IT'S BEEN A LONG DAY WITHOUT WATER AND A PICTURE PERFECT MORNING

A little bit of a different routine around our house first thing this morning.  We're sure not used to having an overnight guest but Ella was no problem.  She's very quiet and not disruptive at all.  

Pheebs and I headed out to our walking spot and from there it was on into Clinton where I picked up a decaf coffee to go.  Our travels took us over to the Hullet Marsh where I figured we would do a second morning walk.  Well, I hadn't figured on the swarms of mosquitos and we had to quickly cut our walk short and make a run for the Jeep.    

 IT WAS A NICE MORNING AT THE HULLETT MARSH

 A PRICKLY THISTLE

 WE DIDN'T MEAN TO STAMPEDE THIS HERD OF CANADA GEESE.....BUT WE DID

I had naturally left the jeep's front windows down so I think we had the majority of the Hullett Marsh's mosquitos in the car with us.  I had to hastily wind the back windows down, turn the A/C on (to freeze them out) and crank the blower up full blast.  We then quickly wheeled the Jeep around and speeded down the dirt road setting up whipping cross-wind vortices inside the car to blow all the miserable mosquitos out all the opened windows.  It worked, but I almost blew my hat out the window as well and we almost blew all the fur off the Pheebs.

 IT WAS HERE WHERE THE MOSQUITOS REALLY SWARMED US

 A PHOTO TAKEN IN THE DRIVER'S SIDE MIRROR AT THE MARSH

 WE HAD TO DRIVE LIKE THE DICKENS DOWN THIS ROAD TO BLOW ALL THE MOSQUITOS OUT

 SKIES WERE SO PRETTY THIS MORNING

 A PILE OF FERTILIZER WAITING TO BE SPREAD UPON THE FIELD

 THIS FARMER HASN'T FINISHED HIS WHEAT HARVEST YET

TIS A PRETTY COUNTRYSIDE WE LIVE IN

 IT'S BEEN A FEW YEARS SINCE I LAST TOOK A FEW PICTURES OF THIS OLD CAR

It was a beautifully scenic morning to be out and about in the countryside and especially so with the billowing white cumulous clouds lazily wandering their way across the big blue sky.  We are so fortunate to live where we do right here only a mile from the sparkling blue waters of Lake Huron.

 IT WAS A MORNING OF BLUE SKIES AND WHITE FLUFFY CLOUDS

Home again, I was hoping to hook up the utility trailer and haul a bunch of accumulated yard waste to the Park's recycle area but I ran out of energy.  Ella, Rebecca, and Kelly headed off into Bayfield to do some browsing around in the shops and grab a bite to eat at the Woodland Drive-In.  For Ricardo, it was a working day with his computer back at the Ashwood Inn.  It's an international fiber optics company Ricardo works for and has traveled extensively with.  He will be working with their branch in Spain.

 AT THE WOODLAWN DRIVE-IN THIS AFTERNOON

Today, London's Health Sciences Center Liver Transplant team met to decide Kelly's future regarding a possible liver transplant.  We now anxiously await their decision which will come in a phone call sometime in the next two weeks.  At the time of posting this tonight, we still do not have any water:((  And thanks to everyone for your kind words a few posts ago:))

 YOU CAN SEE PHEEBS IN THE SIDE VIEW MIRROR ENJOYING THE SCENERY

Al's Music Box:)) Mandolin Rain by Bruce Hornsby and the Range from the album 'The Way It Is'.  1986

 CAN YOU SEE THE LARGE MAN IN THE CLOUDS LOOKING UP TO THE RIGHT

GROANER'S CORNER:((While sports fishing off the Florida coast, a tourist capsized his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft.  Spotting an old beachcomber standing on the shore, the tourist shouted, "are there any gators around here?!"  "Naw," the man hollered back, "Ain't been any for years!"  Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming toward the shore. About halfway there he asked the guy, "How'd you get rid of the gators?"  "We didn't do nothin'," the beachcomber said. "The sharks got 'em."

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I’m really excited for the amateur autopsy club I just joined...Wednesday is open Mike night!
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