IT'S LOOKING A BIT LIKE EARLY SPRING AROUND HERE

No sunshine this morning but we woke up to 53F temperatures with light rain falling.  Looking out our living room window I was surprised at how much snow had melted overnight. The only small piles of white were where I had previously shoveled the snow into piles.  On our morning Jeep ride, I noticed all the farm fields were completely devoid of snow and the only piles of snow left were where it had accumulated along tree and fence lines in the form of deep drifts.  And to think it was less than a week ago that we had the worst winter snowstorm in decades.  It's looking a bit like early Spring around here with temperature records broken today for this date.

 QUITE A CONTRAST TO JUST A WEEK AGO AT THIS TIME

 THIS IS WHAT OUR DRIVE THROUGH THE COUNTRYSIDE LOOKED LIKE THIS MORNING

 THERE IS STILL SNOW ON THE FOREST FLOORS AND ALONG THE CREEKS

Despite another poor night Kelly was feeling better this morning and insisted on driving herself to Goderich for her Nurse Practitioner appointment. 

 KELLY EXITING THE DYNACARE BLOOD LAB EARLY THURSDAY AFTERNOON

Finished my Rocket Boys book Thursday night and I have to say what a great book this was.  So much so that I have already downloaded Homar J. Hickam Jr's follow-up book Don't Blow Yourself Up.  That second book title comes from the first book, Rocket Boys when his Mother kept saying to him when he was a boy, 'Don't Blow Yourself Up'.  I absolutely love these non-fiction autobiographical books.  I recommend 'Rocket Boys' to anyone.  It was one of those books that the closer I got to the end, the more I didn't want it to end. 

Ellen's Groove:)) In this last video of the year, Ellen and her Dad are promoting Mark Bass guitar amps.  Ellen plays a little diddy at the end of the video so if you are not interested in the amps just skip ahead.  Ellen Plays Bass

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A little boy had been pawing over the stock of greeting cards at a stationery store.  After a few minutes, the clerk became curious and asked, "Just what is it you're looking for, sonny? Birthday greeting? Message to a sick friend? Anniversary congratulations to your mom and dad?"  The boy shook his head, "No."  "Then what kind of card is it that you want?" asked the clerk.  The boy answered wistfully, "Got anything in the line of blank report cards?"

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I work in a busy office, and when a computer goes down it causes quite an inconvenience. Recently one of our computers not only crashed, it made a noise that sounded like a heart monitor.  "This computer has flat-lined," a co-worker called out with mock horror.
"Does anyone here know how to do mouse-to-mouse?"

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