AND I LIKE THAT IN A WRITER

A GRAY NOVEMBER MORN BUT NOTICE THE DOGGY'S BRIGHT YELLOW RAINCOAT

We knew the rain was coming so I figured it was going to be a long day spent inside on a gray rainy November day.  Pheebs and I got a bit wet on our way to the carport but that was okay.  Sitting in the house and not getting out and going somewhere is still unthinkable to me at this stage of life!!  Luckily for me, my main incentive and inspiration each morning to get out is a certain furry little black and white Doggy Doogans.  She was kinda miffed with me though this morning when I didn't keep her window down.  'So what if it rains inside the car Dad'!!  Needless to say, we were back home again within half an hour....... (I had trouble with spacing and captioning photos with this post)

 

We have all heard and experienced the expression, 'It's a small world.  Here is another example of this in Lorne Green's post this morning, A Place Called "Away".  And it happened way down in that there place they call Mexico.

The rain let up before noon and skies brightened, but try as I'm sure it did, the Sun could not pierce the cloud cover.  Another afternoon of reading for me and another difficult afternoon of not feeling well for Kelly.  

I've already started a new book and jumping from fiction back to fact I have chosen a book by Leslie White entitled, Three Years A Traveler: One Woman, One dog, Seven RVs, and the path less traveled to heal the heart.  I am only a few chapters in and already I am liking what I am reading.  I can sure identify with her iffy RV decisions and related missteps and bamboozled.  She writes honestly and doesn't lay out a lot of sweet talk concerning her life's problems.  And I like that in a writer.

A Blast From Our Past:)) Seventeen years ago today we were in Moab, Utah.  Our Last Day In Moab

AT OUR PORTAL RV CAMPGROUND IN MOAB

 HIKING OUT OF DEVIL'S CANYON AT THE ARCHES NATIONAL PARK NEAR MOAB UTAH

Al's Music Box:)) Distant Drums is a song that provided US singer Jim Reeves with his only UK No. 1 hit – albeit posthumously in the United Kingdom in 1966, some two years after his death in a plane crash on 31 July 1964.  The song remained on the UK Singles Chart for 25 weeks. The single also topped the US country chart for four weeks, becoming his most successful posthumous single.  Although Roy Orbison had recorded the song in 1963, it is Reeves' version of "Distant Drums" which has endured over the years.  During its time at the top of the UK chart, the song beat off stiff competition from several major (and living) artists of the day. These included The Beatles - who had entered the UK chart around the same time with their double A-sided release "Eleanor Rigby"/"Yellow Submarine"- and the Small Faces, who had also charted in the UK with "All or Nothing".  It was an unexpected achievement for a song that Reeves had recorded for its composer, Cindy Walker, under the impression it was for her private use only and had earlier been dismissed by both the RCA record company and Chet Atkins (a noted guitarist and record producer who worked with Reeves) as unsuitable for wider public release.  Following Reeves' death, the track was overdubbed with an orchestral backing and released to the public as the version that later climbed up the music charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom. 

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Linda was with her mother while her older sister was being examined by a dentist. Linda kept herself busy playing with toys in the waiting room until she noticed that her mom was resting, her eyes closed.  With about six other patients waiting, Linda marched up to her mother, looked her straight in the face and shook her shoulder.  "Mommy," she yelled, "wake up! This is not church!"

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- Most people don't think I am as old as I am until they hear me stand up.

- Ask your doctor if a drug with 32 pages of side effects is right for you.

- I only do what the voices in my wife's head tell her to tell me to do.

- Why does a room full of married people looks so empty?  There's not a single person in it .

- What do you call a boom-a-rang, that doesn't come back?  A Stick.

- Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Jester!
Jester who?
Jester minute I'm trying to find my keys!

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Jilly!
Jilly who!
Jilly out here, let me in!!

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{Quote} You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him, and remember the only thing you can do about awful people is not be one of them. 

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