Sandy Lane is the Community Services Librarian and is a member of the Bookmobile department. She enjoys working in outreach, and wishes the ability to sing obscure song lyrics and TV theme songs was a marketable skill.
Come visit our hermit crabs during the Adventuremobile’s last week Aug1st-5th. Did You Know? 1. A hermit crab with a purple claw is strong enough to snap a pencil in half. 2. Hermit crabs have 5 pairs of legs. This means they have 10 legs! 3. There are 800 species of hermit crabs and 6000 species of [...]
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the Adventuremobile, of course! Did you know? The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. There are over 200 varieties of chickens. Alektrophobia is the fear of chickens. The chickens will only be visiting for a week (July 25th-29th), so don’t miss out!!
Visit the Adventuremobile July 18th-23rd to explore the world of Bugs! Did you know? There are more species of beetles than any other living thing on earth; including other bugs and even plants, 350,000 that we know of. If you took all the ants alive on the earth right now and all the people alive on [...]
Visit the Adventuremobile July 11th-15th to visit our very own mischief of fancy rats; Maggie, Minerva, & Mabel! Did you know? Rats bathe themselves, usually six times a day or more. Rats can be trained to do tricks. Rats have belly buttons. Don’t miss out, come see our fancy rats on the Adventuremobile Monday July 11th through Friday [...]
This week the Adventuremobile heads down on the farm with a pygmy goat! Come visit our pygmy goat on the adventuremobile July 5th-8th The pygmy goat is the diminutive (smaller) cousin of the standard domestic goat. They are fun, friendly and easy to keep. Females are called does or nannies, and males are bucks. Goats don’t have [...]
It’s kitten week on the Adventuremobile! Do you know how to say cat in another language? French; Chat German; Katze Spanish; Gato Italian; Gatto Japanese; Neko Arabic; Kitte The kittens will only be visiting for a week (June 27-July 1), so don’t miss out!
Hop on over to the Adventuremobile to see our sweet bunnies. Visit us on the Adventuremobile June 20th. Bunny Funnies… What do you get if you cross a rabbit with a bumblebee? –a Honey Bunny (haha) What kind of books do bunnies read? –Ones with hoppy endings! The bunnies will only be visiting for [...]
Join us this week on the Adventuremobile for Lucille Ball Python’s 15th Year! We’re kicking off snake week Monday June 13th with a 5 foot long, 10 pound snake, Lucille Ball Python. Did you know? Ball Pythons are sometimes referred to as the shame snake in Africa, because they’re so easy to catch . Don’t miss out. [...]
Join us this week on the Adventuremobile and meet our puppies! We’re kicking off puppy week on Monday June 6th with cute and cuddly puppies. Did you know? The first living creature to orbit the earth was a dog. Named Laika (which means “barker” in Russian), she blasted off aboard the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 2 [...]
Join us this summer on the Adventuremobile and see a new animal each week. We’re kicking off the summer on Tuesday May 31st with crawdads, those crazy crustaceans. You will learn why crawdads build chimneys, and what happens if they lose a claw. You’ll also get to try your hand at netting a crawdad. Remember [...]
