Diane Adams

The topic: Spring Welcome to the end of March and hopefully lots of melting snow. Kids might be interested in borrowing “April Fools’ Day Magic”by James Baker for simple magic tricks.

@YOUR LIBRARY I am so excited to tell you about two new digital services the library is now offering to the community. The first is the Wall Street Journal.

@YOUR LIBRARY Happy St. Patrick’s Day! May your day be lucky and filled with fun! Here are some St.

@YOUR LIBRARY March can be a up and down month. Some days seem like spring is around the corner and other days make us wonder if we’ll ever see warm weather again.

@YOUR LIBRARY March is here! Spring can’t be too far behind, right?!? In the meantime, here are the March library programs. The monthly Friends of the Library book sale will be Monday, March 6 from 4-6 p.m.

I don’t know what the entire year will be like, but the first two months have zipped along lickety-split. I am ready to start reading some titles about spring, summer and new life. So here are a few titles I am looking forward to reading. Mary McNear is the author of a series of books set on Butternut Lake, beginning with “Up at Butternut Lake,” set on an imaginary lake in the northern Midwest. Lake life is so summer and makes me dream of warm days with lots of daylight.

The east entrance of the library is now open! The stairs have been replaced and while we will have to wait until spring for railings and finish work the stairs are usable as long as they don’t become icy. We can’t use de-icer this winter as part of the finish work includes sealing the concrete to protect the work.

January was warmer than normal but also much grayer. I love the sunshine even if it is very cold.

One month of 2023 is already history. I hope your January was filled with great books and wonderful time reading.

It is only the last Friday of January and I already feel behind in 2023. I have been working on a jigsaw puzzle and playing some solo board games in the evenings and not doing as much reading as I’d like. I need to figure out how to read and play games each evening and still get to bed at a decent time. I also have several knitting projects I am tackling and of course have to do something with sourdough each week. So I stay busy and am beginning to daydream, plot and plan for summer vacations. “Best Road trips: Midwest and the Great Lakes: escapes on the Open road a Lonely Planet guide” has some wonderful ideas. And I love looking at maps and “Wild Maps for Curious Minds” by Mike Higgins provides ‘100 new ways to see the natural world.’ There are maps showing where the tiniest animals of a variety of species live, where earthquake zones are, where oceans get their water and where people are most at risk from natural disasters, to name just a few.