Big Winner!

Last month my library had a "Where's Tober?" Contest going on.  It was in honor of My Finding Month.

AAB Miss Myrtle made a super bulletin board covered with lots and lots of Tobers and other (less important) things.  (I think AAB Blog Helper Facebooked the contest but forgot to blog it.  Sheesh.)  Anyhoo, here's a picture to give you an idea of what it looked like:

Visitors got to look at the bulletin board and guess--or count--how many Tobers were included on it!  The number of Tobers was written on a slip of paper and hidden in a top-secret hidey place, so top-secret that not even AAB Rotten Ritchie could find it and cheat.

The winner of the contest got a certificate, and some Temptations treats, and and a picture with me, and a bag of candy, and *ahem* mention on my World- and Internets- Famous Blog!  (That's right here, folks!) 

There were 68 Tobers on the bulletin board, and a library visitor named Darrah picked that number exactly!  She said she counted that many Tobers, which I think is an excellent display of counting skills!

Here I am hanging out with all of the good stuff that Darrah got to take home!  She very kindly left the bag of Temptations treats at the library, where they are being doled out very SLOWLY by my staff.

Today is Bored Meeting Day, so I'm preparing by taking an nice nap.  AB Karen and AAB Christine have a bad case of the sleepies, so I'm napping a little extra for both of them.

Hopefully they don't fall asleep in front of the Super-Bosses.  That would be embarrassing--especially if they start snoring.

Purrs, headbutts, and naps,

Tober

Still waiting, plus other things.

Not to badger poor Assistant Boss Mommy Karen, 'cause she IS an awfully good Assistant, and generous with treats and tummy rubs, too. . .

To be fair, she did sit down MOST of the day today. 

We have had a super-busy week here, because the children are now out of school, and their parents are bringing them here, to my Library, to load up on books and magazines and movies for the beginning of summer!  Hooray!

I am plum tuckered out from Thursday afternoon, though.  I got petted by about 10 children all within 30 minutes--that's a lot of petting and face smooshing, along with the occasional poke!  And just so you know, little feet don't got "pitter-patter."  They go "galumph-galumph-galumph," especially when the owners are right behind you yelling "KITTY!!!!!"  I got lots of extra treats for yesterday.

My Librarians have been busy busy getting ready for Summer Reading Time!  We have all sorts of things going on the next few months, like a button bracelet craft, and a special program about eating healthy (I hope this doesn't bring about a treat-diet), and a program about hot rods!  Some llamas and mini horses will be visiting the library, too!  (I wonder why llamas get two Ls instead of one?)  Oh, and lots and lots of reading will be done, because young readers can bring in their reading logs each week and receive a ticket--and the ticket will be entered in the bike drawing!  These are two of the bikes that are up for grabs:

The bikes are provided by Bikes 4 Kids, which is a super nonprofit program in central Indiana.  They take gently used donated bikes and make them look like new, and distribute them to bikeless children.  You can learn more about them on their website. 

We had a near-catastrophe this week when AAB Christine ran out of her after-lunchtime gum.  Now, I really don't care whether she has gum--what I care about are the gum wrappers.  AAB buys Orbit Sweet Mint Gum, and that stuff has really nice smelling, nice-tasting, crunchy paper wrappers.  Every week we have Gum Wrapper Monday.

Luckily I have a few stashed away for Emergencies, because this is what my Gum Wrapper source looked like earlier this week:

Lastly but not leastly:  Today my AB Karen got an important email from a nice lady named Janet.  The email said "Tober's fame is spreading.  Check it out (no pun intended)" and had a link to the mental_floss blog post 9 Delightful Library Cats.  My friends Cauli le Chat and Browser are listed, too!  Famouser and famouser, I tell ya. 

I think Famous Cats can make like llamas and add extra letters to their names,

Purrs,

Tttober

PS  Happy Birthday AB Karen!  You're the best (even with all the waiting)!

Waiting

AB Karen has been very very busy these last few weeks. 

Sometimes when she gets really busy she doesn't stay put, and sometimes I have to ask for her attention.

But that's hard to do when you're really short and don't have thumbs and get locked out of the room.

Since I am a Cat, I'm usually very good at waiting.  Sometimes AAB Becki has a Day Off, and that means I usually have to wait an extra 30-45 minutes to get my supper.  Sometimes AAB Christine is being dense, and I might have to wait half a day (and meow a LOT) to get my catnip sprinkled on my special catnip floorspot.  I have to wait for my AABs when we go upstairs together because they aren't lightning-fast on the stairs like I am.  But that's okay.

So I waited for AB Karen to get done doing whatever she was doing.

And I got treats and pettings for my patience.

Good things come to those who wait!

Tober