and reading and reading.... all the books I got for Christmas and my birthday, plus books that I found in the local bookstore and in the thrift shops in town. Most of them are upstairs on my library shelves, waiting to be read again... a few went back to the bookstore as trade-ins for books for the students.

I have over 1300 books in my library... and I have indeed re-read most of them... all I ask of the universe is that I have enough time left in the rest of my life to re-read the most important books on my library shelves. Is that too much to hope for?