I CAN ALREADY TELL YOU THAT IT IS 4,262 WEEKS AND 6 DAYS

 A FEW DRIVE BY DITCH FLOWERS FROM A COUPLE DAYS AGO

Mother Nature's shenanigans overnight didn't make for a restful night's sleep.  Whether it was the rain pounding on my steel roof, the jarring claps of thunder, or the accompanying lightning flashes, they all combined to make for a sketchy night.  But that's okay, upon awakening this morning, there were already some nice sunsplashes making their way through the cloud cover and spilling onto the living room floor. But, oh my, the wind!!  And, to my added disappointment, the cloud cover moved back in and the day went on to be cold and rainy.  With temps barely pushing through the 60F mark, combined with the wind, I knew I would not be heading out for a country road walk this morning.  I knew it was going to be an inside day for me, and sensed that it was going to be okay.  And, it was.

 I HAD MYSELF AN INSIDE PROJECT GOING ON THIS MORNING....THERE'S A WATER STAIN IN THE CARPET ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PHOTO

As probably with many or most folks, I started my daily routine off this morning in a dozy state.  It's that state when you first awaken and are vulnerable to making silly mistakes before the brain fully comprehends it is actually awake.  And so it was with me this morning.  I always pre-set my one-cup coffee maker the night before.  Water, coffee filter, and coffee in the machine ready to go first thing in the morning when I hit the switch.  My cup, with cream in it I set in the fridge.  In the morning as I make my first pass of the day through the kitchen, I simply retrieve my coffee cup with cream from the fridge, place it on my coffee maker, hit the 'on' switch and head for the washroom.  Well, you probably already know what's coming.  Minutes later in the washroom, my ears detected an unusual sound.  It was my coffee maker, and something wasn't quite sounding right.  In a flash, I knew what I had done wrong, but it was too late.  Racing around the corner out to the kitchen, I could immediately see my mistake.  I had forgotten to take my coffee cup out of the fridge and place it on the coffee maker.  I now had a river of hot coffee flowing freely in a westerly direction down the kitchen counter in the direction of the unsuspecting fridge.  Well, there was no use panicking because this certainly wasn't the first time I had done this.  And, it's not likely to be the last time either.  With wads of paper towels, I calmly began the clean-up, and I was quite proud of myself that I had not launched into my usual big bluster.  Sometimes, my sharp blusters can be heard three blocks away.  And, by the way, if the word 'bluster' sounds remotely familiar to you, it might mean that, like me, you watched the Howdy Doody show many, many Moons ago.  And of course, we all remember with fondness, Phineas T. Bluster:))

 MY ONE CUP COFFEE MAKER SET-UP

With the weather today being almost as grumpy as me, I decided to focus on an inside project that I have had simmering on the back burner for awhile.  Earlier in the Spring when when the ice and snow began to thaw, unbeknownst to me, there had been a substantial ice buildup under a section of steel roofing where the sunroom joins the main structure.  As temperatures rose, I suddenly had water leaks pouring in like Niagara Falls.  By the time I got buckets and pots under the five leaks, the carpet was already soaked.  Well, needless to say, when the carpet finally dried up, there was a sizeable stain left behind, and it was that stain I attempted to remove this morning.  Enter Lorraine's Bissell ProHeat2X carpet cleaning machine.  This gal has everything.  She brought her Bissell carpet cleaner over a month ago, and it is only now that I have decided to use it and 'get this carpet job done'!!  First, I vacuumed (Dyson) half of the sunroom where the problem with the carpet discoloration was.  Of course, I had removed all the furniture from that half of the sunroom beforehand, setting some of it outside on the deck after checking the weather radar map to make sure there was no rain headed this way in the foreseeable future.  And, guess what......Nope, you guessed wrong.  The rain did not come:)) After watching an instructional Youtube video, I mixed up the cleaning solution and cleaned the whole half of the sunroom carpet.  Amazingly, everything went surprisingly well.  Buoyed by the lack of usual problems, I then tackled the living room and the spare bedroom.  Later, after the sunroom carpet had finally dried, I could see that the water stain discoloration in the carpet had been about 75% removed.  It'x a nice feeling inside when things like that mostly work out.  By the time I moved all the sunroom furniture back in place, it was past mid-afternoon on this 29,840th day of my life here on this Earth Planet.  And, before you waste time wondering how many weeks that would be, I can already tell you that it is 4,262 weeks, and 6 days:))  With a solid cloud cover remaing over us for the rest of day, I was thankful for my comfortible recliner...........

 I'M ABOUT READY TO GET STARTED

 FINISHED NOW AND I HAVE TWO FANS GOING FULL TILT TO DRY OUT THE CARPET

 IT WAS LATE AFTERNOON WHEN I FINALLY GOT THE EASTERN HALF OF THE SUNROOM PUT BACK TOGETHER

Al's Music Box:: Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( An efficiency expert concluded his lecture with a note of caution. "You need to be careful about trying these techniques at home." "Why?" asked somebody from the audience. "I watched my wife's routine at dinner for years," the expert explained. "She made lots of trips between the refrigerator, stove, table and cabinets, often carrying a single item at a time. One day I told her, 'Honey, why don't you try carrying several things at once?' "Did it save time?" the guy in the audience asked."Actually, yes," replied the expert. "It used to take her 30 minutes to  make dinner. Now I do it in ten..."

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A man walked into a hardware store and picked up a can of fly spray. "Is this good for wasps?" he asks the assistant. To which she replies "No, it kills them."
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- What state has the smallest drinks?

Mini-soda.

- What did the hammer say to the saw?
Nailed it.

- What is big and green, and if it falls out of a tree will kill you? A snooker table.

- Where do pencils spend their vacation?
Pencil-Vania

- Why was the tomato all red? It saw the salad dressing.

- What do you call a female magician in the desert? A sand witch.

- How do billboards talk? Sign language.

- I hurt my foot driving the other day. You know who I called? The toe company.

- What did the duck do when he read all these jokes? He quacked up.

- Home is where you hang your @.

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Bubba decided it was time to purchase a new saw to help clear his heavily timbered property. A salesman showed him the latest model chain saw and assured him that he could easily cut three or four cords of wood per day with it. But the first day, Bubba barely cut one cord of wood. The second morning he arose an hour earlier and managed to cut a little over one cord. The third day he got up even earlier but only managed to achieve a total of 1 ½ cords of wood. Bubba returned the saw to the store the next day and explained the situation.

"Well", said the salesman, "let’s see what’s the matter." He then pulled the cable and the chain saw sprang into action.
Leaping back, Bubba shouted, "What the heck is that noise?"

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TELEPORT ME TO THAT BIG, BEAUTIFUL PEANUT BUTTER PLANTATION IN THE SKY

HAD MYSELF A LITTLE PROJECT GOING ON TODAY

With thunder, lightning, and rain Tuesday evening and through the night, I was fully expecting a cloudy, wet day today.  But, not so.  Once again, bright sunlight beamed through the living room window.  And that was enough to get me up and out the door.  Well, after tending to all my daily morning computer stuff, that is.  However, by the time I made it out to my walking road, the sky had become cloudy again, but fortunately, it didn't last, and we were once again back to blue skies until late afternoon, when the cloud cover returned, bringing rain with it.  I'll not be slipping out for an evening cruise around the countryside tonight.

 HEAVILY CLOUDED SKIES ABOVE MY WALKING ROAD THIS MORNING

Deciding not to succumb to my tiredness yet again today, I decided to boot myself out the door and take care of another little project I had been putting off.  Earlier in the Spring, I had decided to continue parking the utility next to a decorative trailer in the area where we always parked our RV's over the years.  Lately, I have been parking the utility trailer in a different spot under a bunch of trees, and that spot has proved to be more easily accessible for yard waste.  I decided this morning that I am quite satisfied with it sitting there all the time and not at the pea stone spot near the divider.  So, that only left one thing for me to do.  Remove that pea stone and plant grass in its place,  So, that is what I did today. But, I didn't do it with all the energetic vim and vigor I had going on a month or two ago.  I had to push myself today to finish the job.  And, by the time I made it back into the house, I think I was almost sleepwalking.  Say, you don't suppose it's too many peanut butter and honey sandwiches and not enough broccoliees and asparagasses.  If that's the case, just beam me up and get me out of here Scotty, I'm ready to go.  Teleport me to that big, beautiful peanut butter plantation in the sky:))  

I RAKED AND SHOVELLED OUT MOST OF THE PEA STONEAND HAVE NOW SEEDED THE AREA

THIS IS THE NEW SPOT FOR THE UTILITY TRAILER ALONGSIDE THE DRIVEWAY

Al's Music Box:: No More Cloudy Days by The Eagles.

 SAT ON THE FRONT PORCH THIS AFTERNOON WITH A POCKET FULL OF PEANUTS FOR MY FURRY LITTLE PALS AND AUNT JEAN WILL RECOGNIZE THESE TWO CHAIRS

GROANER'S CORNER:(( What If Dr. Seuss had been a Technical Writer?  Here are some easy things he might have said::  If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house, says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol, that's being repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall.

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of a louse and your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse, then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk, and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk, then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to ram your rom. Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!
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- We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk, and the next twenty-four years telling them to sit down and shut up!

- The economy is so bad that: The Mafia is laying off judges

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Datsun!
Datsun who?
Datsun old joke!

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Deanna!
Deanna who?
Deanna-mals are restless, open the cage!

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Dawn!
Dawn who?
Dawn leave me out here in the cold!
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Two Irishmen robbed a bank and messed it up, managing to escape with two sacks that they found on the floor. And they take one sack each.  After a while, they meet again, and one asks the other, "What did you find in your sack?" "Fifty thousand dollars!"
"Wow... that's a lot! What did you do with the cash?" "I bought a new car. How about your sack?"  "Bah... it was full of bills.  "And what did you do with them?"  "Well... little by little, I'm paying them off..."

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