Summer arrived in three blazing hot days. They were this weekend. We rang in the season with plenty o' work around the house with some fun-ness mixed in. Sunday that meant walking around Trexler Park with Stacie and Eric and Kaelyn. Friday that meant Pippin, as described previously. Saturday that meant our first visit to local movie house Emmaus Theater. I loved it. It's a mainstream second-run place, so it lacks the art house zest of Burns Court (see 8-02 thru 8-04) or the political punchiness of the Michigan or State (see 9-04 thru 7-07) but it has all the small-town flair you could ever want. The concession stand is in the theater so the popcorn smell is nothing short of enchanting, it's about 5 times deeper than it is wide so the seats in the back are truly not good, and the front door is not more than 50 feet from a major freight corridor. When the first train rolled past and the movie got a little fuzzy as the nearly century-old building shook the projector I was hooked.

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