COFFEE ON A COLD WINDY MORNING WITH MY GOOD BUDDY JIM

A change of routine this morning.  My good buddy Jim and I had not gotten together for a coffee in slightly over a year so we made it a point to meet at a favorite spot of ours today.  The baseball Park in Seaforth, Ontario it was.  Under cloudy skies threatening rain and with a few drops on the windshield, it was 10 a.m. when we met and unfolded our lawn chairs beneath a big old maple tree.  I had checked the temperature earlier and it was 63F so I figured we'd be okay with that seeing how Jim was a tough old farm boy and I grew up strong in a small village.  Hey, we're men right!!  But, I had forgotten to check something else.  The windchill factor:((  I swear that some of those cold wind gusts whistling through that open Park this morning were turning my hands blue.   I thought I heard Jim's teeth rattling.  Of course, men being men, I wasn't about to mention to this hardened farm lad we should maybe go sit in the car with the heater on.  Jim may have had similar thoughts but you know....men being men and all.  Well, despite the cold wind, and having a lot to catch up on, we got right at it because this time something was different.  We had ourselves a time limit.  Now, for Jim and I, these coffee get-togethers of ours over the past 40+ years have often gone four or five hours, but with effort on both our parts earlier today we held this one down to two hours.  Much easier for aging backsides and creaky old bones to endure sitting on lawn chairs that long without moving.  But here's the main reason for our time limit.  Jim's wife had driven him over from Stratford today, dropped him off, and knowing she would be back in two hours Jim and I held fast to our Reader's Digest version of things instead of bringing our usual whole nine yards.  Barb, returning right on time, pulled into the parking lot and minutes later the farm boy and the Village lad were on their way home.  One going East and one going West.  Needless to say, I had the Subaru's heat cranked up to full blast.  I roasty toastily rolled into our driveway at 12:30 p.m. content in the the knowledge that a good time had been had by all:))

 HEADING HOME FROM SEAFORTH UNDER COLD CLOUDY SKIES

 I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE THIS FARMER HARVESTING HIS CORN ALREADY

 HEADING FOR THE CORNFIELD FOR ANOTHER LOAD OF CORN

It wasn't until mid-afternoon that Old Sol poked through the clouds and skies began to clear.  Temperatures came up to nearly 70F and that was good enough to get Pheebs and I out the door for a walk around the Park's pond.  I was short of photos for tonight's post so I took my camera with me.  It was a three-turtle walk.

With the 14-day weather forecast showing nice weather ahead I am going to have to get myself cranked up for a lot of yard work.  I have a bunch of frogs to round up and transport to the Park's pond, shrubs to be trimmed back for the Winter, flowerbed preparation, more grass cutting, weed whacking, and a few more front yard changes.

ALL YELLOW FLOWER PICS WERE TAKEN AROUND THE PARK'S POND THIS AFTERNOON

Al's Music Box:)) Old Time Rock And Roll is a song written by George Jackson and Thomas E. Jones III, with uncredited lyrics by Bob Seger.  It was recorded by Seger for his tenth studio album Stranger in Town. It was also released as a single in 1979. It is a sentimentalized look back at the music of the original rock 'n' roll era and has often been referenced as Seger's favorite song. The song gained renewed popularity after being featured in the 1983 film Risky Business. It has since become a standard in popular music and was ranked number two on the Amusement & Music Operators Association's survey of the Top 40 Jukebox Singles of All Time in 1996.  It was also listed as one of the Songs of the Century in 2001 and ranked No. 100 in the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Songs poll in 2004 of the top songs in American cinema.  The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, who often backed Seger in his studio recordings, sent Seger a demo of the song during the recording of Stranger in Town.  All I kept from the original was: "Old time rock and roll, that kind of music just soothes the soul, I reminisce about the days of old with that old time rock and roll". I rewrote the verses and I never took credit. That was the dumbest thing I ever did. And Tom Jones (Thomas E. Jones) and George Jackson know it, too. But I just wanted to finish the record [Stranger in Town]. I rewrote every verse you hear except for the choruses. I didn't ask for credit. My manager said: "You should ask for a third of the credit." And I said: "Nah. Nobody's gonna like it." I'm not credited on it so I couldn't control the copyright either. Meanwhile, it got into a Hardee's commercial because I couldn't control it. Oh my God, it was awful!  However, George Stephenson of Malaco Records claimed:  "Old Time Rock and Roll" is truly [George] Jackson's song, and he has the tapes to prove it, despite Seger's claims that he altered it. Bob had pretty much finished his recording at Muscle Shoals and he asked them if they had any other songs he could listen to for the future.  At the close of the decade, in December 2019, Seger restated his assertion that he rewrote the lyrics in the verses.  The song was recorded at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama, and Sound Suite Studios in Detroit Michigan. The guitar solo was contributed by Howie McDonald. Originally, the Silver Bullet Band was displeased with the song's inclusion on Stranger in Town, claiming, according to Seger, that the song was not "Silver Bullety". However, upon hearing audience reactions to it during their tour in Europe, the band grew to like the song.  In 1990, Seger joined Billy Joel on one occasion and Don Henley on another to play the song during their concerts in Auburn Hills, Michigan.  He also performed the song at his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

-------------------------------------------- 

I came across a YouTube a few days ago of a red-headed Gal with a black hat, sunglasses, a flowery sundress, and army boots, grooving out on a guitar.  She's got a lot of MOXY this kid.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( On the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, there is a ceremony called Tashlich. Jewish people traditionally go to the ocean or a stream or river to pray and throw bread crumbs into the water.  Symbolically, the fish devour their sins. Occasionally, people ask what kind of breadcrumbs should be thrown. Here are suggestions for breads which may be most appropriate for specific sins and misbehaviors.

For ordinary sins.....................White Bread
For complex sins......................Multigrain
For twisted sins......................Pretzels
For sins of indecision................Waffles
For sins of chutzpah..................Fresh Bread
For committing auto theft.............Caraway
For timidity/cowardice................Milk Toast
For ill-temperedness..................Sourdough
For silliness, eccentricity...........Nut Bread
For war-mongering.....................Kaiser Rolls
For jingoism, chauvinism..............Yankee Doodles
For excessive irony...................Rye Bread
For erotic sins.......................French Bread
For particularly dark sins............Pumpernickel
For dressing immodestly...............Tarts
For causing injury to others..........Tortes
For being holier than thou............Bagels
For abrasiveness......................Grits
For dropping in without notice........Popovers
For overeating........................Stuffing
For pride and egotism.................Puff Pastry
For trashing the environment..........Dumplings
For telling bad jokes/puns............Corn Bread
------------------------------------------------

Officer to driver going the wrong way up a one way street, "And where do you think you are going?"
Driver: - "I'm not sure, but I must be late as everyone else is coming back."

---------------------------------

====================================