NO LEAKS OR OVERFLOW...PROJECT COMPLETE:))

Opening our living room curtains this morning I could see our day dawning sunny and bright.  Later, being my turn to drive, I slipped over to Richards and we were off on another one of our enjoyable country road coffee runs.  I think we've been doing this for over ten years now.  Our travels took us southeast of Bayfield this morning.  Bronson Line, Pavilion Road, Bannockburn Line, Centennial Rd, Parr Line, the Hay Swamp, Grand Bend Highway, Babylon Line, the village of Zurich, the Goshen Line to Mill Road to Bayfield and back to where we started out from. Good stuff:))

MOTHER NATURE'S AUTUMN FIRE

COLORFUL SUMAC LEAVES

Home again a couple hours later, I figured I'd better take a break from my frog pond project.  Well, that's what I figured but within an hour there I was back at it again and an hour after that I had all the rocks back in place and the pond filled up with water.  Happy to say no leaks or overflows.  Project complete:)) 

 ROCKS ARE BACK IN PLACE AND THE POND IS FILLING WITH WATER

WATER IS FILLING THE POND FROM AN UNDERGROUND HOSE AT THE RIGHT

NEARLY FULL

 THE FROG POND IS ALL FILLED UP AGAIN...PROJECT COMPLETE:))

Before starting this project I knew I was going to end up with a lot of sore muscles.  Both my legs are so sore at the moment they are hardly usable.  But it's a good soreness and I know that soreness is beneficial to strengthening my weak leg muscles.  But, to push my legs even further, Pheebs and I got ourselves out for a late afternoon walk over to and well beyond the Park's pond.  There is a lot of work going on in the Park at the moment and the landscape is changing.  Many piles of brush burning has given our Park a nice smoky 'mallows and weenies' campfire aroma.  The land is being cleared for new housing and the old forest walking trails in the Park we once so much enjoyed are pretty well all gone now.  But, it's the way of progress and we've had to accept that and get on board with the change. We're just thankful we had all those years from late 2002 to about 2020 to enjoy the quiet forest trails while they were here:))

THERE WERE HALF A DOZEN PILES OF BURNING BRUSH IN THIS AREA

 OUR OLD PINE TREE TRAIL ONCE RAN RIGHT THROUGH HERE

Al's Music Box:)) She's Leaving Home is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, and released on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.  Paul McCartney wrote and sang the verse and John Lennon wrote the chorus, which they sang together. Neither George Harrison nor Ringo Starr were involved in the recording. The song's instrumental background was performed entirely by a small string orchestra arranged by Mike Leander and is one of only a handful of Beatles recordings in which none of the members played a musical instrument.  "She's Leaving Home" was recorded during the sessions for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The day before McCartney wanted to work on the song's score, he learned that George Martin, who usually handled the Beatles' string arrangements, was not available. McCartney contacted Mike Leander, who did it in Martin's place. This was the first time a Beatles song was not arranged by Martin. Martin, though hurt by this, produced the song and conducted the string section in a session on 17 March 1967 that generated six takes. The melody is composed in a modal scale, typical of English traditional music. The harp was played by Sheila Bromberg, the first female musician to appear on a Beatles record.  Three days later, McCartney's lead vocal and Lennon's backing vocal were recorded, with the two singing together on each of two vocal tracks, their voices overlapping to match the narrative.  The stereo version of the song, finalized on 17 April 1967.  In April 1967, McCartney visited Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys in Los Angeles, where McCartney played "She's Leaving Home" on the piano for Wilson and his wife. Wilson recalled: "We both just cried. It was beautiful."  As the credited composers of "She's Leaving Home", Lennon and McCartney received the 1967 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. 

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Two gas company servicemen, a senior training supervisor and a young trainee, were out checking meters in a suburban neighborhood. They parked their truck the end of the alley and worked their way to the other end. At the last house, a woman looking out her kitchen window watched the two men as they checked her gas meter.  Finishing the meter check, the senior supervisor challenged his younger coworker to a foot race down the alley back to the truck to prove that an older guy could outrun a younger one.  As they came running up to the truck, they realized the lady from that last house was huffing and puffing right behind them. They stopped and asked her what was wrong.  Gasping for breath, she replied, “When I see two men from the gas company running as hard as you two were, I figured I'd better run too!”

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- Why do they put braille on the number pads of drive-through bank machines?

- If nothing sticks to Teflon, how do they stick Teflon on the pan?

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The Fourth of July was coming up, and the nursery school teacher took the opportunity to tell her class about patriotism. "We live in a great country," she said. "One of the things we should be happy about is that, in this country, we are all free."  One little boy came walking up to her from the back of the room. He stood with his hands on his hips and said, "I'm not free. I'm four."
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