By now, many of you have read our Christmas letter and may be wondering, was Alex serious about the dead animal at storytime? Let me assure you, he was dead serious.
A little background: During the summer, part of my job at the library is to meet our Bookmobile at its various stops throughout the week, one per day, and do a storytime. Really, these storytimes are fraught with all sorts of peril: chiggers, biting ants, running dogs, extreme heat, enticing playgrounds, the list goes on and on. Well, this year we faced a heretofore unknown challenge--what do you do when there's a dead rabbit's leg in the middle of your storytime spot?
I set up our storytime mats as far away from it as possible, but for two weeks, my storytime was interrupted with, "Did you know there's a dead rabbit over there?" And this would come mid-sentence while I was reading, mind you. I left it alone, figuring for sure the trailer park's groundskeeper would pick it up. Or maybe one of those dogs!
But when I came the third week and it was still there, I decided no more. (Now you understand this means there had been a dead rabbit's leg in the middle of their playground for three weeks and no one had moved it.) So I took a plastic bag, picked it up, and put it in the dumpster. Then all we had to contend with were the chiggers, ants, enticing playground equipment....
2 comments:
As fascinating as disembodied lapines can be, I would personally rather listen to you read. I think you should hop in your Bookmobile and drive to Maine so that I may be regaled w/ Terry Pratchett on a daily basis. (Rachel, oddly, will not do this for me...)
thanks for the letter!!
We remembered the address!!! We had a lot of fun seeing you. Thanks for all the effort and planning that you put in for some great "family time". Talk to you soon, tambra
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