OKAY, SO NOW I'M NERVOUS!!

Just me in the Subaru under sunny skies this morning heading to the Canadian Tire Store in Goderich.  I had a 9:30 appointment to have a trailer hitch installed.  Figuring it would probably be an hour or more I took along my Kindle.  Before sitting down in the waiting room to read I decided it would be an excellent opportunity to get myself some much-needed leg exercise.  So, without further ado, I headed out the door into the parking lot and proceeded to walk around the perimeter of the whole Mall complex.  It's a fair-sized property that has a Canadian Tire Store, Walmart, Zehr's Supermark, Pet Value, Dollarama, two gas stations, a Harveys, and a Tim Hortons coffee shop.  The coffee shop was on the perimeter along the way so I stopped in for a sit-down coffee.  It had been many years since I had last been in this Tim Hortons facility.  With coffee in hand, I found a comfy little soft seated tub chair right next to an in-wall gas fireplace.  Reading, I wiled away about 20 minutes here sipping away at my hot coffee.  Resuming my perimeter walk I was finally back to Canadian Tire about 15 minutes later.  Subie was on a hoist with a young fella standing underneath with outstretched arms doing something under the car's rear end.  I plunked myself down in a soft chair in the waiting room, opened my Kindle book, and waited.  It was about 10:15.  Twice in the next hour I took myself for a walk around the Canadian Tire store as well as a walk over to Walmart to pick up a few groceries and a prescription for Kelly.  I looked into the garage a couple times and one of those times I saw they had Subie's rear bumper off with three guys standing around looking at it.  Okay, so now I'm nervous!!  It was about 11:30 when I finally got the tap on the shoulder to say the Subaru was ready to go.  So, with that, I made a bee-line for home.  But, not before I double-checked to make sure they had put the rear bumper back on.  They had, and by golly, there was actually even a real official-looking trailer hitch installed snugly under the bumper:))

 THIS PHOTO SHOWS ABOUT HALF OF THE MALL PARKING LOT

 I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER BEEN IN A TIM HORTONS WITH A FIREPLACE BEFORE

 HEY AND I EVEN HAD MY OWN TABLE

 AND THERE'S THE GUY WITH HIS HANDS ON SUBIE'S REAR END

'OH-OH' NOW I'M NERVOUS!!

 SNAPPED THIS PHOTO ON MY WAY OVER TO WALMART

 SNAPPED THIS PHOTO ON MY WAY BACK FROM WALMART.....I'M LESS NERVOUS NOW

 AND THIS IS HOW THE HITCH ASSEMBLY IS BOLTED ON

Not much going on this afternoon.  Kelly's nurse practitioner phoned her this morning and after more test results were in, switched her antibiotics and that is the prescription I picked up this morning.  The problem Kelly is having at the moment is a urinary tract infection.  UTI       

 PICKED UP A FEW SMALL CORN COBS ON THE GROUND AT THE LINWOOD WILDLIFE AREA WEDNESDAY THAT DEER HAD BEEN CHEWING ON

 BROUGHT THEM HOME FOR OUR FRONT YARD CRITTERS AND WAS GLAD TO SEE THIS LITTLE BUNNY EATING ONE OF THEM BEFORE THE SQUIRRELS CARRIED THEM OFF

Al's Music Box:)) September is a song by the American band Earth, Wind & Fire released as a single on November 18, 1978.  Initially included as a track for The Best of Earth, Wind & fire, Volume 1.  "September" was very successful commercially and reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart.  The song remains a staple of the band's body of work and has been sampled, covered, remixed, and re-recorded numerous times.  It was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.  Using a chord progression written by Earth, Wind & Fire guitarist Al McKay, vocalist Maurice White and songwriter Allee Willis wrote the song over one month. Willis was initially bothered by the gibberish "ba-dee-ya" lyric White used throughout the song, and begged him to rewrite it: "I just said, 'What the hell does 'ba-dee-ya' mean?' And he essentially said, "I learned my greatest lesson ever in songwriting from him, which was never let the lyric get in the way of the groove."  

GROANER'S CORNER:(( If Women ruled the world...

- Men would sit around and wonder what WE are thinking.
- Singles bars would have metal detectors to weed out men hiding wedding rings in their pockets.

- A man would no longer be considered a 'good catch' simply because he is breathing.

- Fewer women would be dieting because their ideal weight standard would increase by 40 pounds.
- Shopping would be considered an aerobic activity.
- Men would not be allowed to eat gas-producing foods within two hours of bedtime.
- Men would be secretaries for female bosses, working twice as hard for none of the credit.
- Men would bring drinks, chips and dip to women watching soap operas.
- Men would learn phrases like:'I'm sorry,' 'I love you,' 'You're beautiful,' 'Of course you don't look fat in that outfit.'
- Men would be judged entirely by their looks, women by their accomplishments.
- Men would pay as much attention to their woman as to their car.
- All toilet seats would be nailed down.
- Men would work on relationships as much as they work on their careers.
- TV news segments on sports would never run longer than 1 minute.
- All men would be forced to spend one month in a PMS simulator.
- Overweight men would have their weight brought to their attention constantly.
- After a baby is born, men would take a six-week paternity leave to wait on their wives hand and foot.
- For basic training, soldiers would have to take care of a two-year old for six weeks.

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- Animals are such agreeable friends.  They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.