KELLY'S SON BEN AND HIS TWO BOYS CAME FOR A VISIT TODAY

 GOING BY THIS HOUSE, IT WAS THE 'SHADOWED' WORD ON THE BRICKS THAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION....LOOK CLOSELY AT HOW THAT SHADOW WAS CAST...SECONDS AFTER I TOOK THIS PHOTO, THE SHADOW DISAPPEARED...CAN YOU FIGURE OUT WHY??  

I saw an improvement in Kelly's condition first thing this morning compared to yesterday's sad day when she was so weak and barely able to lift herself up from a sitting or lying down position.  It was encouraging to see strength slowly ebbing back into her weakness.  Kelly had some library books to be returned to Bayfield's library so with her feeling a bit better, I loaded up Pheebs and off we went to take those books back comfortable in the thought that she would be okay for the short time we were gone.  It is the two compression fractures in Kelly's back right now that are giving her the most grief and making it difficult for her to be in motion.  

 QUIET DAYS NOW ALONG BAYFIELD'S BEACH

MILES OUT ON LAKE HURON'S HORIZON, I SAW A DOT SO I ZOOMED IN WITH MY CAMERA LENS AND  IT WAS LIKE A DESERT MIRAGE APPEARING

EVEN FURTHER OUT A SECOND GHOST SHIP APPEARED OUT OF THE HAZE....BOTH FREIGHTERS WERE INBOUND TO THE PORT OF GODERICH

I THINK THIS GUY ALONGSIDE THE BAYFIELD RIVER IS GIVING ME THE FISHERMAN'S EYE

 STILL SOME AUTUMN COLORS LEFT IN BAYFIELD

Home again I quickly got a walker out of our carport that we've had for a long time.  My Mother bought this walker new back around 2003 when she was in a Tavistock nursing home.  After my Mother passed away in 2006 we brought the walker home and put it up in the rafters of our carport until I took it down again about four years ago when Kelly took the walker to Spencerport New York for her Mother.  When her Mother passed away the walker came back to it's spot in the carport and has been up there in the rafters ever since.  Well, untill today.  I got it down, brought it in the house and cleaned it up.  Within minutes Kelly took it for a spin down our hall and back and remarked how much better that it was for her to get around.  With one appointment in Goderich and one in London next week, that walker will come in very handy.  Kelly and I have been doing a lot of down-to-earth talking these past few days since our lives turned over a new chapter last week.  We have both accepted the inevitable reality now and we are looking ahead to what needs to be done and not back to things that have been done.  We have to plan and prepare for all scenarios coming up.  Arrangements have to be made, loose ends tied up and organized.  It is no problem for us to talk about these things because we have always been on the same page with most everything, including the end of life for either one of us.

 MY MOTHER'S WALKER

 HITCHED UP MY LAST UTILITY TRAILER LOAD OF YARD WASTE FOR THE YEAR

 THE NEXT TIME I BACK INTO OUR PARK'S YARDWASTE AREA WILL BE NEXT SPRING

Ben and the boys arrived shortly after 2 and  we all piled into the living room for the remainder of the afternoon.  For supper, it was decided to go with pizza.  Kelly called it in and Ben slipped into Bayfield to pick it up at the newly opened, Locals Pizza.  It was two pizzas we had with Kelly, Ben, Darion, and I eating one, and Kai having his own gluten-free pizza because he has Celeac Disease.  The pizza's were very good.  Each of the boys made Kelly a card with a nice note inside and I could tell Kelly was touched by both those cards.

 A RELAXING AFTERNOON AT OUR HOUSE

KAI ON THE LEFT AND DARION ON THE RIGHT

 BOTH OF KELLY'S GRANDSONS MADE HER NICE CARD

Someone called from Paramedicine this afternoon canceling tomorrow's in-home appointment and rescheduling it for Saturday, December 7th...................By the end of the day, Kelly was feeling better than yesterday at the same time.  We'll see how things go tomorrow.

A BIG HUG FROM HER SON BEN

 A HUG FROM DARION

 OOOPS, I WAS TOO SLOW ON THE DRAW AND MISSED KAI'S HUG

Al's Music Box:)) You Are The Sunshine Of My Life is a 1973 single released by Stevie Wonder. The song became Wonder's third number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and his first number-one on the Easy Listening chart.  It won Wonder a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and was nominated for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. This song was the second single (following "Superstition") released from the 1972 album entitled Talking Book, which stayed at number one on the R&B albums chart for three weeks.  Rolling Stone ranks the song at number 183 on their list of the Greatest Songs of All Time".  Billboard called it "a soft, haunting ballad with outstanding electric piano runs and outstanding production work.  In 2002, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.  The first two lines of the song are sung, not by Wonder, but by Jim Gilstrap; Lani Groves sings the next two.  Gilstrap and Groves, together with Gloria Barley, also provide backing vocals. The single version of the song differs from the album version with the addition of horns to the mix; this version is also included in the greatest hits compilation album Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium(1982).  Cash Box said that Wonder "changes the pace from 'Superstition' and delivers a stirring ballad performance that is also certain to go gold instantly." It said that the "tune that's been covered many times is done best by the originator."

 MEANING .....' ENCHANTED'

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Bubba applied for an engineering position at a Lake Charles refinery. A Yankee applied for the same job and both applicants having the same qualifications were asked to take a test by the manager. Upon completion of the test, both men only missed one of the questions. The manager went to Bubba and said: "Thank you for your interest, but we've decided to give the Yankee the job."Bubba asked: "And why are you giving him the job? We both got nine questions correct. This being Louisiana, and me being a Southern boy, I should get the job!"
The manager said: "We have made our decision not on the correct answers, but rather on the one question that you both missed." Bubba then asked: "And just how would one incorrect answer be better than the other?" The manager replied: "Bubba, its like this. On question #4 the Yankee put down; "I don't know." You put down, "Neither do I."

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{Quote} Love what you have now before life teaches you to love what you have lost.

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