I GENTLY EASED THE LITTLE GREEN GUY INTO THE WATER AND WISHED HIM WELL

Thunder, lightning, and lots of rain came in the night and stayed till after dawn.  I knew there would be no muddy country road drives for Pheebs and I so we kept our Subie ride short and slipped into and around Bayfield.

A GRAY DRIZZLY MORNING IN BAYFIELD

 I COULD HARDLY BELIEVE THE LOW WATER LEVEL OF LAKE HURON

 EVERYTHING IN THE FOREGROUND SHOULD BE UNDERWATER 

A LONE FISHERMAN WITH COFFEE IN HAND PATIENTLY WAITS FOR A NIBBLE

Kelly's appointment with her Nurse Practitioner was at 11 a.m. so I dropped her off at the Maitland Valley Medical Centre in good time.  They took her right in.  From there, under cloudy skies, I headed off to Walmart and Pet Smart to pick up a few things.  With a little bit of time to kill, I headed for the Goderich harbor.  Driving down the hill to the harbor I felt something slightly warm on my left cheek.  'A-ha' sunshine:)))  It was 11:50 and the day just kept getting better from there.  Temperatures were on the rise and I think we topped out somewhere just over 70F this afternoon.  A huge bonus for our area this time of year.  

 AGAIN IN GODERICH I WAS SURPRISED YET AGAIN AT THE LOW WATER LEVEL...YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT WHERE THE LEVEL SHOULD BE

 KIND OF ALARMING HOW FAST THE WATER LEVEL HAS DROPPED....I WAS JUST HERE AT THIS VERY SPOT LAST WEEK AND I DO NOT RECALL THE WATER LEVEL BEING SO LOW

 THE FISHING BOAT MIKE-J IS SOUTHBOUND DOWN THE LAKE....AND NO, THAT IS NOT A CANADIAN SUBMARINE IN THE FOREGROUND

 WITH FISHING BOATS ALWAYS GO THE GULLS

From the harbor, I made my way back to the Medical Centre and picked up Kelly about half an hour later and we headed off to A&W for a bite.  My brown winter jacket has lasted me about 10 years and it's been slowly falling apart lately so following A&W we stopped into Marks (Work Wharehouse) and by golly we found me a new jacket.  When it comes to clothes it's kinda rare for me to get new stuff except socks and underwear of course.  Nice to have something new for a change.  But, I'm going to have to give up 10 coffees a month now to pay for it.

Home again, I didn't waste any time taking advantage of this great weather day.  The squirrels got into the shed and grabbed a pair of clippers to cut down one of our bird feeders so my first order of business was to get that birdfeeder back up and running again.  While I was at it I decided to move this birdfeeder to a slightly different location so that led me to re-doing a section of ground right in front of our sunroom.  I took out the heavy concrete patio stone and planted grass seed in its place.  I also raked up several wheelbarrow loads of leaves and pine needles.  Leaves are much easier to work with if they are wet and after last night's rain, the soggy mass cooperated fully.  Oh, and after keeping a close watch on the pond since I cleaned it over a month ago and moved all the frogs to the Park's pond I'll be darned if I didn't see a frog sitting on a rock right beside the pond.  Within minutes I had the little feller in my net and off we went over to the Park's pond where I gently eased the little green guy into the water and wished him well:))

I HAD A FEELING GOOD PRODUCTIVE AFTERNOON

 CLEANING UP LEAVES BY THE ROAD

 I HAD TO TEETER AROUND ON MY TALL LADDER TO RE-HANG THE BIRDFEEDER

LEAF REFLECTIONS IN A NEIGHBOR'S WINDOW

With a warm breeze in the air making this an unbelievably super nice day, Pheebs and I headed off for a late afternoon walk.  Overnight rains had made things muddy but we managed to plod our way through it without coming home looking like a couple of mangy mud pies.  According to the weatherman, we have some nice days ahead.  Also, happy to say, my hip issue from a couple days ago has totally cleared up.  Well, you know what it's like with us men.  If we stub a toe, we right away think we are on the verge of a leg amputation with less than 6 months to live.      

 PHEEBS LEADS THE WAY ALONG OUR LEAF-STREWN PATH ACROSS THE ROAD FROM OUR HOUSE

 AND YES INDEED WE SURE HAD TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE SOME MUDDY SPOTS

 THE LITTLE YELLOW BULLDOZER WAS BUSY MONDAY LEVELING HOUSING SITES

  THERE WILL EVENTUALLY BE HOMES HERE

 PHEEBS MAKES HER WAY THROUGH SOME BRUSH

 AT LAST WE'RE HOME AGAIN

Music Box:)) Days Of Wine And Roses is a popular song, from the 1962 film of the same name. The best-known recordings of the song were by Billy Eckstine in 1961 and Andy Williams in 1963.  The music was written by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.  They received the Academy Award for Best Original Song for their work, as well as the 1964 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.  In 2004 it finished at #39 in AFI's 100 Songs... 100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.  The song's lyric is notable for consisting of just two complex sentences, each of which forms one of the song's two stanzas.  The best-known recording was Williams' version, which was recorded for Columbia Records.  The song reached #9 on the Adult Contemporary chart and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was the featured track on the album, Days of Wine and Roses and other TV Requests, which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.  

 WITH HEAVY OVERNIGHT RAINS MAKING THE GROUND SOFT THIS LITTLE BULLDOZER HAD THE DAY OFF

GROANER'S CORNER:(( COMPUTER TERMS - TEXAS TRANSLATION:

LOG ON: Making a wood stove hotter.
LOG OFF: Don't add no more wood.
MONITOR: Keeping an eye on the wood stove.
DOWNLOAD: Gettin' the farwood off the truck
MEGA HERTZ: When yer not keerful gettin' the farwood
RAM: That thing tha splits the farwood
HARD DRIVE: Gettin' home in the winter time
PROMPT: What the mail ain't in the winter time
WINDOWS: What to shut when it's cold outside
SCREEN: What to shut when it's black fly season
BYTE: What them dang flies do
CHIP: Munchies fer the TV
MICRO CHIP: What's in the bottom of the munchie bag
MODEM: Whatcha did to the hay fields
DOT MATRIX: Old Dan Matrix's wife
LAP TOP: Where the kitty sleeps
KEYBOARD: Where ya hang the dang truck keys
SOFTWARE: Them dang plastic forks and knives
MOUSE: What eats the grain in the barn
MOUSE PAD: That's hippie talk fer where the mouse lives
MAIN FRAME: Holds up the barn roof
ENTER: Northerner talk fer "c'mon in, y'all"
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- They say that an apple a day will keep the doctor away...Why stop there?  An onion a day will keep everybody away!

- San Francisco isn't just funny it's hill areas.

- Health inspector: "I'm afraid you have too many roaches in here." Restaurant owner: "How many am I allowed?"

- Yesterday I saw a guy spill all his Scrabble letters on the road.  I asked him, “What’s the word on the street?"

- I got my daughter a fridge for her birthday.  I can’t wait to see her face light up when she opens it.

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