'GADZOOKS' I HOPE NOT!!

Low on cream for my coffee, Pheebs and I headed into Bayfield for a stop at Foodland and a small container of 18% cream.  That's what Tim Hortons uses.  Rather than turn right around after Foodland and go home making for another long day simply sitting inside, we headed south out of Bayfield down the Bronson Line to see if we could find a few photos on yet another dull grey uninspiring day.  It was nice to slowly amble our way along through the snowy countryside listening to soft ambient music on Subie's XM Sirius Satellite radio.

 BAYFIELDERS OUT WALKING THIS MORNING

 NICE TO STILL SEE SOME OPEN WATER WAY OUT THERE ON THE HORIZON

Home again about an hour later I busied myself with going through kitchen cupboards looking for unopened food items I'd never use.  I'm thinking maybe I could donate those things to a local food bank.  Being born back in the mid-40's I was strongly instilled with the ethics of never wasting or throwing out perfectly good food.

 ANOTHER GREY DAY IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

 FINALLY, A SPLASH OF COLOR

 THESE STRAW BALES WERE SO COLD THEY HAD TO BE WRAPPED UP TO KEEP WARM

So yesterday there came a light tap at my door.  I see a tall dark stranger standing there.  I open the door and it's the Amazon guy with a package.  What!!  I didn't order anything unless the Moon is in there.  I cut open the package and inside were two more boxes of #1 Melita coffee filters.  With 80 in a pack, I now have approximately 350 coffee filters here.  Oh no I thought, have I gone and clicked on a wrong button somewhere on the Amazon site, and now for the rest of my life I will be receiving Melita coffee filters three times a week.  But, then I remembered my first attempt to order them when Amazon would not complete my order because they said there was something screwy with the account.  So, after getting the account finally straightened out I figured I would 're-order' the coffee filters just to make sure I had everything right.  Well I did, but hadn't realized Amazon had gone back to the original botched order and 're-sent it'.  By the way, I later realized I can buy these coffee filters at Home Hardware in Exeter, Ontario way cheaper than ordering them online from Amazon.  So, no more online Amazon coffee filters for me unless I've gone and signed up for a lifetime supply.  'Gadzooks', I hope not!!  

 OMINOUS WINTER SKIES

Al's Music Box:)) Here There And Everywhere is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. A love ballad, it was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney. McCartney includes it among his personal favorites of the songs he has written.  In 2000, Mojo ranked it 4th in the magazine's list of the greatest songs of all time.  McCartney began writing "Here, There and Everywhere" at Lennon's house in Weybridge, in early June, while waiting for Lennon to wake up. McCartney recalled: "I sat out by the pool on one of the sun chairs with my guitar and started strumming in E. And soon I had a few chords, and I think by the time he'd woken up, I had pretty much written the song, so we took it indoors and finished it up."  When discussing his song "Here, There and Everywhere", McCartney has often cited the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows", his favorite pop song of all time, as a source of inspiration.  In 1990, McCartney told Beach Boys biographer David Leaf that it was "just the introduction that's influenced [by the Beach Boys]", referring to the harmonies he and Lennon devised for the opening lines of "Here, There and Everywhere". McCartney added that, with this style of introduction, they wanted to capture the "old-fashioned" idea of a preamble to the song.  Rolling Stone has noted: "The tune's chord sequence bears Brian Wilson's influence, ambling through three related keys without ever fully settling into one, and the modulations – particularly the one on the line 'changing my life with a wave of her hand' – deftly underscore the lyrics, inspired by McCartney's girlfriend, actress Jane Asher.  The Beatles recorded "Here, There and Everywhere" towards the end of the sessions for their 1966 album Revolver.  The band worked on the song at Abbey Road Studios over three session dates – on 14, 16 and 17 June.  Before carrying out overdubs, they taped 13 takes before achieving a satisfactory basic track.  The recording is noted for its layered backing vocals, which McCartney, Lennon and George Harrison spent much of the three days attempting to perfect. McCartney mentioned in the 1989 radio series McCartney on McCartney that the vocals were meant to have a Beach Boys sound; he has also said that he was trying to sing it in the style of Marianne Faithfull.  McCartney's lead vocal on the recording is multi-tracked.  In his book Revolution in the Head, Ian MacDonald also comments on Harrison's lead guitar part being given a mandolin-like tone via a Leslie speaker effect, before it adopts a "horn-like timbre" for the song's ending". 

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.  "How old are you?"  "I'm 4 and half."  You're never 36 and a half, but you're 4 and a half going on 5! That's the key. You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number.  "How old are you?"  "I'm gonna be 16."  You could be 12, but you're gonna be 16. And then the greatest day of your life happens: you become 21. Even the words sounds like a ceremony--you BECOME 21. YES!!!!  But then you turn 30. Ooohhh, what happened here?? Makes you sound like bad milk. He TURNED. We had to throw him out. There's no fun now. What's wrong?? What changed???  You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40...stay over there, it's all slipping away...  You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, you're PUSHING 40, you REACH 50...my dreams are gone...You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, you're PUSHING 40, you REACH 50 and then you MAKE IT to 60...Whew! I didn't think I'd make it.  You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, You're PUSHING 40, you REACH 50, you MAKE IT to 60, and by then you've built up so much speed, you HIT 70!  After that, it's a day-by-day thing. You HIT Wednesday, you get into your 80s, you HIT lunch. I mean my grandmother won't even buy green bananas, "Well it's an investment, you know, and maybe a bad one."  And it doesn't end there...Into the 90's, you start going backwards: I was JUST 92. Then a strange thing happens, if you make it over 100, you become a little kid again: I'm 100 and a half!!  Age is a funny thing.

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Young Son: "Is it true, Dad? I heard that in some parts of the world a man doesn’t know his wife until he marries her”

Dad: That happens in every country, son.

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Got home from work today to find my kids have been on ebay all day.  If they are still there tomorrow I will lower the price.

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A man has a racehorse that never won a race. The man says in disgust, "Horse, you win today or you pull a milk wagon tomorrow morning."  The starting gate opens and all the horses take off running except for the man's horse which is lying there asleep on the track.  He kicks the horse and asks, "Why are you sleeping?"  The sleepy horse raises his head and says, "I have to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning to pull the milk wagon."

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