The trees are leafing out nicely. Instead of looking like broccoli spears, they're starting to look like trees again. Soon we'll have to start watering unless we get some early rain.
One of many interesting facts about the islands: Blond hair occurs in 10% of the population in the islands. This is the highest occurrence of blond hair outside of European influence in the world. After years of questions, studies have resulted in the better understanding of the blond gene. The findings show that the blond hair trait is due to an amino acid change of protein TYRP1. While 10% of Solomon Islanders display the blond phenotype, about 26% of the population carry the recessive trait for it as well.
Nice to know about withstanding all climates and that they're British Made.
Donations were flowing in all day. The addition of credit card capability has had an impact on sales. Instead of putting books on hold, we get the sale! When people don't have the cash and say they'll come back, they often don't. Now we're capturing those sales on the spot, a big return for the small fee the credit card companies charge. The store is on track to earn about $88,000.00 this year.
We had a pleasant afternoon at the Bottom Shelf yesterday. A woman came in and bought books she intends to send to the Solomon Islands, where her brother runs a seafood cannery. If you've donated books recently to the store, they might be on their way here:
One of many interesting facts about the islands: Blond hair occurs in 10% of the population in the islands. This is the highest occurrence of blond hair outside of European influence in the world. After years of questions, studies have resulted in the better understanding of the blond gene. The findings show that the blond hair trait is due to an amino acid change of protein TYRP1. While 10% of Solomon Islanders display the blond phenotype, about 26% of the population carry the recessive trait for it as well.
Here's how the blond gene is expressed:
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| School children - Solomon Islands |
We had among our customers, a teacher who refused her discount. "You charge so little I couldn't think of it." And a woman moving to Northwest Arkansas who came in to donate a box of books and left with a good-sized bag of purchases. For book lovers, it's difficult to get out of the store empty-handed.
Despite swearing we'll resist and leave the books in the store, I picked up two small but powerful books:
A customer brought this book, Merde, to our attention and thought we should take it off the shelf. I rescued it from la poubelle (the trash) and flipping through the pages discovered a bit of historical language antagonism. One of the many French words for condom is une capote anglaise, (note that it's a feminine noun), literally an English cape or coat. Funny, since we (our troops overseas in WWll) called them French letters. Why? Because they were distributed to the troops in France in small envelopes.
Has a great index:
Nice to know about withstanding all climates and that they're British Made.
Donations were flowing in all day. The addition of credit card capability has had an impact on sales. Instead of putting books on hold, we get the sale! When people don't have the cash and say they'll come back, they often don't. Now we're capturing those sales on the spot, a big return for the small fee the credit card companies charge. The store is on track to earn about $88,000.00 this year.
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