Today’s topic will be music cds at the library. But, first, I want to provide an update on my very first painting. It was a birthday gift to my daughter. Before I bought the canvas, I checked the UPS website to make sure that my choice wouldn’t exceed their size requirements. The policy is very generous, so I bought a large one. It is probabl6y 30 x 36 inches. I boxed it up well with leftover cardboard scraps in several layers. I didn’t want a ski pole or pool cue that anyone else might ship to puncture it. Shoppers Supply accepts packages for UPS shipment, so I lugged the box there.
I almost hated to part with it, but it wouldn’t match my house anyway. It was carefully painted to match Anne’s Raleigh, North Carolina living room. Her birthday, from her BIRTH day, always falls on Labor Day weekend. I never let her forget it, either. She knew that I had shipped a surprise, so she ran home in the middle of the afternoon to see if it had arrived. I was in the car on my way to visit her brother and his wife in Columbia, Missouri, so we talked as she unwrapped layer after layer of cardboard. She was thrilled! She said that she had known all along that I could do it. I didn’t, but apparently she had faith in my artistic ability. She doesn’t even know Susan Witzel,
When I was back home again, we Skyped so that I could see how nice it looks above her mantel. Skype is the neatest thing! Technology lesson: my home laptop computer has a tiny little camera built in above the screen. Anne’s has one, too. When we both push all the right buttons, we can see one another on our computer s and talk via Skype. Not only was I able to see my painting, I walked outside to show her my morning glories blooming. My friendly backyard squirrel usually eats all the leaves off the plants. He sits atop a little fence, plucks those leaves, rolls them up like a green burrito and munches away until the plants all die.
Now, we are trying to figure out how to record a Skype session, so I can show Susan how nice our painting looks in its new home. There may still be openings in Susan’s class at Witz End. Call and check. You will be amazed at what you can produce with her help. Just think, Humboldt could become an artists’ colony with a gallery in every block and a bed-and-breakfast on every corner!
About music cds…..we never know what to choose. We ask people who check them out what they would like us to add. Almost never does someone make a suggestion. We usually ask Steve Bohan, our website guru, for advice. He will make suggestions from time to time. We’ve just added a Janis Joplin Woodstock album and one from the Jefferson Airplane. If you are of an age to remember Woodstock, you probably don’t remember much else about that summer, but these cds may bring some of it back. I recently saw Arlo Guthrie (of Alice’s Restaurant fame) on CNN. He has become a card carrying, Republican conservative! His father would roll over in his grave, if he had one. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was named for a famous Democratic president. Always known as Woody, his ashes were scattered at sea in 1967.
Music cds, like everything else at the library except movies, may be checked out for three weeks. Come on in, look over our collection and tell us what you’d like to see @your library.