I KNEW SHE WOULD

 SO NICE TO SEE GREEN FIELDS POKING THROUGH THE MELTING SNOW

Opening the patio door beside my living room recliner this morning at 6 a.m. to let Pheebs out I could hear 'drip-drip-drip' which told me the temperature was above freezing and the snowpack was still melting.  It was 40F.  Maybe it was a Spring like feeling, I don't know...but, something energized me, and before I could say 'Honky Dorry' I was up in my PJ's changing our living room around.  I've always liked changing things around and I figured our living room was certainly due for a change.

It turned out to be a busy morning and with a few drops of rain on the windshield I headed off to Goderich.  I didn't know how long I would be gone so Pheebs opted to stay home.  My first stop was the McCallum and Palla Funderal Home where I got buried in paperwork.  Forms to fill out for Government pension, etc. etc. and etc.  And I don't know how I'm going to get out from under it.  The funeral director was very helpful but by the time I walked out of there, I was lucky to remember where I had parked the car.  I took Kelly's health card and driver's license in to be sent away away to Ottawa for official cancellation.  The document I really need right now is our marriage certificate and I have no idea where that is so I will have to start going through Kelly's stacks of files and papers trying to locate it.  While at the funeral home I also picked up Kelly's ashes to bring home so with her in the front passenger seat beside me I headed off to my next two stops.  The Scotia Bank and the CIBC bank.  At both places they made appointments for me to come back and talk to someone regarding our financial affairs.  One appointment is this Thursday morning and the other one is Monday Morning.  The CIBC bank said they needed a copy of our wills so with that I grabbed a Tim Hortons coffee to go and headed for Clinton Ontario with a quick stop at Walmart to pick up a prescription.  With Kelly's ashes on the seat beside me it was so sad driving past the Huron Hospice location where just a week ago today, Kelly sadly passed away.  Just know that I was talking to her all the while we were driving.  I was able to find the recently relocated law office of Frank Cameron so I slipped in and told them what I needed.  The lady said to pick up the copies tomorrow (no charge) so that is what I will do.  I was glad to get home and bring Kelly into the house.  She is now on a small decorative table near her chair where I can glance over from my recliner and sense her presence there.  And yes, she has made her presence known here in more ways than one.  I knew she would:))

 I FELT SAD DRIVING BY THE HURON HOSPICE HOUSE ON MY WAY TO CLINTON THIS MORNING

 IT WAS A WEEK AGO TODAY ALMOST TO THE HOUR THAT KELLY PASSED AWAY HERE

The rest of the day was spent on my living room project and by late afternoon it was complete.  Looking around I thought, 'ya know what, I just might paint the living room'.  What color you might ask, and I would say the same color I painted the interior of our first motorhome and the same color I painted a large room in our Congress house.  North of Tucson years ago while we were at an RV Park in Casa Grande and while at a Walmart, I walked into the garden center and picked up a clay flower pot.  From there I went to the paint department and had them read the color of that flowerpot with their paint reader.  I said give me a gallon of that color and an hour later with a paint brush and roller in hand I was busy painting the interior of our motorhome.  I love southwest colors so if I decide to do it, that is the color our living room will be:))

GLAD TO FINALLY BE HEADING HOME AFTER AN EMOTIONAL MORNING

Al's Music Box:)) All I Have To Do Is Dream is a song made famous by the Everly Brothers, written by Boudleaux Bryant of the husband-and-wife songwriting team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, and published in 1958. The song is ranked No. 141 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The best-known version was recorded by the Everly Brothers at RCA Studios Nashville and released as a single in April 1958. It had been recorded by the Everly Brothers live in just two takes on March 6, 1958, and features Chet Atkins on guitar. It was the only single ever to be at No. 1 on all of the Billboard singles charts simultaneously. On May 12, 1958, it became No. 1 on the "Best Sellers in Stores" chart, then it reached No. 1 on the "Most Played by Jockeys" and "Top 100" charts on May 19, 1958, and remained No. 1 on each chart for four, five, and three weeks, respectively. With the August 1958 introduction of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song ended the year at No. 2. "All I Have to Do Is Dream" also hit No. 1 on the R&B chart as well as becoming the Everly Brothers' third chart-topper on the country chart. The Everly Brothers briefly returned to the Hot 100 in 1961 with this song.  Outside the United States, "All I Have to Do Is Dream" saw massive success in various countries, most notably the United Kingdom, where it topped the UK's New Musical Express chart in June 1958 and remained there for seven weeks (including one week as a joint number one with Vic Damone's "On the Street Where You Live", spending 21 weeks on the chart in Britain.  The song has also featured on several notable lists of the best songs or singles of all time, including British music magazine Q's 1001 best songs ever in 2003.  It was named one of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll" by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2004.  The B-side, "Claudette", was the first major songwriting success for Roy Orbison (who also recorded his own version of the song) and was named after his first wife.  As a result of this success, Orbison terminated his contract with Sun Records and affiliated himself with the Everly's publisher, Acuff-Rose Music.

 ALMOST HOME

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Once there was a golfer whose drive landed on an anthill. Rather than move the ball, he decided to hit it where it lay. He gave a mighty swing. Clouds of dirt and sand and ants exploded from the spot. Everything but the golfball. It sat in the same spot.  So he lined up and tried another shot. Clouds of dirt and sand and ants went flying again. The golf ball didn't even wiggle.  Two ants survived. One dazed ant said to the other, "Whoa! What are we going to do?"  Said the other ant: "I don't know about you, but I'm going to get on the ball."

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- What would Wonder Woman and Spider-Man name their business?  Amazon Web Services.

- Being blocked and unfriended by some people is like the trash taking itself out.

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Me: "I just burned 2000 calories in 20 minutes."
Friend: "How?"
Me: "I forgot to take my brownies out of the oven."

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Two buddies are fishing, but they haven’t caught anything all day. Then, another fisherman walks by with a huge load of fish. They ask him "excuse me, but where did you get all those fish?"  The other fisherman replies,” If you just go down the stream until the water isn't salty, there are a ton of hungry fish."  They thank him and go on their way. 15 minutes later, one fisherman says to the other "fill the bucket up with water and see if the water is salty."
He dips the bucket in the stream and drinks some. "Nope. Still salty." 30 minutes later, he asks him to check again.  "Nope, still salty." One our later they check again. "Nope. Still salty."  "This isn't good," the fisherman finally says. "We have been walking for almost two hours and the water is still salty!"  "I know," says the other. "And the bucket is almost empty!"

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