TURNS ME INTO A TREMBLING MUMBLEPEG

Woke up to a snowy world this morning.  Not a happy camper!!  Pheebs and I didn't make it out for a car ride.  Kind of a lost day of sorts but it ended up having it's own share of stress waiting for me.  

 THIS IS WHAT WE WOKE UP TO THIS MORNING

 I FEEL SO SORRY FOR THIS POOR LITTLE SINGLE CROCUS FLOWER

With me in a dither, Lorraine (Woodsy) and I slipped up to Goderich with my Lenovo laptop in hand this morning.  I had upgraded it from Windows 10 to Windows 11 a month or so ago and have had some frustrating issues with it ever since.  Stopped at the ContinuIT computer place and a young lady there was able to quickly (but not effortlessly) track down the problems and fix them right there at the counter.  No charge:))  I thought that Continu-IT was very decent for doing that.  With a McDonalds coffee in hand and a quick stop at Dollorama, we were soon back to Bayfield......  So, with one dilemma solved, I soon found myself right smack dab into another one with Bell Telephone.  And that problem had us back to Goderich again late in the afternoon.  If I thought I had myself in a dither over my laptop computer problem, I hadn't met my afternoon Bell Telephone problem yet.  My bill had soared dramatically in the past couple of months with another four hundred dollar bill pending.  With Lorraine's help, it was back to Goderich with a stop at my bank for a print-out of my chequing account from November 1st up to now.  With that in hand, it was over to the Bell Telephone store to try and sort things out.  And, thanks to a nice lady there, we did.  It seems when we transferred all of the telephone stuff from Kelly's name to mine back in January, our long-distance USA plan fell off somewhere.  Nobody mentioned to me that that plan was no longer in effect and I incurred a number of long-distance phone calls to my Aunt Jean in Florida.  Jamie, the nice lady at the Bell store put me in touch with Bell Telephones head office and thanks to another nice lady at that end, a total of $335.00 in long-distance fees were lifted.  I never thought I'd ever say this but.....Thanks, Bell Telephone:))  Following that, we were back to Bayfield and I have Lorraine to thank for helping me through my muddlement today.  I'm not the most pleasant person to be around when things like this occur.  Some forms of stress I handle well and some I do not. Computers not working right sets me on fire every time now, and anything to do with paperwork, banking, numbers, electronics, and newer technology, etc. turns me into a trembling Mumblepeg.  I seem to get so confused by a lot of stuff these days:((   

I FORGOT TO BRING OUR FROG POND PUMP IN OVERNIGHT AND IN THE-FREEZING TEMPS FORMED SOME WATERFALL ICE CREATIONS THIS MORNING

Al's Music Box:)) Take It To The Limit is a song by the Eagles from their fourth album One of These Nights from which it was issued as the last third single on November 15, 1975. It reached No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was also Eagles' greatest success to that point in the United Kingdom, going to No. 12 on the charts. Billboard ranked it as the No. 25 song for 1976.  The song, written by Eagles members Randy Meisner, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey began as a solo composition by Meisner, who sang lead on it. As it remained unfinished when the time came for the One of These Nights album to be recorded, Henley and Frey assisted Meisner in completing it. Meisner's performance of the song was popular with the audience in Eagles concerts, but disputes over his reluctance to perform it would also directly lead to Meisner's departure from the band.  

EVEN MY POOR LITTLE DUCKY GUYS GOT FROZEN UP IN THE POND'S SURFACE ICE

GROANER'S CORNER:(( It was autumn, and the Indians on the remote reservation asked their new Chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was an Indian Chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets, and when he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the hell the weather was going to be. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side,he replied to his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect wood to be prepared.  But also being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea.He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked,  "Is the coming winter going to be cold?"  "It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold indeed," the Meteorologist at the weather service responded.  So the Chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more wood in order to be prepared.  One week later he called the National Weather Service again."Is it going to be a very cold winter?" he asked.  "Yes," the man at National Weather Service again replied,"it's going to be a very cold winter."  The Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of wood they could find.  Two weeks later he called the National Weather Service again. "Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?" "Absolutely," the man replied. "It looks like it's going to be one of the coldest winters ever."  "How can you be so sure?" the Chief asked.  The weatherman replied, "The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy".

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