This week at the library; Looking forward to holidays and end of the year

Programs

• Family Storytime (offsite at Rec center)
• Santa Storytime (offsite at Rec center)

Outreach

• Lakeland School

Self-directed programs

• Pokemon Hangout
• Minecraft Hangout

Notes

• Technically I am not looking forward as I do not really like holidays. Time off is nice, but the whole holiday thing... eh.
• We will be ending programs December 11. For the first time in several years I'm no longer responsible for organizing our participation in the Christmas parade, since my windows no longer look out over the parade grounds.
• We are continuing to work on our projects as well as plan for next year and get ready for the big changes in January. On the schedule (tentatively):
• Staff temporarily in the Teen Space move down to the new staff workroom.
• YA collections downstairs move to a new area, under discussion.
• Director moves into his new office downstairs, construction manager moves into director's old office, my staff and I move into a smaller workroom upstairs.
• Storytime resumes in January in the library and Pokemon/Minecraft Hangout and Paws to Read move into the Activity Room, resuming in February
• There's other stuff happening downstairs, but I'm just trying to focus on the many things in my own department. I am doing major plans for summer, which will, tentatively, be our "official" grand reopening.

See you all in 2026! I do plan to catch up on a lot of reviewing over the holidays, so check out my review blog, https://flyingoffmybookshelf.blogspot.com/

This week at the library; Settling in, November 4 - 22

Kids checking out the barn
and animals - first toys we put back

Programs

• Family Storytime (offsite at Rec center)
• Paws to Read

Outreach

• Lakeland School

Self-directed programs

• Pokemon Hangout
• Minecraft Hangout

Notes

• We had some Dav Pilkey-themed stuff for Children's Book Week, but since we had literally just moved everything and the area wasn't ready it wasn't as... organized as it might have been. However, people enjoyed it - we gave away posters, raffled off a prize box of books, and did a sticker poster of Dogman.
• I took about a week and a half off and I encouraged my staff to take some time off too. We all needed to recover from the stress of the last few months and the physical labor of the last few weeks.
• We are focusing on getting up new signage, sorting and organizing toys so we can start restocking our new play areas (we have 3 spaces now!), and organizing the huge mess of supplies and misc. crammed temporarily into various spaces. I'm also still in the midst of several weeding projects and am trying to do some research into alternate vendors.
• Most of the construction is downstairs now, but we are still waiting on some things to be finished upstairs, and there are a couple moves for youth services still coming in January, maybe.
• I am physically, emotionally, and mentally exhausted at this point. I will be slowly working on catching up on chores and getting back to having a life outside of work.

This month in the collection: October

Although it was a busy/crazy month and my ordering is winding down, we did still add a little over 100 items to the youth collection this month.

Library Pinterest - new materials
Unless otherwise noted, all items were purchased for or added to the library collection

Board Books

• Where's the elephant? by Ingela Arrhenius
• Primeros Amigos: Los Colores by MK Smith Despres
• What sound does that letter make? by Javoris Hollingsworth
• Let's find Yaya and Boo on the go by Andrew Knapp

Picture Books

• Hello dog: A guide for humans by Sarah Levine
• Turkeys in disguise by Cynthia Platt
• Zip zap wickety wack : a story about sharing by Matthew Diffee
• Buffalo Fluffalo series by Bess Kalb
• Hank meets Frank by Maudie Powell-Tuck
• I truck : a big rig's epic trip by Kelly Rice-Schmidt
• How the forest feels : sensory play nature's way by Wendi Silvano
• Dude. Be nice. by Sarah Scheerger
• It's taco knight! by Megan Maynor

Beginning Chapter Books (new series)

• Marguerite Henry's Misty Inn
• Mermaid Academy by Julie Sykes
• Superpower puppies by Corey Powell

Juvenile Fiction

• Fetch by Maria Alfano
• Maker Girl and Professor Smarts by Jasmine Florentine
• Fairy tale fixers by Deborah Underwood

Juvenile Nonfiction

• Vanishing of Lake Peigneur by Allan Wolf (graphic novel)
• Dragons : meet the legendary monsters of mythology by Caitlin Stevenson
• Deadliest Sea Creature by Eleanor Spicer Rice
• Dead ends by Lindsey Fitzharris
• Invisible : the (sort of) true story of me and my hidden disease by David Soren

Young Teen

• The Academy by Layton (additional copies)
• Love Lucas by Sedgewick (requested by a middle school student)
• War Games and Refugee the graphic novel by Alan Gratz

Young Adult

• Sisters in the wind by Angeline Boulley (hold request)
• Fake skating by Lynn Painter
• Fearful by Lauren Roberts

from Hello Dog! by Sarah Levine

This week at the library; The big move, October 20 - November 1st

Old children's area, slowly being emptied.

 Meetings, Hosted events, etc.

• Managers' meetings
• Wisconsin Library Association Conference

Notes

• Moving week! We had a moving company to do the actual moving of shelves (based on my much-measured and detailed plans), the help of our public works department to move other furniture, and staff to put all the books back on the shelves (we packed them on the moving company's carts on Friday the 17th). Then our teen volunteers would help move all the misc. toys, office stuff, and supplies at the end of the week.
• Of course, there were hitches in the plan. The construction wasn't quite done - the bathrooms weren't ready, lighting still needed to be installed, and there was still duct work in the ceiling going on. The construction company worked super hard to get everything finished enough so we could move though, and got all their equipment packed away. Initially we were supposed to be completely closed the week of the 27th and then partially closed the following two weeks, which would have let us settle in, but that didn't happen. It was also the decision of our Board that we should remain open during the move, which was a little tricky, as all of the youth services materials, plus all of the furniture stored in the youth spaces, had to be moved through the main walkways of the library during open hours. Then the schedule changed and we needed to clean out both the technical services and circulation/youth workrooms by the end of the week as well. However, we got it all done and the stacks and play areas look very nice, if a little bare.
• The next week, our new space opened to the public on Monday the 27th. We had that day to settle into the new space, then Tuesday to get our school colleague started on offsite storytimes. After much discussion, we agreed our two main storytimes, Family Storytime on Tuesday/Thursday, are going to be hosted at the local rec center through the end of the season. The new program spaces are partially full of furniture, the bathrooms and lighting aren't done, and the spaces need a lot of work before they are safe for small kids, let alone inviting, and we also need time to figure out how to set up storytime. We decided it was better to be consistent than move back and forth.
• Wednesday, the entire management team plus my full-time associate left to attend - and present - at WLA, our state library association conference. The library was left in the hands of three part-time associates and our circ assistants, we wished them luck, and took off. (This is not as bad as it sounds - the conference was only about an hour away and our director was not presenting so could pop back if needed in an emergency.)
• These are the two sessions I co-presented
• Better than Normal: Assessing and adapting to changing program needs in youth services
• Building and Maintaining Unique Collections: A collaboration between Youth and Technical services
• As you may guess, I am absolutely DONE. I am going to take some time off in November - I have bulbs to plant now that we're finally getting frost - and we are going to take our time and think ahead as we set up the new area and settle in - until the next move in January.

Facebook video tour of our new youth department

This week at the library; Getting ready to move, October 6 - 18

Families packed into the old teen
area for storytime crafts.

Programs

• Family Storytime
• Words and Wiggles storytime
• Paws to Read

Self-Directed Activities

• Pokemon Hangout
• Minecraft Hangout
• Read and Grow
• Ghost scavenger hunt (run by circulation)

Outreach

• Lakeland School visit

Meetings, Hosted events, etc.

• Managers' meeting

Notes

• I had a couple weeks to finish up the plans for moving. No matter how much work I did in September (and prior) constant changes, things I forgot, updates, and keeping everyone in the loop meant I had to keep redoing things. I did get the juvenile fiction collection weeded (barely) in time and also finished (i.e. I have no more time so they are done) the two sessions I am co-presenting at our state conference. We also needed to cover a couple storytimes, because our school collaborator was called in for other duties. The week of October 13th we started packing things up, and the move officially began on Friday the 17th, when we were closed for our annual staff work day.
• On the 17th, with the help of staff from other departments, we got all the books loaded onto the carts from the moving company and all the toys etc. moved out of the way.
• Of course, I was scheduled to work the following Saturday, because that's just how things are now. And we are dealing with the collapse of Baker & Taylor. I called it months ago, so no surprise for me and I cancelled all my backorders last summer.

This week at the library: Getting ready to move, September 8 - October 4

First storytime in temporary location

Programs

• Paws to Read
• Family Storytime with Ms. Andrea
• Family Storytime with Miss Esther
• Wiggles and Words storytime with Ms. Andrea

Outreach

• Lakeland School visits

Self-Directed Activities

• Read and Grow
• Construction scavenger hunt
• Pokemon Hangout
• Minecraft Hangout

Meetings, Hosted events, etc.

• Managers' meetings

Notes

• I measured, measured, and planned over and over again. Constant new information, constant updates! I hadn't planned to actually shift any shelves until the beginning of October, but it turned out that I needed to start earlier to make sure my moving plan was accurate.
• I labeled all the picture book shelf ranges with their proper location. My first go-through they all came out even... until I got closer to the end. Redid it. Redid it again. Finally came out right! Hopefully. Sadly, not every neighborhood fit perfectly to a full shelf, but at least there should be no divided ranges.
• Next project was getting the two long shelves - Young Teen, juvenile AV, and JPOP (popular series and characters) arranged. Soooo much shifting and moving of shelves, but on September 10 it was finished! We will NEVER HAVE TO MOVE THOSE SHELVES AGAIN. I mean, they have to be moved upstairs, but that's what we have a moving company for. We are all a bit bruised, possibly slightly bloody, and sore, but the slotted shelves are in place!
• Really exciting news is that my colleague figured out the source of the slotted shelves and, even more importantly, the dividers! No longer will I have to do elaborate mental calculations to match up the shelves with the collections. This is a HUGE relief.
• I FINALLY FINISHED THE LAYOUTS. Stayed late on Friday the 12th to finish, but it's DONE! 

One of the simpler layouts

My projects for the next couple weeks were shifting and relabeling projects - I got the holiday picture books reintegrated into the neighborhoods and went back to working on juvenile fiction - the details of getting ready to move, presentations for the upcoming conference, figuring out the temporary locations for storytime, dealing with rapid changes in the plans, remaking the plans, and of course the "normal" library work.

Paws to Read - temporary location in the lobby

This month in the collection: September 2025

I don't even know what month it is. I am very tired, it's getting near the end of the year, and Baker & Taylor appears to be going bankrupt. However, routine is good for a person, I suppose. I will probably skip this feature for October, since that month is going to be even more... more-ish than this month and I don't order in December.

Library Pinterest - new materials
Unless otherwise noted, all items were purchased for or added to the library collection

Board Books

• Peekaboo Dinosaur by Camilla Reid
• This little puppy by Ingela Arrhenius
• Very Hungry Caterpillar's first signs
• Dinosaur's wobbly bottom by Kit Frost
• Hoot Hoot by Georgette
• To the other side with mommy by Esther van den Berg

Picture Books

• Escape artist by Thor Hanson
• Waiting for winter by Stephen Gorman
• Trouble with giraffes by Lisa Mantchev
• Ahhh, milk! The many ways milk is made by Abbe Starr (2 copies)
• Billy Twitters and his blue whale problem by Mac Barnett (replacement)
• Picopaco by Mocculere

Early Readers and Transitional Chapters

• Dino Poet by Tom Angleberger
• I like hoops by Juwanda Ford
• Grow, strawberries, grow by James Burks
• Badge quest by Guy Kopsombut

Beginning Chapter Books (new series)

• Branches: Sports Zone by Andrew Maraniss
• Decide & Survive

Juvenile Fiction

• Heartwood Hotel: Family Forever by Kallie George
• Bones and Berserkers by Nathan Hale
• Village beyond the mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba
• Lost on doll island by Cassandra Ramos-Gomez

Juvenile Nonfiction

• Archives of the unexplained: Area 51
• Haunted U.S.A. : spine-tingling stories from all 50 states by Heather Alexander
• Fantastic Flora by Ann Staats
• They battled in blizzards by Deborah Hopkinson
• Did you hear what happened in Salem? by Katie Kennedy

Young Teen

• Nansi by Carl Brundtland
• Blood in the water by Tiffany Jackson
• Steps by Wendelin Van Draanen

Young Adult

• If looks could kill by Julie Berry
• Falling like leaves by Misty Wilson
• Mismatched by Anne Camlin

Picture Book Neighborhoods: Fish

 This is a small - and relatively new - neighborhood. Originally, I had a section in the animal neighborhoods called "Oceans" but I also had some ocean books in Nature. It was getting confused between the two, so I reworked the sections so the one in the Animals was labeled "Fish" and included all non-mammal underwater creatures while more general ocean habitats were included in the habitats (577) section in Nature/Earth. Most of these are shark books, of course, including several series nonfiction sets of different sharks. There's a definite shortage of freshwater fish books, something I get requests for on and off, but for now the kids will have to be satisfied with fishing books (Nature/Fun or juvenile nonfiction). Other than the shark books, I try to keep the fiction realistic, more or less.

Must-Have Nonfiction and Fiction

• Poor little guy by Elanna Allen
• One day at the bottom of the deep blue sea by Daniel Bernstrom
• Parrotfish has a superpower by Jill Esbaum
• Jonathan Fenske
• Barnacle is bored
• Plankton is pushy
• Giant Squid by Candace Fleming
• Escape artist by Thor Hanson
• Nudi Gill : poison powerhouse of the sea by Bonnie Kelso
• Good eating: The short life of krill by Matt Lilley
• Is this a house for hermit crab? by Megan McDonald
• Who's afraid of the light? by Anna McGregor
• Speck by Margaux Meganck
• Trout, Trout, Trout by April Pulley Sayre
• I'm the biggest thing in the ocean by Kevin Sherry
• Cathryn and John Sill
• About fish
• About crustaceans
• About mollusks
• The den that octopus built by Randi Sonenshine
• Melissa Stewart
• Seashells: More than a home
• A place for fish
• Susan Stockdale
• Fabulous fishes
• Don't eat the cleaners!

Fiction and Nonfiction about Sharks

• Everything you know about sharks is wrong by Nick Crumpton
• Ame Dyckman
• Misunderstood Shark
• Misunderstood Shark: Friends don't eat friends
• I am the shark by Joan Holub
• Mako and Tiger : two not-so-friendly sharks by Scott Rothman
• I'm a shark by Bob Shea

Other titles in this neighborhood I have reviewed in the past

• In the Sea by David Elliott
• Flash the fish by Paul Kor
• Octopus escapes by Maile Meloy
• Behold the Octopus! by Suzanne Slade
• The big book of the blue by Yuval Zommer

This month in the collection: August 2025

I was busy this month with end of summer/fall planning/renovations, but I also dealt with a lot of collection/ordering issues. I'm doing major weeding/relabeling projects and also dealing with continued issues with our main vendor, Baker & Taylor. Like many folks, we are struggling with unfilled orders. One of the main things I depend on B&T for is prebind copies and in the past I've really appreciated the option to request paperbacks be prebound. However, the shipping issues are interfering with things - some items I ordered last January were still unavailable. On top of that, we just found out that our rep is no longer with the company and our entire state is now, apparently, without a customer service rep.

  This does not bode well.

While I'd prefer not to order from Amazon, if they have the materials available and it's the same or less in cost, I'll do what I have to do to get the books for my patrons and use our funds wisely. I cancelled an extensive number of orders and I will reorder prebinds in January, when, hopefully, things will be improved.

 [Instant update - looks like B&T has been sold to ReaderLink. We'll see what happens. This is not a good time to investigate or change vendors, but if necessary we'll revisit this next year.]

However, issues aside, there are still books!

Library Pinterest - new materials
Unless otherwise noted, all items were purchased for or added to the library collection

Board Books

• Baby Pterosaur by Julie Abery
• Digging for dinosaurs at the beach by June Smalls

Picture Books

• Itsy Bitsy Spider by Jane Cabrera
• Who's making all that noise? by Darrin Lunde
• Snow Kid by Jessie Sima
• Recess by Lane Smith
• We want leaves! A fall chant by Jamie Swenson

Early Readers and Transitional Chapters

• Fairy Fashion Show by Bea Jackson
• Smoosh's super-duper fun day by Michael Slack
• Avery and the fairy circle by Rowan Kingsbury

Beginning Chapter Books (new series)

• Muk 'n' Honey: Treehouse trouble by Brett Bean
• Love Puppies by JaNay Brown-Wood
• Llama Quest by Megan Reyes
• Amina Banana by Shifa Safadi
• Game Quest by Ash Wu
• Featuring... Simone Biles by Erin Falligant
• Flat Stanley: graphic novel

Juvenile Fiction

• Weird, sad, and silent by Alison McGhee
• Paw and Order by Jason Platt

Juvenile Nonfiction

• Cupcake class by Joy Howard
• Survival in space : the Apollo 13 mission by David Long

Young Teen

• Space Case the graphic novel by Stuart Gibbs
• Emma & Capucine by Jérôme Hamon

Manga (new series)

• Cat + Crazy
• Soara and the house of monsters
• Victoria of many faces (light novel)
Yaiba : Samurai Legend

Young Adult

Money for adulting : fun tips and financial tricks for teens by Michelle Hung
• The assassin's guide to babysitting by Natalie Parker

This week at the library; Transition weeks: August 25 - September 5

Upper floor ready for renovations!
We anticipate moving the youth department in
mid-late October.

Programs

• Teen Advisory Board

Self-Directed Activities

• Read and Grow
• Construction scavenger hunt
• Series/favorites survey

Meetings, Hosted events, etc.

• Managers' meetings

Notes

• The last week of August is always an odd week, especially so this year. Our county fair is in progress, teachers are in in-service, and everyone's getting ready for back to school. After our move last Saturday, staff worked on getting the carts of nonfiction in order for their transition. I and my staff took turns being off for most of the week for appointments, vacation, or cows. Those who were off for cows reported to me that the cows did very well indeed!
• The first week of September is also the first week of school. I usually don't start programs this week because everyone is busy, but even more so this year as the second half of shifting the adult nonfiction was in progress with the upper level of the library being closed down. I'm glad we got everything stored in the basement last week, as the construction company started right away on Tuesday with ripping out carpet, so everything down there is officially unavailable! I had reports to write and projects to finish up, including lots of collection development projects and some final measuring upstairs, but all the staff spent lots of time helping with the moving. With the help of volunteers, all the adult nonfiction was shifted by the end of Wednesday (and I got two easy 10,000 step days in a row lol)
• We also got the teen area set up for storytime next week - we'll see how it goes!

Current state of the TBR pile

  These last few weeks/months have been pretty exhausting as we go through the grant process and get ready for renovations at the library. It's really happening now and I'm measuring things in my sleep, trying to prepare every detail for moving the entire youth services department upstairs.
  It's also been hot. I do not handle heat well. Swarms of mosquitos have made the outdoors even less appealing, even when I want to go out and work in my garden.

  So you'd think I'd be caught up on my reviewing work, but au contraire. Usually by the time I get home, I just want to read some manga and go to bed! I've been trying to get caught up on a wide variety of things - this weekend was refilling the freezer with soup and other prepped meals - but sometimes I just make lists and stare at them. So here, have some lists.

Review copies waiting to be read

• Agatha Case Files: Welcome to Kittyville
• Ballet Besties: Indu's time to shine; Yara's chance to dance
• Bunny Ballet
• Candace, the universe, and everything (unsolicited)
• Dark times of Nimble Nottingham (unsolicited)
• Space Science Handbook: 32 Celestial Science Projects for Kids
• Marvellous Mammals: A Wild A to Z of Southeast Asia (egalley)
• barking puppy (egalley)

Review copies read and waiting to be reviewed

• Doomsday detectives
• Curiosity chronicles
• Barker's doghouse: Fetch
• Maker Girl and Professor Smarts
• Hank meets Frank
• This book is too quiet
• Go Go Dodo
• Emmie builds something new
• Ducky the spy
• Grandmother moon
• Trouble with giraffes
• Sometimes you find a dragon
• How the forest feels

I'm not really counting library books, but I have a total of 90 items checked out.

• 37 chapter books, graphic novels, and easy readers
• Giant Rays of Hope - read and to be reviewed
• 22 picture books
• Escape Artist and Waiting for Winter - read and to be reviewed
• Everything else is manga and nonfiction, with a couple random titles.

Hopefully this will get me invested in catching up on some of this work... or not... for now, back to making soup.

Picture book neighborhoods: Dinosaurs

For most of my animal neighborhoods, I try to keep the fiction more or less realistic. Dinosaurs are one of the exceptions to that, as I put pretty much any fiction featuring dinosaurs into this section. Nonfiction dinosaur books are easier at this level, as they don't change as rapidly as the more complex juvenile titles, so they can be kept for a longer period of time. I do have some series nonfiction that's about ten years old, although it tends to physically wear out at that point anyways. I also include mammoths and other prehistoric animals in this collection.

Nonfiction and Fiction Authors

• Kate McMullan
• Ruth Owen
• Annette Bay Pimentel
• Mo Willems

Highlighted titles, Fiction and Nonfiction

• Stomp, soar, dino roar by Max Amato
• We are the dinosaurs by Laurie Berkner
• Titanosaur by Carballido
• Everything you know about dinosaurs is wrong by Dr. Nick Crumpton
• How dinosaurs went extinct by Ame Dyckman
• Penny & Pip by Candace Fleming
• Dig Dig Dinosaur by Professor Anjali Goswami
• Stegothesaurus by Bridget Heos
• Benny the bananasaurus rex by Sarabeth Holden
• Pterodactyl show and tell by Thad Krasnesky
• Dinos Driving by Lynn Leitch
• Here we go digging for dinosaur bones by Susan Lendroth
• Exploring dinosaurs by Jill McDonald
• One-osaurus, Two-osaurus by Kim Norman
• Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Edna, the very first chicken by Douglas Rees
• Dinosaurs are not extinct: Real facts about real dinosaurs by Drew Sheneman
• Kitties on dinosaurs by Michael Slack
• When dinosaurs walked the earth by Sean Taylor

Other titles in this neighborhood I have reviewed in the past

• I am allosaurus by Timothy J. Bradley
• Dinosaur series by Aaron Carr
• T. Rex time machine : dinos in de-Nile by Jared Chapman
• Gigantosaurus by Jonny Duddle
• Tiny Dino by Deborah Freedman
• The truth about dinosaurs by Guido van Genechten
• What kind of car does a T-Rex drive? by Mark Lee
• The dinosaur expert by Margaret McNamara
• Dinosaur Feathers by Dennis Nolan
• How to be a T. Rex by Ryan North
• If I had a raptor by George O'Connor
• Dino by Diego Vaisberg
• Eggasaurus by Jennifer Wagh

Prehistoric animals, fossils, and related titles

• Alaska dinosaurs, mammoths, and more by Kirk Johnson
• The bone wars by Jane Kurtz
• Megalodon by Janet Riehecky
• Out of the blue: How animals evolved from prehistoric seas by Elizabeth Shreeve
• Mega-predators of the past by Melissa Stewart

Reading Survey

 I've been doing a survey of reading series the past couple weeks - I wanted to see what beginning chapter series and media tie-ins the kids were interested in and I also just wanted to give out shiny stickers. So far I've collected about 50 surveys. The data is a little skewed because the surveys themselves are not exhaustive and also the kids who want sparkly/cute stickers may skew a little towards certain books, but this is what I've got so far.

Survey on Canva

Collected data

Of the possible chapter book series I listed, the most popular is the Who Was series with 11 choices, followed by Owl Diaries with 9 and Press Start with 8.

I listed a lot of genres to choose from, but I'm doubtful about whether most of the kids really understood what all the genres were. Only one chose biography, but 11 also chose Who Was which is a series of biographies lol. The most popular genre was mystery at 22, followed by adventure and animals both at 21, fantasy at 17 and funny at 15.

Of the media tie-ins, or fan fiction favorites, Disney came out on top with 16 and Pokemon at 13 (Pokemon manga was at 6). I divided both Minecraft and Lego into fiction and how-to, so those numbers are a little skewed. Minecraft fiction was at 11 and how to at 12. Scooby-doo came in at 10, which was a surprise - I guess I'll have to look for some more Scooby-Doo books.

The series written in included several each for Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, with a wide range of other series. I had a request for D&D manga, which, other than Delicious in Dungeon I can't think of anything in existence. Ever After High and Monster High, both of which I think are out of print? LPS - no idea what that is, other than Little Pet Shop? "Monsters" which is not at alll vague, and Rainbow High which I think is a show, but there's only one book I can find from last year.

My main take-away is that kids aren't really interested in realistic fiction or school stories at a beginning chapter level which is ironic, considering that's the theme of most of the new series coming out. Animals and mystery are easy requests to fill, but adventure is really too vague. Mostly younger kids filled this out, but that age bracket isn't particularly into Star Wars or Superheroes, which I had suspected based on circulation, so I can continue to focus on other properties.