AT THIS TIME OF YEAR WE'LL TAKE IT

Amazingly, we had another fiery sunrise and the thermometer was already trying to push itself above the freezing mark.  Although not a clear blue sky like yesterday, the sun did its best to make its presence known through the scattered cloud cover.  Pheebs and I slipped out around a few country roads, took a few pics, and headed home.  Not as good a melting day as yesterday but at this time of year we'll take it.  A drive down to Grand Bend and back this afternoon rounded out the day.   

 'OK, SO OUR BREAKFAST NOW COMES IN A NET??'  'SO HOW'S THAT GONNA WORK!!'

"STOP WORRYING ABOUT IT LADIES'

 A VERY CREATIVE BIRDHOUSE HIGH ATOP AN OLD TREE STUMP

 TO ME THIS LOOKED LIKE A VERY ILL-THOUGHT-OUT AND DANGEROUS IDEA!!

Al's Music Box:)) Wonderful World is a song by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Released on April 14, 1960, by Keen Records, it had been recorded during an impromptu session the previous year in March 1959, at Sam Cooke's last recording session at Keen. He signed with RCA in 1960 and "Wonderful World", then unreleased, was issued as a single in competition. The song was mainly composed by songwriting team Lou Adler and Herb Alpert, but Cooke revised the lyrics to mention the subject of education more.  "Wonderful World" ended up doing substantially better on the charts than several of his early RCA singles, becoming his biggest hit single since "You Send Me" (1957). The song peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit number two on Billboard's Hot R&B Sides chart.  Lou Adler and Herb Alpert composed the song with the theme that neither knowledge nor education can dictate feelings, but that love "could make the world a wonderful place".  Adler did not take the song very seriously but Cooke appeared to be taken with it. "He’d say, ‘What about that song, you know?’ And then he'd start on it again," recalled Adler.  Cooke wanted to steer the song toward the subject of schooling, revised the song and decided to cut it at a recording session on March 2, 1959, five days after completing his Billie Holiday tribute album, Tribute to the Lady. The writing credit for the song was put under Cooke's wife's maiden name, Barbara Campbell.  Campbell was also listed on the record labels for two other Cooke hits: "Only Sixteen" and "Everbody Loves to Cha Cha Cha".  The session's main goal was to record three songs Cooke had composed. There was no arranger or orchestra and the personnel consisted of Cooke, guitarist Cliff White, bassist Adolphus Alsbrook, teenage drummer Ronnie Selico and a quartet of singers that Cooke biographer Peter Guralnick believes may have been the Pilgrim Travelers – J.W. Alexander, Lou Rawls, and George McCurn (nicknamed Oopie).  There is no known footage of Cooke performing the song, even though, in ABKCO1986, president Allen Klein offered a $10,000 reward for anyone obtaining such footage.  Cooke signed to RCA Victor in 1960 but his first two singles on the major label – "Teenage Sonata" and "You Understand Me" – failed to register on the charts.  Meanwhile, John Siamas, co-founder of Keen Records, discovered the "demo" recording of "Wonderful World" among unreleased Cooke recordings.  Keen released "Wonderful World" in competition with RCA's issue of "You Understand Me" in the same week.  "Wonderful World" quickly became Cooke's best-performing single.  Billboard reviewed the single upon its release, giving it four stars and writing, "Moderate rocker gets a smooth belt from Sam Cooke in his usual, salable style."

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.  Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.  Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.  Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So they created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer,then hired two people.  Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?" So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, an Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.  Then Congress said, "We have had this operating for one year and we are $18,000 over budget. We must cut back overall cost."  So they laid off the night watchman.

- I'm beginning to think my five-year-old grandson is a genius...I can't tell his paintings from that of Picasso!

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At the airport for a business trip, I settled down to wait for the boarding announcement at Gate 35. Then I heard the voice on the public address system saying, "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Delta Flight 570 will board from Gate 41."
So my family picked up our luggage and carried it over to Gate 41. Not ten minutes later the public address voice told us that Flight 570 would in fact be boarding from Gate 35.  So, again, we gathered our carry-on luggage and returned to the original gate. Just as we were settling down, the public address voice spoke again: "Thank you for participating in Delta's physical fitness program.

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Al's Doggy World

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Kelly's Corner

 KELLY AT THE OLD BORREGO SPRINGS LIBRARY WITH HER LAPTOP COMPUTER

 BOONDOCKING SOUTH OF CONGRESS, ARIZONA

 SOMEWHERE ON A MORNING WALK

Al's Art Gallery