IF YOU KEEP CALLING IT TO COME TO YOU AND HELP YOU IT WILL GET TO BE A PART OF YOU'

A big blue sky morning with a few white puffy clouds here and there.  Our daytime temps are in the mid-50's now.  The first order of business today was to head for the Bayfield Garage to pick up our repaired Libby-Gator. (Jeep) A bad connection at the terminal on the starter was found and a new connector has been installed.  I feel confident that this has been at the heart of the Jeep's starting problem all along so I am now looking forward to another hundred thousand miles of trouble-free starts:))  And, I'm quite fine with the new battery being installed a couple weeks ago as well.  With cold freezing winter weather just around the corner, and not knowing how old our Jeep battery was, a strong new battery is a comforting thought.

 WE STILL DO NOT HAVE A LOT OF AUTUMN COLOR IN OUR FORESTS YET

Home again with the Jeep, I wasn't long in loading Pheebs up, and off we went to our country road walking spot.  How nice to get my legs walking again.  From there, we jeeped around a few country roads enjoying the sunny mid-October scenery.  How great I thought it was to be back in our good old rumble buggy Jeep again for many more morning Jeep rides.

 ANOTHER NICE AUTUMN MORNING WALK AND HOW GREAT TO BE BACK IN THE JEEP AGAIN

 A TOUCH OF COLOR ALONG THE WAY THIS MORNING

Wanting to get a few more outside things done while the weather is agreeable, we were soon home again and I was on the end of my wheelbarrow raking up more pine needles and distributing them around the flowerbeds.  I did a number of other wee things as well.  I am a member in good standing of the Putterer's Club found round the world.  I like puttering as long as the puttering doesn't test my patience and cause me anxiety.  Then, it is not puttering anymore.  It is #!!%**!!!!

 IT REALLY ANNOYS ME WHEN NEIGHORHOOD CATS COME INTO OUR YARD AND KILL BIRDS AT OUR FEEDING STATION!!!!!

An afternoon walk with Pheebs around the Park's pond enabled me to scrabble together a few additional pics for tonight's post.   

 OUR STREET

 THIS IS THE STAND OF PINE TREES ACROSS THE ROAD THAT I MADE A PATH THROUGH YEARS AGO TO WALK TO THE PARK'S POND

 HARDLY A TOUCH OF AUTUMN AT THE POND'S EAST SIDE

 LOOKING SOUTHWEST

 A BIT OF COLOR AT THE POND'S SOUTH END

 LOOKING NORTH ACROSS THE POND'S REFLECTIONS

 THE WEST SIDE OF THE POND LOOKING SOUTH

 LOOKING NORTHEAST I SEE OUR NEIGHBOR MONICA'S WHITE GARAGE

 A SKY REFLECTION IN THE POND

 IT LOOKS LIKE THE SKY HAS FALLEN INTO THE WATER

 HEADING HOME THROUGH THE STAND OF TREES AND IF YOU LOOK  CLOSE YOU CAN SEE PHEEBS AHEAD OF AT THE FAR END OF THE PATH

Al's Music Box:)) Your So Vain was written and performed by American singer and songwriter Carly Simon in November 1972.  I'm not sure where I was in 1972.  Either in Kitchener Ontario or Vernon British Columbia.  The early 70s are but foggy memories for me now and it is just as well.  The late '60s and all of the '70s were definitely not the best times in my life.  I kind of think of them now as the lost years.  But, I did like the music of that era:))

 A FEW PHOTOS FROM AROUND THE POND'S EDGE

 IF YOU LOOK CLOSE AT THE ORANGE PART AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS LEAF YOU WILL SEE A LITTLE BEAR LOOKING BACK AT YOU

Oh my, how I am enjoying my latest book, The Secret Garden by Francis Hogdson Burnett.  A line spoken by one of the children named Colin, leaped off the page for me today when he said, "If you keep calling it to come to you and help you it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things." That is exactly where I am in my life today and that line has a lot of meaning for me.......

GROANER'S CORNER:((  There was an engineer who had an exceptional gift for fixing all things mechanical. After serving his company loyally for over 30 years, he happily retired.  Several years later the company contacted him regarding a seemingly impossible problem they were having with one of their multi-million dollar machines. They had tried everything and everyone else to get the machine fixed, but to no avail. In desperation, they called on the retired engineer who had solved so many of their problems in the past.  The engineer reluctantly took the challenge. He spent a day studying the huge machine. At the end of the day, he marked a small "x" in chalk on a particular component of the machine and proudly stated, "This is where your problem is."  The part was replaced and the machine worked perfectly again.  The company received a bill for $50,000 from the engineer for his service. They demanded an itemized accounting of his charges. The engineer responded briefly:  Chalk mark: $1  Knowing where to put the chalk mark: $49,999

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-For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision.

-Four-wheel-drive just means getting stuck in more inaccessible places.

-Free advice costs nothing until you act upon it.

-Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

-Frustration is not having anyone to blame but yourself.

- My grandfather invented the cold air balloon...It never really took off.

-  “I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.”

- “Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.”

- “Uncle Ben has died. No more Mr Rice Guy.”

- “I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said ‘Analogue?’ I said ‘No, just a watch.'”

-“Exit signs? They’re on the way out!”

- “My next-door neighbour worships exhaust pipes. He’s a catholic converter.”

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