TOO HOT TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX TODAY

It was too hot & humid to think outside the box today so we concentrated our efforts inside the box where we could at least stay cool in our A/C.  If we go ahead with our renovations a lot of old clutter has to be thrown out, moved, & re-organized.  Similar to full time folks having to clear things out in preparation to selling their house.  We’re not selling our house though so it’s easier for us because we only have two rooms to deal with.  We have done a lot of renovations in the last 10 years but the bedrooms have basically remained the same as the day we moved in.  It is in these two rooms our renovations may or may not occur.  It was just a good day for cleaning things out anyway.

Over the years ‘stuff’ gets filed away in drawers, piled on shelves, & tossed into corners.  Imagine my delight today when sifting through a pile of dusty old CD’s & came across the long lost instruction book for our Delorme P-40 GPS unit we bought new 3 or 4 years ago.  Now if we can just remember where the heck we put that Delorme P40 & match it up with the newly found instruction book.

Have to get myself busy working on a special page for Max, Checkers, & Cora.  Noticed one of our readers was missing the side bar photos.  I had also removed  a few other pics as well & plan to include them when I re-do our ‘About The Bayfield Bunch’ pages.  Hopefully soon.  Been quite awhile since I have updated them & they definitely do need a re-write.  I have basically made zero progress in my photo project.  Had hoped to arrange all the thousands of photos I have into some kind of logical on-line photo albums on my SMUG MUG site this summer but the task has proved to be too daunting & I have not been able to kick start my interest or enthusiasm into gear for doing that.  And to add even more photo chaos to my already confused photomash I am now considering digitalizing all my slides from the old 35mm days.  I have about 25 Kodak Carousels loaded with 140 slides in each one.   And then there are all the slide pages in binders.  But is it all really worth the effort.  Haven’t looked at any of those slides for well over 15 years.  We have dusty photo albums as well that also sit quietly on a shelf somewhere.   Time marches on.  For sure I should have done all this photo organizing years ago when my photo interests & memory cells were at their peak.  Good example I guess of not putting off till tomorrow what could have been done yesterday……………………………..  

Gaelyn over at GEOGYPSY has done a fine post on capsulizing the timeline events of the tragic Yarnell fire a week ago.  Questions are asked.  Could this situation have been handled better.  Did 19 Firefighters have to die.  And what now for Gaelyn’s home town of Yarnell where she has spent her winters.  The spot she parked her 5th wheel is the very area that was so severely burned……………

MISTY MORNING AT THE GOOSE POND

Early start for Kelly Tuesday morning as she heads off to the Goderich Hospital for another Echocardiogram & an Abdominal Ultra-sound.  She has to do the ‘fasting’ stuff tonight after 6 p.m. as well.  Some readers have sent  a few links about ‘VALLEY FEVER’ which have been very interesting reading.  We are still so totally in the dark about the results of Kelly’s Valley Fever test.

FRONT YARD DAY LILIES

Turned out to be a no photo day. Not one so had to use a few from my files tonight. Not even a bug or a flower. Some days are like that but for me it's rare. Too humid to be out today & no photo op walk after supper due to rains & thunderstorms rolling through the area. Last week I spent some time moving photo files from our desktop computer to a new Toshiba external back-up hard drive. 58,863 photos to be exact. You can see my dilemma when it comes to deciding what goes on Smug Mug & where.

And a new Blog Follower today.  Thanks to PAT DEVLIN for dropping by.  With the growing popularity of Google Circles our old Blog Followers list has become kind of antiquated.  Still nice to see a few folks drop in now & again.    

IT WAS A CORVETTE WEEK-END IN BAYFIELD

I don’t mind the silence of the outdoors.  It’s the silence of the indoors that drives me bonkers.  A fast moving thunderstorm rolled through around the supper hour tonight knocking our electricity out again.  Happens a lot here & doesn’t take much to land our immediate area in darkness.  What I do not like most about that is the silence in the house.  In other words, the music stops & for me, I cannot sit in a building in silence.  Outside is fine, but not inside.  Didn’t take Pheebs & I long to hop in the Jeep, crank on our ambient music & take ourselves for a little cruise around Bayfield to put in some time.  I could see electricity on in the little shops & homes we drove by but they are on a different line than we are out in the country a couple miles.  Not much happening in the harbor with all the sailboats hunkered down at their moorings.  Rains lightened up & we headed home.  Happy to see street lights on as I pulled into our little community in the woods.  Ahhhh yes, back to normal.  Music in the house again:)))))

 

SUNSET AT THE BAYFIELD HARBOR   

GROANER’S CORNER:((  Hospital rules state that patients checking out must have a wheelchair. One day a newly graduated nurse assistant came into the room to find an elderly man fully dressed, sitting on the bedside chair, with a piece of packed luggage at his side, all ready to go. When he was shown the wheelchair, he was adamant that he was fully capable of walking himself to the parking lot. But the assistant told him rules were rules, so he relented and let her wheel him out.
In the elevator, the assistant asked the elderly man if his wife was coming to meet him.
“I don’t think so,” he replied. “It takes her awhile to change her clothes, so she’s probably still upstairs in the bathroom taking off of her hospital gown and getting dressed.”

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