"Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Picket & the Cryptkickers This seventh Halloween video was "shot" from our front sidewalk using our chase-lighted arbor as a spatial frame. Please remember that ALL the minilights and spotlights that are used in our 2011 Halloween musical Light Show are LEDs (light-emitting diodes). Besides being very durable and break resistant, they cost only a fraction (one-fifth) to run compared to old-fashioned incandescent lighting. The low power usage of our 15,000 Halloween LEDs means that our three-week evening light show will raise our electrical bill by less than 12 dollars! This is a pittance compared to what we will spend to please the "guests" that come to our front porch the evening of October 31! Last year, we "entertained 500+ trick-or-treaters -- ooh, ouch, the cost of popularity or notoriety!! To get on our YouTube Channel again you can Google: kimball ne meyers halloween

"Bad Moon Rising" by CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival) Unlike our last video (#5 -- Addams Family Theme) which was "shot" before sunset, this video was done at dusk -- about 10 minutes after sunset. Videography under these twilight conditions enables the LED lights to "stand out" more with greater contrast from a less detailed environment or background. What's your preference -- presunset? Or postsunset? Thanx very much for watching. Still more Halloween videos to come! Visit our YouTube Channel (kimbnebritelites) again by Googling: kimball ne meyers halloween

The Addams Family Theme Song by Vic Mizzy This very brief video (45 seconds duration) shows our home frontage as viewed from the west. It especially emphasizes our eleven "Rooftop Singers." There are more Halloween videos yet to come! Stay Tuned! Remember you can visit us again by simply Googling: kimball ne meyers halloween Thank you very much for watching our ghastly/ghostly videography!!

Theme Music for the movie "Halloween" by Tyler Bates. This audiovisual presentation was done with drive-by videography and was panned from the back of a moving pickup to give a "panoramic" viewpoint of a portion of our 2011 Halloween Musical Light Show. This video shows most of our 36 "monstrous," mainly home-made "scare crows" that primarily border our front yard (graveyard) and water feature. Some of the commercial "monsters" are animatronic and respond in various ways to external sound and motion stimuli. Our cemetery features 26 spotlighted headstones fronted with scattered faux bones, skeletons, skulls, "ground breakers" & "critters". As you will observe in most of our videos, the primary "stars" and crowd favorites of our Halloween Musical Light Show are the eleven "Roof-Top Singers" that vocalize/lip sync to the lyrics of "Halloweenish" songs. It was a lot of challenging fun—play, NOT work—involved in creating this season's spooky light show. In reality, what you observe is the beneficial result of many years of Halloween decorating and "obsessive-compulsive" collecting or fabrication of numerous props that help us celebrate the Harvest season and, especially, October 31. Please visit our YouTube Channel again by simply Googling: kimball ne meyers halloween

2011 Kimball demolition derby main

2011 Kimball Farmer's Day Demolition Derby

Farmer's Day Pancake Breakfast at the Eagles on Saturday

Farmer’s Day Events at the Library

 This Saturday is the Friends of the Library annual book sale.  The door will be opened after the parade and go until 3:00 p.m.   The Cultural Room will have at least 4 woodcrafters showing their wares.  Be sure to stop in and see the wonderful items and visit with them.  A few members of the ??? Photography club will also be exhibiting their framed photographs.  That will be fun to see also.  There are many talented photographers in the area.

New books and audios last week at the library

 New CD audiobooks added this week are:  “Smash Cut” by Sandra Brown;  “On the Grind” by Stephen J. Cannell;  “Silent Mercy” by Linda Fairstein;  “The Beach House” by Jan Green;  “The King’s Speech” by Mark Logue;  “The Fire” by Katherine Neville;  “Don’t Blink” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan;  “Gideon’s Sward” by Douglas Preston;  “The Informationist” by Taylor Stevens; and a few more audiobooks from the past. 

            New adult fiction:  “The Ideal Man” by Julie Garwood;  “Victory and Honor” by W. E. B. Griffin;  “A Gathering of Finches” by Jane Kirkpatrick;  “Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Dominion” by Eric Van Lustbader;  “A Bond Never Broken” by Judith Miller;  “Merciless” by Diana Palmer;  “Acceptable Loss” by Anne Perry and “Flash and Bones” by Kathy Reichs.

Children’s Storytime at the library

 Leta will be presenting story time programs for children Ages 3-5.  The programs will be held at 10:30 on Wednesday mornings beginning Oct. 5 with a theme of “Bugs”.  October is also a time to honor Firemen, so on the 12th that will be the theme.  Oct. 19th will be Teddy Bears and October 26th will be Halloween.

Please indicate interest by signing the children up at the library.  This will help us prepare enough time and materials for the children who come.  Thanks.