WE HAD COMPANY TODAY FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN

A welcome overnight weather front brought in much cooler air under cloudy skies this morning.  With a stiff breeze blowing I think our wind chill factor was in the upper 50sF.  Energized by the cooler air, Pheebs and I headed into Bayfield for a drive-around and then off to the cemetery for a walk-about.  How nice to be surrounded by energizing cool air again instead of that energy-draining miserable heat and humidity.  

A COOL CLOUDY MORNING AT BAYFIELD'S BEACH

 LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE BEACH GOER HAS GONE HOME WITHOUT ONE OF HER SHOES

 COULD THAT BE A HURON COUNTY HARBOR SEAL ON A SURFBOARD OUT THERE

'HMMMMM'

 'WHOA' THAT'S NO HARBOR SEAL!!

 I THOUGHT THIS AN ODD LOOKING LITTLE BOAT TIED UP AT THE NORTH SIDE PIER

 LOOKS LIKE A KAFLOOBERATION OF FISHING BOATS

THE MONDAY MORNING COFFEE KLATCH ON BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET

OUR PARKING SPOT AT THE BAYFIELD CEMETERY

 PHEEBS AND I WALKED AROUND A LARGE FIELD ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE CEMETERY

 PHEEBS KEEPS A CLOSE EYE ON ME AS I STEP OUT OF THE CAR TO TAKE A FEW PICS OF SOME CONE FLOWERS

Home from our walk I hauled out my swede saw and cut down a Sumac tree growing at the corner of our metal shed.  I had been waiting for a cooler day to do this and today was that day.  On a whim while walking past our backyard firepit I decided to whip up a campfire.  I hadn't had a campfire since way back last year sometime and I think today's cooler air just lent itself to a campfire.  With our leaf blower, I blew fallen leaves, etc. off the front deck and porch.  Followed that up with my weed whacker chasing some weeds around and it was about this time that our company from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean arrived.

 MY ONLY BACKYARD CAMPFIRE THIS YEAR

It had been a year since we last saw Kelly's daughter Rebecca, Ricardo, and (little) Ella.  Except little Ella isn't so little anymore.  She's as tall as I am now and I've no doubt she will break through the 6' mark.  And she's only 11.  They are home from Spain for the month of August and actually Kelly had seen them a couple weeks ago when they dropped into London's University Hospital to see her.  I was the one who hadn't seen them for a year.  I have a bunch of teddy bears (many readers will remember Spencer) on my bed and Ella wasn't long in getting the whole gang out to the living room.  For a mid-afternoon lunch, Ricardo and I slipped into Bayfield and brought back a load of Subs from Bayfield's Subway.  It was a great visit and how nice to get caught up with them.  They will be heading back to Spain in a couple weeks. 

 ELLA

 RICARDO ORDERS UP SOME SUBS

 THE GIRLS DOING SOME KIBBITZING

 KELLY AND HER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER REBECCA

 KELLYS BEEN WORKING ON A JEAN JACKET FOR ELLA

A Blast From Our Past:)) Back in August of 2011 I wrote a post called, If You Are Deciding On Buying An RV.....Beware Of The 'WOW' Factor  (I may have posted this one before) I am the kind of person who is very susceptible to the WOW factor in buying anything so it's a subject I know something about.  Keep in mind when you read this that I wrote it 13 years ago and we have gone through 5 more RV's since then.  One Class A, 3 Class C's, and a Class B Van.   

 RICARDO DEMONSTRATES ONE OF KELLY'S HAND GRIPSTER THINGS

 KELLY USES THIS GRIPSTER DEVICE TO STRENGTHEN HER GRIP

 THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW TALL ELLA HAS BECOME

 BYE GUYS, MAYBE SEE YOU NEXT WEEK:))

Al's Music Box:)) Spanish Harlem is a song recorded by Ben E. King in 1960 for Atco Records. It was written by Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. "Spanish Harlem" peaked at number 15 on Billboard's rhythm and blues and number 10 in pop music charts. The song was ranked number 358 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time.".  Leiber credited Stoller with the arrangement in a 1968 interview; similarly, Leiber said in a 2009 radio interview with Leiber and Stoller on the Bob Edwards Weekend talk show that Stoller had written the key instrumental introduction to the record, although he was not credited. Stoller remarks in the team's autobiography Hound Dog that he had created this "fill" while doing a piano accompaniment when the song was presented to Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records, with Spector playing guitar and Leiber doing the vocal. "Since then, I've never heard the song played without that musical figure."  The song was arranged by Stan Applebaum, featuring Spanish guitar, marimba, drum beats, soprano saxophone, strings, and a male chorus.  The riff to the song was originally conceived by Spector and his then-girlfriend Beverly Ross. She was apparently shocked to discover the same riff a few months later in the version sung by King.Ben E. King's "Spanish Harlem"   was originally released as the B-side to "First Taste of Love".  "Spanish Harlem" was King's first hit away from The Drifters, a group that he had led for several years. King's version was not a hit in the United Kingdom.  The song was re-released in 1987, after "Stand By Me" made number 1.

GROANER'S CORNER:((  Here are a few ways of describing some people you may know...............

A few clowns short of a circus.

A few fries short of a Happy Meal.

An experiment in Artificial Stupidity.

A few beers short of a six-pack.

Dumber than a box of hair.

A few peas short of a casserole.

Doesn't have all her cornflakes in one box.

The wheel's spinning, but the hamster's dead.

One Fruit Loop shy of a full bowl.

One taco short of a combination plate.

A few feathers short of a whole duck.

All foam, no beer.

Body by Fisher, brains by Mattel.

Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel.

He fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.

An intellect rivaled only by garden tools.

As smart as bait.

Chimney's clogged.

Doesn't have all his dogs on one leash.

Doesn't know much but leads the league in nostril hair.

Elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor.

Forgot to pay his brain bill.

Her sewing machine's out of thread.

His antenna doesn't pick up all the channels.

His belt doesn't go through all the loops.

If he had another brain, it would be lonely.

Missing a few buttons on his remote control.

No grain in the silo.

Proof that evolution CAN go in reverse.

Receiver is off the hook.

Several nuts short of a full pouch.

Skylight leaks a little.

Slinky's kinked.

Surfing in Nebraska.

Too much yardage between the goal posts.

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

The lights are on, but nobody's home.

24 cents short of a quarter.

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This is how my week goes. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, FridaySaturdaySunday.

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A gentleman entered a busy florist shop that displayed a large sign that read "Say It With Flowers."  "Wrap up one rose," he told the florist.  "Only one?" the florist asked.
"Just one," the customer replied. "I'm a man of few words."

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