Good News

I have all sorts of good news to share this week. The first is that on Thursday, April 28 at 7:00 p.m., we will have the first adult program of the year. This program is about dogsledding. Elizabeth Meyer will talk about her experiences with her sledding dogs. She has promised to bring the dogs in for the last few minutes of her talk. Don’t miss it!
The second bit of news is that FREEGAL is finally ready to go. FREEGAL is a new service the library is offering to library card holders. It will allow you access to three FREE, LEGAL music downloads per week. For this exciting new service, the library is charged an annual flat fee. That means it is going to cost the library the same number of dollars whether you use it or not. So, you might as well help us get our money’s worth. Just go to http://www.freegalmusic.com/users/sdlogin. Eventually, there will be a button on the library website that will lead you right to that internet address. You will need your library card number to login. The last four digits of the card number are your PIN. If you don’t have one of our pretty new library cards with the picture of the library building and its crab tree in full bloom, you will need to come into the library and let us get you set up. All you need to get a library card is a driver’s license or some other official-type document that shows your current address. Fair Warning: If you have fines or overdue materials on your card, the computer knows…you will need to settle up before you can log on to anything through our website. Besides, wouldn’t you sleep better at night knowing that you have paid your debt to society?
The very biggest news of all (at least for me) is that I am going to become a grandmother! I’ve been waiting almost 37 years for this experience. Most of the time I’ve waited patiently. Sometimes I’ve whined. I’m determined to wring every ounce of pleasure out of this grandma stuff. I’ve been scouring the library for grandma books. Almost every single picture book I’ve found depicts grandmothers as old, gray, wrinkly people with glasses and a bun. What! Cried Granny by Kate Lum is an exception. That granny has purple hair instead.
The Grandma Book by Todd Parr has a red-haired grandma on the cover. She still has the eyeglasses, but she has purple dangly earrings. More my style! Parr’s book has a pretty hip looking granny on each page with just one line of text. Page one reads “Some grandmas have a lot of cats.” Each page carries on along the theme that grandmas are all different. Every few pages there is one that reads something more like this: “All grandmas are happy when you spend the night.” I ordered a copy of that book. On the page that reads “All grandmas like to hear from you” I’m going to write my phone numbers (home, work and cell) and my email address in great big letters. By the time baby Ehlers is old enough to push the buttons on a phone, he?she? will have my contact information memorized.