IT DEFINATELY FELT LIKE FALL WAS IN THE AIR TODAY

THE FUNGUS BESIDE OUR FRONT YARD FROG POND IS AGING GRACEFULLY

Well-well, here we are at September 1st already.  And how nice that September has brought cooler air with it.  Nice to feel that cool fresh and clean air again instead of that humid and muggy stickiness.  Pheebs and I headed into Bayfield for a drive-around and then to the cemetery for a walkaround.  We were home again just in time to say goodbye to our New York friends.  I didn't think they would be heading home till around noon.  Kelly's sister Kathy, son Zack and Zack's friend Evin and her son Wes rolled out of our driveway around 10:30.  It was nice to see Kelly's sister Kathy again and nice to meet for the first time, Zack, Evin, and Wes.  Wes is taking photography in high school but we never had a chance to talk about it.

 A MORNING VIEW FROM NEAR BAYFIELD'S PIONEER PARK

 ARRIVING HOME I SAW EVIN AND WES LOOKING AT SOMETHING MOVING IN THE POND AND I TOLD THEM IT WAS PROBABLY OUR PET ALLIGATOR

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE:((

 ZACK FIRES UP THE BIG TRUCK

 AND THERE THEY GO

Kelly whooped up a dozen Bluesberry muffins this afternoon and they were the best muffins I have ever had bar none.  So good in fact I ate three of them in a row and would have gone back for a forth had it not been for Kelly standing defensively in front of the remaining muffins with a glaring stare and her hand on a nearby frying pan!!

 KELLY'S BEST EVER BLUESBERRIES MUFFINS

With the afternoon's refreshingly cool breeze, Pheebs and I headed off for a 3 turtle walk over to and around the Park's pond.  It definitely felt like Fall was in the air today and what a great feeling it was too.

 A NICE AFTERNOON WALK AROUND OUR PARK'S POND

 TWO OF THREE TURTLES

There was a time in my younger life when I looked forward to watching many favorite TV shows each week.  Those times are long gone of course and there is only one television show anymore that I have any interest in and look forward to watching each year.  It's on Sunday nights, starts in September, and only lasts about 6 weeks.  That show started tonight and is called, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. Regardless of what people may think of this series, it grabbed my attention right out of the gate when it first aired back in 2020 and has held my attention ever since.  So, with eager anticipation, you can rest assured that I will be parked in front of my sunroom TV set tonight at 7 p.m. as the series begins Season 5 on the History Channel.  Also, an extension of Skinwalker Ranch called Beyond Skinwalker Ranch follows at 9 p.m and I will be watching that one too.

Al's Music Box:)) The White Cliffs Of Dover is a popular World War 2 song by Vera Lynn.  Her 1942 version was one of Lynn's best-known recordings and among the most popular World War 2 tunes.  The song was written about a year after the Royal Air Force and German Luftwaffe aircraft had been fighting over southern England, including the white cliffs of Dover, in the Battle of Britain. Nazi Germany had conquered much of Europe and in 1941 was still bombing Britain. With neither America nor the Soviet Union having yet joined the war, Britain was the only major power fighting the Axis powers in Europe. The American lyricist, Nat Burton, wrote his lyric (perhaps unaware that the bluebird is not indigenous to Britain, though the migrant Swallow 'Bluebird' is a well-known British harbinger of Spring and Summer) and asked Kent to set it to music.  Notable phrases include "Thumbs Up!" which was an RAF and RCAF term for permission to go, and "flying in those angry skies" where the air war was taking place.  The lyrics looked toward a time when the war would be over, and peace would rule over the iconic white cliffs, Britain's symbolic border with the European mainland.  The full song includes two verses rarely found in recordings:

I'll never forget the people I met braving those angry skies.
I remember well as the shadows fell, the light of hope in their eyes.
And tho' I'm far away, I can still hear them say "Thumbs Up!"
for when the dawn comes up,... There'll be blue birds over...

When night shadows fall, I'll always recall out there across the sea
Twilight falling down on some little town;
It's fresh in my memory.
I hear mother pray, and to her baby say "Don't cry,"
This is her lullaby.... There'll be blue birds over...

GROANER'S CORNER:(( The man told his doctor that he wasn't able to do all the things around the house that he used to do. When the examination was complete, he said, "Now, Doc, I can take it.  Tell me in plain English what is wrong with me?"  "Well, in plain English," the doctor replied, "you're just lazy."  "Okay," said the man. "Now give me the medical term so I can tell my wife."

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- If you think Thursdays are bad, just wait two days...It will be a sadder day.

- What is the difference between a golfer and a skydiver?  A golfer says "whack....DAMN!" and a skydiver says " Damn ..... WHACK!!"

- When I was married, my wife used to call me handsome. As a matter of fact, we are now divorced but she STILL calls me handsome.  Every time I have some money,   she says, HANDSOME OVER.

- Two monsters went to a Halloween party. Suddenly one said to the other, "A lady just rolled her eyes at me. What should I do?"
The other monster replied, "Be a gentleman and roll them back to her."

- A Sunday school teacher asked her second graders if anyone knew another name for God. She was picturing answers like 'Lord' or 'Almighty'.After a long moment of silence, a little boy raised his hand and said, "Howard." "Howard?" replied the confused teacher. "You know," continued the boy, "Howard be thy name."

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