AS HER STRENGTH SLOWLY EBBS BACK

 A PERFECT SATURDAY MORNING AT OUR COUNTRY ROAD WALKING SPOT

A cooler air mass moved in overnight dropping our temps and knocking most of the humidity out of the air.  About time I'd say!!  With a stiff cool southerly breeze , Pheebs and I again did our half-mile country road walk.  We didn't have the beautiful little yellow butterfly escort we had a few days ago but that was okay, it felt great just to get our legs out there walking again.  With some outside things lined up to do, we again headed for home right after our walk.

 THIS BLOCK OF PHOTOS AT OUR WALKING SPOT SHOWS THE FOCAL RANGE OF MY CAMERA....STANDING AT OUR TURN-AROUND SPOT FACING SOUTH THIS IS A 24MM WIDE-ANGLE SHOT AND IF YOU LOOK REAL CLOSE YOU CAN SEE THE WHITE SUBARU AT THE FAR END OF THE ROAD

 A 50MM SHOT AND THIS IS THE RANGE THAT THE EYE SEES

 300MM

 FULLY ZOOMED AT 600MM HAND-HELD

 STANDING BESIDE THE SUBARU LOOKING NORTH TO OUR TURN-AROUND SPOT WHICH IS THAT KNOLL AT THE BOTTOM LEFT OF THE PHOTO....600MM

Our good friend and Park neighbor Bruce was already here with a tall ladder up against the house with him on top of it.  He cleaned out all our eaves troughs, swept the roof of pine needles, trimmed some encroaching Basswood and Starburst Locust branches, and cleaned our sunroom skylight.  Bruce is no stranger to ropes, ladders, and high precarious places having spent many years in the Canadian Armed Forces.  A number of those years were spent as a helicopter crew member in Search and Rescue (SARS) on Canada's east coast.  Bruce, a handyman, has been a big help to us over the years, and especially so with our RVs.  If we needed a shelf built, or any kind of small renovation done, Bruce with his patience and meticulous engineering mind could always figure things out on how to get whatever it was we wanted done.

 BRUCE CLIPS OFF SOME BRANCHES THAT WERE ENCROACHING ON OUR SUNROOM'S ROOF

 CLEANING OUT THE EAVES

 SWEEPING THE PINE NEEDLES OFF THE ROOF

As her strength slowly ebbs back, Kelly spent most of the day resting.  It is the tiredness and weakened state right now that she is having the most difficulty with.  That last week-long hospital stay has really knocked the stuffings out of her this time but I did see her working with her 'hand grip' device to strengthen her grip.  Her hand grip is one of the things on her stress test they will test her on in another month's time.

 CHICORY FLOWERS ALONGSIDE THE ROAD

 BURDOCK BLOOMS IN THE DITCH BETWEEN THE ROAD AND A CORNFIELD.....THESE ARE THE GUYS THAT STICK TO YOUR CLOTHES AND YOUR PETS FURRY COAT

Overly tired these past couple days, I didn't get anything accomplished outside that I had hoped to.  And it would have been a perfect day with these wonderful cooler temps.  Not even an afternoon walk with Pheebs.  I fell asleep in my sunroom recliner and woke up just as tired as I had been before I fell asleep.  I don't know if it's a mental tired or a physical tired but I think this time it was physical more than anything else..........  

 WILDFLOWERS ALONGSIDE A CORNFIELD ON THE WEST SIDE OF OUR GRAVEL WALKING ROAD

A Blast From Our Past:)) I blundered across one of my old posts today and it's from a time that I call my 'opinionated era' where I would sometimes knock myself over the edge and unintentionally step on some toes.  Fortunately, in this post, my opinions were mashed together with a few flashes of humor.  The post is entitled, 'Senior Power' & Google's Picasa Team Says 'Hello' To Rick And Al

Al's Music Box:)) One Of These Nights is a song by the American rock band the Eagles, written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey. The title track from their 1975 'One of These Nights' album, the song became their second single to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart after "Best of My Love" and also helped propel the album to number one. The single version was shortened from the album version of the song, removing most of the song's intro and most of its fade-out, as well. Henley is lead vocalist on the verses, while Randy Meisner sings high harmony on the refrain. The song features a guitar solo by Don Felder that is "composed of blues-based licks and sustained string bends using an unusually meaty distortion tone."  The song was a conscious attempt by the band to write something different from a country-rock and ballad-type and song. Don Henley said: "We like to be a nice little country-rock band from Los Angeles ... about half the time." He added: "We wanted to get away from the ballad syndrome with "One of These Nights." With Don Felder in the band now, we can really rock."  Frey said that they "wanted 'One of These Nights' to have a lot of teeth, a lot of bite—a nasty track with pretty vocals."  The writing was influenced by R&B music and disco; according to Frey, he was listening to Spinners and Al Green records when he started writing the song. Frey started the writing process by composing the music, and Henley then started with the lyrics.  Frey said: "I just went over to the piano and I started playing this little minor descending progression, and he comes over and goes, 'One of these nights'."  After that, Frey said: "What usually happens is when we get the thing fused together, he gets involved in the music and I get involved in the lyrics."  While they were recording the album in Miami, the band also shared a studio with the Bee Gees, and according to Henley, the "four-on-the-floor" bass-drum pattern is a nod to disco.  In the liner notes of The Very Best Of, Frey had this to say about the song: We had Don Henley's voice, which allowed us to go in a more soulful direction, which made me exceedingly happy ... A lot of things came together on One Of These Nights – our love of the studio, the dramatic improvement in Don's and my songwriting. We made a quantum leap with "One Of These Nights." It was a breakthrough song. It is my favorite Eagles record. If I ever had to pick one, it wouldn't be "Hotel California", it wouldn't be "Take It Easy." For me, it would be "One Of These Nights."  Frey also said that the song is about putting things off. "We've all said, 'One of these nights I'm gonna do something -- get that girl, make that money, find that house.' We all have our dreams – a vision we hope will come true someday. When that 'someday' will come is up to each of us."  On the recording, Frey said: "We cut the basic track in Miami in December at Criteria Studios. We took it to L.A., put all the drone guitars and Felder's solo on in L.A., and went back to Miami to put the vocals on in March."  The B-side, "Visions", features lead vocals by guitarist Don Felder, the only Eagles song to do so.

 HAVE A GOOD DAY EH:))

GROANER'S CORNER:(( God created the mule, and told him, "You are mule. You will work constantly from dusk to dawn, carrying heavy loads on your back. You will eat grass and lack intelligence. You will live for 50 years."  The mule answered, "To live like this for 50 years is too much. Please, give me no more than 20."  And it was so.

Then God created the dog, and told him, "You are dog. You will hold vigilance over the dwellings of Man, to whom you will be his greatest companion. You will eat his table scraps and live for 25 years."
The dog responded, "Lord, to live 25 years as a dog like that is too much. Please, no more than 10 years."
And it was so.

God then created the monkey, and told him, "You are monkey. You shall swing from tree to tree, acting like an idiot. You will be funny, and you shall live for 20 years."The monkey responded, "Lord, to live 20 years as the clown of the world is too much. Please, Lord, give me no than 10 years."
And it was so.

Finally, God created Man and told him, "You are Man, the only rational being that walks the earth. You will use your intelligence to have mastery over the creatures of the world. You will dominate the earth and live for 20 years."  The man responded, "Lord, to be Man for only 20 years is too little. Please, Lord; give me the 20 years the mule refused, the 15 years the dog refused, and the 10 years the monkey rejected."  And so God made Man to live 20 years as a man, then marry and live 20 years like a mule working and carrying heavy loads on his back. Then, he is to have children and live 15 years as a dog, guarding his house and eating the leftovers after they empty the pantry; then, in his old age, to live 10 years as a monkey, acting like an idiot to amuse his grandchildren.
And it is so ...

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- What did Spartacus say when the lion ate his wife?  Nothing, he was gladiator.

- Why don’t lions play cards in the wild?
Because of all the cheetahs!

- What does a lion call his barber?  His mane man.

- What do you call a lion that has eaten your mother’s sister?  - An aunt-eater!

- What lion will never roar?  A dandelion...

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Matt: "It's times like this that I wish I'd listened to what my Dad always said."
Jake: "What did he say?"
"I don't know, I wasn't listening."
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