I'LL BE BACK OUTSIDE AND AT IT AGAIN TOMORROW

 A THIN LAYER OF ICE ON OUR FRONT YARD FROG POND THIS MORNING

Another sunny morning but it's still cold with temps hovering around in the low 30sF.  It wasn't a long Jeep ride for Pheebs & I again and we were soon home.  My goal today was to hook up the utility trailer and load it with yard waste like pine needles, leaves, and small branches, etc.  That took me quite a while and by the time I had things half cleaned up, my legs were so sore it felt like they were about to fall off.  Especially my troublesome right one.  Took a break around 12:30 and by the time I was ready to head back outside I had seized up like the Tin Man in a Roanoke rainstorm.  I had to get Kelly to give me a good spraying down with a can of WD-40 to get my seized-up joints mobile again:))   After a second full load of heavy wet leaves and pine needles to our Park's recycle area I was ka-put and done for the rest of the day.  If my legs will stand me up in the morning, and Kelly will give me a few more squirts of WD-40, I'll be back outside and at it again tomorrow..............    

 BOTH BIRD BATHS ARE FROZEN UP AS WELL

 LOADING UP THE UTILITY TRAILER

 WE ARE FORTUNATE IN OUR PARK TO HAVE AN AREA FOR YARD WASTE

Ellen's Groove:)) Check out Ellen's precise fingerwork on her base guitar in this short clip as she plays Muse.  Ellen just keeps on getting better and better.  Her response at the end will put a smile on many faces and bring laughter to others:))

 THIS CANADA GOOSE ON OUR PARK'S POIND BLENDS IN REASONABLY WELL WITH THE BACKGROUND

Al's Music Box:)) Come Saturday Morning by the Sandpipers from the album 'Come Saturday Morning'.  1970 

 A MALE MALLARD DUCK

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A man who worked at a fire hydrant factory was always late for work.  When confronted by his boss the man explained, "You can't park anywhere near this place!"

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Scientists have been studying the effect of cannabis on sea birds.  They’ve left no tern unstoned.

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A family went to a hospital, where one of their relatives would be having a brain transplant. One of the relatives asked, "What will the cost of a new brain be?" The doctor replied, "A female brain costs $25,000 and a male brain costs $50,000." The men smirked, but one of the females asked, "Why is that, doctor?" "Well," the doctor replied,” the female brain is less because it has been used."

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