AND MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS WERE HAD BY ALL

A mixture of sun and cloud on this 49F morning found Pheebs and I wandering around a few paved country roads.  Paved, because I washed the Subaru yesterday and didn't want to get it all dusted up on the gravel roads again.  Well, at least not for a few days anyway.  The County is paving more roads all the time and that is quite alright with me.  The corn harvest is in full swing so we kept our eyes open for corn spills alongside the road or cobs laying in the field close to the road.  Our corn pail came home empty.

 'OH MABLE, I JUST HEARD BILLY BIG BUTTS OVER THERE WAS SEEN WITH CRAZY CLARABELLE OVER IN THE BACK FORTY LATE LAST NIGHT'

Our good friends, Gayle and Richard invited us for Thanksgiving today so we headed on over to their place about 1 o'clock.  A great turkey dinner with all the fixins, and meaningful coversations were had by all.   We were home again by 4 o'clock.

Al's Music Box:)) The White Cliffs Of Dover is a popular World War II song composed in 1941 by Walter Kent to lyrics by Nat Burton. Made famous in the United Kingdom by Vera Lynn's 1942 version, it was one of Lynn's best-known recordings and among the most popular World War II tunes.  The song was written about a year after the Royal Air Force and German Luftwaffe aircraft had been fighting over southern England, including the white cliffs of Dover, in the Battle of Britain.  Nazi Germany had conquered much of Europe and in 1941 was still bombing Britain. With neither the United States nor the Soviet Union having joined the war against Germany and her allies, Britain was the only major power fighting the Axis powers in Europe.  The American lyricist, Nat Burton, wrote his lyric (perhaps unaware that the bluebird is not indigenous to Britain, though the migrant Swallow 'Bluebird' is a well known British harbinger of Spring and Summer) and asked Kent to set it to music.  Notable phrases include "Thumbs Up!" which was an RAF and RCAF term for permission to go, and "flying in those angry skies" where the air war was taking place. The lyrics looked toward a time when the war would be over, and peace would rule over the iconic white cliffs, Britain's symbolic border with the European mainland.  The full song includes two verses rarely found in recordings:

I'll never forget the people I met braving those angry skies.
I remember well as the shadows fell, the light of hope in their eyes.
And tho' I'm far away, I can still hear them say "Thumbs Up!"
for when the dawn comes up,... There'll be blue birds over...

When night shadows fall, I'll always recall out there across the sea
Twilight falling down on some little town;
It's fresh in my memory.
I hear mother pray, and to her baby say "Don't cry,"
This is her lullaby.... There'll be blue birds over..GROANER'S CORNER:(( Actual answers given by contestants on the game show The Family Feud:

- Name something that floats in the bath - Water
- Name something a blind person might use - A sword
- Name a song with 'moon' in the title - Blue Suede Moon
- Something you do before going to bed - Sleep
- Name a famous bridge - The bridge over troubled waters
- Something slippery - A con man
- A part of the body beginning with the letter 'N' - Knee
- Something you do in the bathroom - Decorate

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- My ducks may not be in a row, but at least they're having fun.  Your ducks probably hate you for making them line up like that. 

- “I got a job in the transmission shop. It's shift work.

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A pastor, known for his lengthy sermons, noticed a man get up and leave during the middle of his message. The man returned just before the conclusion of the service. Afterwards the pastor asked the man where he had gone.  "I went to get a haircut," was the reply.  "But," said the pastor, "why didn't you do that before the service?"  "Because," the gentleman said, "I didn't need one then."

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