Tale of a Sale

Last night marked the start of MFO’s annual Friends of the Library BooSale and Rain Making event. For the third year in a row, many people and rain/sleet/snow turned out for the members only night. A good crowd huddled in the pavilion at the fair grounds until the doors opened at 5, and the race to find that special book (or books) began. People with bags, dealers with tubs all vied for fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books. It’s nice to see families come out, and a little disheartening to see some dealer scoop and entire row in his bin without care to title. Turn that buck… but we still make money and books are distributed.

A week’s effort at lugging, sorting, arranging and positioning resulted in a great array of books. Here's a look at some of the fiction building (rough estimate 50,000 titles



cookbooks? you want 'em? we got em!!



just a sample of the variety - note the Butterball!



so if you're going to be rainbound today, you can come over to the fairgrounds and pickup that butterball cookbook or the Velveeta one.. hours today 10 - 5, tomorrow 12 - 4:30 no admission charge. If you bring your kiddies you can have them sign the "favorite book" scroll



TRAFFIC BULLETIN:

I can't resist. and i am not making this up. On the way to the sale yesterday coming out of millstone, i wanted to go north on 235. fetched up against a car in the protected entrance to the "merge" lane, neck craned around looking at the sparse traffic. after electronically urging them to move, a cautious entry was made in the right lane. patiently waiting, i finally pulled into the traffic lane and passed the still creeping vehicle, (which gave me "the look" - not punctuated with a digit) and in my rear view mirror watched the person stay in the lane and turn right onto the bank.. amazing