THANK HEAVENS I HAVE KELLY HERE TO SHOW ME HOW THINGS WORK

 A PICTURESQUE SKY OVER LAKE HURON THIS MORNING

Sunshine, blue skies, big white puffy clouds, windy and cooler.  Indeed a mighty nice early September blend of feeling good I'd say.  

 A TOUCH OF EARLY AUTUMN ON THE WAY OUT OF OUR FOREST THIS MORNING

 ON OUR WAY TO GODERICH

With Subie's heater on and needing some gas it was off to Goderich for Pheebs and I this morning.  A long wait in the McDonalds Drive-thru for coffee.  I figure the week-end is when all the kids are in charge of the fort and there always seems to be quite a comedy of errors going on in there.  

 PHEEBS GAZES AT A GRAZING GAGGLE OF GEESE

It was a stiff cold wind coming in off Lake Huron dragging choppy waves along with it.  Boardwalkers were bundled up.  With our usual stop at Walmart, we headed home with the heater on and Pheebs window down.  

DOGGY HAS A THIN STICK IN ITS MOUTH

 DRESSED WARM AGAINST THE MORNING'S CHILLY WIND COMING IN OFF THE LAKE

 NEAR THE DOG WALKING AREA

 ROUGH WATER ALONG GODERICH'S OUTER HARBOR

The furry kid and I managed a four-turtle afternoon walk around the Park's pond but you'll have to take my word about the turtles because I didn't take a camera with me.  Yes, I know that's unusual.  But sometimes.......

 A BIG SKY DAY

Unbeknownst to me and because I am a music buff always listening to music, Kelly bought me a pair of 'wireless' Bluetooth '1More Sonoflow-Pro Noise Cancelling HQ51 Over Ear Bluetooth' Headphones.  I've always been aware of the superb sound quality headphones bring and oh my are these ever great.  Earbuds don't work for me.  I put them in and they fall out!!-I put them in and they fall out!!  I was surprised at the range of these wireless headphones too.  I walked halfway to the Park's pond before the signal cut out.  Kelly is configuring an iPad for all my music.  She had bought this refurbished iPad years ago in the States but hadn't used it much.  Oh Dear, can you even begin to imagine the techno dilemma this has now posed for my nearly 80-year-old cob-webbed brain:((  Thank heavens I have Kelly here to set it up all and show me how things work:))     

Al's Music Box:)) Rhapsody In Blue is a 1924 musical composition for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects. Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman and written by George Gershwin, the work premiered in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music" on February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York City.  Whiteman's band performed the rhapsody with Gershwin playing the piano.  The Rhapsody is one of Gershwin's most recognizable creations and a key composition that defined the Jazz Age.  Gershwin's piece inaugurated a new era in America's musical history, established his reputation as an eminent composer and became one of the most popular of all concert works. In the American Heritage magazine, Frederic D. Schwarz posits that the famous opening clarinet glissando has become as instantly recognizable to concert audiences as the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.  Gershwin later claimed that, while on a train journey to Boston, the thematic seeds for Rhapsody in Blue began to germinate in his mind. He told biographer Isaac Goldberg in 1931: It was on the train, with its steely rhythms, and its rattly bang, that is so often so stimulating to a composer.... I frequently hear music in the very heart of the noise. And there I suddenly heard—and even saw on paper—the complete construction of the rhapsody, from beginning to end.  By the time I reached Boston, I had a definite plot of the piece.  By the end of 1927, Whiteman's band had performed Rhapsody in Blue approximately 84 times, and its recording sold a million copies. For the entire piece to fit onto two sides of a 12-inch record, the rhapsody had to be played at a faster speed than usual in a concert, which gave the recording a hurried feel with noticeably lost rubato. Whiteman later adopted the piece as his band's theme song and opened his radio programs with the slogan "Everything new but the Rhapsody in Blue."

 IN THE FOREGROUND A CLOUD SHADOW DARKENS THE CHOPPY WATER

GROANER'S CORNER:(( There was a man walking alone along a beach. He comes across a bottle with a cork in it. The man picks up the bottle and pulls out the cork. A loud roar follows and a genie appears. The genie says to the man, "I'm a little tired today and I can only give you two wishes."  The man says "That's OK, two is enough." "First, I would like one billion dollars in a Swiss bank account."  Poof - The genie hands the man a paper and says "Here's the number to your account."  Next the man says, "Second, I would like to be irresistible to women."  Poof - the genie turned him into a box of chocolates.

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A patient was waiting nervously in the examination room of a famous specialist.
"So who did you see before coming to me?" asked the doctor.  "My General Practitioner."  "Your GP?" scoffed the doctor. "What a waste of time. Tell me, what sort of useless advice did he give you?"
"He told me to come and see you."

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"Oh God," sighed the wife one morning, "I'm convinced my mind is almost completely gone!"  Her husband looked up from the newspaper and commented, "I'm not surprised: You've been giving me a piece of it every day for twenty years!"

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One day at the entrance to heaven, St. Peter saw a New York street gang walk up to the Pearly Gates. This being a first, St. Peter ran to God and said, "God, there are some evil, thieving New Yorkers at the Pearly Gates. What do I do?".  God replied, "Just do what you normally do with that type. Re-direct them down to hell."  St. Peter went back to carry out the order, and all of a sudden he comes running back yelling "God, God, they're gone, they're gone!"  "Who, the New Yorkers?".  "No, the Pearly Gates."
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