Cabane à livres

📍 Thorigny-sur-Oreuse, France

https://www.bookcorners.org/library/thorigny-sur-oreuse-rue-du-tau-cabane-a-livres/

#BookCorners #FreeBooks #Books #StreetLibrary #Thorigny-sur-Oreuse #France #bookexchange #bookbox #woodenbox #miniaturehouse #outdoorlibrary #muralart #rusticdesign

Liberi libri

📍 Saint-Laurent-en-Gâtines, France

https://www.bookcorners.org/library/saint-laurent-en-gatines-avenue-du-11-novembre-liberi-libri/

#BookCorners #FreeBooks #Books #StreetLibrary #Saint-Laurent-en-Gâtines #France #bookexchange #bookbox #librarybox #woodenbox #glassdoor #outdoors

Out mowing the yard, I saw a guy go past, slow, turn his motorcycle around, come back. He stopped, asked if it was our bookbox by the sidewalk.

"Hope so, it's in our yard. Yes."

"I got a book out of there, and OMG, I couldn't put it down! It was 'Red Notice', by Bill Browder."

"I'm glad you enjoyed it. That's good."

I went inside, found a related book, "Red Mafia", brought it out and gave it to him.

It felt good, to know that some of our efforts are working, you know?

#bookbox

For the #bookbox out front, we have had a solar pathway light clamped to the edge of the roof, shining down at night.

So if someone was taking a walk in the evening, they could stop and browse.

I thought I should make a mount to hold the light and the panel. How about as antlers of some beast?

Got the Sawsall and lopped clunks off a stub of 4x4. Holes for the antlers. Eye on each side. Paint it black. White for eyes and teeth.

Uh-oh, it's dripping!

Well, that's grimmer than I intended...

Book Boxes

Possible agenda for today:

Get child beasts to school, vacuum foot crumbs out of cars, pay bill, assemble chicken leg book box, start new clover plugs for yard, pull Yes Prop 50 agitprop, fold laundry, splurge on morse code dit-dit toy, figure out if me bird-day cake should have binary candles where only some lit?

Launch!

#bookbox #morserino

Our kid built a book box for front of house.

Not a Little Free Library, because we not affiliated.

I was trying to keep my kid, whose idea it all was, from putting damn post into the front yard. So I suggested, nail box to old sawhorse.

Painted it, added tall ears and goofy eyes to box. "What is it? Ha! Book Donkey!"

Neighbors pass. Kid says, "This thing is so stupid!" Yes. Later, parent passes, says, "I am looking at this. It is magical!" Yes.

But time passes. Want to upgrade.

#bookbox