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Sun, Mar 11, 2007

Library Envy

Posted at 10:03 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

I visited my friends Chuck (Happy Birthday, Chuck!) and Nanette today for the first time since Christmas (I have been extremely hermit-like these past few months, even by my standards). They have done some beautiful renovations to their farm buildings and landscaping over the past few years, and changes are still in progress.

I am especially envious of one of their latest projects. They have reroofed, resided and drywalled an old barn, and will be fitting it up as a library for Chuck's books. An old garage is being set up as a library for Nanette's books. (These are my kind of people...)

Looking around my house (which is so full of books I barely have room to breathe and don't have room to use my weight bench without book avalanches) I desperately wish I had outbuildings I could turn into a library.

I think this may be the year I have to start doing something serious about my basement. If I get it waterproofed, I may be able to move some of my books down stairs.

I should probably also look into some of those companies that do custom fitted shelves and storage units. If I had proper floor to ceiling units instead of cheap portable bookcases (some of them literally collapsing under the weight of the books heaped on them), things might be much less cluttered around here, and less precarious.

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