Our library system, The Suburban Library Cooperative, is having a summer contest; for every library you visit, you receive a stamp in a booklet.
Collect all of the stamps, and you earn some library swag.
In my effort to visit the twenty-one libraries, peruse the stacks, AND chat up the workers, I was at the Ray Township Public Library, which is housed in the 1863 schoolhouse pictured above.
The library director let me ring the school bell; I pulled on the rope three times...ding ding ding!
A box that I didn't know was on my life to-do/bucket list has been ticked.
Am thankful for that unexpected but darn thrilling experience.
No one would wake up to think, 'gosh, today I hope to ring an antique bell!'
🔔 📚 🙀
However, I should have known it was going to be a special day, since Thomas visited me while I walked that morning.
Thomas was a stray cat, who was taken in by a family after he got stuck 'way up a telephone pole.
They keep him inside mostly, and I see him in the window from time to time, yet he was outside this day.
I'm thankful he allowed some lovin', and allowed a photo shoot too.
He's a Paddy O'Malley look-alike, no?
❤️
Let's Hop!
