GUESS WHO'S BIRTHDAY IT WAS TODAY:))

If you folks guessed it was my Birthday you would be wrong but if you guessed it was Pheebs Birthday you would be right.  She turned 10 today:))  We've had Pheebs since August 8th 2011 and her and I have been together every single day since.  The longest we have been apart in all that period of time was 7 hours once.  All of our dogs starting with Max, Checkers, and little Cora (Motormouse) have been special with Pheebs being no exception.  It's her gentle manner, sheer intelligence, friendly disposition, devotion, and unbridled love that has brought Kelly and I so much happiness these past 8 years.  I have never had a closer 'Best Pal' in my whole life than Pheebs.  Us guys are inseparable:))

And speaking of Birthdays I was surprised yesterday morning to see Kelly had posted my birthday on her Facebook page.  I'm generally low key about my birthday but now that it's out there I would like to say thank you to all the kind people who responded to her post and wished me a Happy Birthday.  I was surprised at how many people popped up from days gone by. I thought some of them had dropped my blog years ago.  Nice to see those old familiar names again.  Thanks guys.  And a phone call from my Aunt Jean in Florida too.  Also a big thank you to D7200 for a very kind email:))  Yes I'm 75 now and that's a little hard for me to comprehend.  There are parts of me whereupon some days I feel about 105, sometimes 75 and other times 25 and 15.  I am quite a mosh of ages alright and I seem to live them all on an irregular basis.  Sometimes it's agonizingly slow for me to haul myself out of my recliner and other times I can leap over tall buildings and out run speeding freight trains:))  Okay maybe not so much the buildings and trains but I do have my days when I almost think I can:))

NICE SUNNY MORNING DRIVE TO GODERICH THIS MORNING

YES AND EVEN MANY OF THE DITCHES ARE MOWED HERE IN HURON COUNTY

SPOTTED MY FIRST JEEP TRUCK LAST WEEK AND I LIKED THE LOOKS OF IT BUT CHECKING THE INTERIOR ON-LINE I DID NOT LIKE THE LOOKS OF THE DASH AT ALL

So there was Pheebs and I driving around this morning with expired license plate stickers.  I had no idea about that until we got home and Kelly came walking out with some papers in her hand.  They were the license plate renewal papers.  We had both totally forgot to re-new our annual license plate stickers.  Having a few errands to run in Goderich anyway Kelly headed off to get the stickers.  No she didn't take her bicycle she took her car......with expired stickers.

CANADA GOOSE

My 1 p.m. appointment with Dr. Bukala (Urologist) went fine and it was decided to wait until my bladder had settled down before he goes after the last kidney stone still in my kidney.  Told him about constant running to the washroom so he gave me a prescription for Sandoz-Solifenacin (30-10mg pills) which should help with my bladder problem.  I am hoping this will work and if it doesn't I'll just have to try a few other things suggested by readers.

Another really nice Autumn day.  In my opinion it's the best weather time of the entire year.  Not too hot and not too cold and no bugs.  Too bad it wouldn't last forever.

SAW THIS STRANGE LOOKING VESSEL A FEW MILES OFFSHORE HEADING NORTH ALONG THE LAKE HURON SHORELINE.....ALMOST LOOKS LIKE A CRUISE SHIP OR SOMETHING

SECONDS AFTER TAKING THE ABOVE PHOTO I TOOK THE PHOTO BELOW

SO IF THEY DIDN'T FLY AWAY WHERE DID THEY ALL GO??  I SUSPECT THEY MAY HAVE BEEN SITTING ATOP A SCHOOL OF SMALL FISH AND WHEN THE LEADER BLEW A WHISTLE THEY IN UNISON ALL DIVED UNDER AT THE SAME TIME AND WENT FISHING

I BELIEVE THESE BIRDS TO BE CORMORANTS

I am one of those people who sometimes has a habit of keeping things way too long.  I'm not a hoarder but there are things I do hang onto for way too long.  Clothes are a good example.  I have decades old tattered shirts hanging in my closet, pants that go back 30 years or more and don't even ask me about socks and underwear.  For some reason I don't much care for going out and buying clothes so I try to stretch the ones I have to well past their limit.  As often as not if I have to buy something I go to the Thrift store.  Just bugs me to no end to see those high prices for new shirts and pants.  I never was much of a clothes horse anyway.  Oh, and I'm the same way with shoes.  I wear them till my feet drop through the bottom of them.  Now, after saying all that I just remembered there was a 4 year period in my life where I did have to dress differently.  I wrote a paragraph about it one time referring to it as my 'pink' period and you can find that paragraph in my Saturday October 30th 2010 post entitled, Journeying Between Two Planets.  You will find some of my earlier RV thoughts in this post as well.

DON'T KNOW HOW MANY YEARS I HAD THE WALLET ON THE LEFT BUT I FINALLY SPLURGED AND BOUGHT A NEW WALLET AT WALMART FOR $14.95

AND IN A FIT OF MADNESS I ACTUALLY REPLACED THESE BLUE JEANS WITH A 'NEW' PAIR LAST WEEK

BUT OH NO IT'S NOT TIME TO GIVE UP MY FAVORITE PAIR OF JAMMIES YET JUST BECAUSE THE COLLAR'S A LITTLE FRAYED....AND NO YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO SEE THE BOTTOMS

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Two wise guys were flying to Miami from Cleveland. Fifteen minutes into the flight, the captain announced "One of the engines has failed and the flight will be an hour longer. But don't worry we have three engines left". Thirty minutes later, the captain announced "One more engine has failed and the flight will be two hours longer. But don't worry we have two engines left". An hour later the captain announced "One more engine has failed and the flight will be three hours longer. But don't worry we have one engine left". One impatient wise guy looked at the other wise guy and said "If we lose one more engine, we'll be up here all day"------------------
Why is it if your Hispanic and you get angry, people say you have a Latin temper but if you are a white guy and get angry people say you are a jerk.
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