THE BACKYARD WAS IN NEED OF SOME ATTENTION

 A LITTLE RED SQUIRREL SITTING IN OUR SUNBURST LOCUST TREE PEERING THROUGH OUR SUNROOM WINDOW AT ME

Under cool cloudy skies, Pheebs and I slipped into Bayfield and dropped off some books at the Library for Kelly.  From there, we puttered around a few country roads close to the village and came home.

 'FLL ER UP' .... SEEN AT THE BAYFIELD GARAGE THIS MORNING

SITTING IN THEIR CAR AT BAYFIELD'S BEACK DECIDING IF THEY WANT TO GO FOR A PADDLE OR NOT

 IT LOOKS LIKE THIS MACHINE MIGHT BE USED TO CUT LONG GRASS IN THE DITCHES ALONGSIDE THE ROAD

Taking advantage of our cooler temperatures and lack of hot Sun I spent a couple hours outside trimming tree and shrub branches.  With the front yard garnering the bulk of our attention, the backyard was in need of some attention and that is where I concentrated my efforts today.  Dumped four-wheelbarrow loads of clippings into our utility trailer. Kelly was out helping with the trimming as well.

THIS AND ALL FOLLOWING PHOTOS ARE CATCH-UP PICS FROM THE PAST WEEK OR TWO

 THE ALGOMA GUARDIAN STILL SITS EMPTY IN GODERICH'S HARBOR AWAITING ITS FATE WHATEVER THAT FATE MAY BE

Thanks to a few readers who through comments or emails offered suggestions on how to change my blog's font colors after a problem occurred with Blogger a few weeks ago.  We couldn't get any of the suggested fixes to work until yesterday when Kelly clued into a Blogger Community help forum with a fix and an explanation about the problem.  Kelly read the fix and figured out the workaround.  Of course when she did it worked but when I did the same thing it wouldn't.  Except for one tricky little thing.  When it says 'while highlighted, hover your mouse at an input field (right underneath the word Title) then left click'.  Kelly was clicking there and I was clicking way over to the right of that area and that's why mine didn't work.  We seem to be okay now but I wished Google's Blogger would get off their duffs and fix this annoying problem properly!!!!  Here is the help link.....Blogger Work-Around     

  AN XETER ONTARIO ROAD CONSTRUCTION CREW TAKING A LUNCH BREAK

 MORNING COFFEE BREAK FOR THIS GRASS-CUTTING CREW IN GODERICH'S HARBOR

I finally had to bail out of my latest book, 'The Oceanography of the Moon' by Glendy Vanderah.  I stopped at the beginning of Chapter Fourteen when, as I was beginning to suspect, the book just got too romancy for me.  I have no interest in reading someone else's fictional ideas about mushy stuff and with two of the book's main characters getting all mushilized, I lost interest in the story and was out of there.  Yes, I know that schmoozy stuff is sometimes an integral part of the story but I don't always have the patience or interest to wade through all the schmalz.   Now, don't let the title of my next book throw you off but, it's about historical fact and not just based on historical fact.  This is a true story about real people.  It's called, The Bletchley Girls by author Tessa Dunlop.  It takes place in England during the Second World War and these are the young women who helped outsmart the enemy from within the confines of a Buckinghamshire Estate.  Bletchley Park was England's top secret intelligence center during the war and it was here that the German's unbreakable highly secretive Enigma code was finally broken.

REPLACING RAILROAD TIES SOUTH OF GODERICH

It will be all three of us piling into the Subaru Monday morning and heading out the driveway. 

 WORKERS IN THE GODERICH HARBOR REFURBISHING A WALL AT THE GODERICH GRAIN TERMINAL

Ellen's Groove:)) Her latest Father and Daughter Jam and on this one Ellen not only plays bass but an electronic keyboard as well.

 I'M THINKING THIS IS A FIELD OF WHEAT

Al's Music Box:)) Moonglow by Benny Goodman is a 1933 popular song. The music was by Will Hudson and Irving Mills and the words were by Eddie DeLange.  Writer George T. Simon, while working on a compilation of music for The Big Band Songbook, contacted composer Will Hudson regarding "Moonglow", and Hudson explained how the tune came about. "It happened very simply. Back in the early '30s, I had a band at the Graystone Ballroom in Detroit, and I needed a theme song. So I wrote 'Moonglow'."  "Moonglow" was first recorded by Joe Venuti in 1933, with subsequent recordings by Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Ethel Waters, and Art Tatum in 1934. The tune has since become a jazz standard, performed and recorded numerous times by a wide array of musical talents. The Benny Goodman Quartet with Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton made a famous version of the song in 1936, Artie Shaw recorded it in 1941, and Harry James recorded it in 1946 (released in 1950) on Columbia.  Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1956 for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings. (1954-56)  

GROANER'S CORNER:((A young couple drove several miles down a country road, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument, and neither wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules and pigs, the husband sarcastically asked, "Are they relatives of yours?"  "Yes," his wife replied. "I married into the family."

- My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.
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