QUICKLY RETRIEVING MY FROG-CATCHING NET

 THIS FELLOW IN OUR FRONT YARD FROG POND TODAY THINKS IT'S SPRING

If it wasn't two weeks before Christmas and I had a blindfold on when stepping out the door I would have thought it felt like an early Spring day.  Under cloudy skies, we topped out at 57F today and that included a few brief sunsplashes about mid-afternoon.  Temperature records were broken today.  Just think, a month from now we'll already be past the first week of January:))

 WE STILL HAVE A FEW GREEN LEAVES LEFT

Already knowing our country road walking spot was too muddy for paws and boots, Pheebs and I contented ourselves with a front windows-down drive through the countryside listening to cool tunes on Sirius XM radio.  We were home again sometime after 10.

Because it wasn't freezing, snowing, or raining, Kelly ventured out into the front yard to put up some Christmas decorations.  Pheebs slipped out to help and I wasn't long in following with a stepladder.  Kelly did most of the decorating while I teetered around on the stepladder to reach the higher points for the lights.  While near our frog pond, I noticed a slight movement in the water and there sat a frog probably thinking it was Spring.  Quickly retrieving my frog-catching net I scooped the little fella up and took him over to the Park's big pond.  Last I saw of him he was paddling fast for the bottom to get himself nestled into the soft mud for winter.  Hmmm, maybe I should consider that.

 PUTTING UP SOME CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS TODAY

 PHEEBS IS A BIG HELP JUST BY BEING HERE

Hard to imagine, but we actually got ourselves through a whole week without any medical appointments.  Our next one will be in London on December 20th and it will be an Angiogram for Kelly.     

 OUR FRONT YARD ALWAYS LOOKS SO SCRAGGLY THIS TIME OF YEAR

Al's Music Box:)) Leader Of The Band is a song written by American singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg for his 1981 album The Innocent Age. The song was written as a tribute to his father Lawrence Fogelberg, a musician and leader of a band who was still alive when the song was released.

OUR FROG POND WITH ALL THE PINE NEEDLES AND SUNBURST LOCUST LEAVES IN IT

GROANER'S CORNER:((  When my 14-year-old son, Patrick, stepped up to the plate during a Colt League baseball game, the young announcer declared, "Now batting, the right fielder, number 12, Pathogen!"  After some confusion in the stands, the announcer came back on over the loudspeaker. "Sorry folks, that's PAT Hogan!"

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Nine out of ten voices in my head say that I’m crazy. The tenth is humming.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Any of us has the capacity to light up a room. Some when they enter, others when they leave it.

I am the human version of tangled headphones!!

 

Change is inevitable, except from a parking meter.

A real 'Smart TV' would increase the volume when you started eating chips.

Doesn’t expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

 Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.

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