All libraries, great and small

On the way to the knitting group at the regular library, I dropped off the last few books from my Freecycling at the Little Free Library 

It's in the parking lot of the Arts center which used to be the Firehouse. And here's a few friendly greetings on the ground around the little library 

At the Big Library, there's currently a display of arrowheads, found in local fields,  and created by the Lenni Lenape, on whose ancestral land we live, and whom we celebrate with the long  weekend coming up.

The knitting group was small, probably because of the  long weekend, Monday being Indigenous Day, and here's a completed sock,  the second sock being finished in time for a birthday this weekend, also the first sock I've ever seen at the knitting group other than my own

the sock knitter, librarian C., was wearing one of her own tops, in a fine linen thread, a beautiful fabric. She's the maker of those marvellous fantasy animals I showed you a while back, very talented maker, musician, and children's librarian.

And there's a Halloween gnome in progress by F., who brought you the cute hats I showed you recently

A small group and a merry one, talk ranging over haunted houses, corn mazes, pumpkins, stiff necks and the latest exercise for them, children's art, board games, and more. There was also companionable silence sometimes, very comfortable.

Rain today, just right for more stitching on the wallhanging accompanied currently by Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan on YouTube. I did prune the butterfly bush, so it won't be pulled down by the rain, yay me,  great timing 

Happy day everyone, enjoy the season, the holiday if it's one for you, the weekend if not. And remember the indigenous people who first cared for the land a lot of us live on. 

If you're Australian, I hope they get your support in your upcoming indigenous people referendum. The US can't brag -- it's not so long since native Americans finally got citizenship and voting rights, and they have to fight endlessly against vote suppression. We all have work to do. 

Did you know that native Americans looked on transgender people as sacred, with insights into more of life than single gender people, to be protected?

A day of observances

 Those of us old enough to remember the long, brave fight of the  California farmworkers  to get a fair deal with the grape growers, culminating in la Huelga, a long desperate strike, resulting in a contract with the now recognized United Farmworkers Union , know and honor Cesar Chavez. There are gatherings to honor him today, on what would be his birthday, particularly in his home state of California.

Here's the bust of Chavez that Biden put in the oval office almost as soon as he got there.

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, honored him. Kamala Harris, Vice President, honored him.

Dem Governor Newsom has refused to meet with the Farmworkers today to  honor  Chavez.  Long history of conflict. Wrong side of history.

Moving to other brave and besieged people, today is Trans Visibility Day. 

We need to honor and protect transgender people, and help support their right to be who they are, to live their lives.

Meanwhile ordinary life trundles on. The fencers were at work tearing down fences today. Here's the current view.

And another unwelcome view. 

The control panel on my stove up and quit. No oven functions, no clock, timer, just burners working.  Suddenly. 

So I pawed through my files for information about the stove, such as where to find the model number,  and searched for the people who repaired it last time.

To my amazement, I found their bill from 2012. I had asked the neighbor who put me onto them did she remember the name and number. Then I found them, and she said she had no idea, could I now tell her! 

So they played loud music while they searched to check if the parts were still made and in stock. They seem to be, because next Wednesday they're coming to fix it. At least that's the plan.

Knitting required now.  Handsome Son spent part of the afternoon here eating chocolate cake and being calm about my exciting week. He collected his bp monitor which I don't need for now. All being well.

Tomorrow is Misfits box and knitting group. All being well.