ENERGIZED BY BALMY MID 30'S TEMPERATURES TODAY

With the arrival of slightly warmer air overnight meeting our ice and snow, the stage was set for a bit of fog along Lake Huron's shoreline and that is indeed what we had in this mornings earlier hours.

I MOVED SOME BIRD FEEDERS AROUND TODAY

With paved roads now bare and dry Pheebs and I stayed on them up to Goderich and back.  Country roads were a mud bath with all the melting going on now so we stayed off them.  

THE ROBERT S PIERSON WAS AT GODERICH'S SIFTO SALT DOCK THIS MORNING

Home again balmy mid thirties temps mentally energized me so I wasted no time in getting at a few outside things.  Re-arranged some snow, hauled out my tall ladder and moved three bird feeders around, cleaned all the slush and mud out of the carport left there by our two vehicles over the past couple weeks.  Also straightened up the carport, cleaned a few sunroom windows and fired up the leaf blower to blow our front deck free of leaves.  This temporary lull in the bitterly cold weather has come at a welcome time and it is so nice to see ground re-emerging from under the melting snow.  A very Spring like day laced with a few short bursts of sunshine around mid morning.

THIS IS PART OF A SAGAURO CACTUS SKELETON WE BROUGHT BACK FROM ARIZONA

In my Monday post RVing friend and current Blogger Peter (Canadian Traveler) asked this question...."Find it odd looking to see farmers harvesting in the snow. What have they been doing while there was no snow????

I might be wrong about this but I think it all has to do with the moisture content in the corn kernels.  The longer the corn stands in the fields the dryer the kernels become.  If the corn is harvested too early the kernels have to be put into a corn dryer which I see on some farms around here.  This November's unusually early snow and the amount and duration of it I think caught the majority of corn growers off guard.

THESE HOPPERS EAST OF GODERICH ARE PROBABLY FULL OF CORN

::Memory Lane:: Twelve years ago today Kelly and I could be found wandering around Utah's Zion Canyon.  My post for that day is here at Unbelievable Beauty and my photo album for the day is here at Majestic.

A few folks have inquired about a Nikon CoolpixP900 camera I have been taking photos with lately.  I have accumulated too much camera gear over the years and some of my Nikon Cameras are becoming a bit dated.  It's time for a purge so I've decided to trade some equipment in again and try to get myself down to just a couple cameras and a lens or two.  And I'd also like to get myself up to speed with a newer technology camera.  The Nikon Coolpix P900 is looking pretty good to me at the moment and the more I am understanding it the more I am liking it.  Of course I will still be keeping my Nikon D7200 and Nikkor 18-300mm lens.  This camera and lens has been my dependable workhorse for the past couple years.  I average about 40 photos a day most every day of the year.  I used a Nikon Coolpix P900 (which I will refer to as a CP9) for the outside shots in our front yard this afternoon.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A young lad's father picked him up from school to take him to a dental appointment.  Knowing the parts for the school play were supposed to be posted today, he asked his son if he got a part.  The boy enthusiastically announced that he'd gotten a part. "I play a man who's been married for twenty years.""That's great, son. Keep up the good work and before you know it they'll be giving you a speaking part."
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 - Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
- “Helium balloon business reaches new heights after customers speak highly of it.
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Alex, a widower, went to a senior citizen's dance. There he met Ruth, a woman also advanced in years. Alex and Ruth danced every dance together.  Afterward, they went out for coffee. As they walked home, Ruth said, "You remind me of my fourth husband."Alex said, "Really? How many times have you been married?"Ruth said, "Three."
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