AUNT JEAN'S SHORT FRIDAY NIGHT PHONE CALL

As soon as I heard my Aunt Jean's voice on the telephone at precisely 8:15 Friday night I knew she wasn't well.  Two weeks ago she came down with Covid but when I talked to her last week she was on the rebound and sounding like her old cheery positive self again.  Not so last night.  Tired and needing to rest, she couldn't talk long.  She has lost her appetite and at barely a hundred pounds can hardly afford to lose any more weight.  I will call her again in a couple of days to see how she is doing.  She just turned 97 a little over a week ago.

 A BEAUTIFUL SUMMER'S SATURDAY MORNING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

 STRAW BALES

 A RECENTLY HARVESTED WHEAT FIELD

While slowly making our way along a country road this morning I was hightenedly aware of our pastoral surroundings and thought to myself, this Saturday morning has got to be one of the best weather mornings of ever.  Hard to describe but it had that gentle touch of coolness and magic in the air found only in the soon to be here early Autumn days.  Days I so much look forward to each and every year at this time.

 NO, NOT A GOLF COURSE....A LOW SPOT IN A FARMER'S FIELD

 AREA MARSHMALLOW FARMS ARE DOING WELL:))

 A FINE OLD TREE HAS COME TO ITS END

 TURKEY VULTURES

 A ROAD JUST TRAVELLED

Noticed a lot of farmers out in the fields either continuing with the wheat harvest or cutting and baling grass for hay.  Some were also baling straw after the wheat fields had been harvested.  Confused about hay and straw??  Hay is food for the animals while straw is bedding for the animals.  So, did I pull that off the internet??  Nope, I pulled it right out from between my ears.  But, I did double-check the internet to see if I was right, and surprisingly enough.....I was:))

 SATURDAY MORNING FARM MACHINERY AWAITS SATURDAY MORNING FARM WORKERS

 A FARMER CHECKING OVER HIS COMBINE

 THIS TRACTOR IS PICKING UP LARGE ROUND STRAW BALES AND LOADING THEM ON A  COUPLE RED WAGONS

 A COMBINE WILL EMPTY ITS LOAD OF WHEAT INTO THE TRAILER BEING TOWED BY THIS TRACTOR AND THE TRACTOR WILL TAKE ITS LOAD TO A WAITING TRUCK OUT ON THE ROAD

With the humidity level on the rise, Pheebs and I didn't bother with an afternoon walk.  Stayed inside and ate a watermelon.  Well okay, part of a watermelon then:))   

 CANADA GEESE GLEANING A HARVESTED WHEAT FIELD

Al's Music Box:)) Ribbon Of Darkness is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot that was released in 1965 as a single by Marty Robbins. The song was Robbins' eleventh number-one on the U.S. country singles chart, where it spent one week at the top and a total of nineteen weeks on the chart.  Lightfoot's own version was released as a single in 1965 and included in his 1966 debut album 'Lightfoot' and again for his 1975 compilation album Gord's Gold. The latter recording features the song in a medley with "I'm Not Sayin", as does the live recording from Lightfoot's 1969 Sunday Concert album.  I also like Marty Robbins version of this song as well.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A panda bear walks into a restaurant and orders a meal.  After eating he pulls out a gun, shoots the place to the ground, and runs away. Quickly the bartender runs after him yelling, "HEY YOU CAN'T DO THIS!!!"  The panda turns around and yells "Yes I can. Look me up in the encyclopedia!"  So, the bartender looks up "Panda" in the encyclopedia, and it reads, "Panda: increasingly rare species of bear that can be found in the eastern part of Asia. It eats shoots and leaves.”

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What is the difference between a salon and a saloon?
A salon is where you go to make yourself look better.
A saloon is where you go to make everyone else look better.

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Knock Knock
Who's there?
Isaiah!
Isaiah who?
Isaiah nothing till you open this door!

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When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor.

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As a mother was bribing her little boy with a quarter so he would behave, she said, "Why do I always have to pay you to be good?  Why can't you be good for nothing like your dad?"

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