The Addams Family Theme Song by Vic Mizzy. This very short video (45 seconds duration) mainly emphasizes the left/north half of our home frontage, as viewed from the west. The videography especially spotlights Carol's vertical "Pumpkin Patch" and Don's "Rooftop Singers!" The rhythm/beat of this theme song is also highlighted by the Light Towers, The Halloween purple and orange trees, the gutter curtain lights, the porch garlands, and the Drumming Skeleton. In case you want to learn the lyrics to this sixties TV sitcom theme song, here they are: "They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, they're altogether ooky, The Addams Family. Their house is a museum, Where people come to see 'em, They really are a screa-um, The Addams Family. (Neat) (Sweet) (Petite) So get a witch's shawl on, A broomstick you can crawl on, We're gonna pay a call on, The Addams Family." Why do you suppose that many people in Kimball refer to us as the Addams Family? It must be because we live on Adams Street! Right!? We don't have any decidedly mysterious, creepy, spooky or macabre interests -- especially in hyper-celebrating Halloween!! Our next videos will be Adams Street panoramic views of our entire house and front yard with its waterfall, Leaping-Light Arbor, LED-illuminated fence, Eerie Graveyard and Tombstones, and a dozen large, ghastly critters. Remember you can visit us again by Googling: kimball ne halloween

Celebrations in October

 Wow! I can hardly believe it is October already. The months seem to fly by faster and faster every year, but it’s nice to see that our patrons still take time out of their busy schedules to curl up with a book or listen to one of our audio books.

                October has a lot of fun holidays and events including Columbus Day, which we will be closed for, and Halloween, which is another post all on its own! But a little known fact about October is that from the 17^th to the 23^rd it is Friends of the Library Week.

                The Kimball Friends of the Library do so much for our library that it’s nice to take a week just to honor them. Every year they raise money through book sales and donations. This year in particular they have used the money they raised to help pay for new large print books and a new shelf some of you might have noticed!

                So the staff of the library would like to give a big thank you to the Friends of the Library for everything they have done and will continue to do!

Tubular Bells -- Theme from "The Exorcist" by Mike Oldfield This video is a view primarily of the right/south half of our Halloween Light Display. Since the music is the instrumental soundtrack/theme of the Exorcist movie, we did not program our main "singers" for depicting this horror movie theme. As you might notice, we use most of our set pieces and display units to illustrate the repetitive beat, especially the Animotion Disk, the Drumming Skeleton, and the eave's purple, orange, and green curtain lights. You have also witnessed the easiest way to decorate your house for Halloween -- by using large window-poster transparencies or "window clings." On the front of our house, we have used two cat eyes, a very large vampire, a werewolf, and a haunted Jack-O-Lantern. Also, in some of the smaller windows we have placed some small LED set-piece "ornaments" that are regulated by independent fader controllers. In our next uploaded video, we will emphasize the left/north half of our house frontage. Please remember that we only use energy-saving LEDs for our "celebrations" of life!! Besides using your computer's history/bookmark aids, you can also visit us again by Googling: kimball ne halloween Thank you for waiting and watching!

Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr. This video shows the 10,000+ LED lights that we have on the central part of the front of the house and roof. If you look closely, you will notice a dozen "creepy critters" that appear to "sing" the lyrics of "Ghostbusters." The primary lead/main "singer" is the large, simple roof face on the upper left. Most of the faces, however, are just temporary, background, or chorus "singers." Most of the set pieces/LED panels such as the "singers," large Jack-O-Lanterns, "flying" bat, Animotion Disk, Light Towers, Tombstones, Drumming Skeleton are made from sheets of a fluted, corrugated plastic called polypropylene. We buy this Coroplast in 4 foot x 8 foot sheets from sign companies in the Cheyenne, Wyoming area. You can buy these for about $16 per sheet in various colors such as white, yellow, black, and red. We usually choose white, and if we want some other color, we first spray on a "primer"/base layer of Krylon Fusion spray paint, and after this durable coat dries we brush on one or two coats of exterior latex enamel (such as Valspar) of the final desired color. We leave the back/rear of the sheet white so we can sketch an easily visible design of our intended creation. Before we start reaming the design with various different-sized scratch awls (to make holes for plugging in the lights), we frame the edges of the Coroplast with a wood frame -- lath on the front edges and 1" x 2"s on the back. The frame is held together by using 1" panel nails (every 3 inches) with the plastic sheeting "sandwiched" in between the front and back wood frames. For a detailed "rest of the story," Google: belardolights.com where you will find an excellent "How To" procedure, by Randy Schimka, for using Coroplast to make dancing/singing set pieces! We will release another video as soon as we do some "tweaking" or reprogramming to correct some "errors" in the behavior of some of our "performers." You can visit our YouTube Channel again -- soon we hope -- by Googling: kimball ne halloween