AUNT JEAN WAS DIAGNOSED WITH PULMONARY HYPERTENSION

 A SNOWY DAY HERE AT TIMES

A snowy cold morning left me with little desire to even go out the door so Pheebs and I skipped our morning car ride.  With below-freezing overnight temperatures upon us again and more on the way, I slipped down under our front deck and turned the outside water off.  First time in over 22 years I've had to do that.  Well, at least I got all the mud hosed off the Subaru yesterday afternoon and it looks like a car again, instead of a muddy mud bucket going down the road......Talked to Aunt Jean Friday night and she is doing much better.  She only has to have the oxygen tubes in at night while sleeping, and only if she feels the need to do so during the day.  Her doctor has diagnosed her with Pulmonary Hypertension.  We didn't stay on the phone for as long as we usually do because I could tell she was tired........A quiet day here.  Worked away at clearing some cupboards in the kitchen.  Oh, and the reason Woodsy was briefly walking on that side of the road yesterday was to wait until I had passed with the car before crossing over to the other side of the road.  

Al's Music Box The Great Pretender is a popular song recorded by the Platters, with Tony Williams on lead vocals, and released as a single in November 1955. The words and music were written by Buck Ram, the Platters' manager and producer who was a successful songwriter before moving into producing and management. The song reached No. 1 on Billboard's Top 100.  Sam Cooke's cover of the song is believed to have inspired Chrissie Hynede to name her band the Pretenders.  Buck Ram, the manager of the Platters, said that he wrote the song in about 20 minutes in the washroom of the Flamingo Hotel in order to have a follow-up to the success of "Only You."  Ram had boasted to Bob Shad that he had an even better song than "Only You", and when pressed by Shad on the name of the song, Ram quickly replied "The Great Pretender".  He said the song would be a hit even before he had written the song to go with the title. The song was recorded by the Platters and released in November 1955. Plas Johnson played tenor saxophone on the recording. It became the best-selling R&B song in January 1956, and reached No. 2 on the Top 100 chart on Billboard in February 1956. It was also the 12th best-selling single of 1956.  The Platters performed "The Great Pretender" and "Only You" in the 1956 musical film Rock Around the Clock, and was also in the film American Graffiti.  In 2002, "The Great Pretender" by the Platters on Mercury RecondsGrammy Hall of Fame was inducted into the, which lists the date as 1956.  In 2004, the song was ranked 360th in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

 A ROBIN LISTENING FOR SOME CHILLY DEW WORMS UNDER THE SNOW

GROANER'S CORNER:(( It doesn't hurt to take a hard look at yourself from time to time, and this should help get you started.  During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the director what the criterion was that defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.  "Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub."  "Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."  "No," said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a room with or without a view?"

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God: "Whew! I just created a 24-hour period of alternating light and darkness of Earth."  Angel: "What are you going to do now?"  God: "Call it a day."

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-"I believe in dragons, good men and other fantasy creatures."

- If someone with multiple personalities threatens to commit suicide, is that considered a hostage crisis?

- Last night, my wife and I watched two movies back to back.
Fortunately for me, I was the one who was facing the television.

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Twenty-one reasons why English is hard to learn.
1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7. Since there was no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I did not object to the object.
11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12. There was a row among the oarsmen on how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when does are present.
15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18. After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
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Al's Doggy World

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Kelly's Corner

 AT OUR RANCH SITTING JOB NEAR McNEAL, ARIZONA

 MORNING WALK WITH RV SUE AND HER CANINE CREW, SPIKE AND BRIDGETT

KELLY IN BISSBEE ARIZONA WITH BAYFIELD'S DIANE MERO....BOTH THESE FINE LADIES ARE GONE NOW

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