Helping & Browser & Sun & Twins

Last week the Community Foundation of Boone County sent us a big poster with a make-it-yourself Bow. (This year the CFBC is celebrating 20 years of Gifts Making a Difference in Boone County.) Since I Love Bows with All My Heart and am a Master at deconstructing them, it only makes sense that I would help/snoopervise AB Karen while she made the Bow.


Karen was relieved to have my help. Bow-making is serious business, and she was worried that she wouldn't be able to do it right. She didn't want to hang the only Bowless Community Foundation poster!


I've also been trying to keep up with Browser's World Tour. I miss him lots, but I'm sure he's having fun on his adventures!


Reading about his adventures really tires me out. Luckily we've had good sunpuddle weather in Indiana lately. (It also helps that I got a really thorough Furmination, too.)


I have also discovered that I am Kitikata-san's Brother of Another Mother! (Say that 3 times fast!) Kitikata-san is a Most Extraordinary and Beautiful Girlcat from Nashville, TN. For your viewing pleasure, she has posted side-by-side shots of us on her blog.

If you visit, please prepare to be dazzled by all the Handsomeness & Beauty on the page. It's almost too much for Blogger to handle! (You may also find that Google is Googling slower since she posted her pictures on June 4. Our apologies.)

One Helpful Cat,

Tober

Good-bye, Browser.

Browser the Library Cat is now on his way to the Haywood County Public Library in Waynesville, North Carolina. AAB Blog Helper suggested that he go visit that library because it was the one that she visited as a middle-schooler. Obviously the library staff there must be patient and kind, because they never kicked her out for her shenanigans. (She claims she was mostly well-behaved, but a little noisy.)

Before he left for the next stop on his World Tour, Browser attended the Indianapolis 500. (For a great write-up of his last few days in Indiana, visit his blog.)

Things are awfully expensive at the race, so Browser went shopping for snacks the night before. I have never been shopping before--I'm not sure how I'd feel about being out of the library like that. Browser managed to get my AAB to make a pit stop in the Cat Treat aisle.


Browser enjoyed the race except for the excessive loudness of the cars going around and around and around again. I'm glad he got to do something Special while he was in Indiana.


I think Browser must be a very Good and Vigilant Library Cat. The Pine River Public Library is very lucky to have him!

I, for one, and a little Sad to see him go. Now that we're back to a One-Cat Library I will never get a Vacation.


Missing my friend,

(Hoping for a post-card,)

Tober

Don't forget to check on Browser as he travels. See what he has to say about libraries across the country--and maybe even the World!

A Special Visitor

Oh oh oh we have a special visitor at Thorntown Public Library! Browser the Library Cat is here with us and is exploring my Library! Browser is from the Pine River Public Library in Pine River, Minnesota.

He has been a Library Cat even longer than I have! Browser moved into his library in 2002 when he was only nine months old, and he has been there ever since. This summer he is trying to visit as many libraries around the World as he can. Since the summer reading program is "One World, Many Stories," his library people back home are having the children keep track of where he goes. They have a map at the library to track his progress.

Here we are together:


Don't we make quite the team? I'm thinking of sending the rest of the staff home for the weekend. I'm sure one Library Cat per floor can handle things around here!

Stop by Browser's blog and leave lots of nice comments for his young readers--I'm sure they'll love to hear the friendly meows from the cat community!

The Host with the Most,

Tober

PS - My Library has a very exciting new Blog! If you (or your humans) are interested in Young Adult literature, stop by the TPL Teens Blog. It's just a newborn blog right now, but there is much more on the way!