A FEW WORDS A FEW PHOTOS

Driving along in the rain this morning I kept asking myself why was I driving along in the rain this morning.  Well, why would I not be.  And with that I’ll just leave you with a few photos I took today.

 

HEY, FARMERS ARE RV’ERS TOO

GROANER’S CORNER:((  During an ecumenical assembly, a secretary rushed in shouting, “The building is on fire!”The Methodists prayed in a corner.The Baptists wondered where they could find water.The Quakers quietly praised God for the blessings that fire brings.The Lutherans posted a notice on the door announcing the fire was evil.The Roman Catholics passed the plate to cover the cost of the damage.The Jews posted symbols on the door in hopes the fire would pass.The Congregationalists shouted, “Every man for himself!”The Fundamentalists proclaimed, “It’s the vengeance of God!”The Episcopalians formed a procession and protested.The Christian Scientists denied that there was a fire. The Presbyterians appointed a chairperson to form a committee to look into the matter and submit a written report.The secretary grabbed the fire extinguisher and finally put the fire out.

WHEN I EXITED THE MAITLAND VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER THIS MORNING I SAW A VERY FAMILIAR LOOKING DOGGY SITTING OUTSIDE THE DOOR WAITING FOR ME

CHIPPY THE CHIPMUNK IN OUR SUNBURST LOCUST TREE TODAY

With clippers in hand it was under cool cloudy skies Pheebs and I took ourselves for a leisurely early morning walk around on what we like to call our Pine Tree trail.  With a chorus of ‘Chugerums’ coming from our Park’s pond we passed quietly by a number of little froggy heads sticking out of some rather brackish looking water.  Tree top song birds were the only other sounds we heard on our relaxing walk.

A BLACK CAP CHICADEE CONTEMPLATES IT’S FEET

ALWAYS NICE TO SEE BLUE JAYS OUTSIDE OUR WINDOWS

DAY AT THE BEACH

Several months ago my Nurse Practitioner suggested I try a pair of pressure stockings for my troublesome legs.  After awaiting the results from a Doppler scan on my legs ‘she phoned about a month ago’ to say I could pick up a prescription for those stockings at the Maitland Valley Medical Center.  Note the key words there ‘she phoned about a month ago’.  It took my mind that long to remember her phone call.  This morning Pheebs and I hustled right on up to the medical center where I picked up that prescription.  I was only in the medical center about 4 minutes and upon leaving I saw a familiar looking doggy sitting outside the main door looking in.  It was the Pheebs.  I had forgot to roll up the Jeep’s passenger window so she had jumped out and headed across the parking lot over to the door where she had last seen me enter the building.  Now if I could just remember everything I have forgotten I might have a chance of getting ahead of this absent minded brain of mine one of these day.

DESPITE OVERCAST SKIES THERE WERE NICE AQUA COLORS IN LAKE HURON WATERS THIS MORNING

Of course most anytime we are in Goderich we generally take ourselves for a drive down around the harbor and beach area and this morning was no exception again.  Noticed workmen and trucks clustered off to the lake side of the road in Rotary Cove.  Turns out they were installing exercise equipment.  Couple weeks ago I drove along there and saw workman pouring small cement pads which I later found out were to be used for mounting the very exercise equipment these fellas were installing this morning.  This equipment is right alongside the wooden boardwalk which happens to run almost the full length of the public waterfront.  Joggers, hikers, and walkers on the boardwalk can now stop off at any of the exercise stations at Rotary Cove and have themselves a cardio vascular work-out while enjoying the marvelous views of Lake Huron right in front of them.

LOOKS LIKE THE BOYS ARE UP TO SOMETHING THERE

SIGN SAYS ‘ROTARY TRAIL FITNESS’ AND I ASSUME THOSE FELLAS ARE A COMBINATION OF CITY WORKERS AND ROTARY CLUB MEMBERS

I DIDN’T COUNT THEM BUT THERE MIGHT BE NEARLY A DOZEN EXERCISE STATIONS ALONG THIS SECTION OF BOARDWALK

COLD WIND OFF THE LAKE AND I WAS GLAD I WAS BUNDLED UP WARM THEN ALONG COMES THIS GUY IN SHORTS…………….

We were back home again by 11 and I spent the next half of the day like we so often do enjoyably puttering about outside taking care of weeds, planting or transplanting stuff etc. etc.  For lunch we had us a couple hot dogs without the buns and I had an additional big bowl of porridge.  And if anyone is not knowing what porridge is just remember the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

NOT ALL EQUIPMENT IS ASSEMBLED YET

“WELL, DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD GIVE IT A TRY DEAR”??….”NAWWW, LET’S GO HOME MY LEGS ARE COLD

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS PIECE OF EQUIPMENT IS….MAYBE IT’S A SET OF BONGO DRUMS FOR FINGER EXERCISES

LOOKING SOUTH ALONG THE BOARDWALK…..EXCERSIZE EQUIPMENT IS JUST BEHIND ME

I was luckily able to help out a painted Turtle earlier this afternoon when I found it stuck between our rain barrel stand and a wooden block.  The little fella must have lost it’s way from the Park’s pond and sensing water in our rain barrel got himself stuck trying to reach it.  Picked the little guy up, put him in a bucket and carried the bucket back to the pond where I gently placed him in the water wishing him well as he swam happily away.  You probably don’t want to hear about the Dew Worm I saved from drowning tonight in our front yard frog pond…………….

NOTICE THE CHUNK OUT OF THE PAINTED TURTLE’S SHELL TOP RIGHT SIDE….I FIGURE A BIGGER SNAPPING TURTLE MIGHT HAVE DONE THAT DAMAGE AT SOME POINT

Really enjoying all the old ‘found’ VHS tapes from yesteryear.  Today watching a tape from the summer of 97 at the ‘old farm house’ Pheebs heard Kelly’s voice on the TV and jumped up on the stool and watched the video with me.  On screen below is Kelly in the orange and my Uncle Harry to the right in a yellow jacket.  Also present at that supper table were Harry’s wife Ethel, Aunt Jean from Florida and cousin Mary Ann Klein from Tavistock Ontario.  Oh and I am sitting there as well.

PHEEBS CAN HEAR KELLY TALKING BUT JUST CAN’T QUITE FIGURE OUT WHERE SHE IS

Tonight’s supper was a repeat of Sunday night’s supper with the exception that I heated up the corn this time.  And that was it, nothing more nothing less but I did have a peanut butter and honey sandwich about 2 this afternoon to tide me over between lunch and supper.

GROANER’S CORNER:(( Bill and Bob, two Government mechanical engineers, were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up.
A woman walked by and asked what they were doing. 'We're supposed to find the height of the flagpole', said Bob, 'But we don't have a ladder.'
The woman said, 'Hand me that wrench out of your toolbox.' She loosened a few bolts, then laid the pole down. She then took a tape measure from their toolbox, took a measurement and announced, 'Eighteen feet, six inches' and walked away. Ray shook his head and laughed. 'Ain't that just like a 'Miss-know-it-all' woman?' he said.
'We need the height and she gave us the length!'
Bob and Ray are still working for the Government.

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So Moses is up on Mount Sinai and he says to God, "God, do I ever have a pounding headache!"
And God says, "Here, take these two tablets."

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A man was driving along a freeway when he noticed a chicken running along side his car. He was amazed to see the chicken keeping up with him because he was doing 50 MPH.   He accelerated to 60 and the chicken stayed right next to him. He sped up to 75 MPH and the chicken passed him.   The man then noticed that the chicken had three legs, so he followed the chicken down a road and ended up at a farm.   The curious man got out of his car and noticed that all the chickens had three legs. He asked the farmer, "What's up with these chickens?"   The farmer explained, "Well, everybody likes chicken legs, so I bred a three-legged bird. I'm gonna be a millionaire."   "How do they taste?" asked the man.   "Don't know," replied the farmer, "haven't caught one yet."

BECAUSE I COULDN’T THINK OF A BLOG TITLE TONIGHT I DIDN’T PUT ONE IN………….:))

A SWAMPY SECTION IN THE HULLETT MARSH

It was still dark at 5 a.m. when I heard the first birds of the day waking up.  It wasn't the only sound I heard.  Rains had come in the night and I could hear it softly pattering on our metal roof.  After checking the radar weather map I thought there would be no Jeep riding for us guys this morning but rains quit and skies began to clear around 8:30.   That was good enough for us bums and off we went.

NOW WHAT WOULD A PEACEFUL SUNDAY MORNING BE WITHOUT A NICE TRANQUIL HERD OF JERSEY DAIRY COWS

After Saturdays post my objective this morning was to put a lid on any farm machinery photos and due to the fact it was Sunday and fields were still wet from the overnight rain my objective was easily met.  Pheebs and I wandered over to the Hullett Marsh for a bit then cruised a few country roads northeast of Clinton and headed home.

WATER LEVELS ARE HIGH IN THE MARSH

Nearly 25 years ago while working at the Stratford Art Gallery in Stratford Ontario I had access to a JVC video camera and before the modern 'selfies' word was ever coined I began doing some video selfies.  Living by myself I had a very groovy upper floor apartment in an old house located in the city's downtown.  In that apartment with me I had 1 pussycat and 15 Hampsters.   I would occasionally bring the video camera home to tape my Hampsters antics, my apartment, and sometimes me.  Guess you could call it an early form of audio-visual blogging.  Periodically I would set the camera up then sit myself down in my chair, look into the camera and chat away like a newscast about how things were going in my life.  After meeting Kelly in 1993 and we moved to the old farm house near Fullerton Ontario I continued videotaping with a camcorder camera Kelly had.  Been nearly 25 years since I've seen some of those tapes but after coming across a VCR machine in our carport last week I forgot we had I decided to see if I could hook it up to our TV and see if the tapes were still any good.  They were.  I'm still in a slight state of amazement that I was actually able to hook it up and get the right colored wire VCR plugs plugged into the right colored holes in the TV then press exactly the right buttons on the remote a couple dozen times to get the whole connection working right.   I have really been enjoying watching these videos the past couple days.  Me in my apartment before I had even met Kelly.  Our first dog Max as a wee puppy when we first brought him home.  Putting up and decorating an outside Christmas tree beside the farm house in 1998.  Our first Class C RV a 1979 17.5 foot Dodge Centurion, oodles of barn cats, shoveling snow trying to make a path for the oil truck to reach the house, a Christmas dinner at the farm house with Kelly’s kids, Aunt Jean visiting from Florida, my late Mother and the list goes on.  So glad now I took the time years ago to make those many video blurbs.  Watching these videos I can’t help but occasionally chuckle at myself and my way of thinking way back in 1993.  On camera I talked about my ups and downs and life in general.  Guess I was unknowingly setting the stage for something that was to become a big part of my life nearly 15 years later.  Something called ‘Blogging’, a word that had probably not even been invented yet.

SPOTTED THIS YOUNG SNAPPING TURTLE IN THE MARSH

Put the last cement patio block down this afternoon and it was good I didn’t have any more to put in.  Overnight rains ushered in warmer temperatures dragging with them sticky humidity.  My cooler perfect weather balance tipped over to the unpleasant side.  No need for A/C yet but I had my fans cranked.

SIMPLY ANOTHER FINE MORNING IN SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO’S HURON COUNTY

COULDN’T DECIDE WHICH ONE OF THESE 2 TREE PHOTOS I LIKED BEST SO TOSSED THEM BOTH IN

Lunch today was a 3 egg cheese, ham, and onion omelet and by cracky I even remembered to put the eggs in this time.  Supper was cream corn right out of the can and half a dozen breaded chicken strips done in the oven.  And toast.  Liberty lemon yogurt for dessert.  We’re doin good:))

The reason the Shout Box hasn’t been working these past number of days is due to the fact the site does not exist anymore.  The originators have shut it down.  But not to worry, Kelly is diligently working on trying to set up another one.  We do like the Shout Box concept in that it gives folks and alternative way to comment or communicate.

GROANER'S CORNER:((  These two guys were approaching the first tee. The first guy goes into his golf bag to get a ball and says to his friend, "Hey, why don't you try this ball?" He draws a green golf ball out of his bag. "You can't lose it." His friend replies, "What do you mean you can't lose it?!" The first man replies, "I'm serious, you can't lose it. If you hit it into the woods, it makes a beeping sound, if you hit it into the water it produces bubbles, and if you hit it on the fairway, smoke comes up in order for you to find it." Obviously, his friend doesn't believe him, but he shows him all the possibilities until he is convinced. The friend says, "Wow! That's incredible! Where did you get that ball?!" The man replies, "I found it."

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