WIPER BLADES ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE WINDSHIELD

 "HEY LOOK, THERE'S PHEEBS"

Despite the dark and gloomy rain-soaked earlier part of the morning, I was greatly brightened by reader's emails and comments when I opened my blog.  And for that, I gratefully say thank you to everyone for your kind words, thoughts, and encouragement.  At this age and stage of life, every little needed boost is so helpful and important.  And, so much appreciated......

STORMY SKIES OVER A WHEAT FIELD TO THE EAST THIS MORNING

 EVEN STORMIER SKIES OVER ANOTHER WHEAT FIELD TO THE WEST

 AND WE EVEN SPOTTED 'OLD LONESOME' ON OUR WAY TO GODERICH

 HMMMM, I WONDER WHAT LITTLE DICKENS PUT THIS ON OUR SUBARU??  ANY GUESSES:)) I'LL GIVE YOU A HINT....IT WASN'T ME AND IT WASN'T PHEEBS

Pheebs and I in the rain, splashed ourselves all the way to Goderich earlier today.  Every time I tried to put Pheebs window down for her she got a snoot full of rainwater.  She didn't seem to mind that much but Subie wasn't happy about getting her interior wet so up went the window.  Hey, at least I was smart enough not to open the moonroof.  Had I done that I would have had to put on a rain coat and I didn't have one in the car anyway.  By the time we left Goderich about forty minutes later, the rain had quit and sunshine began breaking through the cloud cover.  Temperatures were up so we had our front windows down.  So much better than Friday morning when it was cool and I had the heater going in the car.  We didn't receive any more rain today but the humidity sure came stampeding back.  

I must say that I do like driving the Subaru more than the Jeep these days.  It's the quietness of the ride, the smoothness of the ride, and the quality of the car's sound system.   The better gas mileage is a big plus and of course, I like that big rectangular hole in the roof that I can open and allow sunshine and warm breezes to come tumbling in.  At highway speeds, if I open that moonroof it instantly creates a whirlwind inside the car with flying dust, food debris, and doggy fur swirling everywhere.  So thick at times my visibility is impaired and I have to quickly turn on the windshield wipers to see where I'm going.  However, each time I do this I quickly realize the wiper blades are on the wrong side of the windshield for inside whirlwinds.  Oh my, the frazzles of life eh.  And, did you really think we get whirlwinds of that magnitude going on inside the car??:))

 A NICE SMATTERING OF DAYLILIES ALONG THE WAY

 HOW NICE TO SEE BROWN-EYED SUSANS AGAIN

With the day's humidity ramping up it was a slow walk for Pheebs and I around the Park's pond.  As soon as we got back I had to plant myself right in front of my big fan and crank it up to restore myself to some semblance of dry civility.       

 A SATURDAY MORNING CLUSTER OF COWS

Al's Music Box:)) That'll Be The Day is a song written by Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison. It was first recorded by Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes in 1956 and was re-recorded in 1957 by Holly and his new band, the Crickets. The 1957 recording achieved widespread success. Holly's producer, Norman Petty, was credited as a co-writer, although he did not contribute to the composition.  The 1957 recording was certified gold (for over a million US sales) by the Recording Industry Association of America. (RIAA) in 1969. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. It was placed in the National Recording Registry, a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States", in 2005.  In June 1956, Holly along with his older brother Larry as well as Allison and Sonny Curtis went to see the film The Searchers, starring John Wayne, in which Wayne repeatedly used the phrase "that'll be the day". This line of dialogue inspired the young musicians.  The song was first recorded by Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes for Decca Records at Bradley Studios in Nashville, on July 22, 1956. Decca, displeased with Holly's previous two singles, did not issue recordings from this session. After the song was re-recorded by the Crickets in 1957 and became a hit, Decca released the original recording as a single on September 2, 1957, with "Rock Around with Ollie Vee" as the B-side. It was also the title track of the 1958 album That'll Be the Day. Despite Holly's newfound stardom, the single did not chart.  Holly's contract with Decca prohibited him from re-recording any of the songs recorded in the 1956 Nashville sessions for five years, even if Decca never released them. To evade this restriction, the producer Norman Petty credited the Crickets as the artist on his re-recording of "That'll Be the Day" for Brunswick Records.   Brunswick was a subsidiary of Decca. Once the cat was out of the bag, Decca re-signed Holly to another of its subsidiaries, Coral Records, so he ended up with two recording contracts. Recordings with the Crickets were to be issued by Brunswick, and the recordings under Holly's name were to be on Coral, although the Crickets played on several of them.  The second recording of the song was made on February 25, 1957, seven months after the first, at the Norman Petty studios in Clovis, New Mexico, and issued by Brunswick on July 27, 1957.  This version is on the debut album by the Crickets, The 'Chirping' Crickets, issued on November 27, 1957. The recording was made with everyone performing and without additional overdubs. The B-side of the record, "I'm Looking for Someone to Love" was recorded at the same session with the same backup singers.  The Brunswick recording of "That'll Be the Day" is considered a classic of rock and roll. It was ranked number 39 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( After watching me read War and Peace, my son asked me,  “Dad, why is your book so thick?”  I said, “Well, it’s a long story.”

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- A book fell on my head.
I can only blame my shelf.

Q: What do you call 2,000 mockingbirds?
A: Two kilo mockingbird.

Q: Why was the library so tall?
A: Because it had a lot of stories.

- I’ve written a book about falling down a staircase.  It’s a step-by-step guide.

- Have you heard about Waldo? He went abroad and found himself.

- Did you hear about the author in jail?  They put him in the writer’s block.  Couldn’t get past his first sentence.

A not-so-bright guy was at home watching TV with his friends when he heard a noise. He ran out just in time to see a thief drive off in his car.  "Did you see his face?" his friends asked when he came back inside.  "No, but it's okay I got the license plate number!"

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