more baby called up more than that why didn't you have two have you checked a roll call i've just noted scared i should i have everybody's living okay but they are missing okay uh as everyone have chance to look at the data is going to be not good things or you could be here but she's not doesn't work for it's a born she's here yeah i'm guessing she had something today because it is for her brother she questions if that um to accept the minutes as presenting is very good i mean second i'll send you it okay thank you sarah it's gonna be up to you girls it's coming after you choose so we're gonna just have charge also oh yeah first yeah so that's oh well anybody's got next for next okay all right now thank we're reset you know oh it's as written I think the director or have a update the library still read oh I think you're reading the minutes oh I am oh well I don't have a glasses I would not okay let's go to the regular joke uh library hotlights and updates okay so since we last met um in late July things have been pretty busy here at the library um we kind of take a little bit of a break the month of August to recover from summer reading um but while we're recovering we can still do a few programs um just to let people know we're here so we invited some of our uh what we call community helpers to do story times at the library every Thursday in August uh so we had animal services the sanitation department we had um police and we had fire come do a story time um and as you can see they packed out this room for the story time portion and then we let uh maybe bring a vehicle or equipment or something and go to the parking lot and let the kids get up close and personal with their equipment um so it was very exciting even though it's really hot during the month it didn't keep people away uh so we always enjoy doing seeing the people come out for things like that the trash truck one is surprisingly that was the second most attended fire always brings to the audience but sanitation it is always it was we know how long the kids really don't know what sanitation is at the thing they don't do it goes out to the curve what's drive wait that's it where's he go what happens to it they really don't know right and you know the our sanitation crew is so awesome so they'll bring like an old couch or something and the kids get to see them like crush it and put it here with the grabber and they can sell the whole so and they had we made like bookmarks with the you know sanitation truck on it the kids were having the drivers sign it sound like celebrated like that but um and then I don't know if you saw on your way in but we have a pumpkin patch that we started this year um so Shandor Gardens gets pumpkins ordered to kind of decorate for fall so we went in on an order with them and made a little pumpkin patch especially knowing that the college wasn't doing same colony this year which is trying to come up with something we could do to provide a little fall experience for folks of weather for instance we've done some story times out the pumpkin patch and then this afternoon we're doing uh a little color pumpkin coloring out the pumpkin patch for all ages um and so kind of just looking at the success of that determining to what we want to do next year and I think the overwhelming response has been positive pumpkin patch so I'm sure it will return even bigger and better next October I know you don't carve but could they paint?

We've done some story times out of the pumpkin patch, and then this afternoon we're doing uh a little color pumpkin coloring out the pumpkin patch for all ages.

Um and so kind of just

looking

at the success of that determining what we want to do next year, and I think the overwhelming response has been positive pumpkin patch, so I'm sure it will return even bigger and better next October.

I

know you don't carve, but could they paint?

That's what we're doing in that this afternoon.

Painting a pumpkin, yeah.

We bought a bunch of like little bitty ones of therapy, but paint markers for everyone to paint their own pumpkin.

But then we just you know made a little photo area so families can come take photos of pumpkins, not feel like they need to spend money to have a fall experience.

We've seen

some

of the school kids from the school district, kids from area preschools come.

It's really nice.

And

then there was supposed to be a photo here, but there's not much to pick a photo of.

We have thrown some seeds in the back area between us and the middle school uh for blue bonnets, hoping to start our blue bonnet patch.

We talked about it a little bit here.

Um so

they saw it.

I don't know what happened.

We just disappeared.

That's what happened out in our neighborhood.

Is I guess I could secretly dump some in our green space, and the first year they were there, and then they came just shortly after they had learned and countered down and then they didn't come back, so they didn't have a chance to go to seed, and so they yeah, so that might be something of it hopefully knowers.

No,

they know see let them.

I mean, wait until you know late fall, like fall, and then

they

could know because they probably want

to see button.

So we've been working with them and the staff members who are green thumbs.

Uh

so

we're still

the

staff members that we have.

Okay, it's just us in the parks department

gardeners.

Master gardeners now.

Although I mean, we have a woman that's in the master gardener, it's also a volunteer to was out there helping us with the seeds.

It's just amazing how they're like, okay, it's parts over this much lane, and then we get out there and measure that much lane, and now we're like, that looks like that seemingly.

So

that's

the

part that's like we've been we've been trying to guess what that was.

So

we want it.

It's growing, so we're gonna grow.

Uh a steak hole.

Obviously, quick sand.

Um

well, I wanted to take a picture

and I was like, just that grass, and this looks like

but no, we're trying

to

create another opportunity for people to come and not to like park on the side of a highway and

that.

So I'll see.

And I guess that is one of the