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| A STOP AT AN OLD CONCRETE RAILWAY UNDERPASS ALONG THE TRAIL |
It was early Saturday evening when we saddled up the E-Bikes and headed into Bayfield. We buzzed Main Street, biked around a few neighborhood blocks, and landed ourselves back on Main Street again. The line up for ice cream at Rosies Ice Cream Shoppe was a quarter of a block long, so that was the end of that story. Biked down to the beach and out onto the pier with the sun setting over the lake. With the sun down, it was back up into the village we went before heading home with our headlights on. Another nice summer evening bike ride into Bayfield and back.
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| BEACHGOERS ENJOYING THEMSELVES ON SUNNY WARM AFTERNOON BELOW BAYFIELD'S PIONEER PARK |
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| LOOKED LIKE A MOM AND HER SON ENJOYING A DAY AT THE BEACH |
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| GETTING THE LITTLE FELLA ACCUSTOMED TO THE WATER |
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| AND, I THINK THEY ARE BOTH HAVING FUN |
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| WE HEADED DOWN TO THE BEACH AND OUT ONTO THE PIER |
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| LOTS OF PEOPLE |
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| I WONDERED IF THIS FELLOW MIGHT HAVE BEEN A VIDEOGRAPHER |
A lower humidity level made my morning walk doable, and I was grateful for that. Home again, I put the E-bike carrier on the back of the car and loaded up the bikes. It was well after noon when we headed for a trailhead in Blyth, Ontario. It wasn't long before we had the bikes off the car and had tires on the Mailtand Trail heading east in the direction of Walton, Ontario. It was a perfect day for a bike ride with a nice mixture of sun and shade along the way. We didn't go as far as Walton, but by the time we returned to the car we had travelled 7.5 miles.
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| BIKES ARE UNLOADED AND WE'RE READY TO RUMBLE |
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| A VERY SCENIC TRAIL ALONG THIS STRETCH |
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| A COUPLE OF BIKERS BLAZING BY WITH THE THROTTLE DOWN |
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| NEARLY BACK TO THE CAR |
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| THE BLYTH TRAILHEAD IS BEHIND THIS ONCE POPULAR BUT NOW CLOSED HIDE AND TANNERY OUTLET WHERE BACK IN THE LATE 80'S WOODSY AND I CAME HERE ONE DAY TO FIND ME A NICE JACKET.....I CHOSE A DARK BLUE LEATHER ONE THAT I WORE FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS |
Al's Music Box:(( The Blizzard by Jim Reeves.
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| ON THE FRONT PORCH SATURDAY NIGHT AFTER RETURNING FROM OUR BIKE RIDE, WOODSY CHECKS HER SMART WATCH TO SEE HOW MANY CALORIES SHE HAD BURNED....SHE TAKES THIS EXERCISE STUFF SERIOUSLY.....ME, NOT SO MUCH |
GROANER'S CORNER:((The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing public enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 percent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the language is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud, of kors, be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German lik zey vunted in ze forst plas.---------------------------------
- Question: How much should I spend on a really good bottle of wine? Half an hour?
Twenty minutes?
- This young man was elated when he turned eighteen in a state where curfew is 11:00 p.m. for anyone under seventeen years of age. He told his Dad how happy he was that now he could stay out until 3:00 a.m. if he wanted. “Yes you can stay out as late as you want, but the car is under seventeen and it has to be in the garage by eleven,” his father said.
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A blind man enters a ladies' bar by mistake. He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a drink. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, "Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?" The bar immediately falls absolutely quiet. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, sir, you should know five things:
1 - The bartender is a blonde girl.
2 - The bouncer is a blonde gal.
3 - I'm a 6-foot tall, 200-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4 - The woman sitting next to me is blonde and is a professional weight lifter.
5 - The lady to your right is a blonde and is a professional wrestler.
Now think about it seriously, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?"
The blind man thinks for a second, shakes his head, and declares, "Nah, not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times."
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This morning, a sizeable storm front moving south of us just grazed Bayfield on its thundering way inland, heading east. Too bad, because we could have used the rain. Well, at least my grass could have, that is. Oh, that reminds me....better get my lawn sprinkler out. Kind of a lazy day, with a bit of puttering thrown in. Woodsy headed back to Stratford late this afternoon, so I will definitely have myself out under the stars again tonight. I always have my fingers crossed hoping that Scotty will beam me up:))
