SHE HEADED STRAIGHT TO HER ROOM FOR A BIG REST

 A FEW HORSES NORTHWEST OF LONDON THIS MORNING

We were out the door and on the road to London by 7:35 this morning.  With a slight mist in the air, we left a tad earlier than usual and the closer we got to London the heavier the mist became with a few drizzly showers along the way.  It was 8:45 when Pheebs and I dropped Kelly off at University Hospital for her 9:15 Ultra Sound appointment.  From there Pheebs and I headed north back out of London to our first stop at the Ten Mile Road cemetery.  

 IT WAS A MISTY MORNING IN ONTARIO'S OLD LONDON TOWN

 AT THE TEN MILE ROAD CEMETERY AND DID YOU SEE THE LITTLE PHEEBER FACE PEEKING AROUND THE SHRUB

From there we headed northwest to Ilderton where I grabbed a small decaf coffee at Tim Hortons.  Knowing Kelly's Ultra Sound would not take too long we slowly made our way back toward London and sure enough, before too long my cell phone rang and she was ready to go.  Picked her up at 9:50 and with two and a half hours to kill before her next appointment at Victoria Hospital on the other side of the city, we headed over to Masonville Mall.  Kelly picked up a couple bath mats at Marshalls Homesense.  We also split a twelve-inch ham-based Subway Sub.

 NOW THIS IS WHAT I CALL A TRUE COUNTRY BREAKFAST

 PICKING UP KELLY AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

 I SHARED MY SUB WITH PHEEBS

From the Masonville Mall area, we headed east across the city on Fanshaw Road to Highbury Ave and hung a right heading for Victoria Hospital in London's South end.  We still had some time on our side so we headed for the Westminster Ponds area where Pheebs and I wait while Kelly is in having her plasmapheresis treatments.  Kelly had never seen that area before so Pheebs and I were able to show her around.  We stopped at a parking lot and took ourselves for a wee walk around as well.  It was about noon when we drove Kelly over to the hospital for her 12:30 appointment.

 KELLY'S FIRST TIME AT THE WESTMINSTER PONDS AREA

Back at the Westminster Ponds area again Pheebs and I went for a walk on the old paved roadways around where only concrete foundations of old buildings are left.  We couldn't walk any of the trails because recent rains had turned them into soup.  Back to the car I spent most of my time reading with the exception of another short walk.  When Kelly phoned at 2:35 Pheebs and I were sitting outside of the car.  I always carry a lawn chair in the back.  We picked up Kelly ten minutes later and made fast tracks for home except they were slow tracks most of the way out of London due to some temporary construction areas.  It was 4:30 by the time we finally rolled into our driveway.  Kelly hadn't had a good night's sleep and by the time we got home, she was so beat that she headed straight to her room for a big rest. 

 SOME OF THE OLD RUINS HERE ARE OVERGROWN WITH GOLDENROD

 DEFINITELY AN ACORN I'D SAY

 SPOTTED THIS HELICOPTER FLYING OVER AND NO IT WAS NOT THE USUAL AIR AMBULANCE

SITTING IN MY LAWN CHAIR BEHIND THE CAR AND IN THE BACKGROUND IS A RARE AND VERY BRIEF PATCH OF SUNLIGHT

 PHEEBS IS DOING A BIG UPSIDE-DOWN SQUIGGLE

 PICKING UP KELLY AT VICTORIA HOSPITAL

Al's Music Box:)) On Broadway by the Drifters from the album, 'Under The Boardwalk'.  1963

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A woman announces to her friend that she is getting married for the fourth time.  "How wonderful! But I hope you don't mind me asking what happened to your first husband?"  "He ate poisonous mushrooms and died."  "Oh, how tragic! What about your second husband?"  "He ate poisonous mushrooms too and died."  "Oh, how terrible! I'm almost afraid to ask you about your third husband."  "He died of a broken neck."  "A broken neck?"  "Ya, he wouldn't eat his mushrooms."

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