GOOD NEWS FROM FLORIDA AND KELLY'S BACK PAIN WORSENS

 IT WAS A ONE TURTLE WALK AROUND THE PARK'S POND THIS AFTERNOON FOR PHEEBS AND I

Aunt Jean in Sarasota, as well as Kelly's sister, husband, and daughter in Clearwater, Florida all made it through Hurricane Milton okay.  I phoned Aunt Jean shortly after 2 p.m. this afternoon and she said aside from the hurricane's wind noise last night and the power flickering out before Sunnyside's generators quickly kicked in, they faired very well.  Her internet is still down but her TV is working fine and she has been able to keep up with the hurricane's aftermath.  She said the windows and doors are still boarded up so she hasn't been able to look outside and she still has no idea how her car made out.  And, it was still too early to tell how bad the damage may have been to the Plymouth Harbor Retirement Center out on Lido Key so she doesn't know how long all those folks will be remaining at Sunnyside Village.  She said she can hear a lot of talking in the hallways and she was going to venture on out there later and see if she could pick up what all the 'buzz' was about.  When I call her Friday night she will no doubt have more news about how things are going there:))  

 IN OUR FRONT YARD THIS AFTERNOON

 UNLIKELY TABLE MATES

We dipped down to 39F overnight but that's alright because at least it was sunny and temps would soon be on their way back up heading for the fifties.  And, 70F is predicted for Friday.

Richard's turn to drive this morning so he picked me up a 9:30.  With coffee and muffins in hand from Goderich's McDonalds our travels took us northeast of Goderich through the countryside and places like Auburn and Ben Miller.  These semi-monthly coffee runs of ours are good therapy for both of us old guys.  Richard 87 and me 80.

 STANDING AT THE END OF OUR DRIVEWAY WAITING FOR RICHARD I NOTICED THESE MORNING SHADOWS CREEPING UP THE ROAD

 WE HAD TO STOP AND WAIT FOR THESE FARM GEESE TO CROSS THE ROAD ON PORTER'S HILL LINE

Kelly's back is still hurting her and she said it was worse today than yesterday.  She had a similar thing happen to her not that long ago and an X-ray showed a 3 vertebrate compression fracture due mainly to Osteoporosus which Kelly also has.  She worries that her back condition might impact a liver transplant......if she ever gets to that stage.  I can tell she is discouraged.

 KELLY ON HER COMPUTER

Low on photos for today's post, Pheebs and I headed off for a walk over to the Park's pond and beyond to see what we could find.  A nice early 55F October sun and cloud day with no wind.

 OUR PARK'S FOUNTAIN AND CLUBHOUSE

 A GNARLY OLD WILLOW TREE ALONGSIDE THE POND

 I PLANTED THIS BAMBOO GRASS BESIDE THE PARK'S POND ABOUT A DOZEN YEARS AGO

 HEY, IS THAT AN OTTER IN THE PARK'S POND??  NOPE, JUST A WOODEN STUMP WORN SMOOTH BY TURTLES SUNBATHING ON IT

Al's Music Box:)) Dang Me is a song by American country music artist Roger Miller. It was Miller's first chart-topping country hit and first Top Ten pop music hit, whose "jazzy instrumental section" helped make it "the quintessential example of Miller's lighthearted humor, which brought him many more hits."  In 1998, Roger Miller's 1964 version of "Dang Me" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.  Newly signed with the Mercury Records subsidiary Smash Records,Miller gathered on  January 10–11, 1964, with music producer Jerry Kennedy, music arranger Bill Justis, and session musicians Ray Edenton and Harold Bradley (guitars), Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano) Bob Moore (bass) and Buddy Harman (drums) at the Bradley Studios on Nashville, Tennessee's Music Row.  On the second day, they recorded a run-through of "Dang Me," with Miller giving rehearsal direction (such as "one more time" at the end of the first chorus). The run-through was the final version released to radio. Miller, in his official biography, recalled writing the song in four minutes in a Phoenix Arizona, hotel room. Johnny Cash in his last major interview claimed Miller wrote the song at Joshua Tree in California when Miller got out of the car with pen and paper to go write the song. Cash asked Miller what he was doing to which Miller replied "I'm writing a song. You can't come look."  Kennedy had already started work on many other of that session's songs before he eventually brought the recording of "Dang Me" to his home. Upon playing it, he recalled, "My kids came screaming down the stairs when 'Dang Me' came on. They thought that was the greatest thing they'd ever heard. I started playing it over and over and over again...".  Kennedy and Mercury Records chose "Dang Me" as the first single of the May 1964 LP Roger and Out. The album was shortly retitled and rereleased that year as Dang Me (Smash SRS-67049)  The song spent 25 weeks on the Billboard country-music chart, reaching number one, and peaked at number seven on the magazine's pop chart. It went on to appear on numerous Miller compilations. On film or tape, Miller performs it, with other songs, in the 1966 concert film the T.N.T. Showc, and as part of a closing-number medley on season three, episode #21, of The Muppet Show in 1979.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Father Murphy walks into a pub in Donegal, and says to the first man he meets, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The man said, "I do Father." The priest said, "Then stands over there against the wall."  Then the priest asked the second man, "Do you want to get to heaven?"  "Certainly, Father," was the man's reply."Then stand over there against the wall," said the priest. Then Father Murphy walked up to O'Toole and said, "Do you want to go to heaven?" O'Toole said, "No, I don't Father."  The priest said, "I don't believe this. You mean to tell me that when you die you don't want to go to heaven?" O'Toole said, "Oh, when I die, yes. I thought you were getting a group together to go right now."

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- You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

- What's the difference between a pigeon and a banker?  A pigeon can still leave a deposit on a Ferrari.

- What happened when the hyena swallowed an Oxo cube?  He became a laughing stock!
- How do young wizards and witches correct their homework?  They use a spell-checker.

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"I am overjoyed! Soon I will be able to payoff all my loans and at last be debt free.  I'm on my way to the bank, thrilled to know that in a very short while I will finally have all the money I need to begin enjoying life for once.  I am so excited I can hardly get my ski mask on!"

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