ELLA ROLLED IN ABOUT 2:30 THIS AFTERNOON:))

With a prescription to drop off and one to pick up, Pheebs and I were soon on our way to Goderich's Walmart Pharmacy under cloudy skies.  I was glad we had a cloud cover, otherwise the already heavy humidity would have been worse.

 BEANS ARE RIPENING

 LOOKS LIKE THIS FARMER HAS HIMSELF A DUSTY JOB THIS MORNING

 YUP HE SURE DOES

 THERE HE GOES AGAIN

 THIS YELLOWING BEANFIELD STRETCHES TO THE HORIZON

We stopped for gas, and coffee to go at McD's followed by a drive down to the harbor and beach areas.  From there it was a quick stop at Walmart and we were on our way home with another quick stop at Richard and Gayles along the way.

 A BIG SHIP DEAD AHEAD

THE FINNBORG IN HARBOR THIS MORNING TAKING ON A LOAD OF GRAIN AT THE GODERICH GRAIN TERMINAL

 'HEY I HEARD YOU USED MY TOOTHBRUSH THIS MORNING'!!!!

 MEN ALWAYS SEEM TO FIND A SHOVEL TO LEAN ON

 THE ALGOMA BUFFALO AT THE GODERICH SALT MINE ALMOST STERN TO STERN WITH THE FINNBORG

 NEW BENCHES IN THE DOG WALKING AREA AT ROTARY COVE

 A QUIET BEACH THIS MORNING

 A FEW FOLKS IN THE WATER AT ST. CHRISTOPHERS BEACH WITH THE LAKE FREIGHTER ALGOMA BUFFALO IN THE BACKGROUND

Kelly's daughter Rebecca along with husband Ricardo and daughter Ella rolled in about 2:30 this afternoon.  They will be here for a couple of nights.  Rebecca and Ricardo will be staying at The Ashwood only about a mile up the road from us and Ella will be spending tonight here with Kelly and I, and The Pheebs.  Later in the afternoon Rebecca, Ricardo, and Ella headed over to the Ashwood to check in, picked up some fish and chips at Out Of The Blue and were back at 6 p.m. bringing supper.  

Al's Music Corner:)) Year Of The Cat by Al Stewart is a narrative song written in the second person whose protagonist, a tourist, is visiting an exotic market when a mysterious silk-clad woman appears and takes him away for a gauzy romantic adventure. On waking the next day beside her, the tourist notes that his tour bus has left without him, and decides to stay where he is for the time being.  Stewart's "girlfriend left a book of Vietnamese astrology open at the page for the Year of the Cat.  In the Vietnamese zodiac, the Cat is one of the twelve signs.  Stewart was obsessed with Bob Dylan's 'of' songs — 'Masters of War', Chimes of Freedom', and presumably in 1975, 'Simple Twist of Fate' — believing that the preposition made them sound 'portentous'. When he watched Casablanca on television, an opening couplet came to him: “In a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time/ You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime…” The song began as "Foot of the Stage", a song written by Stewart in 1966.  It was the melody for this never-recorded song to which Stewart set the lyrics of "Year of the Cat" in 1975. Pianist Peter Wood was given a co-writing credit on the song. Stewart explained Wood's involvement in the creation of "Year of the Cat" during a concert in Edmonds, Washington in November 2017. He recalled that he was opening for Linda Ronstadt during a 1975 tour of the United States and receiving a decidedly mixed reaction from audiences when he noticed the pianist (presumably Wood) using a catchy chord progression during soundchecks. Stewart asked if he could add words to the notes, but the pianist said no. Stewart then incorporated the notes into the melodic line of "The Year of the Cat" anyway.  The track is noted for its lengthy instrumental sections—over four minutes of the 6:40 album version is instrumental, including a long, melodic series of solos that encompass cello, violin, piano, acoustic guitar, distorted electric guitar, synthesizer and saxophone. Tim Renwick plays both the acoustic lead and electric lead and George Ford plays bass. Alan Parsons had Phil Kenzie add the alto saxophone part of the song—and by doing so transformed the original folk concept into the jazz-influenced ballad that put Al Stewart onto the charts.  According to Stewart on an episode of 'In the Studio with Redbeard' (which devoted an episode to the making of the Year of the Cat album), Phil Kenzie was watching a movie and didn't want to be bothered with going to do session work; but as a favour to Alan Parsons he went to Abbey Road, and the sax solos were recorded in one or two takes, after which Kenzie left the studio to go back home and watch the rest of his movie. Stewart also told Redbeard that he didn't like the sax solos at first but grew to like them.   

NO IT'S NOT REAL:))

GROANER'S CORNER:(( The woman applying for a job in a Florida lemon grove seemed way too qualified for the job.  Look Miss," said the foreman, "have you any actual experience in picking lemons?"  "Well, as a matter of fact, yes!" she replied. "I've been divorced three times."

- I just sold my homing pigeon on Ebay for the 22nd time.

I once spent ten years marooned on a tropical shore...I lived on nothing but coconuts and seafood. I fashioned sandals out of leaves, a hut out of grass and sticks, and I kept myself healthy with wild plants.  One day I was scouring the beach for copper wire to build a radio I was working on, and I came across a small white spheroid about 2" in diameter that I had difficulty biting.  The mystery was solved when a man stepped out of the trees and said, "That's mine." Astonished,  I asked him, "Where did you come from?"  He said, "From the golf resort just the other side of those trees."

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