RAIN, FREEZING RAIN, SNOW AND I'M OFF TO THE HOSPITAL FOR A CT SCAN TOMORROW

Saturday's all day rain turned into Sunday morning's freezing rain and snow.  Temps dropped from Saturday's 53F to this mornings 19F.  Not nice.  Our landscape outside was all white again but with Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday predicted to be above freezing once more we will probably lose all the ice and snow.  It's been quite an up and down winter so far but compared to many other winters I remember from years ago this one so far is an 'upper'.

PULLING OUT OF OUR PARK ONTO ABOUT A QUARTER INCH OF SNOW ON TOP OF ICE I QUICKLY POPPED LIBBY INTO 4X4 MODE

WHILE THE FRONT END OF THIS TRUCK PLOWS SNOW OFF THE ROAD THE REAR END OF THE TRUCK DISPENSES A MIXTURE OF SAND AND SALT 

DEBRIS FLOATING DOWN THE SWOLLEN BAYFIELD RIVER

THE RIVER EAST OF THE HIGHWAY 21 BRIDGE IS OVER IT'S BANKS

With a coating of ice on the roads underneath a quarter inch of snow Pheebs and I kept our morning travels short with a drive around Bayfield then home again.  Had it been sunny and cheery outside instead of gray and gloomy I'm sure we would have stayed out longer.  And it was just to cold anyway!!

A FEW MORE DRIVE-BY BAYFIELD HOMES

I LIKE IT WHEN PEOPLE PAINT THEIR FRONT DOORS VIBRANT COLORS

I HOPE THERE ISN'T A WORKMAN FROZEN TO THE SEAT IN A HORIZONTAL POSITION INSIDE

A LEIZURELY MORNING WALK IN BAYFIED'S CEMETERY

I ESPECIALLY LIKE THE SPLASHES OF COLOR ON DARK DULL DAYS

HOLY SMOKES A PATCH OF BLUE SKY BUT IT DIDN'T LAST LONG

IF YOU LOOK REAL HARD YOU CAN SEE A FEW TOUCHES OF SUNLIGHT ON THE ROAD AHEAD

Oooops, I misplaced my 'Memory Lane' feature.  I generally slide it in at the end of my post but somehow it slid itself further up the paragraph line-up so that's why you see it next.  And a second Oooops....Mentioning Caron and Chris's Motorhome for sale in last night's post I forgot to put the link in so here it is....Tiffin 24' 2011 Class A diesel Motorhome.  You have to see this coach and it is located near Bayfield Ontario, Canada.  Thanks to Doug over at Miss Adventure Travels for reminding me about that missing link.

::Memory Lane::  'Yahooie Louie' We Are Finally Back In Our Element  It was one year ago today we drove from Casino Del Sol in southwest Tucson along one of my favorite Sonoran desert drives to Why Arizona.  We have a lot of great memories in this area from our early RVing days.  We didn't know it at the time but our 13 day boondocking stay at Why's Gunsight wash would turn out to be the best part of our 2019 travels despite 3 different locations at Gunsight in that time.

OVERNIGHT'S FREEZING RAIN LEFT ICE ON A FEW TREES

THERE ARE TWO WINDMILLS IN THIS PHOTO

Hard to believe we are only 3 days away from January's mid point already.  Thankfully winter is going faster than I thought it would.  The biggest help for me is our daily morning Jeep rides when Pheebs and I can get out and about for a few hours each day.  If it wasn't for that, Kelly's presence, and the enjoyably time consuming hours each day I spend on my blog I'm not really sure what I would do where I'd be.

I had forgotten all about this but a call from my Nurse Practitioner's office last week reminded me it was time for a second CT Scan to see whether there has been any development in something my last CT Scan saw on one of my lungs.  I can't even remember my last CT Scan but it might have been last summer and it might have been in Stratford.  Bone scans, CT Scans, and Radiation Scans.....it's all kind of a blur to me.  Occasionally someone asks me how I'm coping my prostate cancer and my answer is to simply say, 'so far it is a non issue.  Had medical tests not shown I have prostrate cancer I wouldn't even know about it.  No pain or soreness or anything and if the truth be known I very rarely ever think about it.  Of course that may all change next month when I return to London's cancer clinic for a check-up and PSA test.  Tomorrow I am off to the Goderich hospital for a CT Scan of my lungs.

::Al's Musical Favs:: Tainted Jazz by Poncho Warwick. A jazzy little up tempo number that caught my attention because of it's solid beat, piano, and female voice.  I enjoy a soft sultry female voice style as opposed to so many of the newer generic teeny bop baby talk singers.  Two of my favorite female singers are Sade pronounced Sha-day and KD Lang.

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A minister, after the Sunday morning service, walked alongside a brook and noticed a young boy fishing. After seeing him catch a number of fish he approached the boy and said, "My boy, don't you know it is not right to be fishing on Sunday? Besides, it is very cruel to insert that sharp hook into that poor beetle."  The boy replied, "Oh, say sir, this ain't a beetle. It's an imitation."  "Oh I thought it was a real bug."  Lifting up a nice string of fish, the boy replies, "So did these suckers!"
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- Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio? 
- If you have your finger touching the rearview mirror that says -- "objects in mirror are closer than they appear", how can that be possible? 
- Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC? 
- If someone invented instant water, what would they mix it with? 
- Why is it called a TV "set" when you only get one? 
- Why does your nose run and your feet smell? 
- Why does an alarm clock "go off" when it begins ringing? 
- If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress? 
- Why does "cleave" mean both split apart and stick together? 
- Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same?
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