KEEPS ME FROM GOING BONKERS

I'm afraid there really wasn't much for me to write about today.  It was a short morning drive halfway down the road and back for Pheebs and I.  Kelly had some errands to run in Goderich and with only one car for now she was needin' it to be gettin' on her way.  With clear blue skies overhead the sunshine really heated up all the moisture in the air so neither Pheebs nor I set foot out the door again.  Our 84F with the oppressive muggy humidity felt like 95F.  To say it was a lazy day for the furry Kid and I would be putting it quite mildly.  Thank heavens I have a reading hobby that keeps me from going bonkers on days like this.  I never got around to taking any photos today but I did have a few left over from previous days.

 A SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO MOUNTAIN RANGE??  NOPE, JUST A LOCAL GRAVEL PIT

 A GOLDEN WHEAT FIELD

 A VERY RECENTLY HARVESTED WHEAT FIELD

 AND, THIS WHEAT FIELD IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING HARVESTED

 'MARSHMALLOW FIELDS FOREVER'

 THAT'S A LOT OF TIRES COMING DOWN THE ROAD

 ONE OF OUR FRONT YARD BUNNIES PAUSES FOR A QUICK CLEAN UP

Al's Music Box:)) In Dreams is a song composed and sung by singer Roy Orbison.  It is an operatic rock ballad of lost love and it was recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville on January 4, 1963.  It became the title track of the album 'In Dreams', released in July of the same year. The song has a uniquely composed structure in seven movements in which Orbison sings through two octaves, beyond the range of most rock singers.  The song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 charts at number 7, and charted in the United Kingdom for five months while Orbison toured with the Beatless.  During the five months the song was on the charts, Orbison replaced guitarist Duane Eddy on a tour of the UK alongside the Beatles, whom he was not aware of at the time. British promoters were wary of Orbison as a draw, not considering him conventionally attractive and noting his stillness while performing.  The tour sold out in one afternoon, however.   Orbison's first meeting with John Lennon was awkward, as Orbison was overwhelmed by the amount of advertising devoted to the Beatles when it was he who was supposed to headline the show. Beatlemania, however, was taking hold, and Orbison accepted that he was not the main draw of the tour, so he decided to go first on stage.  On opening night, the audience reacted intensely toward Orbison's ballads, as he finished with "In Dreams". Philip Norman, a Beatles biographer, later wrote "As Orbison performed, chinless and tragic, the Beatles stood in the wings, wondering how they would dare to follow him". After demanding Orbison play for double the time he was scheduled, the audience then screamed for a fifteenth encore, which Lennon and Paul McCartney refused to allow. The two held Orbison back from returning to the stage.  Rolling Stone listed "In Dreams" at number 319 of their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2012.  Orbison claimed that "In Dreams" came to him while he was sleeping, as many of his songs did. He often heard music while asleep.  Orbison was half-awake when he imagined "In Dreams", and thought, "Boy that's good. I need to finish that. Too bad things don't happen in my dreams." When he woke up the next morning, he wrote the song in twenty minutes.  Like many of Orbison's songs, "In Dreams" rejects the typical song structure of rock music.  It begins like a lullaby with minimal acoustic guitar strums, with Orbison introducing the listener to "a candy-colored clown they call the sandman" half-spoken and half-sung. The sandman puts him to sleep, and Orbison begins singing about dreams of his lover. Drums pick up the rhythm to follow the lyrics further into his subconscious, and a piano joins as the lyrics recount how Orbison spends time with her in his dreams, accompanied by breathy backup singers. Orchestra strings counter his melody, with the effect of representing a singing voice in themselves.  Orbison's voice rises as he wakes up to find his lover gone. The climax is a powerful crescendo, as he cries "It's too bad that all these things "Can only happen in my dreams", and the resolution follows his voice from falsetto to the final note an octave below as he sings "Only in dreams-In beautiful dreams", as the other performers conclude with him abruptly.  The song never repeats a section in the two minutes and forty-eight seconds it runs.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Marriage Quotes::

- There was a man who said, "I never knew what happiness was until I got married...and then it was too late!"
- Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.
-They say when a man holds a woman's hand before marriage, it is love; after marriage, it is self-defense.
- When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a ten-year married man looks happy, we wonder why.
- A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -

- A gentleman is one who never swears at his wife while ladies are present.
- A husband is living proof that a wife can take a joke.

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- Dolphins are so intelligent that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw fish to them three times a day.

- “I'm really good at being lazy. In fact, my doctor even said that if I continue being this lazy I should expect atrophy.”

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Bill: Where did you get that gold watch Joe?
Joe: I won it in a race.
Bill: How many people participated in it?
Joe: Three, a policeman, the owner of the watch, and me!

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