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posted by sharlet on Jul 12

Yes it is me doing one of my favorite things to do in my Arizona Neighborhood, I am working at our local Library. Meadview Library is kind of like the local Country Stores that you see all over the South. Kinda of like come on in and sit a spell and one of us will sit down and talk to you and if you sit there long enough somebody you know is going to come in  and stay a spell and by the time you leave you will have spent time with good friends and maybe even returned a book or picked up a new one you have been waiting for but no matter what, you are going to leave happier than when you came in. When I say work I don’t mean work, I mean volunteer, which is funny because it is work (only it is work that I enjoy so very much). While I only work one day a week, I spend so much time there that you would think I worked every day even  if there is not a lot of other places to go. Meadview as you my have guessed is a very rural place with about 2,500 people but with the right weather and a Holiday weekend it can become a metropolis, you see Meadview is located in the Lake Mead National Recreational Area about 5 miles from Lake Mead. Meadview consist  mostly of retires (of which I am one) but on those times when our sleepy little place goes a little wild and crazy we the locals tend to go about our business and wait for our little slice of heaven to return.

As you may guess our Library is kind of like our town, small in size but big in heart. Looking for a good book to read and don’t need a huge  selection then we have what you are looking for, want to use a computer we have that also or how about a movie to rent we have those but what we have most of all are those special people that you only find in Libraries like ours, Libraries were they feel free to just stop by and say “Hey”, Libraries where grown women will come in and make silly things that they wouldn’t spend .10 cents on in the store and leave with their prize in their hands and come back the next week and do it all over again. Libraries where the children come in and know that the lady working that day will take time to help them read their book, even if it only has pictures in it but the one thing they know for sure is that if they ask nice and say please Miss Pinkey is going to give them candy and they know how to ask because she is putty in their hands when they ask nice.  Those are just a few of the reasons I think we have biggest and best little Library you can find around and if you would like to stop by and see us I work on Thursday.

See you then!