A PROBLEM WITH MY 'BLOGGER' PROGRAM TONIGHT

 POPPY FLOWERS ON PORTER'S HILL LINE THIS MORNING

(There seems to be something amiss with my Blogger program tonight because it will not allow me to enlarge my photos or change the font colors in 'Al's Music Box' or 'Groaner's Corner')  Try clicking on the photos to see if they will enlarge.  I hope this is just a temporary problem!!  I will try enlarging the photos and changing the font colors tomorrow to see if anything has changed overnight...........

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Surprisingly, after an unexpectedly good night's sleep, Kelly felt a touch better today.  Judging by past experiences, neither one of us had thought that would happen.  She's nowhere near out of the woods but at least today was a better day for her than this past week.  We're encouraged, but also realistic enough in our thinking to know that her feeling slightly better today is only temporary........And it was.  At the time of posting this tonight she is again feeling weak)  Thanks to readers for your thoughtful and encouraging comments.

 KELLY BROUGHT HOME SOME OUTSIDE BEGONIA PLANTS A FEW DAYS AGO

 I REVERSED THE COLORS ON THIS HANGING BEGONIA PLANT...LEAVES WERE A DARK GREEN AND THE FLOWERS A BRIGHT RED

We had us a mighty fine-looking and feeling good weather morning and I would say the best one of the year so far.  I was able to dispense with my usual morning colder weather garb of a T-shirt, a long sleeve flannel shirt, and a jacket.  I stepped right out our door with a short-sleeved shirt on for a welcome change.  Well, fancy that eh:))

 HEADING TO GODERICH THIS MORNING

 SAW A FEW THREE-WHEELERS ON THE ROAD

 TWO WHEELERS TOO

 'HEY DAD ARE WE GETTING A GRAPE SHAKE'

With prescriptions for both Kelly and I to be picked up at Goderich's Walmart, Pheebs and I were soon in the Jeep heading north.  Say, did I mention what a beautiful morning it was:))  Coffee to go at McDonalds' and we headed for the harbor whereupon I immediately noticed something odd far out on the lake.  A large freighter sat atop the horizon but something didn't look right about it.  On the road out to the cove I pulled over and hauled out my binoculars.  In the hazy distance maybe three miles out it almost looked like four large ships grouped together.  I took a couple shaky hand-held 600mm photos and was able to enlarge them later in my photo editing program but It wasn't until after we were home that Kelly saw the explanation for the 'two' Algoma lake freighters on Goderich's Sunset site.  The Algoma Intrepid was transferring its full load of salt to the Algoma Innovator after the Intrepid had experienced some kind of a propulsion problem.  Once that was explained, all seemed right with the world again.  Okay, not really, but a little bit anyway.

 I'M GUESSING THAT'S THE 'INTREPID' ON THE RIGHT AND THE 'INNOVATOR' ON THE LEFT

 FAMILIES AT GODERICH'S ROTARY COVE THIS MORNING

Home again, I forgot all about washing the Subaru and somehow got myself involved in trimming up some branches on a 12-foot maple tree with my tall ladder.  By the time I finished this, I had to retreat into the house and bask in the coolness of our wonderful A/C and strategically placed fans.  I will have to tie a brightly colored 'car wash' ribbon around my finger for tomorrow morning.

With a nice late afternoon breeze in the air Pheebs and I did venture out later for a stroll around the Park's pond.  This one turned out to be a four-turtle walk with a Green-Backed Heron thrown in for good measure.  Oh, and we heard some Chuggerrum frogs too.  With the afternoon humidity ramped up, both Pheebs and I were happy to get back to the coolness of our house again:))   

 SOMEONE HAS ADDED A NICE TOUCH TO THE RESTING BENCH BESIDE THE PARK'S POND

 TWO TINY TURTLES SITTING ON A LOG, ONE THINKS HE'S A FISH, THE OTHER A FROG

LOOKS LIKE BOTH THESE TURTLES HAVE HITCHHIKERS....SNAILS

 GREEN-BACKED HERON

 LOOKS LIKE A JAMMY PLACE TO LIVE IF YOUR A TURTLE

 ON A DIRT ROAD AT THE FAR END OF THE POND I SPOTTED THESE VERY RARE PRINTS OF THE GREAT AND ELUSIVE HIEROGLYPHIC GILLY-GALOO BIRD

 PHLOX GROWING AT THE POND'S EDGE

 PHEEBS IN OUR FRONT YARD MAKING HER WAY ALONG A JUNGLE PATH

Al's Music Box:)) Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North wrote the music as a theme for the prison film Unchained (1955), hence the song title. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack.   It has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by the Righteous Brothers in 1965.  According to the song's publishing administrator, over 1,500 recordings of "Unchained Melody" have been made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages.  Of the hundreds of recordings made, the Righteous Brothers' version, with a solo by Bobby Hatfield, became the jukebox standard after its release. Hatfield changed the melody in the final verse and many subsequent covers of the song are based on his version. The Righteous Brothers recording achieved a second round of great popularity when featured in the film Ghost in 1990.   

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Are your investments in order? Below are some of the latest rumors from Wall Street. In the wake of the AOL/Time Warner deal, here are the latest mergers we can expect to see:

Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W.R. Grace Company merge to become Hale Mary Fuller Grace.

Polygram Records, Warner Brothers, and Keebler Crackers merge to become Polly-Warner-Cracker.

Duct tape is like 'The Force'...
It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

3M and Goodyear merge to become MMMGood.

John Deere and Abitibi-Price merge to become Deere Abi.

Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining merge to become Zip Audi Do Da.

Honeywell, Imasco, and Home Oil merge to become Honey I'm Home.

Denison Mines, and Alliance and Metal Mining merge to become Mine All Mine.

Federal Express and UPS merge to become FED UP.

Xerox and Wurlitzer will merge and begin manufacturing reproductive organs.

Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers will merge and become Fairwell Honeychild.

3M, J.C. Penney and the Canadian Opera Company will merge and become 3 Penney Opera.

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- I'm at an age where my back goes out more than I do.

- I get most of my exercise these days from shaking my head in disbelief.

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