Sunday Randomness #21 : Spotting Sequential Signage

https://www.facebook.com/ParentsEmpowered/videos/10152806561649644/
(This billboard placement was near a local restaurant and gas station.)

Sunday Randomness #51: Library programs and cat chin scratching

I just don't think the instrument petting zoo would give one the same experience as petting a soft purry Jack-Jack.  Hedgehog is giving a demonstration of the way our cat likes his chin scratched.  From the bottom picture you can see he's not as fond of head scratching v. chin scratching.  (When he really likes something he squints his eyes-it's very cute-and he starts a deep purr.)

Kudos though to Riverton Music for a clever idea that certainly caught the attention of our patrons.  For more information about Riverton Music you can visit their website at: https://www.rivertonmusic.com/

Sunday Randomness #202 : Have you voted in the primary yet?

For my fellow voters in Utah: please get your primary vote in by June 25th if you have a ballot.  Here's a parody video to help educate the newer generations about suffrage, votes, and voting for women:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6qKVBciAw


For more about Rep. Burns:  http://www.teachtnhistory.org/File/Harry_T._Burn_Top_10.pdf
(It really is worth the read-especially the two telegrams at the end.)  I also like his quote of freeing women from political slavery.

"I desire to resent in the name of honesty and justice the veiled intimidation and accusation regarding my vote on the Suffrage Amendment as indicated in certain statements, and it is my sincere belief that those responsible for their existence know that there is not a scintilla of truth in them. I want to state that I changed my vote in favor of ratification first because I believe in full suffrage as a right; second, I believe we had a moral and legal right to ratify; third, I knew that a mother’s advice is always safest for a boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification; fourth, I appreciated the fact that an opportunity such as seldom comes to a mortal man to free seventeen million women from political slavery was mine; fifth, I desired that my party in both State and nation might say that it was a republican from the East mountains of Tennessee, the purest Anglo-Saxon section in the world, who made national woman suffrage possible at this date, not for personal glory but for the glory of his party."  Representative Harry T. Burns

Sunday Randomness #129 : Utah has changeable weather

This is from March 4, 2018.  Just a reminder of the previous weather season.

Book Group Post 5: April continues 560's - 580's and in May we talked about JP family books

In April we talked about the following books in the 560's to 580's section of the library:

• Once Upon a Mastodon: All About Prehistoric Mammals by Worth
• Cactus Hotel by Guiberson
• Plants Can't Sit Still by Hirsch
• Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Bang
• Because of An Acorn by Schaefer
• Dinosaur Tracks by Zoehfeld
• The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families by Roth

We had an ecosystem organization chart handout and bags of chips.

Then in the May book group we listened to the audio version of A Day In the Life of Marlon Bundo by Twiss and we discussed these other books about families:

• Families, Families, Families by Lang
• Nighty Night! by Wild
• The Family Book by Parr
• And Tango Makes Three by Richardson
• I Love It When You Smile by McBratney

There are so many other wonderful family books-some other suggestions that I've received include the following titles: Zak's Safari, The Relatives Came, Owl Babies, Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?, One Big Family, Over the Moon, Froggy's Baby Sister, My Family Tree and Me, Two Is Enough, and many others.

And, I wanted to share this link from Real Simple for some fun family activities from cooking together to making a time capsule: https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/family/family-activities

Sunday Randomness #84 Out and About eating with Boiled Beef, Pie, and a Cupcake

The Home Cafe in Conrad, MT.

Boiled Beef-sounds gross, tastes heavenly-buttery soft and flavorful beef with homemade roll, mashed potatoes, and gravy

Berry Crumble Pie

The Cocoa Bean Cafe in Provo.  Now closed.  So Sad.  There are three locations left but they're all in Idaho.