THE DAY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CONTACTED ME

 BUTTERFLIES ACCOMPANYIED ON MY WALK AGAIN THIS MORNING

Friday's all-day cloud cover never did break up and dissipate, so there was no point in heading out to my starry night spot.  Spent the evening on my YouTube channel.  I don't know how the long Labor Day Weekend came up so fast, but it did.  It seems only a few weeks ago that school kids were starting their summer holidays.  I can only hope that the coming winter goes that fast.

 SPOTTED ANOTHER TOUCH OF EARLY AUTUMN TODAY

Sunshine blazed through the window this morning, and with temps at 72°F and humidity substantially lower, I figured it would be a good morning (after my walk) to get some things done outside. I started with an overgrown Hydrangea plant in the backyard, and it didn't take long to fill my utility trailer with hydrangea branches and other yard waste.  Fingers crossed for clear skies tonight.  I definitely need some ethereal quiet time.

MY OVERGROWN BACKYARD HYDRANGEA

 ANOTHER LOAD TO THE PARK'S RECYCLE AREA

I PICKED UP A HITCHHIKER THIS MORNING

 

 PARK OWNERS SARAH AND ADAM RECENTLY PURCHASED THE PREVIOUS OWNER'S HOUSE, WHICH IS LOCATED RIGHT NEXT TO THE PARK'S MAINTENANCE YARD AND SHOP....THEIR OLDEST SON HAS MOVED IN AND WILL BE LIVING ON SITE AND DOING A LOT OF THE WORK HIS DAD HAD BEEN DOING, LIKE ROAD MAINTENANCE AND SNOWPLOWING, ETC.  SARAH AND ADAM LIVE ABOUT 55 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE PARK HERE

 TWO HALVES OF ANOTHER NEW HOME HAVE JUST ARRIVED 

Al Blast From Our Past:: Facebook tossed me another memory today, and as so often happens with those memories, I had completely forgotten about it.  But it has to do with my post's title today, and you can read about it here in a post I wrote seventeen years ago on September 4th, 2009.  The post is entitled, Today I Had To Eat Some Crow And Email An Apology  

 I ALWAYS STOP AND SAY HALLO TO MR. SPIDER ON MY COUNTRY ROAD WALKS

Al's Music Box:: Rainy Night In Georgia by Brook Benton.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Two brothers, Zeke and Clem, inherit the family ranch. Unfortunately, after just a few years, they are in financial trouble. In order to keep the bank from repossessing the ranch, they need to purchase a bull from the stockyard in a far away town so that they can breed their own stock. They only have $600 left. Upon leaving, Zeke tells his brother, 'When I get there, if I decide to buy the bull, I'll contact you to drive out after me and haul it home.' Zeke arrives at the stockyard, inspects the bull, and decides he wants to buy it. The man tells him that he will sell it for $599, no less. After paying him, he drives to the nearest town to send his brother a telegram to tell him the news. He walks into the telegraph office and says, 'I want to send a telegram to my brother telling him that I've bought a bull for our ranch. I need him to hitch the trailer to our pickup truck and drive out here so we can haul it home.' The telegraph operator explains that he'll be glad to help him, then adds, 'It's just 99 cents a word.' Well, after paying for the bull, Zeke only has $1 left. He realizes that he'll only be able to send his brother one word. After a few minutes of thinking, he nods and says, 'I want you to send him the word 'comfortable.' The operator shakes his head. 'How is he ever going to know that you want him to hitch the trailer to your pickup truck and drive out here to haul that bull back to your ranch if you send him just the word 'comfortable?' Zeke explains, 'My brother's not to bright. The word's big so he'll read it very slowly ... com-for-da-bull.'

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At the doctor's office, Tom was getting a checkup. "I have good news and bad news," says the doctor. "The good news is you have 24 hours left to live." Tom replies, "That's the good news?!" Then the doctor says, "The bad news is I should have told you that yesterday."

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Life Before Computers::

An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano!

Memory was something that you lost with age
A CD was a bank account
And if you had a 3 1/2 inch floppy disc drive
You hoped someday, information would arrive.

Compress was something you did to garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you unzipped anything in public
You'd be in jail for a while!

Log on was adding wood to a fire
Hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode!

Cut - you did with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a spider's home
And a virus was the flu!

I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper
And the memory in my head
I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash
But when it happens they wish they were dead!

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AND THAT GREMLIN WAS ME!!

I didn't let the morning's overcast sky and later rain deter my spirits.  On my walking road, walking with head down, I heard a sudden low fluttering rumble off to my left.  Quickly looking up, I saw a large flock of Canada Geese close by, all taking to the air from the harvested wheat field to the west.  Once fully airborne, I estimated there were easily fifty or more birds, squawking wildly, and quickly forming up their flight patterns.  I felt kinda bad for disturbing them.  I guess that should teach me to walk with my head up. 

For the past couple of years I've had an old and heavy leather recliner sitting in the carport.  Many times I've looked at that recliner thinking, 'I should take that thing to the landfill site east of Holmesville one of these days'.  Well, that day finally came and this morning that is exactly what I did.  Instead of looking at again and again, I finally tossed it into the back of the Subaru and away I went.  It felt good to have another 'mission accomplished'.  I've got to do more positive things like that!!  With that chair finally out of the way, it spurred me on to do a big clean-up in that corner of the carport, and that of course, led to a feeling of accomplishment which I think is important to many Seniors, and not just myself.

 I WAS SURPRISED THESE CROWS DIDN'T FLY WHEN I DROVE BY

With both of my TVs in a state of frazzlement on Thursday, and my iPhone not connecting to my car's SiriusXM radio again, it was Andrew to the rescue.  When he popped over last night, I switched on the main TV.....and what the heck!!  It was working perfectly.  Andrew figured it had been a Tuckersmith problem brought on by the double power outages from Wednesday night's severe storm.  I was inclined to agree. I'm always too quick to blame myself when stuff doesn't work.  With a couple of clicks, we had the sunroom TV working fine as well.  Then, out to the car we went to see what rascally deeds the Gremlins were doing to my iPhone/XM connection.  Well, as it turns out, there was only one Gremlin responsible for the problem.  And that Gremlin was me!!  It only took Andrew a matter of seconds to see what the problem was.  An XM promotional ad on the phone's screen had me stumped, and despite a zillion times trying to get past that ad to my music, I was totally flummoxed.  Andrew, in his patience, simply had me gently 'swipe up' the ad to reveal, below the words, something to the effect, 'if you already have SiriusXM, press continue. Did that, and with a quick email address and a verification code, I was once again logged into my favorite music channel. The Spa 746. But here's the rub!! I had this exact same problem a couple of months ago, and Andrew told me then about that 'swipe up ' solution. But do you think my memory retained that simple fix??  No Sireeeeeeee it didn't:((.

 IT'S RARE TO SEE MOUNTAIN ASH TREES ANYMORE BUT i SPOTTED THESE AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF BAYFIELD ROAD AND TIPPERARY LINE

 AN EARLY SIGN OF AUTUMN IN OUR PARK

Al's Music Box:: Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay Otis Redding.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Little Johnny's father took him on a fishing trip to Canada. On returning home after catching only three fish, his father says, "The way I figure it, each fish cost us $400!" Little Johnny replied, "Well, at that price it’s a good thing we didn’t catch any more of them than we did."

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Mom: Do you think we’re made of money?
Daughter: Isn’t that what MOM stands for?

In my last job my wages were paid in vegetables. I left because i was unhappy with the celery.

It was a very moving ceremony. Even the cake is in tiers.

So, today, I told my team about the importance of dried grapes. It’s all about raisin awareness.

Yeah. I was in a Zoom meeting when I told that joke, and they didn’t laugh either. It turns out I’m not even remotely funny.

Why are Catholics so upbeat after church gatherings? Because they convert Mass into energy.
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I wanted to get rid of my old knackered flat-screen TV that doesn't work anymore.
The recycling company said they would charge me $50.00 to collect it and dispose of it. Instead, I paid $12.50 to an online courier to collect it and deliver it to somebody I don't like! 

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