The Shortest Day of the Year....

No, it’s not December 22nd, it is the first day of daylight “savings time”. I don’t know about you, but I was a wreck all day yesterday. You wake up, mess around and boom! It’s one o’clock! Then about twenty minutes later it’s dinner time. They always talk about “losing an hour of sleep” how about a week of hell? Maybe it’s a function of advancing age, but I find it hard to adjust. Kind of like that traveling east or west kind of thing. I drive MFO nuts with comments like “well, it’s really only x o’clock”. The only positive I can think of is that cocktail hour comes around sooner…

The previous day was a busy one, MFO was involved with the genealogical stuff at the college, and I took the Momster to help move books for the annual Friends of the Library Book Sale. The objective is to move the mountain of accumulated books from the Leonardtown Library to the site of the sale at the fairgrounds. So the process starts with loading books (with help of younger folks with muscles)



Into the Momster



Then a short drive to the fairgrounds and back up to the proper building (fiction, non-fiction, childrens)



And unload



Repeat steps above until all the books are at the fairgrounds.




Then begins the sort and display tasks which will happen all this week and the sale opens to members only on Friday at one, with non-members welcome at ten on both weekend days. You can join at the door on Friday if you want that cherished first crack. You do, however have to stay out of the way of the commercial folks who are like sharks on a wounded fish. It’s quite a sight. Elbows fly, tubs fill indiscriminately, but it’s a quick bunch of bucks. Anyway, keep it in mind. There are a great selection of books, usually a lot of cook books as well as wine reference. And more damn Tom Clancy books than you knew were in print…

Meanwhile, MFO was engaged in helping people scan their records and stuff regarding churches in the area..








The day ended with us attending a gala down at the college to benefit the River Concert Series..probably the last black tie (at least for me) event of the year..

And back to miserable yesterday, having some basketball games to watch sort of provided an anesthesia of sort to pass the time. All leading up to “selection Sunday” wherein the (now) 68 (?) teams are anointed for participating in “the big dance”, which CBS has been hyping since the first basketball game in August “Welcome to the road to the final four!”. Never mind regular seasons, it’s all about the PLAYOFFS!. But, I’ve griped about that before. I was surprised (probably along with Tom Izzo) that the underperforming Spartans got their ticket punched. And, I’m not going into the furor about whether Va Tech, Colorado, etc., didn’t and UAB did. And I did notice that the Terps didn’t even get a bit to the JV tourney, the NIT..

Oh, and today started off with shaving from a mixing bowl of hot water from the stove, as the water heater packed it in yesterday. It’s always damn something..But, it will not deter me from making sure we are (even if a bit unkempt)

DFD