A Big Red Slobberdog, For Sure

The library's float in the 2018 Old Settlers Parade featured everybody's favorite big red slobberdog.  Not my first choice, as it should have been a famous feline (such as moi?), but I guess Garfield was busy.

I see Clifford had his Evergreen Indiana library card at the ready.  That's one smart slobberdog!  You can't checkout all our books, movies, audiobooks, playaways, music CDs, and other great stuff without one.  (Well, technically, you can, if you have a statewide PLAC [Public Library Access Card] or a blue Evergreen Indiana card, but that's hair-splitting details I'll let our circulation staff explain.)

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BizMeister said that Clifford's tail was designed to wag in the wind, but there wasn't much breeze on this really hot, humid day, so we didn't get a chance to see it.

Teen Titan came up with a brilliant idea to use library bookcarts to showcase reading (with cute slobberdog puns) while having a central serving location for sweet treats.  It's a long-standing tradition for parade participants to toss candy or other goodies to the crowd, and, in the past, the tossing was primarily done from the float or the vehicle towing it.  The bookcarts made it much easier for Teen Titan and Lady RaDA to get the goodies out to the youngster folks watching along the parade route.

Float design was once again orchestrated by the Decorinator and BizMeister, whose ingenuity matched all previous outstanding library parade floats (the library has a well-earned reputation for excellent float design and execution).

The library float design and construction team once again outdid themselves with a terrific display.  We're including two photos, in case anyone blinked.

I'm still a tad bit peeved that no felines were featured with our float.

Hold On!

Nice save, Teen Titan and Lady RaDA!

Although they weren't part of the library float, there were some really big dudes standing nearby.

Hey, horseys!  Don't forget the poo-bags.  Just saying.

Minions, run down and take some photos of the library float in the parade.  I'll just curl-up beneath a nicely shaded tree in front of Paul Hadley Middle School.

Don't forget to visit the library to get your paws on a book (or other items).  And don't miss the Old Settlers Festival at Pioneer Park in Mooresville (today through Tuesday).  That's August 5-6-7, 2018 for those without calendars.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

Happiness Is a Library Visit

The Decorinator and BizMeister have re-purposed the Peanuts® characters from the library's 2015 Old Settlers parade float.  Now Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown, Schroeder, Peppermint Patty, and Marcie welcome patrons to MPL by the main entrance (outside the Friends of the Library book sale room).

Great Photo Opp For Your Family 

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Happiness is indeed a visit to the library.  Drop by to get some.  Checkout some stuff.  Works for moi.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

Feline Grand Marshal?

At today's Old Settlers Parade, you may not have noticed that the Grand Marshal had a feline counterpart.

 Boss Lady as Grand Marshal

2015 Old Settlers Parade

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That's Moi riding shotgun

(in my pilot cap)

Boss Lady, as you may recall, was named 2014 Mooresvillian of the Year, and so was this year's Grand Marshal for the Old Settlers parade. Naturally, as the library's (retired) feline roving reporter, I was there to cover the festivities, but I also was unofficial feline grand marshal.  How cool is that? It's certainly an honor befitting my station, as I once mentioned in this blog post.  Of course, we should include another photo of moi as feline grand marshal.

Yep ... Pretty much

Scowl-Face took some photos of the library's parade float, which was fantastic.  Another great job, Decorinator, BizMeister, and team.  The float included characters from the Peanuts® comic strip, which was created and drawn by the late artist Charles M. Schulz. The float theme was an adaptation of Schulz's book, Happiness is a Warm Puppy (1962) (available to checkout from our Evergreen Indiana catalog). (Scowl-Face's mother gave him a copy of this book when he was a tiny dude.  He still has it.)

 MPL Banner

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 Check-out those nifty Charlie Brown shirts!

Isn't that OfficeMeister pulling the float?

 That's Snoopy & Woodstock on the slobberdog house

 Happiness is indeed a good book!

 Visit MPL to checkout some happiness

Watch out, kids collecting candy!  Floats coming through!

Another fine parade.  Now onto the Old Settlers Festival at Mooresville's Pioneer Park.




Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat