WELL THERE WENT MY ORANGE JUICE AND WE HEADED HOME EMPTY HANDED

 WE SURE HAVE HAD A LOT OF SNOW DUMPED ON US AND THERE IS MORE ON THE WAY

It was somewhere around 3 a.m. when with a loud 'pop' I was jarred out of my sleep when our power went off again.  A good thing I had decided to sleep in my clothes I thought.  It turned out to be the start of my day when after maybe five minutes there was another 'pop' and our power was back on.  But the damage was done and I lay there in my recliner now wide awake with a thousand thoughts rolling through my mind.  My day had begun and due to lack of sleep again, I basically went down hill from there. I fired up my laptop and started on today's post beginning with this paragraph.

 A WEE DRIVE AROUND OUR PARK THIS MORNING

My nose wasn't as congested as the past four days and my two-day headache has not returned and I don't think I am coughing as much as the past two days.  My appetite is gone but I've had a desire for orange juice, and I'm out of orange juice.  With a partial blue sky and with all this new snow hanging in the trees, it was a Winter Wonderland outside.  Pheebs and slipped around our Park taking a few photos and then headed off into Bayfield and down around the harbor where I saw the darkest skies out over Lake Huron that I have ever seen.  From there we headed to Foodland to get some orange juice.  I thought it odd that there were no vehicles in the parking lot.  The store was all dark with a sign on the door saying, 'Power Outage'.  Well, there went my orange juice, so we headed home empty-handed.

 HEADING INTO BAYFIELD

Kelly's daughter Sabra from Cambridge drove over today to see her Mom and has booked a hotel room in Goderich and plans on staying a couple days.  I'm going to go up to the hospital early tomorrow afternoon to be part of the 'zoom' call with Kelly's doctor.  Sabra will be there as well.  There was some talk today about Hospice care.  Sabra made some phone calls and I talked to our nurse practitioner this afternoon.

With snow still falling I had no choice but to get myself on the end of my snow shovel again this afternoon.  I certainly didn't feel like shoveling snow but it had to be done.  The snow has a high moisture content and is very heavy and not easy to shovel.  It looks like it's going to be a long hard winter.

HEADING DOWN TO BAYFIELD HARBOR AND BEACH AREA

 THE SKY HAD A VERY ODD AND OMINOUS COLOR TO IT

 THE BAYFIELD RIVER IS BEGINNING TO FREEZE OVER

 BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET WAS A MESS AS SNOW PLOWS AND SNOW REMOVAL MACHINES WORKED TO CLEAR SNOW

Al's Music Box:)) The Days Of Wine And Roses is a popular song, from the 1982 film of the same name. 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.    The song's lyrics are notable for consisting of just two complex sentences, each of which forms one of the song's two stanzas.  The best-known recordings of the song were by Billy Eckstine in 1961 and Andy Williams in 1963.  In 2000, The Letteren included the song on their Greatest Movie Hits album. The phrase "days of wine and roses" is originally from the poem "Vitae Summa Brevis" by the English writer Ernest Dowson (1867–1900):  'They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.

 AND A VERY SPECIAL SURPRISE FOR KELLY TODAY WHEN THESE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS ARRIVED FROM ONE OF OUR BLOG READERS, BARB M IN FLORIDA....THANK YOU BARB FOR YOUR KIND THOUGHTS.....PHOTO BY SABRA

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband. Suddenly, her husband burst into the kitchen.  "Careful," he said. "Careful! Put in some more butter! Oh my gosh! You're cooking too many at once. Too many! Turn them! Turn them now!  We need more butter. Oh my gosh! Where are we going to get more butter? They're going to stick! Careful. Careful! I said be careful!  You never listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up!  Don't forget to salt them! You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. Use the salt! The salt!"  His wife stared at him.  "What in the world is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?"  The husband calmly replied, "I just wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving."

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- The only thing creepier than seeing a guy in a Speedo is seeing a guy in a Speedo staring back at you.

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Emma!
Emma who?
Emma bit cold out here, can you let me in?

Son: Father, Can I ask you a question?

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A son asks his father a question.
Son: When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor.

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A farmer was driving along the road with a load of fertilizer. A little boy, playing in front of his house, saw him and called, "What've you got in   your truck?"  "Fertilizer," the farmer replied.
"What are you going to do with it?" asked the little boy.  "Put it on strawberries," answered the farmer.  "You ought to live here," the little boy advised him. "We put sugar and cream on ours."

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