Amazing Grace by Yule This video was shot from our front sidewalk underneath an arbor which you can see at the top of your screen. Part of a 16-snowflake cascade can be seen to the right side, also framing this view. You are observing about two-thirds of our home and almost half of our 60,000 LED lights. You can see that the Meyers like to literally blanket their house and yard with glittering, twinkling LED lights that are choreographed to flashdance, shimmer, and flicker to the beat of holiday songs. If you would like to observe the efforts of the most famous, talented, and creative light choreographer in the world, Google: holdman christmas. Richard Holdman of Pleasant Grove, Utah has been a mentor, role model, idol, and inspiration to thousands of us "light geeks" since 2006. Richard really knows how to create a computer-controlled Christmas display that portrays a very beautiful, amazing, dazzling holiday wonderland. We have shamelessly copied/plagiarized his choice of holiday tunes, his leaping-light arches, snowflake cascade, mega-tree, and Bethlehem Star. You can learn a lot about producing light and sound shows from his website -- especially the section on "Projects and How Tos." Make sure you check out his very beautiful, classy video of his white, green, and red lights dancing to the rhythm of "Amazing Grace" -- the best, most popular/viewed Christmas Light Show in the world - an over-the-top spectacle. By comparison, Richard Holdman's High-Definition videos make ours seem amateurish, wacky, and tacky! Have a very merry Holiday Season!! Reach us again (kimbnebritelites) by Googling: kimball ne christmas. More videos to come!

Music Box Dancer by DJ Schwede This fourth video of our computerized musical light show depicts the South/right half of das Meyer Haus. Included in this musical lighting choreography are the following décor items: a seven-snowflake cascade, garlands around the picture-window and garage window frames and on the elevated-bed edge; blue icicle lights on the gutters, blue & blue/white snowflakes on the roof edge; two star-shaped "aerial fireworks;" eight stars in the garage window and two snowflake chains above the garage window. Four relatively static indoor Bethlehem stars and the white Christmas tree that are framed within the picture window are not an active part of the animated lighting display. Remember that the ONLY decorative lights we use are LEDs! -- because: they use 70-80% less energy than traditional, incandescent bulbs; they have a long-lasting 25,000 hour bulb life; their bulbs are cool to touch when lit; and they have durable decorative covers that are fade and break resistant. Even though LEDs are initially almost 3 times more expensive than traditional incandescent mini-lights, they will "pay for themselves" within two holiday seasons -- because of their ultra low power usage! Operating our 60,000 Christmas LEDs 5 hours a day from November 27th to January 3rd will cost the Meyers no more than 50 dollars. Another reason for the relatively low-power expense is that our light show display is animated -- with only about one-third of the LEDs being ON at any one time!! Have a fantastic Holiday Season! If you don't use your computer's memory (history or favorites/bookmark lists) you can easily join our YouTube Channel again by Googling: kimball ne christmas

Carol of the Bells by Monique Danielle This third holiday video is a "semi" close-up of the North/left half of our home. Included in this dazzling , overwhelming, kaleidoscopic "wall of animated lights and music" are the following display items: a Santa window cling; three LED-rope spiral trees; a large snowflake hexagon; a Light Storm Disk; a Trellis Light Tower; an Animotion Disk; a trio of small stars; garlands on the elevated-bed edge, on the porch railings, and around the front-door and window frames; two door wreaths; eave/gutter blue icicle/curtain lights, a blow-molded plastic Santa; and a vertical, 7-snowflake mini-cascade. Are there too many display items and/or lights in our videography?? Do you think the Meyers haven't learned the KISS "rule" (Keep It Simple, Stupid!!) of appropriate artistic composition? Yes, we have! -- but since we are obsessive-compulsive Clark Griswold "character types", we are not capable of applying the KISS guideline! By the way, in the plethora of lights you see in our celebratory videos, all (100%) are energy-saving LEDs! Thanks for watching our "too-much", extreme videos! You can visit our YouTube Channel again by Googling: kimball ne christmas

November 27 Bake Sale at Events Center

 For those of you who are staying in town, please visit the Holiday Extravaganza and the Library Board Bake Sale on Saturday.  The bake sale is sponsored by the Library Board, not the Friends of the Library.  However, the Friends are donating to the cause and the proceeds will go to the purchase of the New Microfilm Reader Printer.  The new machine will arrive in time to be a wonderful Christmas present for the library and the community.  Thank You in advance to all who are donating baked items and to all of you who buy the items.  And Saturday will be the last chance to buy raffle tickets on our four donated items with the drawing at 3:00 p.m.

Happy Thanksgiving

 Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.  It will be a quiet week at the Library because we will be closed Thursday through Sunday.  So, be sure to get in and get your books early and if you are traveling, be safe.  We have so much to be thankful for everyday.   I am thankful for this wonderful job as your library director and for the welcome I have received in this community.

Library Catalog Online

 Hurray!! Our library catalog is now available online.  You can search the holdings of the Kimball Public Library by going to this site:  http://204.77.174.200:9000/webopac/main?siteid=kplib.  Save it under your favorites and you won’t have to retype it each time.  Please keep in mind that we are still updating records to make them more complete and useful.  But this will tell you if we have the book and whether it is available or not.