NOT MY FAVORITE THING TO DO BUT IT KEPT ME BUSY

No sun this morning and we were back down to the freezing mark again.  Pheebs at first wasn't anxious about going for a ride but she came outside anyway.  I have to lift her up into the car every time now and she sometimes has difficulty maneuvering around in her seat.  Unlike sitting up and watching where we are going, she now mainly lays down and sleeps.  She is sleeping a lot more in the house too.  Driving along slowly this morning with her quietly asleep on the seat beside me I again had to accept the fact that as she nears the end of her days there are fewer and fewer things we can do together and that includes are car rides.  At some point, I will just have to get used to the idea of going out in the mornings without her.  And, I might as well understand and accept that now before she is gone........ I had forgotten to drop a few 'Goodwill' type bags of stuff off at a place in Goderich yesterday so that was the mission for this morning.  That done, we picked up a Hortons drive-thru coffee and headed back to Bayfield.  Stopped at Bayfield's Village Clippers and made a haircut appointment for next Thursday.  Also stopped at the Bayfield Garage and topped up the Subaru.  From there it was over to the Porters Hill Wild Bird Seed Company for 3 twenty-pound bags of birdseed.  At some point in our morning journey, Pheebs had thrown up some bile and I hadn't noticed it until we got home.  It wasn't much and it was an easy clean-up.  I spent the rest of the afternoon house cleaning.  Not my favorite thing to do but it kept me busy.  I will resume my outside clean-up when the air warms up.  And, in last night's post, I may very well have misidentified those green shoots coming up out of the ground as Crocus's.  A reader in the comment section suggested they might be daffodils....and I think that reader just might be right.  Well hey, at least I know the difference between a blade of grass and a tall Oak Tree.  Oh really??

 BARE AND DRY ROADS THIS MORNING AND NOT A STITCH OF SNOW TO BE SEEN ANYWHERE

 SPOTTED THIS DOGGY DOOGANS IN THE TIM HORTONS DRIVE-THRU LINE-UP

 OUT FOR A COFFEE WITH DAD I'M GUESSING

Al's Music Box:)) Too Much Heaven is a song by the Bee Gees, which was the band's contribution to the "Music for UNICEF" fund. They performed it at the Music for UNICEF Concert on 9 January 1979. The song later found its way to the group's thirteenth original album, Spirits Having Flown. It hit No. 1 in both the US and Canada. In the United States, the song was the first single out of three from the album to interrupt a song's stay at #1. "Too Much Heaven" knocked "Le Freak" off the top spot for two weeks before "Le Freak" returned to #1 again. In the US, it would become the fourth of six consecutive No. 1s, equaling the record set by Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles for the most consecutive No. 1 songs. The six Bee Gee songs are "How Deep Is Your Love", "Stayin' Alive", "Night Fever", "Too Much Heaven", "Tragedy" and "Love You Inside Out". The songs spanned the years of 1977, 1978, and 1979.  Robin Gibb reportedly said on the Bee Gees' interview for Billboard in 2001 that this track was one of his favorite songs of the Bee Gees.  Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb wrote this track with "Tragedy" in an afternoon off from the making the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band movie; that same evening, the Gibbs wrote "Shadow Dancing" for Andy Gibb (but that song was later credited to all four Gibbs) The recording process was the longest of all the tracks on Spirits Having Flown as there are nine layers of three-part harmony, creating 27 voices, though the high falsetto voices are the most pronounced in the final mix:  Imbued with their falsetto style, it is also notable for being one of two songs on the album featuring the Chicago horn section (Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, and Walter Parazaider) "Too Much Heaven" was released nine months after "Night Fever". The single "Too Much Heaven" was released in the late autumn of 1978 and started a slow ascent up the music charts. In the first week of 1979, the single first topped the charts in both the United States and Canada. In the United Kingdom, the single peaked at number three late in 1978. In the summer of 1978, the Gibb brothers announced their latest project at a news conference at the United Nations in New York. All of the publishing royalties on their next single would go into UNICEF, to celebrate the International Year of the Child, which was designated to be 1979. The song earned over $7 million in publishing royalties.  The Bee Gees were later invited to the White House, where President Jimmy Carter thanked the group for their donation. At the ceremony, the brothers presented Carter with one of their black satin tour jackets.'  Cash Box said the song is "gentle and silky with the famous falsettos rising upwards." Record World called it a "flowing ballad, with [the Bee Gees'] trademark falsettos and a light touch." Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys spoke positively of the song, stating, "I was really loved and impressed with the harmonies they achieved on that record. I'm very very proud of those guys; they're exceptionally good at harmony. They’re a very heavy duty harmony group."

 PHEEBS SAT UP WHEN WE REACHED THE HORTONS DRIVE-THRU WINDOW

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A fellow tries to cross the Mexican border on a bicycle with two big bags balanced on his shoulders. The guard asks, 'What's in the bags?'  The fellow says, 'Sand!'  The guard wants to examine them. The fellow gets off the bike, places the bags on the ground, opens them up, and the guard inspects... only to find sand. The fellow packs the sand, places the bags on his shoulders, and pedals the bike across the border.  Two weeks later, the same situation is repeated...'What have you there?'  'Sand'.  'We want to examine.'  Same results... nothing but sand and the fellow is on his way again.  Every two weeks for six months the inspections continue. Finally, one week the fellow didn't show up. However, the guard sees him downtown and says to the fellow, 'Buddy, you had us crazy. We sort of knew you were smuggling something. I won't say anything - what were you smuggling?'  The fellow says, 'Bicycles.'

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What is the difference between dogs and marine biologists?  One wags a tail, and the other tags a whale.

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A woman goes into the local newspaper office to see that the obituary for her recently deceased husband is written. The obit. editor informs her that the fee for the obituary is 50 cents a word. She pauses, reflects and then says, Well then, let it read "Fred Brown died."  Amused at the woman's thrift, the editor tells her that there is a 7 word minimum for all obituaries. Only a little flustered, she thinks things over and in a few seconds says, In that case, let it read, "Fred Brown died: 1983 Pickup for sale."
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