On The Road Again

Alice has been doing yeoperson's duty, blogging away while George is perhaps still on a cruise ship somewhere, and I have been trying to catch up from my 20 hour flight home last week from D.C. to Columbus--normally a 90 minute direct flight--arriving home midday Tuesday instead of Monday evening. Yeah, so speaking of delays, Alice.....

This evening I am here waiting to catch a flight to Vancouver, B.C. and then on to Penticton, B.C. in the Okanagan Valley, tomorrow morning for a week's vacation. Napa Valley North. I am not sure I'll be visiting any libraries but I will spend time with a few librarians. Several people from the library community in Alberta have retired to this part of B.C. and we'll get together sometime for dinner and some tall tales. We all used to belong to a society known by its initials IPALLOSH (InterProvicial Association of Library Lovers of Sheep). The genesis of the name was the Monty Python skit called Ovine Aviation, but also appropriated the British Wool Board's mascot, Sarah. Hence, each President of IPALLOSH was referred to as the Grand Sarah, regardless of gender. Mind you, some of them did insist on being the Grand Harold (see the Ovine link). There were a lot of library directors who put IPALLOSH on their CVs. I certainly did. Baa-aa. May the flock be with you.