OUT THE DOOR LIKE A FLYING FLATULENT FORCE OF FIERY WIND GUSTS

It was a sunny cool morning as Pheebs and I slipped into and around Bayfield.  I think this picturesque little Village looks its yearly best at this time of year with all the old trees clothed in their finest Autumn colors.  And, especially so on Clan Gregor Square with its fine old ageless Maple trees.

A FEW DRIVE-BY PICS OF CLAN GREGOR SQUARE

We have definitely made the seasonal shift to cool and colder days and nights.  I am very much enjoying the dryer air.  Our Autumn colors are finally beginning to really 'pop'.  Such a pretty and nice feeling time of the year.  A month from now we'll be struggling through the cold wet and  bleak gray dregs of November.  Best not to think too far ahead sometimes.  

A FISHING BOAT LEAVES THE HARBOR LATE THIS MORNING

 LOOKING DOWNRIVER THERE IS ONLY ONE BOAT LEFT AT ITS DOCKS

 LOOKING UPRIVER THERE ARE NOT MANY BOATS LEFT IN THE WATER UP THERE EITHER

 CANADA GEESE PADDLING THEIR WAY ACROSS THE BAYFIELD RIVER

It was almost a repeat of yesterday afternoon with me in my recliner and sunroom spiders spinning webs around me.  While tipped back in my recliner reading, the thought suddenly popped into my head that I was doing exactly the same darn thing today as I was doing yesterday.  With that scary thought, I was out of my recliner, on my feet, and out the door like a flying flatulent force of fiery wind gusts.  I rounded up all the remaining outdoor summer furniture and put it away.  I burnt up a load of burnables in our burn barrel, moved all the stuff off our back deck into storage, raked up more pine needles, and restocked the bird feeders.  It won't be long now and that re-stocking of bird feeders will almost become a full-time job. 

 THIS OLD BUT RECENTLY REFURBISHED COTTAGE IN BAYFIELD IS FOR SALE

 A SHADY BAYFIELD STREET

THIS LADIES GROUP ON BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET ENJOYS A HOT COFFEE ON THIS CRISP MID-OCTOBER MORNING

Kelly's back is still bothering her but not quite as bad as those first few days after she injured it.  We have to hope it is in its healing stage now and understand that it may take longer to heal than in previous years.  

 A BLUE JAY AT ONE OF OUR FEEDERS

Al's Music Box:)) The Big Hurt is a pop song that was a hit for Toni Fisher in 1959. The song was written by Wayne Shanklin. "The Big Hurt" is notable because it featured phasing effects which at that time were rare in popular music.   American music industry veterans David S. Gold and Stan Ross, founders of the renowned Gold Star Studios in Hollywood, claim that "The Big Hurt" was the first commercial recording to feature a technique (or effect) now known as flanging. This "jet plane-like" sound effect may also be familiar to those who have listened to long-distance shortwave radio music broadcasts. (In radio, this effect was the result of multipath interference and varying propagation times.) To some, the flanging effect made this record sound like a distant shortwave broadcast.  In a 1968 report on sound effects in pop for Beat Instrumental, Crotus Pike wrote that Fisher's hit "was almost phased from start to finish. The result was like listening to an erratic signal on short wave radio." He wrote that the effect "turned a fairly ordinary song into a million seller", and also noted the precedent it set for the Small Faces' "Itchycoo Park" and Cat Stevens' "A Bad Night" (both 1967).  The song went to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart in the United States. 

GROANER'S CORNER:(( My girlfriend is impossible to buy for so I asked her best friend what I should get her for her birthday.  

Best Friend: “Does she like you?”  

Me: “Oh yes, I am positive she likes me!!!”  

Best friend: “If she likes you, she’ll like anything.”

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- Marriage Counsellor: Your wife says you never buy her flowers. Is that true? Spouse: To be honest, I never knew she sold flowers.

- Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done.

- I came.  I saw.  I forgot what I was doing.  Retraced my steps.  Got lost on the way back.  Now I have no idea what's going on.

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Former President George W. Bush decides it is time to do some public relations at a local Washington DC nursing home. The President begins his "tour" down the main hallway and passes by a little old man who doesn't seem to notice him.  Sensing this, President Bush backtracks to the resident and asks, "Do you know who I am?"  The little old man looks up from his walker and says, "No, but if you go to the front desk, they will tell you your name."

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