FIRST DAY SINCE LATE LAST OCTOBER I DIDN'T HAVE TO PUT MY PANTS ON

MALE HOODED MERGANSER DUCK ON OUR PARK'S POND TODAY

It had been a while since my good friend Richard and I had last been out for one of our morning country road coffee tours.  Picking him up at 9:30 five minutes after leaving our driveway we headed into Bayfield stopping briefly at Tim Hortons to pick up a couple coffees and accompanying muffins to go.  A bran muffin for Richard and a really finger-sticky 'fruit explosion' muffin for me. Our wanderings this morning took us south to Grand Bend and the surrounding area.  Grand Bend's main street sure is being transformed with newer modern buildings.  A big change from the early 60s when some of us young bucks hung around there at times.  Following our Grand Bend tour we were back through Bayfield to Richard's place about 11:20.  It was a positive couple hours of meaningful conversation and by the time I arrived home my spirits were lifted and my energy levels, compared to Monday, were back up to par.

 AN OUTDOOR NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY IN GRAND BEND THIS MORNING

With overcast skies and 55F temps I figured it was a perfect day to clean some windows.  With my troublesome right leg cooperating reasonably well with me this afternoon I hauled out my garden hose, step ladder, and glass cleaner.  I did our large east-facing window inside and outside and cleaned all the outside sunroom windows.  I also cleaned the pine needles and branch debris out of our front yard frog pond.  Cleaned both bird baths and raked up one wheelbarrow of yard waste.  I filled the bird feeders again and how nice it was to hear the Red Wing Blackbirds in our yard while I was working around in the front yard.  

 SOME CROCUS FLOWERS AREN'T QUITE OPEN YET

 HALF-OPEN

 SOME OF THE EARLIEST SPRING WILDFLOWERS ARE THE COLTSFOOT PLANTS

Pheebs and I also had ourselves an afternoon walk around the Park's pond and shortly before 5 p.m. we had sunshine beaming through our tall pine trees.  It looks like we have a rain front coming in overnight and possibly lasting most of tomorrow.

 A PAIR OF HOODED MERGANSERS ON OUR PARK'S POND THIS AFTERNOON

 A PAIR OF CANADA GEESE ON THE POND AS WELL

Oh, and about the post's title today...maybe I should have worded it to say it was the first day since last October I didn't have to put my 'LINED' winter pants on:)))) 

Al's Music Box:)) Walkin After Midnight by Patsy Cline from the album 'Patsy Cline'.  1957

 OKAY I'M READY FOR LAUNCH PHEEBS

 I DON'T THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA DAD

GROANER'S CORNER:((

- Did you hear about the farmer who plowed his field with a steamroller?  He wanted to grow mashed potatoes!
- What did the neurotic pig say to the farmer?
You take me for grunted.
- Q: When is a farmer like a magician?
A: When he turns his cows to pasture.
- Q: Why did the farmer call his pig "Ink"?
A: Because it was always running out of the pen.
- Q: What do you call cattle with a sense of humor?  A: Laughing stock.
- Q: Why can't the bankrupt cowboy complain?
A: He's got no beef.
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Did you ever notice?
When you put the two words
"The" and "IRS" together
it spells "THEIRS"?

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Peruvian owls are always hunting in pairs...It's because they're Inca hoots!

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