A FOUNTAIN OF WATER IN OUR PARK'S POND

 A BIG SURPRISE AT OUR PARK'S POND THIS EVENING

With Kelly's iron infusion appointment at London's University Hospital set for 10 o'clock this morning we were up earlier than usual and on the road by 8:30.  Under cool cloudy skies Pheebs and I dropped Kelly off at the hospital's main door an hour later and then headed north out of London to our first stopping spot at the Medway cemetery to take our legs for a walk.  From there it was off to Ilderton for a Tim Horton's coffee to go.  Knowing it wasn't a real long appointment Kelly had, we didn't stray too far so we slowly dusted up a few country roads between Ilderton and London.

 MEDWAY CEMETERY IS ALWAYS A GOOD LEG STRETCH STOP

 AN ODD-LOOKING BARN

 WE STOPPED TO TALK TO SOME HORSES

Nearing London, my cell phone rang at 11:10 and minutes later Pheebs and I scooped Kelly up at the hospital's front door.  A quick stop at Wendys for some munchies to go and we blew out of London heading for home.  Under brightening skies and a few sun splashes we were in our driveway shortly before one o'clock.  Kelly's iron infusion went off without a hitch despite her not feeling well before we arrived at the hospital this morning.  That ill feeling continued throughout the rest of the day just as it has for the past number of days. 

 PHEEBS KNOWS KELLY HAS SNACKS BACK THERRE

What a surprise this evening when Pheebs and took a walk over and around the Park's pond.  Before we got to the pond I heard a splashing of water and lo and behold I could see a fountain of water shooting up into the air.   

Al's Music Box:)) Come Together is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon-McCartney. The song is the opening track on the band's 1969 album Abbey Road.  American psychologist Timothy Leary, an early advocate of LSD whom Lennon admired, met John and Yoko Ono in Montreal.  Leary intended to run for Governor of California in the following year's election, and he asked Lennon to write him a campaign song based on the campaign's slogan, "Come Together – Join the Party!"  The resulting chant was only a line long:  Lennon promised to finish and record the song, and Leary later recalled Lennon giving him a tape of the piece, but the two did not interact again.  In July 1969, during sessions for the Beatles' album Abbey Road, Lennon used the phrase "come together" from the Leary campaign song to compose a new song for the album.  Based on the 1956 single "You Can't Catch Me" by the American guitarist Chuck Berry, Lennon's composition began as an up-tempo blues number, only slightly altering Berry's original lyric of "Here come a flattop / He was movin' up with me" to "Here come ol' flattop / He come groovin' up slowly".  Lennon further incorporated the phrase "shoot me" from his unfinished and unreleased January 1969 song "Watching Rainbows". The lyrics of Lennon's new song were inspired by his relationship with Ono, and he delivered them quickly, similar in style to Berry's song. The author Peter Goggett wrote that "each phrase passes too quickly to be understood at first hearing the sound as important as the meaning".  When Lennon presented the composition to his bandmates, his songwriting partner Paul McCartney noticed its similarity to "You Can't Catch Me" and recommended they slow it in tempo to reduce the resemblance.  The band biographer Jonathan Gould suggested that the song has only a single "pariah-like protagonist" and Lennon was "painting another sardonic self-portrait".  In a December 1987 interview by Selina Scott on the television show West 57th Street, George Harrison stated that he wrote two lines of the song.  The group taped eight takes of "Come Together", with take six marked "best". The line-up consisted of Lennon singing lead vocal, McCartney on bass, George Harrison on rhythm guitar, and Ringo Starr on drums.  Starr placed tea towels over his tom drums to further dampen their sound.  Without needing to use his hands to play guitar, Lennon added handclaps each time he sang "Shoot me!", also adding tambourine over both the solo and coda.  Taped on 4-track recording equipment, at the end of the session, take six was copied over to 8-track tape in Studio Two, allowing for both overdubbing and the easy manipulation of Overdubbing for Eque.  "Come Together" took place in the week following the recording of the basic track.  On 22 July, Lennon sang a new lead vocal and again added handclaps, both being treated to a tape delay, with automatic double tracking added during the choruses.  At Lennon's request, McCartney played a Fender Rhodes electric with McCartney later recalling that Lennon "wanted a piano lick to be very swampy and smokey, and I played it that way and he liked that a lot". Harrison added a heavily distorted guitar during the refrains, while Starr added a maraca. Work on the track continued the next day, with more vocals added.  On the 25th of July, McCartney contributed a harmony vocal sung below Lennon's part, and on the 29th of July, Lennon overdubbed a guitar during the song's middle climax.  Work on the song finished the next day, with Harrison playing a lead guitar solo with a Gibson Les Paul during the song's coda.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A wife went to the police station with her next-door neighbor to report that her husband was missing. The policeman asked for a description.  She said, "He's 35 years old, 6 foot 4, has dark eyes, dark wavy hair, an athletic build, weighs 185 pounds, is soft-spoken, and is good to the children."  The next-door neighbor protested, "Your husband is 5 foot 4, chubby, bald, has a big mouth, and is mean to your children."  The wife replied, "Yes, but who wants HIM back?"

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- It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong, and an even bigger one to keep his mouth shut when he's right.

- If your next pot of chili tastes better, it probably is because of something left out, rather than added.

- In any household, junk accumulates to the the space available for its storage.

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A father was reading Bible stories to his young son.  He read, "The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city. But his wife looked back and was turned to salt."  His son asked, "What happened to the flea?"
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THE BACKYARD WAS IN NEED OF SOME ATTENTION

 A LITTLE RED SQUIRREL SITTING IN OUR SUNBURST LOCUST TREE PEERING THROUGH OUR SUNROOM WINDOW AT ME

Under cool cloudy skies, Pheebs and I slipped into Bayfield and dropped off some books at the Library for Kelly.  From there, we puttered around a few country roads close to the village and came home.

 'FLL ER UP' .... SEEN AT THE BAYFIELD GARAGE THIS MORNING

SITTING IN THEIR CAR AT BAYFIELD'S BEACK DECIDING IF THEY WANT TO GO FOR A PADDLE OR NOT

 IT LOOKS LIKE THIS MACHINE MIGHT BE USED TO CUT LONG GRASS IN THE DITCHES ALONGSIDE THE ROAD

Taking advantage of our cooler temperatures and lack of hot Sun I spent a couple hours outside trimming tree and shrub branches.  With the front yard garnering the bulk of our attention, the backyard was in need of some attention and that is where I concentrated my efforts today.  Dumped four-wheelbarrow loads of clippings into our utility trailer. Kelly was out helping with the trimming as well.

THIS AND ALL FOLLOWING PHOTOS ARE CATCH-UP PICS FROM THE PAST WEEK OR TWO

 THE ALGOMA GUARDIAN STILL SITS EMPTY IN GODERICH'S HARBOR AWAITING ITS FATE WHATEVER THAT FATE MAY BE

Thanks to a few readers who through comments or emails offered suggestions on how to change my blog's font colors after a problem occurred with Blogger a few weeks ago.  We couldn't get any of the suggested fixes to work until yesterday when Kelly clued into a Blogger Community help forum with a fix and an explanation about the problem.  Kelly read the fix and figured out the workaround.  Of course when she did it worked but when I did the same thing it wouldn't.  Except for one tricky little thing.  When it says 'while highlighted, hover your mouse at an input field (right underneath the word Title) then left click'.  Kelly was clicking there and I was clicking way over to the right of that area and that's why mine didn't work.  We seem to be okay now but I wished Google's Blogger would get off their duffs and fix this annoying problem properly!!!!  Here is the help link.....Blogger Work-Around     

  AN XETER ONTARIO ROAD CONSTRUCTION CREW TAKING A LUNCH BREAK

 MORNING COFFEE BREAK FOR THIS GRASS-CUTTING CREW IN GODERICH'S HARBOR

I finally had to bail out of my latest book, 'The Oceanography of the Moon' by Glendy Vanderah.  I stopped at the beginning of Chapter Fourteen when, as I was beginning to suspect, the book just got too romancy for me.  I have no interest in reading someone else's fictional ideas about mushy stuff and with two of the book's main characters getting all mushilized, I lost interest in the story and was out of there.  Yes, I know that schmoozy stuff is sometimes an integral part of the story but I don't always have the patience or interest to wade through all the schmalz.   Now, don't let the title of my next book throw you off but, it's about historical fact and not just based on historical fact.  This is a true story about real people.  It's called, The Bletchley Girls by author Tessa Dunlop.  It takes place in England during the Second World War and these are the young women who helped outsmart the enemy from within the confines of a Buckinghamshire Estate.  Bletchley Park was England's top secret intelligence center during the war and it was here that the German's unbreakable highly secretive Enigma code was finally broken.

REPLACING RAILROAD TIES SOUTH OF GODERICH

It will be all three of us piling into the Subaru Monday morning and heading out the driveway. 

 WORKERS IN THE GODERICH HARBOR REFURBISHING A WALL AT THE GODERICH GRAIN TERMINAL

Ellen's Groove:)) Her latest Father and Daughter Jam and on this one Ellen not only plays bass but an electronic keyboard as well.

 I'M THINKING THIS IS A FIELD OF WHEAT

Al's Music Box:)) Moonglow by Benny Goodman is a 1933 popular song. The music was by Will Hudson and Irving Mills and the words were by Eddie DeLange.  Writer George T. Simon, while working on a compilation of music for The Big Band Songbook, contacted composer Will Hudson regarding "Moonglow", and Hudson explained how the tune came about. "It happened very simply. Back in the early '30s, I had a band at the Graystone Ballroom in Detroit, and I needed a theme song. So I wrote 'Moonglow'."  "Moonglow" was first recorded by Joe Venuti in 1933, with subsequent recordings by Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Ethel Waters, and Art Tatum in 1934. The tune has since become a jazz standard, performed and recorded numerous times by a wide array of musical talents. The Benny Goodman Quartet with Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton made a famous version of the song in 1936, Artie Shaw recorded it in 1941, and Harry James recorded it in 1946 (released in 1950) on Columbia.  Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1956 for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings. (1954-56)  

GROANER'S CORNER:((A young couple drove several miles down a country road, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument, and neither wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules and pigs, the husband sarcastically asked, "Are they relatives of yours?"  "Yes," his wife replied. "I married into the family."

- My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.
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LOW ENERGY DAYS

Our cool sunny morning turned into a much cooler rainy afternoon and evening.  I moved ahead on my stone border project in the front yard before the rain came.  

 A FEW PICS FROM AROUND OUR PARK THIS MORNING

Al's Music Box:)) A White Sport Coat is a 1957 country and western song with words and music both written by Marty Robbins. It was recorded at the Bradley Studios in Nashville, Tennessee on January 25, 1957, and released on the Columbia Records label on March 4. The arranger and recording session conductor was Ray Conniff, an in-house conductor/arranger at Columbia. Robbins had demanded to have Conniff oversee the recording after his earlier hit, "Singing the Blues", had been quickly eclipsed on the charts by Guy Mitchell's cover version, which was scored and conducted by Conniff in October 1956.  Robbins recalled writing "A White Sport Coat" in approximately twenty minutes while being transported in a standard automobile. He is said to have had the inspiration for the song while driving from a motel to a venue in Ohio, where he was due to perform that evening. During the course of the journey, he passed a local high school, where its students were dressed ready for their prom.  In the song, the narrator was hoping to go to the prom with a certain girl, wearing a white sport coat and a pink carnation. However, the girl decided to go to the prom with another guy, putting the narrator in a blue mood.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( 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.
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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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