Getting the garden ready?

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We have several books to help you out.  
*The Vermont Gardeners's Companion
*The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening
*The Heirloom Gardener
*The Complete Book of Gardening
*Gardener's Questions Answered

How about chickens?
*The Joy of Keeping Chickens


How about vacation reading for the kids?

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We have series for kids of all ages.
*Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
*Harry Potter
*Marcy Watson (the pig who loves toast with a great deal of butter)
*Canterwood Crest
*Magic Tree House
*Ivy & Bean (book #7 just arrived)
*Secrets of Droon

And leisure reading for the grown ups?

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Recently added to our shelves:*The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
*Message in a Bottle - Nicholas Sparks
*Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
*A Son of the Circus - John Irving

 
 
We had a small but eager turn out at our first and only library game night of the season.  There was a "friendly" game of scrabble joined by 4 of the library trustees, along with games of checkers, Candy Land, Uno, Camp and Connect 4.  As you know, we are an all volunteer community run library, and we are all learning as we go along.  The lessons from our game night?  First is that while 4:00 feels like evening in the winter, on a gorgeous sunny spring day, it feels like to early to come inside.  Fortunately Ray Rice was willing to run the kids at the playground for a half hour or so, and being Vermont kids, they were happy to climb the snowbanks to get to the swings and slide.  The second lesson is that game night will be a lot more cozy next time, next time we'll hold it in our beloved library, not the basement of the town hall.  The third lesson, for me personally, is that I should play Scrabble more often.  And finally, lesson four, we just keep finding more reasons to love our library and our little playground out back.

So, if you made it inside in spite of spring sunshine, thanks for making game night happen, and if you didn't, stay tuned, we'll be planning a summer picnick or two you won't want to miss.  Here are a couple of snapshots.