Rain Rain Go AWAY for Today

Today we are celebrating my niece, Kerry's upcoming high school graduation. Right now we are having our second downpour of the afternoon. I hope this is the last for today.

We are having a new patio put in the backyard, it is a mud hole. Today the guys came to lay out the circle of bricks and frame the steps, of course the rains came so they left. At this rate we will have use of the back door in September. the dogs have learned to cross their paws and wait to be let out.

On the vacation front, my Uncle Joe is going to visit my Uncle Stas in California in July, I'm tagging along, Can't wait! The last time I was out there was in 2004 when my cousin got married and that was only for three days, this time its a nice 10 day trip. We are going to spend part of the time on the Pacific, U. Stas has a boat that sleeps four so it should be fun.

Sixteen days until school is done, not that I'm counting. Sadly, the whole Medical Arts library is now in boxes all over the place at Main Campus. We are doing an inventory, after one week of scanning books, we have hit the 35% mark. Hopefully we'll be done by the end of the month. The Main/Medical Arts collection has more than 30,000 books plus videos, all the computers are tagged, vcrs, and teaching kits to name just some of the stuff that has to be scanned. Thank goodness for laptops and handheld scanners.

We have found some interesting stuff while doing the inventory (last time it was done was more than five years ago ~ that's when my partner started to work there) our books range in ages from the 1920's to the present. Friday I opened a geography book and the last time it was checked out was 1943! How cool and how diverting is it to find treasures like that? We have decided to save one set of general geography books from the 1910's but due to lack of space and a way to keep the stuff we have to get rid of the outdated materials. We are keeping the old yearbooks, school newspapers, trophies and of course pictures. We have some of the writings of Ernie Kovacs an alumni of the High. Hopefully someone will think they were worth keeping when the next inventory comes around.

I ordered acid free folders and envelopes to put the pictures we have from the late 1800's to now in better order - presently they are piled in a box that was wet (It was kept on the sink go figure) ~ unfortunately due to the budget situation, the last two times I ordered the folders they have been denied without explanation. My principal has no idea how purchasing makes its decisions on what gets ordered and what doesn't. Oh well, mine is not to question why....