Tuesday November 13 2007

Today started off very cloudy. It was about 5 degrees. Then before noon the wind came up strong and we had a sprinkle of rain. Beautiful yellow crescent moon setting in the west just at dark tonight.

This morning Laurie got here about 8:30. I was sorry to hear that Millie had the flu, so she didn't come. Laurie and Debbie started right in packing books into boxes. I mostly supervised. They worked until about 11:30 and had pretty much everything I wanted to send to the Museum of the Mountain Man library loaded into the boxes. They took them out on the dolly to Laurie's truck. Joe found a tarp and helped cover everything. He also helped them load it all. After all these years he insisted there were some things he wanted to read, like Charlie Russell, so I kept some of those back for him. There are more art books left here on the shelves. I wanted some to refer to or leaf through, which I enjoy doing sometimes. Those can go sometime later. This has been a plan that the museum and I have had for perhaps fifteen years now. They already have perhaps a couple hundred of the books in "The Lynn Thomas Book Collection".

A few miscellaneous books that aren't appropriate for the Museum will go to the library book sale. And a few other things I want to give away to others. Debbie and Beverly are going to share the recipe books. The scrapbooks of various kinds, and all the slide photos are left. As well as four four drawer file cabinets full of my organized and indexed reference material. I've been clipping and saving pictures since I was a kid, and like most things have been obsessive with it. But that is something I have enjoyed doing all my life. The slides will also go to the Museum. I have about 75,000 slides, taken before I started doing digital. Then I got the digital camera and never looked back.

Debbie did a feng shui thing with the books and "knick-knacks" that were left, so the shelves actually look much more peaceful, calm and not so overwhelming and crowded. I told her when more of the books are gone that I'd probably like to put some of my pottery collection on the shelves. That should be a nice change.

Debbie made us a nice pork chop, rice and zucchini dinner. I continue to feel better every day. I have only small discomfort, although sometimes I do get to itching and that's not nice. I stood and checked the books as we worked this morning, and didn't get tired until toward the end. We're talking about taking a trip in to town one of these days.