IN HINDSIGHT WE THINK WE TRIED TO DO TO MUCH IN TOO SHORT A TIME

A PAIR OF MALLARD DUCKS ON OUR PARK'S POND THIS AFTERNOON

Feeling better this morning than Friday morning, Kelly called the Plasma Exchange department at London's Victoria Hospital at 7:15 to say she felt well enough to come in today for her 5th Plasmapheresis treatment.  However, the nurse on the other end of the line understanding how hard this has all been for Kelly suggested she take a break today and rest up for Monday's second-to-last treatment.  Both Kelly and I thought that was a good suggestion so the Subaru didn't move today.  Instead, Pheebs and I were back into the Jeep and off to Goderich in a chilly drizzling rain.  As much as I like driving the Subaru it was good to be back in our good old familiar twenty-two-year-old Jeep Liberty which we have had since April 14th, 2015.  Coffee to go at McDonald's, a swing down around the harbor, and a stop at Walmart to pick up some things including prescriptions.  It was sometime around 11 a.m. before Pheebs and I finally followed our windshield wipers home again.  Being home seems to be taking on more of a pleasantly significant feeling these days.  It seems these past couple of weeks have been a little bit on the stressful hectic side and especially for Kelly.  In hindsight, we think she tried to do too much with all the medical appointments and some of them being back to back.

 IT WAS A COOL WET START TO OUR MORNING

 WITH A RAINY WET DRIVE TO GODERICH AND PHEEBS PASSENGER SIDE WINDOW DOWN WE HAD THE JEEP'S HEATER CRANKED

 A FEW HARDY SOULS STROLL THE BOARDWALK NEAR GODERICH'S ROTARY COVE

 A DISTANT FOG LYING JUST OFFSHORE

I think I must have snoozed part of the afternoon away.  That is until whatever it was I was dreaming about seemed to suddenly light up.  I opened my eyes and there was sunlight pouring through our sunroom windows.  Well, it didn't take long for Pheebs and I to head out the door for a walk over to the Park's pond.  We would have gone farther but the roads were too muddy.  I think it's been a week since the last time we did a pond walk.  I took my cane along but didn't have to use it.  The Canada Goose nest was still there but no eggs and no sign of any little baby Gooses or big Mom & Poppa Gooses either.  Only a pair of Mallard ducks on the pond.

 AFTERNOON SUNSHINE HIGHLIGHTS THE GREENS OF SPRING AROUND OUR PARK'S POND

 HAD THIS PAIR OF MALLARD DUCKS NOT BEEN MOVING I MIGHT NOT HAVE SEEN THEM

 SPOTTED THIS BIRD IN SOME BRAMBLES NEAR THE WATER'S EDGE BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS

Kelly had a better day today and Thank You to everyone for your kind and supportive words as Kelly bravely battles this debilitating liver disease..................  

 WE HAVE FRONT YARD HYACINTH IN BLOOM

 I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED THIS GREEN AND PURPLE PERRIWINKLE GROUND COVER WE HAVE ON THE WEST SIDE OF OUR HOUSE

 OUR SMALL WHITE MAGNOLIA TREE IN THE FRONT YARD IS BEGINNING TO BLOSSOM

 OUR FRONT YARD FROG POND'S SOLE RESIDENT SO FAR

Al's Music Box:))  Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel from the album 'Fate For Breakfast'.  1979

 FEMALE MALLARD DUCK

GROANER'S CORNER:))  Ten words that do not exist, but should......

1. AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks' trus) adj. Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.

2. CARPERPETUATION (kar' pur pet u a shun) n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.

3. DISCONFECT (dis kon fekt') v. To sterilize the piece of candy you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, assuming this will somehow `remove' all the germs.

4. ELBONICS (el bon' iks) n. The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.

5. FRUST (frust) n. The small line of debris that refuses to be swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug.

6. LACTOMANGULATION (lak' to man gyu lay' shun) n. Manhandling the 'open here' spout on a milk container so badly that one has to resort to the `illegal' side.

7. PEPPIER (pehp ee ay') n. The waiter at a fancy restaurant whose sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners if they want ground pepper.

8. PHONESIA (fo nee' zhuh) n. The affliction of dialing a phone number and forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer.

9. PUPKUS (pup' kus) n. The moist residue left on a window after a dog presses its nose to it.

10. TELECRASTINATION (tel e kras tin ay' shun) n. The act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you pick it up, even when you're only six inches away.

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