BUT, THAT'S NOT UNUSUAL FOR A SUNDAY

 MOODY SKIES OVER LAKE HURON'S CLEAR AQUA COLORED WATERS THIS MORNING

Sunshine, dark clouds, rain, and more sunshine was the order of the morning as Pheebs and I headed off to Goderich to pick up a prescription at Walmart's Pharmacy.  Topped up the gas tank, coffee to go at McDs, and down around the harbor and beach area we went.  One last stop at Walmart and we were on our way home with front windows down and the Moonroof partly open enjoying the morning's cool breezes all the way.

 GODERICH'S ROTARY COVE

 GODERICH'S OUTER HARBOR BREAKWALLS

 'OH-OH IS THAT A SMALL WAVE COMING'

 YUP IT WAS

 SOMETIMES IN PHOTOS, IT'S JUST THE SOFT PASTEL COLORS THAT CATCH MY EYE

 PROBABLY CITY FOLKS HAPPY TO BE OUT OF THE CITY AND STANDING ALONG THE WINDY FRESH AIR SHORES OF LAKE HURON ON A FINE SUNDAY MORNING

PARKED BESIDE THE LAKEFRONT BEACH STREET STATION RESTAURANT

The new Michelin tires are working out just fine.  They go round and round and round just like they are supposed to.  No bumping or wallowing. Smooooth.  It is so reassuring to know one has a good set of tires under one.  The thought occurred to me this morning that this may very well be the last set of tires we will ever have to buy.  Of course, I've said that about a number of things these past few years and have found out it is not always the case.

 ON OUR WAY TO GODERICH THIS MORNING UNDER SOMETIMES RAINY SKIES

 EVEN THESE SUNFLOWERS HAVE THEIR SAD LITTLE FACES TURNED DOWN UNDER THE CLOUDY SKIES

Another quiet afternoon.  Kelly spent a lot of time resting and I did about the same.  I couldn't seem to drum up any interest or energy to do anything else.  But, that's not unusual for a Sunday.  It's something deeply ingrained from childhood where Sundays around the home were spent that way on every seventh day of the week.  Of course, between those earlier days and these days, there were a lot of active and exciting Sundays but nowadays not so much anymore.  And, so it was today.................

Al's Music Box:)) It's All In The Game is a pop song whose most successful version was recorded by Tommy Edwards in 1958. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to a wordless 1911 composition titled "Melody in A Major", written by Charles G. Dawes, who was later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. It is the only No. 1 single in the U.S. to have been co-written by a U.S. Vice President or a Nobel Peace Prize laureate (Dawes was both).  Dawes, a Chicago bank president and amateur pianist and flautist, composed the tune in 1911 in a single sitting at his lakeshore home in Evanston. He played it for a friend, the violinist Francis MacMacmillen, who took Dawes's sheet music to a publisher. Dawes, known for his federal appointments and a United States Senate candidacy, was surprised to find a portrait of himself in a State Street shop window with copies of the tune for sale. Dawes quipped, "I know that I will be the target of my punster friends. They will say that if all the notes in my bank are as bad as my musical ones, they are not worth the paper they were written on."  The tune, often dubbed "Dawes's Melody", followed him into politics, and he grew to detest hearing it wherever he appeared. It was a favorite of violinist Fritz Kreisler, who used it as his closing number, and in the 1940s it was picked up by musicians such as Tommy Dorsey.  In the summer of 1951, songwriter Carl Sigman had an idea for a song, and Dawes's "Melody" struck him as suitable for his sentimental lyrics. Dawes had died in April of that year. Dinah Shore, Sammy Kaye, and Carmen Cavallaro recorded it that year, but the first release was by Tommy Edwards in August.  Edwards's version reached No. 18 on the Billboard Records Most Played by Disk Jockeys survey dated September 15, 1951.  The range of the melody would have been "difficult to sing", so required rearranging.  A jazz arrangement was recorded by Louis Armstrong (vocals) and arranger Gordon Jenkins, with "some of Armstrong's most honey-tinged singing". In 1956, Jenkins would produce a version with Nat King Cole along the same lines.  In 1958, Edwards had only one session left on his MGM contract. Stereophonic sound recording was becoming viable and it was decided to cut a stereo version of "It's All in the Game" with a rock and roll arrangement. The single was released in July and became a hit, reaching number one for six weeks beginning September 29, 1958, making Edwards the first African-American to chart at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It would also be the last song to hit number one on the R&B Best Seller list. In November, the song hit No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. The single helped Edwards revive his career for another two years.   Edwards' song was ranked at No. 47 on the 2018 list of "The Hot 100's All-Time Top 600 Songs".

GROANER'S CORNER:(( How many elephants can you fit into a Mini Cooper? Two in the front. Two in the back. How can you tell if there are 8 elephants in the church? Easy, there are two Mini Coopers in the parking lot.

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Johnny’s Father asked for the password to our Wi-Fi. “It’s taped under the modem,” I told him.
After three failed attempts to log on, he asked, “Am I spelling this right?  T-A-P-E-D-U-N-D-E-R-T-H-E-M-O-D-E-M

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- When two wrestlers join forces it is called a tag team, aka a clobberation.

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A drunk was walking down the sidewalk with a limp. A man coming in the opposite direction noticed that he only had one shoe on. The man said to the drunk, "Hey buddy, what's the matter, lose a shoe"? The drunk replied, "Nah, found one".

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