Dragon's Orchid Garden

I was going to post about awful library patrons.  I will, but later, when the current installment has finished.  Ms. WildHairScreamingConspiracyWoman is not yet done.  She will be back.  A trespass order may be issued.  Stay tuned. Instead, there are wonderfully bad books to focus on.  Mary and Holly are two librarians who've written a blog in homage to bad books.   Awful Library Books  is funny and interesting, giving particular and peculiar insight into the buying habits of Collection Development Departments past.  Revel in such titles as " Hug a Tree : and other things to do outdoors with young children".  Read the insightful commentary on this and other books, weeded (or the preferred term, "deselected", ugh) from library shelves. The following are not awful books.  Or, they may be, but I cannot comment on their awfulness, or lack thereof because I haven't read them.  Fun with keyword searching of the library catalog : ...

I've been off work this week.  My vacation (and one county furlough day) was mostly spent cleaning out closets, getting ready for a yardsale on Saturday.  It was beautiful weather and I got a sunburn but that felt good because it's been such a long stretch of awful weather (I don't expect sympathy from anyone living north of Florida).  We made enough to go to the Tampa Bay Orchid Society 's Annual Orchid Show and Sale at the Egypt Shrine Temple today. We came away with 7 new orchid plants.  We always vow to buy just one or two.  That never works. We came home with a phalaenopsis - KV Golden Star, laeliocattleya - Love Knot 'Blackberry' x c. Bactia 'Grape Wax", a vanda - Mimi Palmer,  another phal. - Glory, a tiny otz (oncidium x Rodriguezia x Tolumnia) Chantilly Mist x RCDM Apple Blossom, and two very unusual orchids, one a dendrobium Spectabile and the other is a grammatophyllum scriptum.  The last one, the "gramm", is related to the world...