SOMETHING I DID SEVERAL YEARS AGO CAME TO MY RESCUE THIS MORNING

 A STONE COLD MORNING

It was a cold east wind blowing our 20F temperatures around this morning and had it not been for having a portable heated people mover (Jeep) Pheebs and I wouldn't even have ventured ourselves out the door.  Even Kelly and Pheebs cut their early morning walk short.  Having traveled south Tuesday morning and east Monday morning our only alternative today was to begin the three-way directional travel cycle again and head north.  And of course our first stop along the way was the town of Goderich.

 VERY COLD ALONG THE SHORELINE AND ICICLES HAVE BEGUN TO APPEAR

 SURE GLAD I WASN'T ONE OF THESE OUTSIDE WORKERS IN THIS MORNINGS ICY COLD TEMPERATURES

Thanks to a wise decision I made a few years ago I saved myself a lot of grief this morning.  Picking up a few groceries at Goderich's Zehr's Supermarket I hastened back to the Jeep, unlocked it with my fob, tossed the keys over on the driver's seat, and placed the groceries on the passenger side floor.  With that, I closed the door and took the cart back.  Returning to the Jeep I found it all locked up tighter than Fort Knox.  This particular Jeep has a habit of doing irritating things like that.  And there were my keys inside on the driver's seat.  Now what!!  Even though Pheebs is a little smarty-pants I knew she couldn't unlock the door for me.  Hmmm, I hope it wasn't her stepping on the fob and accidentally locking it....... And did I mention the 20F freezing temps made even worse by an icy east wind.  Well, I had two things going for me and both of them were lucky breaks.  First, because of the Jeep's habit of locking itself up, I had placed an 'open the door only' spare Jeep key in a plastic magnetic holder and tucked it away in a safe place somewhere outside the Jeep.  But where outside the Jeep because I had hidden a previous key and couldn't remember where so had to go this second hidden key route.  And here's where my second lucky break actually came in.   Amazingly enough, I right away remembered where I had stashed that second key.....as long as it was still there of course.  And it was.  Retrieving the key holder I right away ran into another problem.  With my by now frozen fingers, I could not get the plastic container open no matter how hard I pressed, pulled, and tugged at it.  Finally, in desperation, I put the small container down on the pavement and repeatedly stomped on it until the container finally cracked open spilling out the key. (can you imagine what this must have looked like to anyone watching from a safe distance) Seconds later I was back into the Jeep with the heater going full tilt thanking my lucky stars I had placed that spare door key where I did years ago and even remembered where I had placed it.  Will miracles ever cease.  Pheebs and I were home 20 minutes later and there was no going back outside for the rest of the day.  Except to feed the birds and take Pheebs for a short well bundled up walk.

I realize not all my photos are clear and sharp but I still like to include some of them for reader's enjoyment.  I wrote a post one time awhile back about not being a perfectionist and it does show through sometimes with my pics......

 STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT SOME COMFORTABLE WINTER HEADGEAR....TUESDAY I GOT RID OF THE FACEMASK AND TODAY I GOT RID OF THE BASEBALL CAP...COULD HARDLY SEE WHERE I WAS GOING

And 11 years ago today I was Hanging On To The Donkeys

GROANER'S CORNER:((    A college pizza delivery boy arrived at the house of Mr.Smith. He delivered the pizza to his trailer. After giving it to him, Mr. Smith asked: "What is the usual tip?"  "Well," replied the youth, "this is my first trip here, but the other guys say if I get a quarter out of you, I'll be doing great."  "Is that so?" snorted Mr. Smith. "Well, just to show them how wrong they are, here's five dollars."  "Thanks," replied the youth, "I'll put this in my school fund."  "What are you studying in school?" asked Larry.  The lad smiled and said: "Applied psychology."

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