library idea....

I was lying in bed a few nights ago and came upon an idea I would like to try at some point for a library. Many churches will have a small parish library, largely of donated books. This is a wonderful, if mostly unknown resource, for church members. It might be kind of fun to expand the parish library to make it be larger and then to have a service of traveling library offered to the seniors and shut-ins. For the service to be viable, it would require a good bit of funding and a lot of work on the part of the librarian, selecting books for each of the patrons and taking them to houses. It would be fun though and a very social and interactive experience as a librarian. Definitely a little bit different of a take and it wouldn't work in every church, but something fun to think about.

exciting

As most of you know, I recently purchased a house. Over the past month and a half, I have come to the conclusion that it is haunted. The most likely culprit is the man who built it- Mr. Hallman. The floor in the hallway will occasionally creak in a really creepy way- coming down the hall as if someone were walking slowly and them creak the other direction. I can be sitting on the sofa with the dogs and suddenly get cold for a few minutes. The heat can be running full blast, but I will still feel cold. The dogs will sometimes randomly bark at nothing and be not quite facing each other, but looking at the same point. A few days ago when I had the dogs out, the wind blew in an odd way and the door opened- after I had double checked to make sure it was shut. Sometimes, the doors to the spare bed room and the office will open up too. Most people would be creeped out living in a house that very well may be haunted. It doesn't really bother me though. Mr. Hallman seems to be a benign spirit, not out to cause trouble or to scare me. It seems he more just wants to make sure that the place (and hopefully me) are looked after.