90 Year Old Couple Celebrating 62 Years of Marriage

This couple, aged 90, is celebrating 62 years of marriage. They were at the doctor's office.  There was a piano so they decided to have some fun. We are only as old as our attitude.
David Sneed


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Why I Think That Carl Sandburg Never Visited Wyoming

In the biography section in the Book Room at Meals on Wheels Cheyenne there is a biography of Carl Sandburg the poet. I have not read the book yet I am sure that he never came to Wyoming. Sandburg wrote a poem called Buffalo Dusk.

"The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffalos are gone.
Those who saw the buffalos by thousands and how they
       pawed the prairie sod into dust with their hoofs,
       their great heads down pawing on in a great pageant
       of dusk,
Those who saw the buffalos are gone.
And the buffalos are gone."

With all due respect to Sandburg, one of the greatest of all poets, the buffalos are not gone. This photo was made on February 25, 2012 maybe three miles from the Meals on Wheels Mart in Cheyenne. There were at least a hundred buffalo, in this herd.

Poetry should not always be taken literally. I know what Sandburg meant.

David Sneed

Pardon Me For Asking

Here is a blog from New York City that is most interesting. What not think about a blog for your neighborhood? Can you think of why your Meals on Wheels Book Room is like the store in this photo and in the blog?

http://pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com/2012/02/smell-of-roasting-coffee-just-part-of.html

David Sneed

Access to Books

Books must be accessible.

At Meals on Wheels Cheyenne we have some interesting new shelf and table arrangements. Crockett did his magic with some shelves that were donated yesterday. Those shelves might not otherwise be sellable. We can get many more books in the same square footage and they are easier to access.

We have already done a quick run through and organized the books in a better way. There are some books with duplicate copies. We have put them together. Those titles are more visible and a buyer can choose which one to buy based on condition and type of binding.

There are a number of time management books in stock at present. We have placed them on a separate shelf above the dictionaries. Current leadership books are all in one place.

One goal is to have the nonfiction help books better organized for gardeners, home handymen, Bible students, job seekers, and those looking to start a business.

Fiction is still mostly all on the tables. Romance novels are in one place. When we get a number of books by a single author we often put them together on a shelf.

School room chairs are available for accessing lower shelves and for leisurely browsing.

There are some intangible features coming in the near future to accentuate book purchases.

David Sneed

Ernest Hemingway's boyhood home in Oak Park Illinois is for sale for $525,000. His family moved to the home in 1906 when he was 7. He spent some time there recuperating after World War I. The house is now a triplex.

Since the Meals on Wheels book room often has Hemingway books for sale it is good that we know something about him and to see that he lived in a house perhaps similar to what we might have.

David Sneed

Lots of Children's Books Are In

Plenty of children's books have come in from a defunct day care center. We have removed the ones that are torn and marked up. All books for sale are in good condition. Some of them are real oldies that are great stories. 

We also acquired a new shelf that helps to enclose the area a little more. 

David Sneed

Book Store Stories

When I was in high School and worked at McDonald's, back when the french fries and the hamburger patties were all fresh, back when it was a fast food restaurant with a 37 cent lunch, it was noticeable that people would always order the same items and quantities. I found it great fun and service to watch someone walk up to the window, say what they wanted, and I would hand it to them. Maybe the same thing is true with books though I am not at the Meals on Wheels Mart enough to know.

It is pleasing to see folks come in and get an arm load of books. Like anyone who has a big library and who loves books I know where every book is located. Wednesday is the first sale day of the week. I can come in late Wednesday afternoon and can tell which books went out. I can also tell which books did not go out. Over time I can tell which books never go out. Over time we are making sure that we put out the books that people do want. The answer is somewhat surprising and we do sell a diversity  of fiction and non-fiction.

David Sneed

I Wish I Was a Customer

I wish I was a customer. I'd be at the door at 10:00AM Wednesday. All kinds of good books have come in. And we did a lot of re-arranging.

Sometimes I think our customers do not have a sense of humor. I put all 43 books of humor on a separate table to see if they can go out.

Then we got in 23 V.C. Andrews books so we put them all together. I've never read his work but have seen plenty of his books. Or could it be "her?"

We kind of moved the history and biography books around. There are a lot of buyers of these type books.

Plenty of good book for starting a business.

The dictionaries sold well but more, of a specialized nature, have come in.

David Sneed
  

Special Donation Received

One donor has just given a large number of quality books, mostly non-fiction. There are a number of children's books included. There is history, business, self-help and religious. No textbooks.

These books will all be on the shelves when the store opens for the week on Wednesday February 15.

David Sneed

Book Store Cats

Independent bookstores are noted for having cats as mascots. The Meals on Wheels Cheyenne Book Room is no different. Next time you are in the store look up in the window and see our mascot. There is no name yet. Show your children and maybe they can associate a furry animal with books. They might become book lovers and not know why!

If you go to google and enter "bookstore cats" you will see plenty of photos and stories.

We do not have a copy but there is a book called "Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World." Dewey is from Spencer Iowa. See Dewey in the photo below.


Crockett gave us two really nice wooden tables for book display. The wooden tables, along with the carpet, and the "cat in the window" add some nice ambiance for book shoppers. The ambiance, the price of 50 cents for all books, and the knowledge that all of the proceeds go to make a difference for your friends, relatives, neighbors, and possibly you or me, now or at at some point, makes for real value in shopping for books at Meals on Wheels Cheyenne. To make the experience really complete we welcome your donations of books. If need be we will come with empty boxes and will pick them up. If you bring them and the store is open books can come in the front door.


David Sneed

A Plethora of Dictionaries

Yesterday a large number of dictionaries of all types came in, not just in English. We made a temporary section just for the new ones that came in and the ones we already had. I added a few other books that have a connection to dictionaries.

We also got in quite a few science fiction, healing and health of all kinds, cookbooks, classics, and culture. About a dozen coffee table type books were sent over to the boutique.

Everyone who comes in today is going to be quite pleased.

David Sneed