KELLY'S HOME AND PHEEBS AND I ARE MIGHTY GLAD SHE IS

With warmer air upon us this morning, my Winter jacket was not required for our country road walk.  Again, we were able to do our half-mile walk for the second day in a row.  If this keeps up, I'm going to enroll in a pole vaulting course just to snub my nose at my right hip.

 OH HOW WONDROUS THE SMELL OF NEWMOWN HAY

 BOTH OUR BEAN AND CORN HARVEST ARE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER

Staying close to my phone waiting for Kelly's call, Pheebs and I headed home.  I cleaned the glass in the Subaru again and made sure the back seat was spiffed up and squared away for when we picked up the Boss later.  It was shortly after ten when Kelly called saying she hoped to be discharged from the hospital between eleven and twelve a.m.  With that, I figured Pheebs and I would head out and slowly make our way toward London using all the back country roads looking for a few photos.

 SPOTTED A FEW OF THE 'BAYFIELD PINES' GALS OUT FOR A WALK THIS MORNING

SOME FARMERS WERE BUSY PLOWING THEIR FIELDS ON THESE BEAUTIFUL SEPTEMBER DAY

 HEY THIS LOOKS LIKE A NICE LITTLE GETAWAY PLACE FOR THE BAYFIELD BUNCH:))

 A NICE BEVY OF HORSES 

 SPOTTED THE WEST END OF THIS COW CROSSING A CREEK HEADING EAST

BEANS, BEANS, EVERYWHERE

We are on the cusp of the most beautiful time of the year here in southern Ontario and these mid-September to mid-October days can be like jewels in Mother Nature's crown.  There is a passive feeling in the air like no other time of the year.  Our foliage is in the early stages of change as are the sounds in the air.  Crickets along the roadside serenaded us as we passed.  The Sun is already at a lower angle in the sky casting a slightly different and paler light over the rural landscape.  I love looking at all the working and hobby farms.  The rugged and beautifully landscaped farmyards.  The pastoral horses, cows, and sheep in the fields.  We live in such a beautiful area.

For the first half of our journey to London today we traveled slowly along old familiar back roads that Pheebs and I have traveled before so I knew where the good stopping spots were for our leg stretches and water breaks along the way.

The last half of our journey took us down a few roads I had never been on before and that of course was a real treat to see some scenery I had never seen before.

 WE CAME UPON THIS LARGE FIELD OF GREEN AND PURPLE CABBAGES 

 AND YES, THIS IS WHERE THOSE CABBAGE PATCH DOLLS OF YESTERYEAR CAME FROM

A couple miles north of London's northern boundary I pulled into the Arva cemetery to let Pheebs out and phone Kelly to see how she was making out.  Our timing was perfect as she was waiting for a porter to wheelchair her down to the hospital's main entrance.  Pheebs and were quickly back into the Subaru making our way into and through London's north traffic construction maze.   We rolled up to the hospital's main door and found a waiting spot to squeak into.  Five minutes later the porter and I were helping Miss Kelly into the back seat of the car.  Shortly after that, with a couple McDonalds coffees in hand, we were on our way home.  I think we have decided to give up on Tim Hortons coffee because we keep getting so many bad ones.  We rolled into our driveway shortly after 3 p.m.  Kelly sure was glad to be home and she is definitely looking and feeling better than she was just a few days ago.  I don't know what was in those intravenus bags they had her on but whatever it was, it certainly helped her.  Kelly thinks that iron infusion was a big help as well.  However, thinking realistically, we know this is only temporary and the future still remains very clouded.  We now again await the liver transplant committee's decision on Kelly's second chance at a liver transplant or a partial transplant.  Kelly's oldest daughter Sabra has told Kelly if she is a match for a partial transplant, she will step up to the plate and be there at her Mother's side to help her.

 KELLY'S LOOKING BACK THINKING "I WONDER WHO THAT GUY WHISTLING AT ME WAS"

 NOW HOW'S THAT FOR A HAPPY COMING-HOME FACE

 KELLY'S COLOR IS MUCH BETTER THAN IT WAS THE LAST TIME I SAW HER A FEW DAYS AGO

Great to have Kelly home and have The Bayfield Bunch all back together again.  Thank you so much to everyone for your care, concerns, prayers, considerations, and offers of help.  You is all good people:))        

 A FEW DRIVE-BY PHOTOS ON OUR WAY HOME

 HARD WORKING FARM FOLKS

Ellen's Groove:)) Here's Ellen working on a bass run called Master Blaster but she has a little bit of finger trouble at the end:)) 

 AND A FEW PHOTOS FROM THE HAY SWAMP WEST OF EXETER ONTARIO TODAY

 A SWAMPY FOREST REFLECTION

 SWAMP STUMP

 THAT LIME GREEN IS NOT SLIME, IT'S DUCKWEED

Al's Music Box:)) You Don't Know What You Got by Ral Donner from his 1961 album, Takin' Care Of Business.

GROANER'S CORNER:((- Phone answering machine message - "...If you want to buy marijuana, press the hash key..."

- I went to the butchers the other day and I bet him 50 bucks that he couldn't reach the meat off the top shelf.  He said, "No, the steaks are too high."

- My friend drowned in a bowl of muesli.  A strong currant pulled him in.

-  A man came around in hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I've cut your arms off".

- Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly. They lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

- A Man goes to the doctor, with a strawberry growing out of his head. Doc says "I'll give you some cream to put on that."

- 'Doc I can't stop singing The Green, Green Grass of Home' "That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome. ' Is it common? ' "It's not unusual."

- A man takes his Rotteweiller to the vet. "My dog's cross-eyed, is there anything you can do for him?" "Well," says the vet, "let's have a look at him" So he picks the dog up and examines his eyes, then checks his teeth. Finally, he says, "I'm going to have to put him down." "What? Because he's cross-eyed? ""No, because he's really heavy"

- Two elephants walk off a cliff...boom, boom!

- So I was getting into my car, and this redhead says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.'

- Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. There are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my Dad, or my older Brother Colin, or my younger Brother Ho-Cha-Chu? But I think it's Colin.

- Two fat blokes in a pub, one says to the other "Your round." The other one says "So are you, you fat blob!"

- Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, and the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

- "You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen. It said, 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice."

- A man walked into the doctor office, he said, "I've hurt my arm in several places" The doctor said, "Well don't go to those places anymore"

- Ireland's worst air disaster occurred early this morning when a small two-seater Cessna plane crashed into a cemetery. Irish search and rescue workers have recovered 1,826 bodies so far and expect that number to climb as digging continues into the night.
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