For the past few days, Maria and I have spent dusk watching birds fly and the moon rises over the back pasture. It was beautiful tonight.

We are having an Indian Summer in November, which is strange but beautiful.

We had a beautiful breeze all day, and this afternoon, we went back to a Schuylerville Brewery to have some Lao food and walk about the Adirondack canal trails just outside the restaurant.

 

When we got home, it was just too beautiful to go inside, and we sat out by the pasture fence with Zinnia and Fate. And the rising moon.

Maria and I have this strange connection; we love to do the same off-center things. We are off-center, as one blog reader wrote, but we are off-center in the same ways.

I’m sure it will get colder eventually, but we are making the best of the warmth, eating out on the back porch, walking along the canals, and watching the sun go down on one side and the moon on the other.

I am posting three photos of the moon as it rose and clouds danced around it and a short video to go with them. I think I’m getting back into videos again.

 

 

This week, I’m continuing to get some bookcases into the library at Bishop Gibbons, which has no room for all of the books we are giving them. Monday kicks off bookcase week. The new Bishop Gibbons Library is rising.

Good people are sending me ideas and suggestions, which is both kind and appreciated.

But this is more complex than it might seem.

We can’t just send anything to a school; there are rules and regulations about what comes into schools. And there are complications.

 

Many of these kids do not have the resources to get to a Good Will, Habitat, or other charity with furniture or the means to transport them.

And space is a factor; all bookcases don’t fit into all spaces.

Some of their families don’t have cars, speak English, or have money.

 

Many don’t have computers to download or search the Internet and are still learning English.

And neither they nor I have the money to buy a bunch of bookcases, even at meager prices.

The teachers are overworked and overwhelmed, and I wouldn’t ask them to go out searching for used bookcases. They must be solid and safe.

So we’re working on ways around this. In the past few years, we’ve tried just about everything and learned just about everything. Nothing in this work is simple, or everyone would be doing it.

But ideas and suggestions never hurt. And I certainly don’t know everything. I didn’t want people to think we were ignoring them.

We’ve been down this road before; there is always a way. I’m finding some real bargains and waiting for guidance from the angels.

From what I’m already hearing, some perfect bookcases may already be on the way.

More later.