HERE IT IS SEPTEMBER ALREADY

 GOING BY OLD LONESOME'S HOUSE THIS MORNING I SPOTTED HIM OUT IN A FIELD OF GOLDENROD

With a lot of pain emanating from my right hip earlier today, I had to work extra hard at not doing anything.  Well, not anything physical that is.  I stayed completely away from our front yard except to put a few gardening tools away.  An overhead morning cloud cover threatened rain.  

 LARGE STRAW BALES BEING LOADED ABOARD TRUCKS

Not stopping for a walk, Pheebs and I headed off to Goderich for our usual coffee, harbor, beach, and Walmart stops.  And Pheebs even got a snack at the new Esso/Solo gas bar so I guess we will keep that location as our main gas source.  Well, unless the doggy treats dry up that is.

 DOGGY TREATS AT THE ESSO GAS BAR

 WHAT THE HECK IS THAT??

IT LOOKS LIKE PHEEBS WASN'T THE ONLY DOGGY DOOGANS AT McDONALDS DRIVE-THRU THIS MORNING

Home again with a bit of drizzle in the air, I climbed aboard my recliner with my Kindle book reader and it wasn't long before I was again wandering my way through Dreamland.  Oh my, the adventures I do go on.  I think I may have been on Safari in deepest, darkest Africa somewhere this afternoon.  Or maybe I was just lost in our backyard.

 PEOPLE GATHERING AT GODERICH'S ROTARY COVE FOR A DAY AT THE BEACH

 THE ALGOMA INTREPID TAKING ON A LOAD OF SALT

Isn't it amazing that here it is September already, and it's the long Labor Day Week-end to boot.  It seems like only a few weeks ago in Bayfield they were putting all the sailboats in the water leading up to the May 24th week-end.  Soon, they will begin taking them all out of the water again.  Shouldn't I be getting out my long checklist of what to load into the RV for our southwestern winter travels?  No, I guess not:((  

Al's Music Box:)) Theme From Mahogany by Dianna Ross from the movie Mahogany starring Dianna Ross in 1975. 

GROANER'S CORNER:)  Two morons stand on a cliff with their arms outstretched. One has some budgies lined up on each arm, the other has parrots lined up on his arms.  After a couple of minutes, they both leap off the cliff and fall to the ground.  Laying next to each other in intensive care at the hospital, one moron says to the other, "I don't think much of this budgie jumping."  The other moron replies, "Yeah, I'm not too keen on this paragliding either."

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Diner: "I would like a cup of coffee, please."

Waiter: "I'm very sorry, sir, but I'm afraid we're fresh out of coffee today; our coffee maker has been completely exhausted."

Diner: "I'm not surprised, due to how weak it's been lately."

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A Canadian preacher was preoccupied with thoughts of how he was going to ask the congregation to come up with more money than they were expecting for repairs to the church building. Therefore, he was annoyed to find that the regular organist was sick and a substitute had been brought in at the last minute.  The substitute wanted to know what to play.  ‘Here's a copy of the service,' he said impatiently. ‘But, you'll have to think of something to play after I make the announcement about the finances.' During the service, the minister paused and said, ‘Brothers and Sisters, we are in great difficulty; the roof repairs cost twice as much as we expected and we need $4,000 more. Any of you who can pledge $100 or more, please stand up.'
At that moment, the substitute organist played, 'O Canada.'  And that is how the substitute became the regular organist!

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