Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Where is the time going... my theme for the blog :)

Well, I did it. I took down my Halloween Decorations on the weekend.  They looked a little sad poking out of the snow on Wednesday November 19.  They looked even worse after the snow melted on Saturday November 22 during the torrential rain storm.  The decorations had their last hurrah on Sunday morning. They all came down on Sunday afternoon.  Unfortunately most of my decorations will not be returning for another Halloween.

I just checked the date when the library books are due back... December 16.... Can you believe it.... About 3 weeks from now it will almost be Christmas!   Have you started your Christmas Shopping? You know what.... I have! Really... I have started my Christmas shopping! Me, who just took down my Halloween decorations! I am so impressed with myself. :) 

I am thinking since I am so far ahead that I may make some Christmas gifts or decorations to give away or keep for myself.

We have a lot of great Christmas Craft Books and even Christmas Cookbooks at the Lincoln Public Library. Why not bake or make something for that special someone instead of buying them a gift from the Dollar Store. I am sure your Aunt or Grandad would love it!

Here are a few suggestions that may make your Christmas a little easier!















                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

                                                            

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Do you need community service hours?


I am still taking volunteers for the Seniors Computer Training.  If you are thinking about it, you may want to see a few YouTube Clips on Cyber- Seniors http://cyberseniorsdocumentary.com/ Once you seen the clips and still want to help out ,call Margaret at 905-563-7014 ext 210 for more information. This is a rewarding experience.

  




Last Friday, I went to the Child Youth Blow Out in Toronto. It was a blast. I was so lucky, Kelley Armstrong  was there and she  talked about how to write a book. She is great. If you not have read any of her books. I really recommend them. Here is a list of some of her series.

The Darkest Power
1. The summoning
2. The awakening
3. The reckoning

Darkness Rising
1. The gathering
2. The calling
3. The rising

 Age of Legends
1. Sea of shadows

 Also at the Child Youth Blow Out  some of the other libraries in Ontario were showing us what programs they are running. Stayed tuned  in the  few next weeks for our Winter Program Sessions.

Are there any programs that you would like to see happen for teens at the Lincoln Public Library?

For example:
  • Are you interested in New Age stuff like tarot cards?
  • Would you like a Chicken Soup for the Soul type program?
  • How about Steampunk?

Let me know what you would leave your house for to come to the library and participate in a program. You can call me at 905-563-7014 ext. 210 or email  daley@lincoln.library.on.ca  I am looking forward to hearing from you. 



The Christmas Season is coming fast. Some people already have their tree up and Christmas lights on. I still have my scarecrows and Halloween stuff outside my house. I am so behind. I better take it down soon or it will look like the Nightmare before Christmas; I love that movie.  It's about  Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept. The director of the film is Henry Selick and the writer is Tim Burton (based on: a story and characters by), Michael McDowell (adaptation),  We have  the DVD at the library. So if you are 16 and over you can take out DVDs on you own card.




Well on that note. Have a great day everyone. Now I have that song in my head. This is Halloween, Halloween.

Here is some information on the song "This is Halloween" from the Disney Wiki
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/This_is_Halloween

This is Halloween" is a song by composer Danny Elfman from the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas. It is performed by the residents of the fictional "Halloween Town", which is the film's main setting. The song is featured in HalloWishes at both the Magic Kingdom and at Disneyland's Halloween Screams. In Calaway Park, it is featured in the haunted mansion. It is also used as the background music for the Halloween Town world in the Kingdom Hearts video game series, as well as the background music of the Disney INFINITY in the skydome of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The song is featured in the music video game Just Dance 3.

So if  you too want the song stuck in your head. Here are the lyrics.

Shadow:
Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?                       
Siamese Shadow:
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween
Pumpkin Patch Chorus:
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
Ghosts:
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween
Creature Under the Bed:
I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red
Creature Under the Stairs:
I am the one hiding under your stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair
Corpse Chorus:
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Vampires:
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
Mayor:
In this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise
Corpse Chorus:
Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll...
Harlequin Demon, Werewolf & Melting Man:
Scream! This is Halloween
Red 'n' black, slimy green
Werewolf:
Aren't you scared?
Witches:
Well, that's just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night
Hanging Tree:
Everybody scream, everybody scream
Hanged Skeleton Men:
In our town of Halloween!
Clown:
I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace
Invisible ghost:
I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your hair
Oogie Boogie Shadow:
I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright
Corpse Chorus:
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween!
Child Corpse Trio:
Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare
Parent Corpses:
That's our job, but we're not mean
In our town of Halloween
Corpse Chorus:
In this town
Mayor:
Don't we love it now?
Corpse Chorus:
Everyone's waiting for the next surprise
Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everyone scream
Won't ya please make way for a very special guy
Our man Jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now
Everyone:
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Child Corpse Trio:
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
Everyone:
La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween! [Repeat

 Blog ya later.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Remembrance Day 2014

 

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae, May 1915


In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
 
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
 
 
 
 
 

 




             We will never forget the horrors of War

DULCE ET DECORUM EST
by  Wilfred Owen



Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned out backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen
The Latin title of this poem means:
"Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country."
(From Horace, Odes, III. ii. 13)