Sixth Annual Chocolate Party

On September 11th, we had our sixth annual Chocolate party. Not as many people as usual but it was later in the season and on a Sunday. Still, 25-ish people isn't a bad turnout. There were some awesome dishes (Christie's Mexican dish was AWESOME) and some not so great dishes (my chocolate hummus didn't turn out like I had hoped.) It was a gorgeous day with friends and wonderful food.

September 11th at Lake

Heidi and I tried to get in a late season hike at Lake (Elephant back is one of my favorites) but it ended up being completely crappy weather. So we went and had cocktails at the hotel. I had totally forgotten that it was september 11th so when they started gathering folks around the flag pole, we were all (Pat joined us for a drink) dumbfounded. But it was actually a very nice, very short ceremony. They brought up all of the veterans and everyone had a round of applause.

Annual BBQ

It's that time of year. The HRC has its annual BBQ to celebrate the end of summer. Our summer intern, Marisa Snyder, was having her next-to-last day doing the bookmobile and one of the seasonals downstairs, Molly Conley, was heading out for the summer. Massive amounts of food as usual. Some folks were worried there might not be enough, but I'd say that a refrigerator of leftovers would prove to be more than sufficient. Horseshoes were played, conversation enjoyed and a good time had by all.

Water Treat Plant

So, for my job, I get to do some pretty cool things. Today we got to go with a coworker's S.O. and check out how the water treatment in the park works

Ralph checks out the scenery

Me so pretty (with Frances in the background)

A side-effect of being in the water-treatment with lots of moisture? Huge plants

No clue what this is. Cool picture, huh?

Ralph checking... something

Trip to Cascade Lake

This Monday, the next to last day of May, Heidi, Lisa and I went out towards Canyon thinking we would ski out to Signet Lakes. Well, that didn't happen, mostly because we couldn't find it. Too much snow, it covered up all the signs. No, seriously. It snowed intermittently while we were out there but it was also incredibly sunny for most of the time. I tried out the skis Mom had gotten my for my birthday, Rossingol BC65s. They were awesome. I was not. I totally forgot that I was wearing new boots and got some awesome (different sense of the word) blisters. I... also forgot sunscreen and sunglasses which resulted in not only a wicked burn but also a line of redness across my eyes that lasted for about four days. While my heels are still in agony, at least I no longer look like I've been smoking illegal substances.

Any way you cut it, a pretty fun afternoon.

Getting ready to go out

Me trying to get in the picture

We were skiing over some... well, watery areas

See the otter? No, well we did

Pretty trees

Trying to get a picture of all three of us

Podcast Blogs

Some of the podcasts I listen to have a lot of links that they mention or sometimes post off-topic so it's nice to follow them.

PNSExplosion-Uploads of an awesome podcast

Emergency Pants-Two old friends discuss every topic under the sun.

Boomtacular-Blog for PNSExplosion a gay podcast out of Chicago.

Library blogs

Will Unwound- Will Manley is well known for his survey of librarians' sex habits but he writes a blog about library experiences that thousands of professionals follow.

RA for All- Just started reading this blog on how to do Readers' Advisory and am already afraid of how many books I'm going to be adding to my TBR list.

Tiny Tips for Library Fun-I don't remember adding this one.

Young Adult Library Services Association-The latest

Librarian's Guide to Etiquette-Short, quippy entries about every day as a librarian

Swiss Army Librarian-A reference librarian's answers to every day questions. The latest one? How many silver dimes does it take to make an ounce of silver?