All In One Wonderful Building

It's great that I'm shelving regularly at the library now. Works wonders for the muscles, spirit, and brain. Perfectly relaxing and good exercise at the same time - a lot of concentration but not much brainpower. A bit like tennis - or beading or coloring, but with more walking around and carrying things, reaching up and bending down.

Not to mention the library is a place to do deliciously nerdful things. Here is a place where I get to visit Star Trek websites without my brothers looking over my shoulder, read about everything from how human blood works to folk tales of the Hmong to the physical possibilities of time travel, and keep out of the thick Rhode Island heat. I love this place.

Emily

The Rain Brings ...

So much rain; it's almost incredible. However, the rain tends to lead to this ...

... so it's not like it's useless. It might almost be worth it.

Down Below

Jones

I have a spoon doll, thanks to a molto kewl local antique shop. (There were loads of wonderful antique shops in Stillwater, MN, but there are a couple nice ones in this really small town of mine.)

"I don't have a name for her yet," I told William. "What should we call her?"

"Think of a book ..." he suggested.

"A book character?"

"Yeah." He paused. "How about Coraline?"

But I suggested Coraline was kind of a special name. This doll was not a Coraline.

"How about we name her after Junie B?" I exclaimed. "We can call her Junie!"

William said we should call her Jones.

"Perfect!" I said. "Because Coraline's last name is Jones, too!"

Thank you, William.

(Post trampolining outside. We're a bit frazzled.)

~Emily

Freak Potato

A Few More Photographs

As far as the photographs go, I think we left off somewhere around the trip to the antique shop - well, one of many antique shops we visited - and the Star Trek drinking glasses.

After the glasses, I found this.

Interesting, no? ...

Later that day, the Fiends left for a three-hour cruise on the lake (whose name I'm afraid I don't know).

I - very gladly - stayed behind to have supper with Susan Runholt (http://susanrunholt.com/ ... but if anyone wants to tell me how to paste a link here so that you can just click on her name and be led to her website ...). Susan was a really kind, genuine person - one of the sweetest people I have ever met in my life.

I never get tired of this shirt.

A lovely MN sky.

A day alone in town ... sitting by the lake reading Star Trek books.

And finally, Benjamin is happy that Emily is home. Emily is not.






Jack, of course, is the same as always. And not particularly happy to have his sister taking up his computer time.

Thus ends the travel log.

Until next time.

~Emily

Picking Up Alice

Library this afternoon ... for the first time in over a week. It felt so good. "Intensely Alice" finally came in for me, the latest in the series I love by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. I hate to say it, but I really think she's losing her touch in the way she writes in Alice's teenage voice. But hey, I still want to know what's going on with the characters; I've been following the series for almost five years now and I am not about to stop ...

~Emily