I KINDA GOT MYSELF OUT OF SORTS

I saw on the Friday 6 o'clock news that there might be a chance of another Aurora Borealis so about 10 o'clock Friday night I loaded my camera, tripod, and binoculars, into the Subaru, opened the Moon roof, and headed off out into the darkened countryside.  I had intended to take a tilt-back gravity chair with me but forgot.  I stayed out there about forty minutes but did not see any coloring in the north sky.  However, I did see four airplanes and two satellites. Two of those planes were high-flying jets and two were lower-flying propeller planes.  I did notice something odd about one of those prop jobs.  Usually, airplanes have red, green, and white lights but one of those planes had a strong flashing amber light on it.  I don't ever recall seeing a flashing amber light on a plane.  But here's the oddest thing I saw.  I was just leaving the dark country road spot when I glanced up through the open Moon roof and saw a faint satellite traveling northeast.  Picking up my ?? binoculars I stopped and glanced up again and immediately saw a brighter second satellite seemingly in a lower orbit traveling southeast.  I quickly got my binoculars on it and that's when I saw something different. Every single satellite I have seen over the years has had the same silvery-white color to it.  Every satellite, no exceptions......until tonight.  I had this brighter satellite in my binoculars for about 5 seconds and it was definitely a solid light blue in color.....and no, I was not looking through the Moonroof's glass.  The Moon roof was fully open.  And no, it was not an airplane with flashing lights.  I sure wished we lived out in the country with an open sky overhead where I could nightly renew and revive my interest in an old Astronomy hobby I so much enjoyed a couple decades ago.   

 CORN'S UP ABOUT TEN INCHES NOW

 THIS FARNER IS OUT IN HIS FIELD KICKING UP SOME SATURDAY MORNING DUST

 PHEEBS AND I FOLLOWED THIS FELLOW FOR A WHILE THIS MORNING BUT IT WAS OK BECAUSE WE WEREN'T IN A HURRY

 ON THE COUNTRY ROADS I ALWAYS PULL OVER AND LET THE BIG FARM MACHINERY GUYS GO BY

 AND SOMETIMES ON THE HIGHWAYS WE JUST HAVE TO GET OUT THERE AND GET AROUND THESE BIG GUYS

 HERE'S KELLY ON HER iPHONE FRIDAY AFTERNOON ON OUR WAY HOME LOOKING UP BIG DOCTOR WORDS ON GOOGLE THAT APPEAR ON HER ENDOSCOPY REPORT

Not much going on today.  A routine run to Goderich and back for Pheebs and I this morning.  I kinda got myself out of sorts this afternoon so I retreated to my sunroom recliner and stuck my nose in my book hoping it would make my world go away.  And, for a few hours, it did.

 OUR ANNUAL PINE POLLEN MENACE IS UPON US 

 THIS PINE POLLEN HAS THE CONSISTENCY OF BABY POWDER AND IT GETS INTO ABSOLUTELY EVERY THING

It's finally official.  New and refurbished lots in our Park are now being listed for people interested in putting a mobile home on a land lease lot.  Anyone interested in living in what we consider to be the absolute best mobile home Park in this whole area can find additional information here at this link....Bayfield Pines.  Unlike many other Parks, we are not rammed, jammed, or crammed up against each other and that along with all our Pine trees and forest setting, makes this Park so unique.  And, we now have good owners.

Al's Music Box:)) Black Water is a song recorded by the American music group the Doobie Brothers from their 1974 album 'What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits'. The track features its composer Patrick Simmons on lead vocals and, in mid-March 1975, became the first of the Doobie Brothers' two No. 1 hit singles.  Simmons completed "Black Water" during a subsequent Doobie Brothers' sojourn in New Orleans; a lifelong aficionado of Delta blues, Simmons had first visited New Orleans for a 1971 Doobie Brothers gig: "When I got down there it was everything I had hoped it would be...The way of life and vibe really connected with me and the roots of my music." Simmons cites the song's opening section as "my childhood imaginings of the South from reading Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer" while the lyrics subsequent to the first chorus draw on his actual experience of New Orleans: "going down to the French Quarter as often as possible and going into the clubs and listening to Dixieland": the lyric Well if it rains, I don't care/ Don't make no difference to me/Just take that street car that's goin' uptown/ was jotted down by Simmons while riding through the University District on the St. Charles Streetcar Line en route to the Garden District in Uptown New Orleans to do laundry: "the sun was shining while it was pouring rain the way it does down there sometimes. And the lyrics just came to me there on the streetcar."  "Black Water" is distinguished by its melodious a cappella section, whose lyrics are likely the song's prevalent hook lines: "I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland/ Pretty mama, come and take me by the hand." These lines are also featured in the Train song, "I Got You" (from Save Me San Francisco) on which Simmons received a co-writing credit. Producer Ted Templeman said of the a cappella section of "Black Water": "I stole the idea from my old producer", referencing his stint as the lead singer of sunshine pop act 'Harpers Bizarre' whose 1967 hit rendition of "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" had featured a harmonic a cappella section (Harpers Bizarre had been produced by Lenny Waronker).  Despite his encouragement in regard to writing "Black Water" and his meticulous arranging of the track, Ted Templeman said: "We never thought of it as a potential hit single" - "I put 'Black Water' on the B-side because I figured it was an acoustic thing.

 I JUST KNOW THERE IS A LITTLE ALIEN CREATURE HIDING UNDERNEATH THIS LEAF

GROANER'S CORNER:(( It was the end of the day when I parked my police car in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me.  "Is that a dog you got in the back seat there?" he asked. "It sure is," I replied.  Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the car. Finally he said, "What'd he do?"

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- I'm not a complete idiot….Some parts are missing.

Q: How many divorced men does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: None, because they never get the house!

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After weeks of getting the cold shoulder from his wife, the unhappy husband finally confronted her.  'Admit it, Linda. The only reason you married me is because my grandfather left me $10 million.'  'Don't be ridiculous,' she replied. 'I don't care who left it to you.'
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