New audio books at the library

 Forty-eight new compact disc audio books were added to the collection.  A few of the titles are:

“Deja vu” by Fern Michaels; “Tick Tock” & “Toys” by James Patterson;  “Quicksilver” by Amanda Quick;  “Savor the Moment” &”Ever After” by Nora Roberts;  “44 Charles Street” by Danielle Steel;  “Luciano’s Luck” by Jack Higgins;  “Devious” by Lisa Jackson;  “White Satin” & “Eve” by Iris Johansen;  “The Broken Gun” by Louis L’Amour;  “Save Me” by Lisa Scottoline;  “Marrying Daisy Bellamy” by Susan Wiggs and many more.

There aren’t any new books ready to list this week, so will just remind you about all the other things the library provides.  The library has DVD’s, 30 or more different magazines, newspapers, games, computers, and a quiet cool place to come and relax.

Library software progress at the library

 The library staff and many volunteers are steadily working through the process of changing all the barcodes on the books to match the new software called Alexandria.  We are on the down hill side of all the fiction.  We plan to have the web address for home use available by the end of July.  Thanks everyone for your patience with this major change.  We will also be changing your patron barcodes over to the new software soon.

A big thank you to all the volunteers that have been helping the library staff with the re-barcoding project:  Shirley Kinnison, JoAnn Knapp, Sharon Randall, Dorothy Griffith, Lorri Norberg, Emma Simpson, Halley Simpson, Jordan McDowell, Kelli Spires, Carol Walker, Karen McGown, Rosa-Ellen Williams, Cheryl Heidemann and Virginia McConzille.  If I forgot anyone, I apologize.  We would not be very far along with the project without all of you.

New books for July at the library

 New fiction:  “The Delta Solution” by Patrick Robinson;  “Alice Bliss” by Laura Harrington;  “Born To Die” by Lisa Jackson;  “The Girl in the Green Raincoat” by Laura Lippman;  “Best Staged Plans” by Clair Cook;  “Pacific Glory” by P. T. Deutermann;  “The Lake of Dreams” by Kim Edwards;  “Final Justice at Adobe Wells” by Stephen Bly; “Watch Me Die” by Erica Spindler;  “Heat Wave” by Nancy Thayer;  “Smokin’ Seventeen” by Janet Evanovich;  Tigerlily’s Orchids” by Ruth Rendell;  “A Young Wife” by Pam Lewis;  “When Passions Rule” by Johanna Lindsey;  “Folly Beach” by Dorothea Benton Frank;  “One Summer” by David Baldacci;  “Breaking Silence” by Linda Castillo;  “The Kingdom” by Clive Cussler;  “From Barcelona, With Love” by Elizabeth Adler;  and “Summer Rental” by Mary Kay Andrews and “Trespasser” by Paul Doiron.

Mozart's "Magic Flute" Overture This Video Garden Tour of our street-side cottage gardens was "shot" using drive-by videography on a hazy, windy late morning. This video shows the majority of over three hundred different varieties/cultivars of trees, shrubs, flowers, ornamentals, vegetables and herbs that we have planted in our front yard, backyard, alley, street-side, and two rock gardens with water-features. Most of the 2, 000+ flowering annuals are in hundreds of different kinds and sizes of mobile planters/containers such as window boxes, hanging baskets, tubs and pots. We make our own soil-less potting mix using the following recipe: 1 moistened, crumbled-up 2.2 cubic foot bale of sphagnum peat moss; 2 gallons of perlite (or vermiculite); 2 gallons of very fine bark and 2 gallons of compost/humus. When thoroughly mixed together, this 75% peat moss mixture will yield over 27 gallons (or about 6 five-gallon bucketfuls) of pro-grade potting mix -- which we recycle from year to year. When we plant our home-grown seedlings in the various containers, we liberally sprinkle the top surface of the potting "soil" with Osmocote (14-14-14) slow-release plant food/fertilizer. Then on a weekly basis, we fertilize the containers with an aqueous solution (1 tablespoon per gallon) of a 15-30-15 water-soluble fertilizer. On every hot, windy day, we MUST water the hanging baskets and smaller containers. Those's are our primary secrets for a very floriferous paradise or "Garden of Eden." This may seem like a lot of "work" to you, but for us, it's playful fun, and therapeutic exercise. Plus! -- gardening keeps us out of gambling halls, saloons, and doctor's offices!! Thank you for watching our (46) videos. Visit our YouTube Channel again by simply googling: kimball ne meyers gardens

Mozart's Symphony #41 This video was panned from the back of our slowly moving pickup. This corner-lot, street side, cottage garden consists of about 20% annuals and 80% perennials and in this third week of July, is at its typical period of peak bloom or "flower power." The dominant perennials now include: Daylilies; Gloriosa Daisies; Roses; Delphinium; Russian Sage; Phlox; Asiatic Lilies; Echinacea; Veronica; Hosta; and Ornamental Grasses. Our annuals presently in bloom include: Petunias; Impatiens; Begonias; Foxglove; Geranium; Bidens; Zinnias; Alyssum; Lobelia; Lisianthus; Pansies; Marigolds; Fever Few; Cleome; Dwarf Purple Castor Beans; and Purple Fountain Grass. To easily get on our YouTube kimbnebritelites channel again you might Google: kimball ne meyers gardens Thanks for watching!

Cooper and Coby take the finish jump at the High Point Motor Speedway Motocross Track.

Summer Reading 2011 wrap-up

 This week will wrap up the 2011 summer reading program of “One World, Many Stories” for the children.  There were 34 children registered.   We want to thank everyone who registered and the presenters, Carol Walker for presenting the Australia program, Ada Welsh from the Theater Group, and Karen Beguin who presented the Egypt tour.  Thanks also to all the citizens who donated ice-cream buckets and oatmeal boxes.  The children made drums out of these items.  There were 13 Teens, and 12 Adults registered in their individual programs.  The wrap up events for the Adults will be on Monday, July 11, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. and for the teens will be on Tuesday, July 12, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Software change progress at the library

 The library staff and many volunteers are steadily working through the process of changing all the barcodes on the books to match the new software called Alexandria.  We completed all the adult fiction sections and began work on the Young Adult section.  As soon as summer reading is over, we will begin on the easy fiction sections and the youth fiction.  The non-fiction sections will be last and will be time consuming for the staff to enter into the computers.  We are gaining and plan to have the web address for home use available by the end of July.

New books in the last 2 weeks at the library

 New fiction:  “The Delta Solution” by Patrick Robinson;  “Alice Bliss” by Laura Harrington;  “Born To Die” by Lisa Jackson;  “The Girl in the Green Raincoat” by Laura Lippman;  “Best Staged Plans” by Clair Cook;  “Pacific Glory” by P. T. Deutermann;  “The Lake of Dreams” by Kim Edwards;  “Final Justice at Adobe Wells” by Stephen Bly; “Watch Me Die” by Erica Spindler;  “Heat Wave” by Nancy Thayer;  “Smokin’ Seventeen” by Janet Evanovich;  Tigerlily’s Orchids” by Ruth Rendell;  “Trespasser” by Paul Doiron;  “A Young Wife” by Pam Lewis;  “When Passions Rule” by Johanna Lindsey;  “Folly Beach” by Dorothea Benton Frank;  “One Summer” by David Baldacci;  “Breaking Silence” by Linda Castillo;  “The Kingdom” by Clive Cussler;  “From Barcelona, With Love” by Elizabeth Adler;  and “Summer Rental” by Mary Kay Andrews.  There are more coming soon.

DVDs Available at the library

 The Panhandle Library System is helping provide movies to the area libraries that would like to take advantage of this.  We are about to wrap up the second quarter of this program.  Some of the movies we have on hand are “Charlie “Wilson’s War”;  “Super Cross”; “Tender Mercies”; “He’s Just Not That Into You”;  “Baby Genius Favorite Nursery Rhymes”;  “Dora Explorer Super Babies”;  “The Wind in the Willows”;  “Artic Tale” and “The Happy Elf”.  To check them out you need a current library card, can check out 1 at a time and keep it for 3 days.