THE DOCTOR TOLD KELLY THE BLEEDING INDICATES THE ADVANCEMENT OF HER LIVER DISEASE

I always call my Aunt Jean on Friday nights and tonight when I called I noticed right away her usual cheery voice was weak and shaky.  Two days ago on her 97th birthday, she was diagnosed with Covid and has been in quarantine in her room at the Sunnyside Village Retirement Center in Sarasota, Florida.  We didn't talk long this time because I could tell she was feeling very tired.  Aunt Jean, like Kelly, is a fighter and by hook or by crook she's not the type of person to let this Covid thing get her down.  She's very concerned about Kelly and wants me to call her in a couple days with any updates so I will in turn update readers about Aunt Jean's condition.

 A FEW PICS AROUND THE PARK BEFORE WE HEADED OUT THIS MORNING

THE PARK'S TREE CUTTERS HAVE BEEN BUSY

Kelly called this morning with a London update and she was in her usual good spirits.  She said at University Hospital it is a team of doctors she has and not just one.  They have taken a lot of blood for blood tests including a blood culture.  One of those blood draws was at 3 a.m. which they woke her up for.  She said most of the nurses were foreign.  Oriental.  She is in a room with one other nice lady.  She said they told her the endoscopy would definitely be done in the morning and afterward, she could have soft food but no Whoppers and fries from Burger King!!  She said they might also do an Ultra Sound.  Update 1: Kelly called about noon saying her endoscopy took place at eight o'clock this morning.  They didn't find the source of the bleeding and the doctor told her the bleeding indicates the advancement of the liver disease as it increases in size causing pressure on surrounding organs.  He told her the only real solution for these bleeds is a new liver.  Kelly and I talked for a while and after the call she said she was going to slip out of her room, head down the hall to the elevator, go down five floors to where there is a Tim Hortons located and get herself a pail full of coffee and a couple dozen donuts:))   

 AFTER THIS MORNING'S ENDOSCOPY I THINK KELLY TALKED HER ROOMMATE OUT OF HER TUNA SANDWICH

 KELLY'S HAUL AFTER A RAID ON TIM HORTONS EARLIER TODAY

Friday night after talking to Aunt Jean I decided to take Pheebs for a car ride.  I can't remember the last time we were even out for an evening car ride.  It was 9 p.m. when we headed into Bayfield with our front windows down, the Moonroof open, and a touch of heat on.  By a grand stroke of luck, we were able to catch us a sunset at Bayfield's beach and snap a few quick pics before the setting Sun splashed into Lake Huron.  From the beach and harbor area, we slipped back up 'Long Hill Road' and took ourselves for a cruise down Bayfield's Main Street.  How nice to see so many festive people out and about on the street and at the outside cafes', two ice cream parlors, and the coffee shop.  Especially in the summer months, Bayfield draws people from far and wide including many boaters who dock below the bluffs and walk up into the village.  From Bayfield, Pheebs and I quickly slipped out into the countryside for a slow ride down to the end of Bayfield River Road and back to our Park.  I marveled at how great it felt to be out and about in the evening hours for a change.

 A MID-SUMMER EVENING WITH PEOPLE ENJOYING THEMSELVES ON BAYFIELD SOUTH PIER

 A SLOW CRUISE ALONG BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET

ICE CREAM ON A WARM SUMMER'S NIGHT

 I LOVE SUBIE'S DASHLIGHT CLUSTER

 'IT'S STARTING TO GET DARK OUT HERE DAD'

Pheebs hadn't been out for a morning car ride for two days so we weren't long in getting ourselves out the door today on this refreshingly cool and beautiful 61F sunny Saturday morning.  We got a quarter-mile walk in.  I could easily go farther but it's too much of a stretch for Pheebs now.  Kelly had a parcel to be picked up at the Bayfield Post Office located in a local convenience store so on the way I figured I'd grab a Tim Hortons coffee to take home for later.  I forgot it was a summer week-end morning in Bayfield and I was soon embedded in a long line of vehicles going through the drive-thru.  It turned out to be the longest wait of ever and I figured every vehicle in front of me had to be ordering about 25 coffees and 42 donuts each and that Hortons must only have one employee on duty this morning.  It's a good thing I was not in a hurry to be somewhere or my impatience would have blown me right out of the Subaru's seat through the open Moonroof!!  From Tim Hortons, Pheebs and I stopped in to see our good friends Richard and Gayle for an hour or so and from there it was home we went.  The heat and humidity quickly ramped up and that was the end of going outside for me so I immersed myself in my reading again.

 THE LADY IN THE CAR AHEAD OF ME PICKS UP HER COFFEE AT THE DRIVE-THRU WINDOW

 WILL THE LITTLE POOCH GET A TIM BIT TREAT??

 'AWWWW SHUCKS....NOT TODAY:((

Al's Music Box:)) These Eyes is a song by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who. The song was co-written by the group's lead guitarist Randy Bachman and lead singer Burton Cummings and originally included on the band's 1969 album Wheatfield Soul. It was first released as a single (backed by a tribute to Gordon Lightfoot titled "Lightfoot"), in their native Canada, where its chart success along with the influence of CKLW-AM Windsor's radio station music director Rosalie Trombley, helped land them a U.S. distribution deal with RCA Records.  It was subsequently released in the U.S. in March 1969, and became a breakthrough success for the group, as it would be their first single to reach the top ten on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, peaking at number six, and would eventually be certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over one million copies. It was also a top ten hit in South Africa. While it was actually the 18th single released by the band overall, it was the first from the line-up of Cummings, Bachman, Jim Kale, and Garry Peterson and produced by Jack Richardson.  Bachman had the original piano chords with an original title of "These Arms". Cummings changed the title to "These Eyes" and added the middle eight.  At first, the band didn't even want to release the song considering the gentle ballad too great a departure from their hard rock roots.  The song features an orchestral arrangement by Ben McPeek.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Three pastors were having lunch in a diner.  One said, "You know, since summer started I've been having trouble with bats in my loft and attic at church. I've tried everything--noise, spray, cats--nothing seems to scare them away."Another said, "Me too. I've got hundreds living in my belfry and in the attic. I've even had the place fumigated, and they won't go away."  The third said, "I baptized all mine, and made them members of the church. Haven't seen any of them back since!"

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- Never trust and Acupuncturist....they are backstabbers!!

- I did my first nude painting yesterday.
The neighbors weren't happy but the front door looks great!

- Man walks into an ancient Greek tailors with a pair of ripped trousers.  Tailor says, "Euripides?"  Man says, "Yeah. Eumenides?"

- I asked my wife, "Do you know a three letter word for 'eggs'?"
Her: It's ova.
Me: Why? Is it because I'm terrible at crosswords?

- If I'm reading their lips correctly my neighbors are arguing about some creepy guy next door.

- I married my wife for her looks.
Though not the ones she been giving me lately.

My son wanted to know what it was like to be a parent so I woke him at 2am to tell him my sock came off.

English lesson…
Tsunami
T is silent

Psychology
P is silent

Knife
K is silent

Honest
H is silent

Wife
Husband is silent

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