Friday, November 09, 2018

OUR FIRST DUSTING OF SNOW FOR THE SEASON

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FIRST LIGHT DUSTING OF SNOW AT OUR HOUSE

It was 8:30 a.m. and it was snowing.  Not heavily but snowing nevertheless.  It was a short Jeep snort for Pheebs and I into Bayfield and around a few streets.  I always enjoy looking at the diverse and picturesque architecture of all the homes and cottages old and new.

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IT WAS A DIRTY LOOKING COLD AND WET NOVEMBER DAY

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THURSDAYS STORMY LAKE HURON WATERS WERE A STUDY IN CALMNESS TODAY

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NOT A NICE MORNING FOR WORKERS REMOVING BOAT DOCKS

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A HARDY FISHERMAN STANDS ALONGSIDE THE FISHING BOAT DOCK  IN THIS MORNINGS SNOWY COLD DRIZZLE

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PHEEBS AND I HEAD FOR HOME

Ten a.m. found Pheebs and I driving Miss Kelly to Goderich where she had a few errands to run.  Not knowing if the snow would get heavier or not I figured it was best to take the vehicle with the best tires.  The snows didn’t get heavier and later turned to a drizzly rain.  Errands done we decided to stop into Goderich’s Wendys and have us a look at their ‘value-meals’.  I think the last time we were in a Wendys together was nearly 20 years ago or so in Woodstock Ontario when Uncle Harry took us there.  A swing down around the Goderich harbor and twenty minutes later we were home again.

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BULK CARRIER FEDERAL ALSTER WAS IN GODERICH’S PORT LOADING GRAINS

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I LIKE HOW CANADA POST HAS BRIGHTLY JAZZED UP THEIR MAIL BOXES

Try as I did I couldn’t convince myself to head outside into the cold damp and putter around in the flowerbeds.  Still things to do outside but they will just have to wait for an energy inducing warmer sunny day which may be upon us sometime in early May of next year.

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MR. CARDINAL LOOKS A LITTLE CONFUSED BY ALL THE WHITE STUFF

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‘AWWWW SNOW SCHMOW WHO CARES’

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THAT’S MRS CARDINAL ON THE RIGHT

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Facebook keeps dropping these 11 year old timebombs on me so here’s where we were and what we were doing 11 years ago today. 

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WE WALKED MOONFLOWER CANYON SLIGHTLY NORTHWEST OF MOAB UTAH IN THE MORNING

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MAX, CHECKERS AND I HAD SCRAMBLED TO THE TOP OF A ROCK CROPPING AND HERE WE WAITED FOR KELLY AND CORA TO CATCH UP

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MAX AND CHECKERS RUN BACK DOWN TO HURRY KELLY AND LITTLE CORA ALONG

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WE LATER DROVE FURTHER NORTH OF MOAB TO DEAD HORSE POINT STATE PARK

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KELLY OVERLOOKS DEAD HORSE POINT

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WE SAW THIS SHIRT HANGING ON A BUSH AND WONDERED IF SOMEONE HAD LEFT IT THERE THEN WENT AND JUMPED OFF THE NEARBY CLIFF

It’s funny how I can’t remember things from a few days ago or even today but yet I can look at just about any of my countless thousands of photos over the years and I can instantly tell you where that photo was taken plus bits and pieces of that particular day.  That alone tells me something very important about my mind as well as others.  I believe our minds store the majority of our memories.  They are there and only need a particular something to key the lock of the vault they are stored in.  They are not gone, they are in storage.  My photographs are a key for me and one glance at a photo swings the memory vault door wide open.  I’m sure other people have experienced this as well.  Music is another memory trigger for many people.  A familiar song on the radio can instantly time travel a listener to a place and time in their past whether it be a couple days or decades ago.  Chances are you may have never remembered a particular memory ever again if a piece of music had not triggered it.  Ever been walking along past a pile of burning leaves or smell a campfire.  In a nano-second one’s childhood camping adventures are right there alive and well.  Yes, I think we all still have many of our life long memories stored away alright, it’s just the location of those misplaced keys to our minds many vaults we have trouble with……….

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OH, AND FACEBOOK ALSO LET ME KNOW THAT A DAY BEFORE MOONFLOWER CANYON AND DEAD HORSE POINT WE WERE ALSO HIKING IN THE DEVILS GARDEN

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GROANER’S CORNER:((  Mary and Jane are old friends. They have both been married to their husbands for a long time; Mary is upset because she thinks her husband doesn't find her attractive anymore.  "As I get older he doesn't bother to look at me!" Mary cries.  "I'm so sorry for you, as I get older my husband says I get more beautiful every day." replies Jane."  Yes, but your husband's an antique dealer!"

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A man came home from an exhausting day at work, plopped down on the couch in front of the television, and told his wife: "Get me a beer before it starts!" The wife sighed and got him a beer. Ten minutes later, he said: "Get me another beer before it starts!" She looked cross, but fetched another beer and slammed it down next to him. He finished that beer and a few minutes later said: "Quick, get me another beer, it's going to start any minute!"  The wife was furious. "Is that all you're going to do tonight! Drink beer and sit in front of that TV! You're nothing but a lazy, drunken, fat slob and furthermore..."The man sighed and said: "It's started."

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10 comments:

  1. I'll be in Moab next week. Some hiking planned and several days 4 wheeling with jeep club friends. I am looking forward to having a pile of photos to edit later this month.

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  2. We have camped on Dead Horse Point and hiked on the trails that you and Kelly and the fur babies did. I also have some of the same photo ops that you had, and from very nearly the same spots. Lord willing, we will be back there next summer. Hope you guys can get out of Dodge for the coldest month, January or Feb...

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  3. I love those pictures you took looking through arches. Very nice.

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  4. I think I took some pics at those same places just two years ago. It is a most beautiful area of the nation to me. I agree completely about music and smells causing ' time travel.'

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  5. So glad that we have all these pictures and the blog to look back at our wonderful travels and exploring, great memories.

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  6. Fantastic memories, amazing photos. Thanks for sharing with us Al.

    Deb

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  7. Al, Marcia is just a bit older than you (she was entering high school when I was born, so I am not there YET), and she has the same memory problem. Very good on long ago stuff...no so much on what she had for breakfast that day. For the short term memory stuff she calls it "CRS", which stands for "Can't Remember S..."

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  8. Thanks for the memory photos, Al. Never been there but would love to someday. Feels like winter here with overnight temps in the teens and an inch of snow the other night.

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  9. Great photos of your hikes from 2007!. I'm very much aware of my old time memories, which are all I have left for many places. I enjoy sitting, relaxing and mentally reliving our many trips.

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  10. Great photo's I'm jealous, you're get snow and were getting Red Flag Warnings and the State of Taxifornia aka California is burning to the ground. We need rain and snow storms.
    Thanks for posting the photo's Al

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