When
I showed up to the library on Monday, Rindy and JM handed me a book on Faeries
and told me look through the book and pick something to share. They said they had looked for a story but
weren't able to find one. The
"information" book was the only they could find. Faeries are micheiveous creatures - not to
say that fairies aren't - but I think the spelling somehow changes the
definition. Faeries, on a whole, sound
impish and somewhat scary . . . at least from the descriptions in the book.
I
did like the "faerie" definition to mean "doesn't necessarily
have wings, no specific size (as some can be as big as giants) . . . but are all bound by magic" and
there were different classes of faeries, which I did not go into. The book had some detailed illustrations on
some pages and rather dull ones on others.
The information that I thought I would share was always on a page
without illustrations or so minute it seemed ridiculous to hold the book up for
the children to look at. I told them we
would first learn a bit about fairies and then I would read them a book with an
actual story.
I
mostly asked questions: Who knows what a
fairy is? What does a fairy look
like? What does a fairy wear? and then
we would talk about what we thought and what was written in the book. One girl suggested that fairies wore paper. I read that everyday wear was mostly made of
leaves and that mouse skin was used for the faeries who went to battle. Silky webs were reserved for high
fashion. I pulled these two examples
from the web:
When Jenna was younger we had used flower pedals, grass
and leaves to make fairy clothes. It was
fun.
Someone
had given me Pinkalicious Fairy House
to read. I don't recall ever seeing a
children's book (early reader) told in first person before. That was different. I read some, showed pictures, told some,
skipped pages, then sent them outside to make fairy gardens.
On
Tuesday Jenna and I went downtown to take some selfies as it was city hall
selfie day in Myrtle Creek.
We
had left the house at 8:00 and left city
hall to go to the pool but as we were there major early, we took some other
selfies as well.
Our
instructor is out of town and so one of the lifeguard' has been assisting the
class with workouts. There were four of us, I think. Yesterday there was only two. Yesterday the pool was warm. Yesterday Jenna and I just did our own
thing. It was glorious!
The
skies have been clear the last two mornings.
Jenna
and her friend Kylee had made plans to spend the day together. I dropped Jenna off at the school where they
started to hang. After I returned for
them, I could see the haziness filled the skies again, and the mountains were
hard to see.
I
must have driven the car up and down hill, back and forth, wearing the poor
thing down as I was either driving Jenna and Kyle around or running errands for
Roland. I was tired of having driven
more in one day than I'm used to in just one week.
When
we returned home from our trip that we'd taken in June, we passed the small
town of Glide before entering Roseburg.
Last night the stations flashed a warning on the screen that Glide was
to be evacuated IMMEDIATELY. That's not
good.
