It Was A Beetles and Books Day

As we stepped out the door to go to the reading club, we were engulfed in Japanese Beetles! They were everywhere! The covered the screen door, the porch, were flying all over us and in our hair. We got to the truck and our white Dodge was covered. When we opened the door, those pests fly into truck. So we drove the few minutes it takes us to get the to the library with Maddy, one of her shoes in hand, killing them off her window and Kenna screaming every time one would land on her. Those things bite, you know! I was still pulling beetles out of my hair as we walked up to the library door. This is the first time we've had a problem with them in the fall. They usually fill up our backyard Linden trees in the spring.

At 500 Page Club today we, of course, read books about Halloween. Then had a scavenger hunt in the library. The kids hunted for plastic spiders, bats, skeletons, and centipede. Not only did they collect candy for their efforts, they also received a silly straw and got to pick a book out of Miss. Cheryl's "pumpkin patch".