FRANCIS THE TALKING MULE

        Today the Lund Library added the complete collection of Francis the Talking Mule movies on DVD!

 

 

"Francis" (a.k.a. "Francis the Talking Mule")  -  1950

 

"Francis Goes to the Races"  -  1951

 

"Francis Goes to West Point"  -  1952

 

"Francis Covers the Big Town"  -  1953

 

"Francis Joins the WACS"  -  1954

 

"Francis in the Navy"  -  1955

 

"Francis in the Haunted House"  -  1956

 

 

       It's nice to be young again; I grew up on Francis the Talking Mule.  This collection is going to be fun!

       (The director, Arthur Lubin, and trainer, Les Hilton, went on to 

help produce "Mr. Ed," and that complete series on DVD is also in the Lund Library.)

 

 

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CONQUERING FEARS

  

       We're having fun with our pets.  After our four-year-old granddaughter Hazel at first didn't want to get near the giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, she reached over and touched one, then went right to drawing a picture of one.

 

 

 

       And when her cousin Trinity came to our library and found out we had a tarantula in there, she said, "Nope...nope," as she made an about-face and walked away.  But this morning she returned and not only went into the library, but held our Mexican Golden Red-Rump Tarantula, Bugbear*.
 

       She said she was afraid of spiders before.  Now she wants a pet tarantula.  She approached her fear, and conquered it.

 

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*  Anything arousing terror, esp. groundless terror. - 1927 New Century Dictionary.

 

 

 

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ONLY ONES ON GOOSEBERRY COURT

 I bet we're the only ones on our road who have five articles published in these four magazines.

 

 

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RESCUE

 

Verdessa and Thorne live in the forest, occasionally surprising villagers when they come for supplies.  Thorne and the Ogre have a pact of peace:  They wouldn't consider themselves friends, for the Ogre has no friends, yet they have done favors for each other.

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LOVE YOURSELF

       Our four-year-old granddaughter, Hazel, made this picture and wrote above it.  When asked what she wrote, she translated:

       "Love yourself when you're mad or sad or frustrated even when you're crying or sad."

 

  

 

 

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