I’m home from my morning shift at the library, where I kept notes about the various things that were asked of me, to share with you. I find the variety of things people wonder about fascinating, and thought you might too on occasion. But as I sat down to write about my morning experiences a great blue heron flew low across the yard outside my window, then swooped steeply up so that I saw the underbelly, legs outstretched. “Heck,” I thought, that bird just landed on my roof! So I tiptoed out the front door, and sure enough there he was, up on my roof, a big gangly bird staring down at me. He slowly spread his wings and glided off the roof, back toward the pond across the road. How cool. And of course, no camera on me. So…maybe Ann Arbor isn’t the only odd place in the world. We just have odd wildlife, rather than people out here.

Speaking of odd wildlife, did I tell you that earlier this week the dog was going bonkers because of four deer in the back yard, so I went out to shoo the deer away, and one of them stood his ground and then charged me? I ducked behind the dog pen and kicked it, the sound made him leap the other way and back into the woods. Guess it’s the wrong time of year to mess with deer.

So I guess I’ll tell you about the things people ask a reference librarian in another post on another day. Tomorrow is my last final. I should really go study now. Even though it is beautiful outside and Katie and I would rather go for a walk. Well. I want to go for a walk, Katie is taking a nap. Lucky me.