For a couple of days we’ve been warned that another big snowfall was headed our way this weekend. Four to eight inches they said. Supposedly it would start snowing Saturday morning at 10 a.m. and would continue, intensifying throughout the day, ending around 6 p.m. Great. I was working all day at the library, 9-5, and figured I’d have a doozy of a drive home.

As I was getting ready in the morning I glanced toward my front door and saw this:

Hmmm, I thought.  “Red sky in morning, sailor take warning.”  So Katie and I went out to investigate, and to put a letter to my sister in the mailbox:

When we got back in the house the glass storm door had steamed over.  Look how pretty!

I headed off to work with extra gloves, a hat, and boots, prepared for the terrible ride home I anticipated.  But though it did snow, all day in fact, starting at 10:00 just like they predicted, we got 2 or 3 inches at most.  And the ride home, while slow, wasn’t nearly as awful as I expected.

The other librarian and I thought maybe we’d have a slow day, maybe with the weather people would stay home.  We were so wrong!  My favorite story of the day involved a grandmother who had a granddaughter doing an internship in Poland.  She came in to find out how to get into her email.  Since we were still slow, first thing in the morning, I taught her how to use her email.  She got to read a note from her granddaughter, view the photos that had been sent, and write the granddaughter a long note back.  She was thrilled, and even better, was proud of her new skill.

Another interesting experience I had at the library during the day included the shy young girl and her dad who came into the library “looking for poetry.”  After I showed them where most of the poetry was, at the far back of the library, she pulled out a piece of paper folded up into a small square.  After unfolding it all she informed me she needed “these five books of poems,” which turned out to be in the kids area, near the front door.  Which taught me (once again) to ask more questions at the start rather than taking the first sentence at face value.

We were busy all day; I helped a middle-aged woman figure out that the horror author she wanted was Dean Kootz, a high school student find information about steroid use, a recent graduate of law school fax her information out for numerous employment opportunities, found another student a biography about Harriet Tubman, commiserated with a woman about how we both get “click happy” when we’re reserving books from our home computers late at night.  All the books we’ve ordered tend to show up at the same time and it’s nearly impossible to get them all read.  Another family wanted help finding a book about polygamous cults as well as something to help them diet by reducing carbs.  Someone else wanted a book to help diagnose an unspecified medical condition.  And a teenage girl needed help learning Latin “so I can write vampire stories.”  And those are just the ones I remember!

The day flew by, I had lots of fun, the snow wasn’t too bad, and this morning, after another dusting of snow, we have sun!  What a wonderful weekend!

And it’s only Sunday morning! 🙂

I don’t have to work again until Thursday.  Katie and I are going out to play in the new (not so deep) snow!