RAINY DAY, COOLER TEMPS, AND SOME COMPANY DROPS IN

LAKE HURON SHOWS OFF HER BEAUTIFUL AQUA COLORS

Sometimes the best-laid plans of mice and good friends go astray due to raindrops falling from the sky.  This morning was one of those times.  My good buddy Jim, (from over there in that Stratford Ontario place) and I had planned to meet up in Seaforth for a 9 o'clock this morning.  With limited Covid seating at Tim Horton's coffee shop, we had figured on doing an outside get together at a nearby Park.  Rains began Saturday evening and continued through the night into Sunday morning and early afternoon.  We literally had to take a 'rain check' on our coffee outing and reschedule for next weekend.

THIS PRETTY MUCH SUMS UP OUR WEATHER FOR THE DAY

A POLICE PRESENCE AT THE GODERICH BEACH TO KEEP AN EYE ON LARGE CROWDS WHICH LATER MATERIALIZED INTO A MASS ETHNIC GATHERING OVERWHELMING THE ROTARY COVE AREA....I HAVE A FEELING THERE IS GOING TO BE TROUBLE HERE SOON

Knowing country roads would be muddy Pheebs and I stayed on pavement this morning and wandered back up to Goderich through a drizzly rain.  A stop at the Canadian Tire store netted us some grass seed, double AAA batteries, and a couple small bubble levelers for Winnie's cab.  With a swing down around the harbor, I was happy to see the entire road to Rotary Cove now open.  A section of it near the Beach Street Station had remained closed since late last Fall when restoration on the shoreline began.

DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE BEACH STREET STATION RESTAURANT  WE HAD A CLOSE-UP LOOK AT THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED BOARDWALK 

HEADING SOUTH TOWARDS ROTARY COVE

I LIKE HOW THEY HAVE INTEGRATED THE WOOD ON THIS SLIGHT TURN 

Despite the rain, we stopped at the doggy walking area and stepped out for a few photos.  Pheebs doesn't like water so she decided it was soon time to get back into the Jeep and away we went making tracks through heavy rain showers.   No point in hanging around anywhere so we headed for home splashing through water puddles along the way.

DARK STORMY SKIES OUT OVER THE LAKE

A FEW RAINY DAY BEACH GOERS DOING A BIT OF PRIMPING AND PREENING

BECAUSE ITS WET 'THE ROCK' SHOWS OFF ITS MARBLED TEXTURE

'THE ROCK' IS VISIBLE TO THE RIGHT OF THE JEEP'S HEADLIGHT

Kelly's oldest daughter, Sabra brought her two teenage boys, Keenan and Langdon up to the beach Saturday staying at a lodge in Goderich.  Her husband Derek is at a Golf Tournament this week-end and last we heard he was on the leader board.  Sabra and the boys popped in around noon and Kelly took them for a tour of the Winnie.  The boys tried to figure out how to change the Sony clock settings in the rig's dash radio but the radio remained undefeated.  Kelly, her daughter, and the boys later headed downtown Bayfield to browse around the shops.  Pheebs and I were quite happy to stay home.

KEENAN TRYS HIS LUCK WITH THE RADIO

LANGDON TRIES HIS LUCK

KELLY AND HER DAUGHTER SABRA

KELLY'S PHOTO OF LANGDON AND KEENAN BEHIND BAYFIELD'S LIBRARY PLAYING A GAME OF STONE CHECKERS

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A guy walked into a doctor's office and the receptionist asked him what he had. He said, "shingles." So she took down his name, address, and medical insurance number and told him to have a seat.  Fifteen minutes later a nurse's aide came out and asked him what he had. He said, "shingles." So she took down his height, weight, a complete medical history and told him to wait in the examining room.  A half-hour later, a nurse came in and asked him what he had. He said, "shingles." She gave him a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, told him to take off all his clothes and wait for the doctor.  An hour later the doctor came in and asked him what he had. He said, "shingles." The doctor said, "Where?" He said, "Outside in the truck. Where do you want them?"

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A teacher asked her class to write on, "What's the bravest thing your dad has done?"  A student wrote... "My dad married my mom."

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A man enters a barber shop for a shave. While the barber is foaming him up, he mentions the problems he has getting a close shave around the cheeks.
"I have just the thing," says the barber taking a small wooden ball from a nearby drawer. "Just place this between your cheek and gum."  The client places the ball in his mouth and the barber proceeds with the closest shave the man has ever experienced. After a few strokes, the client asks in garbled speech.  "And what if I swallow it?"  "No problem," says the barber. "Just bring it back tomorrow like everyone else does."

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