IT MAINLY HAS TO DO WITH ALL OF YOU FOLKS

It was thunder, lightning, and bouts of heavy clattering rain on our steel roof that rousted us out of our slumber in dawn's early hour this morning.  The rain ended half a dozen hours later and by noon we had a few slivers of sunlight penetrating through the heavy cloud cover.  Skies later cleared.  That thunderstorm also brought cooler air in behind it and I considered that a huge bonus.  I could have almost used a light jacket over my short-sleeved shirt on our jeep ride.

OVERNIGHT RAINS LEFT WATER IN SOME FIELDS

CORN STALKS ARE GROWING THEIR CORN COBS

 TASSLES ON THE SIX AND SEVEN-FOOT CORN STALKS

Earlier, while it was still raining Pheebs and I took the Jeep out figuring it needed a good rain wash.  That worked okay for the top half of the jeep but a few gravel roads kinda muddied up the bottom half a wee bit.

 THESE COWS DIDN'T SEEM TO MIND THE RAIN

 AND BY GOLLY THAT LOOKS LIKE A CONJOINED COW OUT THERE:))

With all the recent rain Huron County has received, the countryside is looking very lush in its many shades of green.  Even junglesque in some places.

A LUSH FARM LANE COMPLETE WITH SOME WILD APPLE TREES

 A SOGGY APPLE ORCHARD

 I THINK THESE BEANS REALLY ENJOYED THE OVERNIGHT RAIN BECAUSE I COULD HEAR A LOT OF GIGGLING GOING ON OUT THERE

The biggest problem we are having at home regarding being outside right now is mosquitos.  This hot and humid weather lately coupled with recent rains has brought the mosquitos out in droves.  Tried taking Pheebs for a walk around the Park's pond a couple evenings ago and we had to cut it short and get ourselves back inside.  Even a short walk out to fill the birdfeeders and my arms are flailing like windmills trying to ward off those miserable mosquitos.  If I ever make it to the other side someday one of my first questions to the Powers That Be will be, 'Why the Mosquitos'!!!!!! 

APPLES NESTLED IN WITH A VARIEGATED RED OAK TREE

RAINDROPS ON THE BERRIES

A word of thanks once again to all my readers.  I don't exactly know how this blog of mine has kept on going for all these years except to say I feel it mainly has to do with all of you folks:))      

Al's Music Box:)) Old Man by Neil Young from the album 'Harvest'.  1972  We saw Neil Young in concert at Toronto's CNE stadium one time back in either late 1993 or the summer of 94. 

GROANER'S CORNER:(( This is a true story of the late Irish author Brendan Behan who one night collapsed in a diabetic coma in a Dublin street. It was at a time when he was at the height of his drunken notoriety and passers-by naturally thought he was dead drunk. They took him to the nearby surgery of one of Dublin's most fashionable and respected doctors. The doctor decided to take a cardiograph and, somewhat nervous of his patient, thought to humor him. He explained the workings of the cardiograph needle as it registered the faint heartbeats of the very sick and semiconscious Brendan.  "That needle there is writing down your pulses, Mr. Behan, and I suppose, in its own way, it is probably the most important thing you have ever written." To which Behan weakly replied: "Aye, and it's straight from me heart, too."

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Two drunks are walking along. One drunk says to the other, "What a beautiful night. Look at that moon!"  The other drunk stops and looks at his drunk friend. "You are wrong. That's not the moon; that's the sun!"  Both continued arguing for a while when they came upon another drunk walking along. So they stopped him and said, "Sir, could you please help settle our argument? Tell us what that shining thing is up in the sky that is so bright. Is it the moon or the sun?"  The third drunk looked up at the sky and then looked at them and said, "Sorry, I don't live around here."

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