WE HOPE TO KNOW MORE THIS COMING WEEK

 IT'S LIGHTLY SNOWING HERE

Woke up to a cold gray November day but at least the air was semi-calm and it wasn't heavily snowing.  Yesterday's light dusting of snow was still on the ground so I loaded up the furry Kid and off we went down to the end of Bayfield River Road and back.  Not too inspiring from a photo point of view compared to a month or two ago at this time but it is what it is and I did find a few pics along the way.

 ON OUR STREET THIS MORNING IT IS JUST AS COLD OUT THERE AS IT LOOKS

 A BIT OF GROUND DRIFTING ACROSS THE ROAD BUT NOTHING SERIOUS

 A SNOWY FARM LANE

 A SNOW STREAMER COMING IN OFF THE LAKE ROLLS ACROSS THIS FARM LANE

 NOT A LOT OF SNOW IN OUR AREA YET BUT IT'S A DIFFERENT STORY FURTHER INLAND WHERE THEY ARE GETTING WHALLOPED

AT LAST, A TOUCH OF COLOR ON A GRAY DRAB DAY

 A GREEN WINTER WHEAT FIELD WITH A SKIFF OF SNOW BETWEEN THE ROWS

Took Kelly a Tim Hortons coffee and half a dozen timbits.  I noticed they had her oxygenated and she said they came and put the tubes in her nose in the middle of the night.  I was able to help her with a few things like rearranging pillows and blankets.  She remarked again how much better things are for her here in the Goderich hospital compared to London.  I stayed with her about 3 hours in which time her phone rang but she wasn't feeling well enough to talk to anyone so I took the call and it was her daughter Sabra.  I was able to update Sabra regarding her Mother's condition.  It is very unlikely that we will be able to attend that meeting with Dr. Teriakai this coming Wednesday in London.  Kelly is too weak, plus she is still bleeding somewhere.  When I got there this morning, a lady doctor was talking to her.  She said this coming week she would talk to us more about Palliative Care.  They are doing all they can for her in ICU at the moment.  We'll see how next week goes but I expect by the end of next week we will know a lot more about what direction we will be heading regarding Kelly's care.  Thank you to everyone for all your support in these difficult times.

KELLY LIKES THE FOOD MUCH BETTER IN GODERICH THAN LONDON

 HERE SHE IS CHECKING AN INGREDIENTS LIST

Al's Music Box:)) Green River is a song by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was written by John Fogerty and released as a single in July 1969, one month before the album of the same name was released. "Green River" peaked at number two for one week, behind "Sugar, Sugar," by The Archies, and was ranked by Billboard as the No. 31 song of 1969.  The song was based on a childhood vacation spot of John Fogerty's.  In an interview Fogerty gave to Rolling Stone in 2012, Fogerty stated: What really happened is that I used a setting like New Orleans, but I would actually be talking about a thing from my own life. Certainly a song like "Green River" – which you may think would fit seamlessly into the Bayou vibe, but it's actually about the Green River, as I named it – it was actually called Putah Creek by Winters, California. It wasn't called Green River, but in my mind I always sort of called it Green River. All those little anecdotes are part of my childhood, those are things that happened to me actually, I just wrote about them and the audience shifted at the time and place.   Fogerty added that the "actual specific reference, 'Green River,' I got from a soda pop-syrup label... My flavor was called Green River."   Although the song seems to be mostly about idyllic memories, in the last verse a character named Old Cody Junior warns the singer that he's going to find the world smoldering but can always come back to Green River.  The name Old Cody Junior was a reference to the fact that Buffalo Bill Cody had owned the cabin by the creek that inspired the song.  As to the music, Fogerty said that: "Green River" is obviously a tip of the hat to the Sun Records sound, but I can't think of any real specific song. Actually, with the loping beat of the acoustic guitar and then the bass kind of doing that rocking beat on the one and the four, I tend to think of something like "Dream Baby" by Roy Orbison. Yet "Green River" was much more rocking than that song, but the rhythm treatment fit."  Billboard described the single as "a driving rocker in the same vein as" Creedence Clearwater Revival's previous single "Bad Moon Rising."  Cash Box described it as developing "the bayou-rock style of the CCR in a slower than 'Bad Moon Rising' track that could steal the spotlight."  Cash Box ranked it as the No. 19 single of 1969.  Record World said it was "great." Ultimate Classic Rock critic Cliff M. Junior rated "Green River" as Creedence Clearwater Revival's 7th greatest song.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Dear Abby Admitted She Was At A Loss To Answer The Following::

- Dear Abby, I've suspected that my husband has been fooling around, and when confronted with the evidence, he denied everything and said it would never happen again.
- Dear Abby, Our son writes that he is taking Judo. Why would a boy who was raised in a good Christian home turn against his own?
- Dear Abby, I joined the Navy to see the world. I've seen it. Now how do I get out?
- Dear Abby, My forty-year-old son has been paying a psychiatrist $50.00 an hour every week for two and a half years. He must be crazy.
- Dear Abby, I was married to Bill for three months and I didn't know he drank until one night he came home sober.

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- Only in America: We work hard on a farm so we can move into town, where we can make more money… so we can move back to the farm.

- My wife was getting annoyed that I kept leaving the freezer door open and it kept on defrosting.
We have since split up, it’s all water under the fridge.

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After reading the morning headlines about the recent stock market downturn, a high-powered executive trying to impress a client in his office, flipped on his intercom switch and barked to his secretary, "Miss Hunter, get my broker!"  The client was impressed until he heard the secretary's clear voice saying, "Yes, Sir, stock or pawn?"

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