HEADED OUTSIDE AND DODGED FROM SHRUB TO SHRUB TO THE CARPORT

 A FEW BIRD PHOTOS TODAY

Richard's turn to drive this morning for our semi-monthly country road coffee and muffins tour.  Our beautiful September weather is still holding so it was a nice cruise through the scenic rural landscape of Huron County as we talked about things probably only two aging Seniors would think enough about to talk about.  Our travels took us southeast of Bayfield.

 'HEY...I'M NOT A BIRD!!

As of late, the bird population in our front yard has finally been picking up again.  Summer's hordes of Grackles have flown the coop for the year so the Blue Jays, Cardinals, Morning Doves, Grosbeaks, Goldfinches, Woodpeckers, Chickadees,  Nuthatches, and a couple old Crows are finally flying in again.  Nice to see the gang coming back.  Geeezzzz, I missed you guys.  Oh, and I saw two Chipmunks in the front yard today also.  I have my fingers crossed that the black and white stray cat doesn't return to our yard and kill them too.  

Home before noon I tried to talk myself into heading outside to resume my late summer yardwork.  Guess I'm a good salesman sometimes because before I knew it was out in the backyard cutting down a bunch of vines with the electric hedge trimmer.  That lasted about 40 minutes before I was back inside with my sticky shirt off and my fan on high blowing cooler air at me.  At one point I realized I had left my smaller camera in the car so rather than put my shirt on to slip outside to the carport to retrieve it, I carefully peered out the door to make sure the coast was clear....it was.  Quickly, I then headed outside and dodged from shrub to shrub to the carport and nabbed the camera.  Using the same shrubs, I quickly beat a hasty retreat back into the house before being seen.  Things can spread fast here in our Park, and the sighting of a half-naked man running around near the east end of Sugar Maple Drive would not have been a good thing!!     

Earlier this past week I met with my good buddy Jim in a Seaforth Ontario Park for coffee.  What I forgot to mention is that Jim also writes a post most every day and you can find him on my sidebar under the title Lifetime Sentences.  Jim has a long background in Journalism, he's a great writer with a clever sense of humor and an unlimited imagination to back it up.  His posts will often leave you with a smile on your face, a frown in your coffee, or a host of question marks in your mind.  He does it intentionally, he does it well, he stimulates your thinking, and he peaks your curiosity enough to come back for more:)) 

A Blast From Our Past:)) Ode To My Coffee Cup  I wrote this post on September 14th, 2008 and it concerns a coffee cup and my memories of that coffee cup which was a part of my life for two years.  It's about the day we met on December 22nd, 2006 in an Apache Trading Post near the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.  It briefly tells about our Southwest Travels, and the day it all ended with a crash in September of 2008 in our backyard here in Bayfield, Ontario Canada:((

Al's Music Box:)) Listen To The Music is a song by American rock band the Doobie Brothers, released on their second album, Toulouse Street (1972). The song was their first major hit. It was written by Tom Johnston.  Johnston described the motivation for the song as a call for world peace: "The chord structure of it made me think of something positive, so the lyrics that came out of that were based on this utopian idea that if the leaders of the world got together on some grassy hill somewhere and either smoked enough dope or just sat down and just listened to the music and forgot about all this other bullshit, the world would be a much better place. It was very utopian and very unrealistic (laughs). It seemed like a good idea at the time."  The studio recording used both a banjo and a prominent flanging effect, audible from the bridge until the fadeout. When released as a single by Warner Bros. Records, the song peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1972.  The commercial success of "Listen to the Music" helped the album Toulouse Street rise on the charts. The song remains a staple of adult contemporary and classic rock radio. The band also uses it as an encore song during live shows. Patrick Simmons, the second guitarist and vocalist in the group, sings the bridge of the song.  Upon the release of the single, Cash Box said that it's "the group's mellowest rockin' mood yet.  Ultimate Classic Rock critic Michael Gallucci rated "Listen to the Music" as the Doobie Brothers fourth-greatest song, praising the smooth, "soft, shuffling rhythm" and Johnston's vocal performance. The staff of Billboard rated it even higher, considering it the Doobie Brothers' best song, saying that it "ranks high in the pantheon of rock n’ roll feel-good hits" and should "get your foot tapping and bring a bit of a smile to your face."  In June 2020, four members of the band released an acoustic version of the song on YouTube, with each performing from his home during the Covid-19 pandemic.  The recording included a more prominent banjo part, but no lead electric guitar or drums. At the end of the recording, lead singer Tom Johnston noted that it was a benefit performance, of sorts, for Feeding America, and gave the organization's URL, encouraging fans to donate.  

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A kindergartner was practicing spelling with magnetic letters on the refrigerator: cat, dog, dad, and mom had been proudly displayed for all to see.  One morning while getting ready for the day, he bounded into the room with his arms outstretched. In his hands were three magnetic letters: G-O-D.  "Look what I spelled, Mom!" with a proud smile on his face.  "That's wonderful!" his mom praised him. "Now go put them on the fridge so Dad can see when he gets home tonight."  The mom happily thought that her son's religious education was certainly having an impact.  Just then, a little voice called from the kitchen: "Mom? How do you spell 'zilla'?"

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My son wanted to know what it was like to be a parent.  So I woke him at 2am to tell him my sock came off.
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"To do is to be..." -- Descartes.
"To be is to do..." -- Sartre.
"Do be do be do..." – Sinatra!

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Man walks into an ancient Greek tailors with a pair of ripped trousers.  Tailor says, "Euripides?"  Man says, "Yeah. Eumenides?"

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English lesson…
Tsunami
T is silent
Psychology
P is silent
Knife
K is silent
Honest
H is silent
Wife
Husband is silent

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I did my first nude painting yesterday.
The neighbors weren't happy but the front door looks great!

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