EAT EM WHILE THEY'RE WARM SHE SAID AND EAT EM WHILE THEY'RE WARM I DID

 A GROWING STACK OF BEST-EVER CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Not a good long weekend for area campers, boaters, and tourists.  Especially felt sorry for all the tenters out there waking up to low 50's temps and a cold drizzle in the air this morning.  I remember mornings like this when camping decades ago and they were not fun!!  Sleeping in one's clothes on the ground in a cold tent only to wake up and find out it's raining, the firewood is soaked, the matches are soggy and you are out of fuel for your Coleman stove and tent heater if you even had one.  And somebody has already ate all your peanut butter sandwiches.  Now, to make that scenario even worse, try waking up with a hangover from the night before as well.  No, I don't miss those kinds of days at all.......It was a short ride into Bayfield for Pheebs and I this morning with Subie's heater on and the windshield wipers keeping a cold rainy drizzle off the windshield.  We didn't stay out long and I was glad to get back home again, fry myself up a cup of coffee, and micro-wave myself up a relish, mustard, and ketchup hot dog for breakfast.  With my tube steak and coffee in hand I quickly retreated to our cozy sunroom where I fired up our Vermont Casting gas stove to take the damp chill out of the air.  Tipped back in my recliner with kindle book in hand and let my mind wander me off to Prince Edward Island where Lucy Maude Montgomery's warm descriptive laid back style of writing once again soothed my troubles and danced my imagination around the Island.  There was no going back outside again today and that was that.  And, I was quite okay with it too.  

 IT WAS A COLD, WINDY, AND BLEAK LOOKING SUNDAY MORNING AT BAYFIELD'S BEACH

 IDLE BOATS WERE BOBBING AT THEIR MOORINGS

I THINK I SEE THE CAPTAIN OF THE BONNIE LEE SITTING IN THERE PLOTTING A COURSE FOR WARMER WATERS

 LOOKS LIKE THIS LOCAL FARMER HAS TRADED HIS TRACTOR IN FOR A BOAT

 QUITE AN ARRAY OF SOLAR PANELS ON THIS BOAT WHICH ALSO ACTS AS A SUN SHADE AND RAIN COVER

 NO RAIN COVER ON THIS BOAT SO I THINK THE CAPTAIN IS GOING TO END UP WITH SOGGY SHORTS WHEN HE SITS DOWN AT THE WHEEL

I haven't seen hide-nor-hair of the black and white cat I chased out of our yard last week after I saw it ambush and kill a chipmunk.  I think my 'chicken wire, milk crate, and old plastic flower pots' defense system is working.  I have hung the birdfeeder back up and I did see a chipmunk scurrying around our yard today.

Kelly took a hankerin' to bake up a batch of the best-ever chocolate chip cookies this afternoon.  They were barely out of the oven when I snuck away with 50 of them under my shirt when she wasn't looking.  Okay, not that many but I sure grabbed up my fair share when she said, 'Eat em while they're warm.  So, eat them while they were warm I did.  All 50.....er, at least 4 of them:))  

 KELLY HAS THE MOST GOOD COOKIE BRAINS IN OUR FAMILY

 WORKING ON A THIRD BATCH

THESE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES HAVE A VERY HIGH 'YUMMY' FACTOR

I recently finished two more books by Prince Edward Island's author Lucy Maude Montgomery.  Thoroughly enjoyed them both.  The Blue Castle and Jane of Lantern Hill.  I am currently reading another one of her books entitled, The Complete 'Pat Of Silver Bush' Series which consists of two books. 

Ellen's Groove:)) Ellen and her dad team up for a progressive Metal Jam.  I was surprised to see Ellen using her 'small' bass.

 BEANFIELD IN A VALLEY

 NOTHING UP IN THIS FIELD YET, MAYBE TOMORROW

 AMAZING HOW FARMERS CAN GET THEIR FIELDS ABOUT AS SMOOTH AS BILLIARD BALLS

Al's Music Box:)) That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be is a song performed by Carly Simon, and the lead single from her self-titled debut album Carly Simon (1971). Her friend and frequent collaborator Jacob Brackman wrote the lyrics and Simon wrote the music. The song earned Simon a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 14th Annual Grammy Awards in 1972, where she also won Best New Artist.  It is an art song with a semiclassical melody in the style of Gabriel Faure', and Elektra staffers were worried the single was too emotionally complex to be released as Simon's first single. With subject matter that includes "the parents' bad marriage; the friends' unhappy lives; the boyfriend's enthusiasm for marriage but controlling nature; the woman's initial resistance and ultimate capitulation."  The success of the song propelled Simon into the limelight.  In July 1971, the single reached No. 1 in Boston (WRKO), Burlington, Vermont (WDOT), New Haven (WNHC) and Rochester, New York (WSAY).  No music video existed for this song, although a filmed performance was produced for an episode of the early 1970s PDS series The Great American Dream Machine.

 THIS YOUNG GRACKLE HASN'T GROWN OUT ITS ADULT COLORS YET

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A hungry lion was roaming through the jungle looking for something to eat. He came across two men. One was sitting under a tree reading a book; the other was typing away on his typewriter. The lion quickly pounced on the man reading the book and devoured him. Even the king of the jungle knows that readers digest and writers cramp.

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- It only takes one slowly walking person in the grocery store to destroy the illusion that I am a nice person.

- Bought a head of lettuce from a small grocery store called Mamas and Papas.  Can't eat it because all the leaves are brown.

- An Irish Text:  Mary, I'm just having one more pint with the lads.  If I'm not home in 20 minutes, read this text again.

- Teacher told me not to worry about spelling because in the future there will be auto-correct for which I will be eternally grapefruit.

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