I SHUDDER TO THINK HOW MUCH MONEY WE SPEND ON BIRDSEED EACH YEAR

Heavily overcast skies this morning and thankfully not a spit of wind in the air to blow around the 37F temps.  I dressed warm.  Traveling bands of rain showers in our area Friday have left the cornfields still too wet for heavy farm machinery so many fields stand only partially harvested.  Heading southwest of Bayfield to the Linwood Wildlife area, Pheebs and I loaded up a shopping bag of apples while there.  No, not for us but for our front yard Critters.  

THE COUNTRYSIDE IS RAPIDLY LOSING ITS AUTUMN COLORS

SEEING THE CORNFIELD HAD BEEN HARVESTED AT THE LINWOOD SITE I WAS HOPING TO FIND A CORN SPILL BUT THIS HARVESTING CREW WAS TOO EFFICIENT AND NOT A KERNEL WAS  FOUND

 UP THERE ALONG THE HEDGE ROW ARE A FEW APPLE TREES

 LOTS OF APPLES ON THE GROUND FOR PICKING

 AFTER A COLD CLOUDY START TO THE DAY THIS IS OUR FIRST SUN SPLASH AND DID YOU NOTICE THE SHADOW COWBOY

 ON THE WAY BACK TO THE CAR PHEEBS SNIFFS FOR CORN COBS

Heading home, we stopped in at the Porters Hill Wild Birdseed Company for three 20-pound bags of birdseed.  I shudder to think about how much money we spend on birdseed each year.

 SNAPPED A FEW PICS ON THE WAY HOME

 WE WENT BY BIG BARKY'S HOUSE AND HE SURE CAME FLYING OUT AND GAVE US A BIG SCOLDING

 PHEEBS JUST SITS QUIETLY IN HER SEAT WHILE BIG BARKY MAKES A BIG BLUSTER OF HIMSELF

Home again and with the Sun out now full tilt, I was soon busy outside with my pitchfork, leaf rake, and wheelbarrow.  Friday's rain showers traveling through the area made for wet leaves today and wet leaves are easier to work with than dry flighty leaves.  The rain binds the leaves together adding weight and making them easier to rake and pitchfork into piles.  Sunday's weather looks good so I will likely hitch up the utility trailer and haul myself a big load of leaves to the Park's recycle area.

 SOMEWHERE BEHIND THIS BIG PILE OF LEAVES IS OUR HOUSE

 RAINDROPS IN THE LEAF PILE

With sunshine and blue skies overhead, Pheebs and I headed off for a walk back into the Park's forest.  It was a bit muddy going in places but we didn't get bogged down.  Entering the pine forest I noticed that Park owner Adam has cleared a way through an area of heavy brush and brambles alongside a small creek running south in its own little valley.  This previously unwalkable area with its cluster of Silver Birch trees is now accessible.  I don't know what Adam plans for this area but it would make for a nice forest path with the creek running alongside below.  

 NICE TO HAVE A NEW PLACE TO WALK IN OUR PARK

 THERE IS A TINY CREEK DOWN THERE BUT IT'S HIDDEN BY ALL THE LEAVES

 YES, OUR PARK'S LANDSCAPE IS CHANGING

 WALKING PAST THE PARK'S POND ON THE WAY HOME

 AND YES, WE STILL HAVE DANDELIONS BLOOMING

 COLORFUL LEAVES ALONG THE POND'S BANK

Al's Music Box:)) Welcome To My World by Jim Reeves is a popular music standard written by Ray Winkler and John Hathcock , The melody was likely written by Eddie McDuff rather than Winkler.  A traditional love song, the bridge includes lyrics taken from Matthew 7:7-8 ("Knock and the door will open; seek and you will find; ask and you'll be given ... ," from the Sermon on the Mount)    The most well known version of this song was performed by country music singer Jim Reeves, who styled the song in his favoured style of Nashville Sound. Reeves' version was included on his 1962 album A Touch of Velvet and was released as a single in the United States in early 1964, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the spring of that year. The song became one of Reeves' last major hits in the U.S. during his lifetime before he was killed in a plane crash on July 31, 1964.  Reeves' version had been a hit single in the United Kingdom prior to its release as a single in the U.S., peaking at No. 6 in July 1963.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A film crew is on location in Kenya, when a tribal shaman approaches the director and says, "Tomorrow rain." The director pays no attention, but the following day it pours and shooting has to be delayed.  That night, the director sends his assistant to bring the shaman back. "What will be the weather tomorrow?" asks the director.  "Bigger rain tomorrow, much wind," and sure enough a terrible storm once again delays the filming.  But then the witch doctor disappears for a week and the director, now depending on him, sends his people out to find him and bring him back to camp.  Finally, he is located and brought to the director's tent. "What will be the weather tomorrow?" asks the director in desperation.  "No idea," says the shaman, "Radio batteries dead."

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My wife asked me to buy ORGANIC vegetables from the market. I went and looked around and couldn't find any.
So I grabbed an old, tired-looking employee and said, "These vegetables are for my wife. Have they been sprayed with any poisonous chemicals?"  "The produce guy looked at me and said, "No. You'll have to do that yourself."

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A zookeeper is ordering new animals. As he fills out the forms, he types “two mongeese”. That doesn’t look quite right, so he tries two mongoose, and then two mongooses.  Giving up, he types, “One mongoose, and while you’re at it, send another one.”

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