LOST IN THE CONFUSION SHE WOULD HAVE TO REPORT ME MISSING

 MY PRETTY CHEUFFER TAKES ME TO PHYSIO THERAPY THIS AFTERNOON

A few posts ago I mentioned something about moving our clocks ahead in less than two weeks.  While technically correct, I hadn't realized I should have said, in less than a week.  Yes, it's this coming Saturday night that we do that already.  I sure have a knack for getting myself behind the times at times.  Anywho, time sure flies, and what another great harbinger of Spring eh:))   Our sunrise didn't last long but hey, at least we had one, and how nice to wake up to 55F temps:))  The glass was indeed half full. (a reference to positive and negative)  With a chance of rain overnight, I left the Jeep out.  It didn't rain.  No surprise.

 TUCKERSMITH COMMUNICATION ON THE JOB THIS MORNING

Pheebs and I piled into the Jeep again around 9 a.m. and headed down to the south end of our Park whereupon we parked and got ourselves out for a morning walkabout.  We are very fortunate here in our Park to have this uninhabited area with both pine and hardwood forests complete with several streams meandering through both of them.  The 100-acre property is bordered by the Bayfield River running along its southern edge.

PARKED AT OUR PARK'S RECYCLE AREA

 PAWS AND BOOTS ON THE GROUND 

HEADING TOWARDS THE HARDWOOD FOREST

 YEARS AGO WHILE WALKING OUR 3 DOGS PAST THIS CREEK, 'CHECKERS' OUR BORDER COLLIE WOULD ALWAYS WHOOSH DOWN THIS SHORT BANK AND PLOP HERSELF RIGHT INTO THE SHALLOW CREEK THERE....SHE WAS OUR WATER DOG

 ALTHOUGH PHEEBS WAS READY TO HEAD UP THE TRAIL I DECIDED TO TURN AROUND HERE...DIDN'T WANT TO OVERDO MY LEG

 I THINK THIS POOR OLD PINE TREE MUST HAVE TANGLED WITH A BIG BAD GRIZZLY BEAR AND CAME OUT SECOND BEST....(NO, WE DO NOT HAVE GRIZZLY BEARS HERE)

 WITH OUR PARK LOCATED SO CLOSE TO THE SHORES OF LAKE HURON WE DO HAVE AN ABUNDAMCE OF SANDY SOIL

My second Physio Therapy appointment in Exeter at Russett Rehabilitation was at 2 p.m. today.  Kelly of course drove me there and things again went really well.  I have 3 more appointments left which will take me into early April.  For that last appointment, I sure hope they don't make me go out and run around the parking lot 5 times.  By the way, I am totally off the Percocet pain pills now and have switched to Tylenol 3 if and when needed.  We were home again by 3:30 this afternoon with only a few sprinkles of rain.  It looks like we might have a few patches of Sun on Wednesday and more Sun the following day:))

 A RATHER DRAB LOOKING DAY ON OUR WAY TO EXETER

 I WAS IN NEED OF SOME COLOR

A reader's comment in Monday's post asked, 'wondering about the change in street names. What effect does it have on your mail, banking, etc. Did you have to change everything?'  The short answer to this question is, 'Yes we have to change Everything'.  Of course, all this is an absolute PITA.  Drivers License, Health Cards, Insurance, Banking, our house number, etc. etc. and more, etc's.  Add to that the confusion over our mailing address too.  Old mail boxes out, new ones in, new keys-wrong keys, new mail boxes out and back in again, more key confusion and I don't even know where we are now.  Kelly knows enough not to send me to pick up the mail anymore because she knows it would be easy for me to get lost in the confusion and she would have to report me missing.  Although this is all for the better in the long run, we do have a lot of confused Seniors in the Park right now including us!!  Not knowing what's up from down in the ensuing confusment I've even seen some folks out at the end of their driveways standing on their heads. Well okay, maybe not quite that, but almost and it wouldn't surprise me if I did see a few folks on their heads.  I'll try and get a picture of that if I do:))  

 RETURNING TO OUR PARK THIS AFTERNOON THE FIBER OPTIC GUYS WERE STILL HARD AT IT

Al's Music Box:)) Green Onions is an instrumental composition recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the M.G,s. Described as "one of the most popular instrumental rock and soul songs ever" and as one of "the most popular R&B instrumentals of its era", the tune is a twelve-bar blues with a rippling Hammond M3 organ line by Booker T. Jones that he wrote when he was 17, although the actual recording was largely improvised in the studio.  Booker T. Jones  was the keyboard player for the house band of Stax Records with Al Jackson on drums, Lewie Steinberg on bass, and Steve Cropper on guitar. They started jamming in the studio one Sunday when a recording session with another singer, Billy Lee Riley, failed to take place. They played around with a piano groove that Jones had performed in clubs before, although Jones decided to use a Hammond organ because he thought it sounded better on the tune. The owner of Stax, Jim Stewart, became interested in recording the resulting tune, "Behave Yourself". However, the band needed a B-side for this song. Using a riff with a 12-bar blues bassline that Jones had, the band came up with a song that became "Green Onions". The guitarist Steve Cropper used a Fender Telecaster on "Green Onions", as he did on all of the M.G.'s instrumentals.  After recording, Cropper contacted Scotty Moore at Sun Records to cut a record. He then took the record to a DJ on the Memphis station WLOK, who played "Green Onions" on air. Due to the positive reaction of the public to the song, it was quickly re-released as an A-side.  According to Booker T. Jones, the composition was originally to be called "Funky Onions", but the sister of Jim Stewart thought it "sounded like a cuss word"; it was therefore renamed "Green Onions".   According to Cropper, the title is not a marijuana reference; rather, the track is named after the Green Badger's cat, Green Onions, whose way of walking inspired the riff.  On a broadcast of the radio program Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! on June 24, 2013, Jones was asked about the title and said, "The bass player thought it was so funky, he wanted to call it 'Funky Onions', but they thought that was too low-class, so we used 'Green Onions' instead."

 I LIKE WALKING SPOTS LIKE THIS....NO PEOPLE, NO BUILDINGS, AND NO TRAFFIC NOISE....JUST US GUYS AND THE BIRDS

GROANER'S CORNER:((  Cal was out driving in the country, seeing how his new car handled the curvy roads at high speeds. As he rounded a corner, one of his tires blew.  When he pulled over and got out of the car to change the tire, he noticed that he had stopped in front of the state mental asylum. There was also a man sitting on the brick wall in front of the facility.  The driver went about his business, not paying any attention to the guy on the fence. He first took his tire iron and jack out of the car, and got the car jacked up. Then, he removed the hubcap. Next, he removed the six lug nuts and placed them in the hubcap for safekeeping.  About this time, the guy on the fence decided to start a conversation. This startled the driver, and he reeled around quickly, knocking over the hubcap, and the lug nuts fell into the sewer drain.  The driver gets angry with the guy on the fence, shouting, "Now look what you made me do. Now I'm going to have to walk to town to buy some new lug nuts. Just go back inside and leave me be."  The guy on the fence says, "Why don't you just take one lug nut from each of your other three wheels, and use them on this one. That should hold it steady enough for you to drive the car to the auto parts store."  The driver asks, "That's a brilliant idea...why are you here in this asylum?"  The guy on the fence replies, "I'm just crazy, not stupid."

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The Vatican has unveiled an email address for the new Pope.  In related news, the Pope has received a confidential financial offer from the President of Nigeria.

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A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year.
Another recent study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year.  That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.  Not Bad.

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