QUALITY TIME WITH HER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN

 A QUIET FOREST STREAM

With sunshine filtering through the tall pine trees and spilling shadows across our living room floor, it was another pleasant-looking Wednesday morning that befell our quiet household.  Another day, another challenge.

Pheebs and I slowly headed east out of our Park and made our way to the north end of Bannockburn Line where we turned south onto a gravel road.  This is one of my favorite close-to-home drives because it leads through several hardwood forests with a few creek crossings, some swampiness, and the Bannockburn Conservation Area.  It continues south as far as Centennial Road.

 IN THE BANNOCKBURN CONSERVATION AREA PARKING LOT

 BECAUSE OF THE DEER FLIES AND MOSQUITOS, WE DIDN'T VENTURE FAR

 WE QUICKLY HEADED BACK TO THE CAR

We did stop and get out at the Bannockburn Conservation Area but we didn't venture too far into the area itself along the boardwalk because I knew the Deer Flies and Mosquitos in this swampy area would be thick, and they were.

 OUR SUMMER FORESTS CAN SOMETIMES LOOK LIKE A JUNGLE

 SOON BEAUTIFUL PURPLE FLOWERS WILL EMERGE FROM THESE THISTLE PODS

 APPLES ARE RIPENING

 THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO DRIVE THROUGH A FOREST

Another favorite scenic but short road heads west from the Bannockburn Line to Parr Line and this road is at the extreme east end of Pavillion Road.  This short stretch of road is hilly and not as wide as normal country roads, but it's a nice quiet drive.

I SAW A LITTLE GOLDFINCH FLUTTER DOWN AND ALIGHT ON THE ROAD AHEAD BESIDE A WATER PUDDLE SO I QUICKLY STOPPED AND WAITED UNTIL IT WADED IN, HAD A DRINK OF WATER, AND FLEW MERRILY AWAY

Home shortly before noon I hauled out the lawn mower, cut some grass, used our leafblower to blow debris off the carport pad and front porch, plus I pulled a few weeds and then quickly retreated into the coolness of the house for the rest of the day.

SUMAC ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE TREES

A STAGHORN SUMAC 

Kelly's son Ben and his two boys are at Bayfield's Deerpark Lodge for a week and today, Kelly's daughter Sabra drove over from Cambridge.  They all went out for lunch at Bayfield's Renegades Diner.  Tomorrow, Kelly's other son Jason is coming up to Deerpark with his son for a couple days so Kelly is getting to spend some nice quality time with her children and grandchildren.  

 SABRA, KELLY, BEN, AND HIS TWO BOYS DARION AND KAI

 BEN'S FRIEND LELIA

Al's Music Box:))  Our Day Will Come is a popular song composed by Mort Garson with lyrics by Bob Hilliard. It was recorded by American R&B group Ruby & the Romantics in early December 1962.  The song's composers were hoping to place "Our Day Will Come" with an established easy-listening act and only agreed to let the new R&B group Ruby & the Romantics record the song after Kapp Records' A&R director Al Stanton promised that, if the Ruby & the Romantics' single failed, Kapp would record the song with Jack Jones. Stanton cut two versions of "Our Day Will Come", one with a mid-tempo arrangement and the other in a bossa nova style; the latter version, featuring a Hammond organ solo, was selected for release as a single in December 1962 and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of March 23, 1963. The personnel on the original recording were: Leroy Glover on organ; Vinnie Bell, Al Gorgoni, and Kenny Burrell on guitars, Russ and George Devens on percussion.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Mr. Jones, the elementary school principal, made it a practice to visit the classes from time to time. One day he walked into Miss Sandy Smith's 4th grade class, where the children were studying American History. Mr. Jones asked the class how many states they could name.  They came up with about 40 names. Miss Sandy Smith came up with four more.  Not impressed, Mr Jones told them that in his day students knew the names of all the states.  From the back of the room Little Johnny yelled, "Yeah, but in those days there were only 13.

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- I feel bad for lions at zoos. How would you feel if a bunch of pizzas came to your house, took your picture, and you couldn’t even eat them?

 

- Who built King Arthur’s round table? Sir Cumference. 

- It was David’s first day as a pilot. Control tower asked, “What are your coordinates?” So David said, “I’m by a cloud that looks like a lion.” So control tower says, “Can you be more specific?” So David says, “Simba.”

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A little boy went to the store with his grandmother and on the way home, he was looking at the things she had purchased. He found a package of panty hose and began to sound out the words "QUEEN SIZE".
He then turned to his grandmother and exclaimed, "Look Granny, YOU wear the same size as our bed!"

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