KELLY HAS FINALLY BEEN TRANSFERRED TO LONDON'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

They gave Kelly a ginger ale Thursday night but still no food.  The last meal of any consequence she had was here at home Tuesday night.  Kelly called Al's take-out service this morning and ordered up a medium Tim Hortons coffee with a cruller donut.  She had a few other things she wanted me to bring her so I gathered up those items and headed for the Goderich Hospital being sure not to forget the Tim Hortons coffee shop pick-up along the way.  Aside from some pains in her stomach, Kelly is feeling not too bad.  At noon today, there was still no word on her transfer.  It's a waiting game but at least she is in the right place in case the internal bleeding suddenly starts again.  Seeing all that blood last Thursday was very scary.  Kelly called later to say that her supper tonight would be another ginger ale.  But then, in a second phone call shortly after she said a nurse had just come in to inform her that her transfer to London's University Hospital was set up for 3:45 this afternoon.  At last!!  She is hopeful that she will get something to eat there.  Whether she will have the endoscopy procedure over the week-end is unknown.  Update:: Kelly phoned late this afternoon saying she made it to London.  She's on the eighth floor of University Hospital and they are going to do the endoscopy tomorrow and hopefully in the morning.  And, for supper tonight she is having......a ginger ale:((  Hopefully, after her endoscopy tomorrow she can start piling the food in again:))

 THIS MORNING IN GODERICH GETTING HER IV LINES READJUSTED AND BEHIND THAT BLACK BAG ON THE RIGHT IS HIDING A TIM HORTONS COFFEE AND A CRULLER DONUT

 KELLY SENT A PICTURE OF HER THURSDAY NIGHT SUPPER

In my Thursday post I failed to edit out a short paragraph that I had started earlier in the afternoon and forgot to finish.  Several readers drew my attention to it and felt 'I left them hanging'.  That was certainly not my intention and when I went back and read it, I agreed with the readers and promptly deleted the unfinished paragraph.  I try my best each day to write things correctly and not give anyone wrong impressions, but sometimes I just screw up, forget stuff, and plum get things wrong.

Although I woke up tired this morning, I thought I had a reasonably good sleep.  My energy levels today were zero even before and I spent most of my day in my sunroom recliner reading and fighting off the zzzzzzzzzzzs.  Despite that, Pheebs and I did manage to take a walk over to and around the Park's pond.  Back again, it suddenly dawned on me why I might have been dragging myself around all day.  Normally, Kelly makes the coffee in the morning and it's real coffee and on the strong side.  And it's the only real coffee I have all day.  My next two cups of coffee around 10 a.m and 7 p.m. are both decaffeinated.  Without thinking this morning I made my first coffee of the day decaffeinated' and that might have led to my lethargy.  Well, that's my flimsy excuse anyway and I am sticking to it:))    

Al's Music Box:)) The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down is a song written by Robbie Robertson, who spent about eight months working on it.  Robertson said he had the music to the song in his head and would play the chords over and over on the piano but had no idea what the song was to be about. Then the concept came to him and he researched the subject with help from the Band's drummer Levon Helm, a native of Arkansas.  In his 1993 autobiography, 'This Wheel's on Fire, Helm wrote, "Robbie and I worked on 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' up in Woodstock. I remember taking him to the library so he could research the history and geography of the era and make General Robert E. Lee come out with all due respect."  The lyrics tell of the last days of the American Civil War, portraying the suffering of the protagonist, Virgil Caine, a poor white Southerner.  Dixie is the historical nickname for the states making up the Confederate States of America.George Stoneman The song's opening stanza refers to one of George Stoneman's raids behind Confederate lines attacking the railroads of Danville, Virginia, at the end of the Civil War in 1865:  "Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.  In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.  By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well".  "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is considered one of the highlights of The Band, the group's second album, which was released in the fall of 1969.  According to Rob Bowman's liner notes to the 2000 reissue of The Band, the album has been viewed as a concept album, with the songs focusing on the peoples, places and traditions associated with an older version of Americana.  A highlight of the group's repertoire, it has been included in every compilation covering their recording career 1968 to 1977.  The Band frequently performed the song in concert, and it is included on the group's live albums 'Rock of Ages' (1972) and 'Before the Flood' (1974). The song also was included in the Band's Thanksgiving Day concert in 1976 which was the subject of Martin Scorsese's documentary film 'The Last Waltz, and on that film's soundtrack released in 1978.  The last time the song was performed by band member Levon Helm was in The Last Waltz. Helm refused to play the song afterwards. Although it has long been believed that the reason for Helm's refusal to play the song was a dispute with Robertson over songwriting credits, according to Garth Hudson the refusal was due to Helm's dislike for Joan Baez's version.  This is her version ..........The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

 THIS RAINDROP ON A LEAF ACTS AS A MAGNIFYING GLASS

GROANER'S CORNER:(( My wife asked if she could have a little peace and quiet while she cooked dinner.  So I took the battery out of the smoke detector.

Q: What's the definition of mixed emotions?
A: When you see your mother-in-law backing off a cliff in your brand new car.

Our parents got divorced when we were kids and it was kind of cool. We got to go to divorce court with them. It was like a game show. My mom won the house and car. We're all excited. My dad got some luggage.

- The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

- The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first.

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