On the Shelf

Electrical Problems

The North Yuba River Hall, where the Downieville Library is located, is experiencing electrical problems. At this point, all electricity is shut off until an electrician can figure out what’s going on and correct the problem(s). So, until further notice, the library will be closed.

This also means that groups that meet at the library are without a meeting place for the time being. This includes the Twelve Step group that meets on Tuesday evenings, and Español a la Biblioteca which meets on Thursday afternoons. Hold good thoughts for a quick resolution to the situation.

Changed Titles of Songs for the Season

In appreciation of what is about to descend upon us — or into what we are about to enter — depending on your perspective — here is a quiz about songs for winter, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and the New Year. I have taken the real song titles and replaced them with reinterpretations. Can you get them back to what they are supposed to be? (And, to prove that I’m not totally heartless, here are two clues: (1) the order below was created by a random number generator, so there is no “pattern”; and, (2) no words in the original titles are used in the recreations.) Answers in next week’s column.

• Forty-nine Squared Precepts

• Say This Three Times: “Allow the Flakes to Fall!”

• Raise All Tongues in Harmonic Vocalization

• Exaltation for Everything Everywhere

• Quiet After Dark

• Murkiness Where a Soul Resides

• You and I Should Smooch When the Clock Strikes Twelve O’Clock A.M.

• Journey in a Horse-pulled Vehicle

• Ignite a Single Luminary

• The Thing Arrived at 12:00 Without a Cloud

• Chilly Male Person Made Out of Ice Crystals

• Which Letters Put Together Denote “To Dedicate”?

• Away, Do Peak Speak

• Speak Lustily (This Person Is Honored to be Ebony)

• Old Long Since

• Alice’s Destination in a Snowy Season

• We Want to Begin This Fresh Twelve Month Period Correctly

• You and I Have Barely Started

• Luminaries Banquet

• A Great Number with a Small Number