KELLY IS IN THE GODERICH HOSPITAL AND BEING TRANSFERRED TO LONDON'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL THURSDAY

When Pheebs and I returned from our morning drive this morning Kelly was in her bedroom lying down because she didn't feel well.  As the morning wore on she became increasingly nauseous.  She had taken Gravol but it didn't help.  The nauseous increased to the point where Kelly began throwing up a lot of blood.  I wanted to call an ambulance but she said no, she would rather I drive her to the Goderich hospital.  So, that's what we did.  Had she gone by ambulance she would have been seen by a doctor right away but it was well over an hour before a doctor actually saw her and by that time she was feeling sick again and her stomach was hurting.  I stayed with her until it was determined she would not be going home.  With nothing in her stomach she was craving a Wendy's Frosty so I slipped out and got her one.  By the time I got back, they were in the process of putting five IV Lines into her arm.  A saline solution line, an anti-biotic line, an anti-nauseau line, plus two other lines I have since forgotten.  After the Goderich doctor had a discussion with Kelly's liver doctor in London it was decided that Kelly be taken by ambulance to London sometime Thursday.  The ambulance would have taken her today but arrangements had to first be made in London for a bed for her.  So, that's where we are right now.......Below is my post for today which I had begun before taking Kelly to the hospital this afternoon.....................

 WAITING TO SEE THE DOCTOR

 THIS IS ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF THE BLOOD KELLY THROUGH UP

KELLY TOOK A PICTURE OF HER IV TREE

 SHE LIKES HER PRIVATE ROOM IN THE GODERICH HOSPITAL

A windless but very wet Hurricane Beryl quietly slipped into our sleepy neighborhood sometime in the dark of night.  Early on when I pulled back our morning curtains I saw puddles in the driveway and knew she had brought a lot of water with her.....and it was still raining.  (And, as I post this tonight it is still raining with the temperature at 62F)  Checking our 'live radar' weather site I could see a large rain mass and knew we were in for a long wet day.  I also knew it wasn't big and scary enough to deter Pheebs and I from our morning outing. I don't think her and I have ever been deterred from from going anywhere by Mother Nature's weather whether it be rain, snow, fog, or whatever.

 A FEW PICS ON OUR WAY TO GODERICH

 A WHEAT SPILL ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD

 OVERNIGHT RAINS PUT A QUICK STOP THIS FARMER'S WHEAT HARVEST

THIS PIECE OF GREEN MACHINERY ON A TRAILER IS CALLED A 'HEAD' AND IT FITS ONTO THE FRONT OF A COMBINE TO CUT AND FEED THE WHEAT INTO THE COMBINE

With the Subaru needing gas, me needing a coffee, and Pheebs needing a car ride, we all headed off to Goderich to see what we could see.  The rain stopped, clouds lightened up, and after our five stops in Goderich we headed home through a few growing sun splashes.  By the way, it was cool enough this morning that with Pheebs window open I had to put on a touch of heat in the Subaru.

 DESPITE OUR STORMY WEATHER, LAKE HURON IS UNCHARACTERISTICALLY VERY CALM

Home again, with patches of sunshine overhead, and with a welcome mass of civilized cooler air once more I wasn't long in rounding up a few garden tools and happily catching up on a bunch of yard work.  Thanks to Hurricane Beryl for dragging all this cool 67F air in for us.  Much appreciated by many of us.  By early afternoon winds had picked up and skies clouded over again as a second storm front came rolling in across Lake Huron packing more rain. 

 CAME ACROSS THIS BAND OF HORSES ON OUR WAY HOME

Al's Music Box:)) Broken Hearted Melody is a popular song by Sarah Vaughan.  Hal David wrote the lyrics for "Broken Hearted Melody", with Sherman Edwards writing the music instead of his better-known collaborator Burt Bacharach.  Sarah Vaughan recorded the song in early 1958, left it for over a year before releasing it around the first of July 1959.  It was initially released as the B-side to 'Misty', but flipped when "Broken Hearted Melody" proved more popular with the public.  "Broken Hearted Melody" became one of Sarah Vaughan's biggest hits, yielding Vaughan her first million seller.  It was also Vaughan's first song to receive a Grammy nomination at the 2nd Annual Grammy Awards for Best Performance by A "Top 40" Artist.  It became part of her concert repertoire for many years afterward.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( After years of wondering why he didn't look like his younger sister or brother, a young man finally got up the nerve to ask his mother if he was adopted.  "Yes, you were son," his mother said as she started to cry softly. "But it didn't work out and they brought you back."

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- Welcome to the back porch where wasting time is considered time well wasted.

- Being abducted by Aliens might just be the vacation I really need right now.

- The problem is that the younger me never thought there would be an older me.

- I'm super excited about a brand new day of hanging on by a thread!!

- On a positive note....you are now too old to have a mid-life crises.

- Today I bought a donut without sprinkles....Diets are hard.

- Today's 3-year-olds can turn on laptops, smart phones and apps......When I was 3 I ate mud.

- If you see cows sleeping in a field does that mean it's pasture bedtime?

- Jack: "Do you know how long fish should be cooked?"

Jill: "Probably the same as short fish."

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BUT WHY OH WHY DO IT GOT SO HOT

Our A/C kicked on at 8:38 and I knew the day was not gonna to be great.  Nye a branch was stirring not even a leaf and I thought to myself Oh good grief!!  I knew this humidity would keep me inside, but not before Pheebs and I took us a ride.  With windows down and Moonroof open, I soon started hopin' I'd not get to mopin'.  But mopin' I did with Pheebs tail not waggin' and me a draggin'.  So home we went with myelf in a bluster and the Kid in a fluster.  Wishing it was winter I was not, but why oh why do it got so hot:(( 

It looks like the tail end of Hurricane Beryl is barreling our way and might be upon us sometime Wednesday.  I'm thinking the farmers could use a good rain but not a wind-driven crop smasher.  So far it is tracking to the south of us.

A Blast From Our Past:))  A post from June 30th 2011 and some old black and white photos from long long ago.  Motormouse Helps Me Look For Gold In My Shoes 

 I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A BOOKWORM AND I AM STILL WEARING PLAID SHIRTS WITH POCKETS

Al's Music Box:)) I Got A Name is a 1973 single recorded by Jim Croce with lyrics by Norman Gimbel and music by Charles Fox. It was the first single from his album of the same title and also Croce's first posthumous single, released the day after his death in a plane crash on September 20, 1973. While the single was released in September 1973, it was first heard as the theme song for the movie The Last American Hero, released in July 1973. It was later featured in the movies The Ice Storm, Invincible, Django, Unchained, Logan and The Lego Ninjago Movie.  Croce composed most of his own material; however, he did not write "I Got A Name." In an interview with Billboard writer Norman Gimbel, it was revealed that Croce chose to record the song "because his father had a dream for him but had died before his son's first success." 

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A man and his wife are dining at a table in a plush restaurant, and the husband keeps staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sits alone at a nearby table.  The wife asks, "Do you know her?"  "Yes," sighs the husband, "she's my ex-girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up seven years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since."  "My God!" says the wife. "Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?"  

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Knock Knock
Who's there?
Datsun!
Datsun who?
Datsun old joke!

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Dawn!
Dawn who?
Dawn leave me out here in the cold!

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Deanna!
Deanna who?
Deanna-mals are restless open the cage!

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Deduct!
Deduct who?
Donald Deduct!

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A six-year-old boy called his mother from his friend Charlie's house and confessed he had broken a lamp when he threw a football in their living room.  "But, Mom," he said, brightening, "you don't have to worry about buying another one. Charlie's mother said it was irreplaceable."

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And regarding your old computer, here is a few words of technical advice from Dr. Seuss himself...........If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house, says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol, that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall.
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse, then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk, and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk, then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM. Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!

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Some people come into your life as blessings. Others come into your life as lessons.

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KEEPS ME FROM GOING BONKERS

I'm afraid there really wasn't much for me to write about today.  It was a short morning drive halfway down the road and back for Pheebs and I.  Kelly had some errands to run in Goderich and with only one car for now she was needin' it to be gettin' on her way.  With clear blue skies overhead the sunshine really heated up all the moisture in the air so neither Pheebs nor I set foot out the door again.  Our 84F with the oppressive muggy humidity felt like 95F.  To say it was a lazy day for the furry Kid and I would be putting it quite mildly.  Thank heavens I have a reading hobby that keeps me from going bonkers on days like this.  I never got around to taking any photos today but I did have a few left over from previous days.

 A SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO MOUNTAIN RANGE??  NOPE, JUST A LOCAL GRAVEL PIT

 A GOLDEN WHEAT FIELD

 A VERY RECENTLY HARVESTED WHEAT FIELD

 AND, THIS WHEAT FIELD IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING HARVESTED

 'MARSHMALLOW FIELDS FOREVER'

 THAT'S A LOT OF TIRES COMING DOWN THE ROAD

 ONE OF OUR FRONT YARD BUNNIES PAUSES FOR A QUICK CLEAN UP

Al's Music Box:)) In Dreams is a song composed and sung by singer Roy Orbison.  It is an operatic rock ballad of lost love and it was recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville on January 4, 1963.  It became the title track of the album 'In Dreams', released in July of the same year. The song has a uniquely composed structure in seven movements in which Orbison sings through two octaves, beyond the range of most rock singers.  The song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 charts at number 7, and charted in the United Kingdom for five months while Orbison toured with the Beatless.  During the five months the song was on the charts, Orbison replaced guitarist Duane Eddy on a tour of the UK alongside the Beatles, whom he was not aware of at the time. British promoters were wary of Orbison as a draw, not considering him conventionally attractive and noting his stillness while performing.  The tour sold out in one afternoon, however.   Orbison's first meeting with John Lennon was awkward, as Orbison was overwhelmed by the amount of advertising devoted to the Beatles when it was he who was supposed to headline the show. Beatlemania, however, was taking hold, and Orbison accepted that he was not the main draw of the tour, so he decided to go first on stage.  On opening night, the audience reacted intensely toward Orbison's ballads, as he finished with "In Dreams". Philip Norman, a Beatles biographer, later wrote "As Orbison performed, chinless and tragic, the Beatles stood in the wings, wondering how they would dare to follow him". After demanding Orbison play for double the time he was scheduled, the audience then screamed for a fifteenth encore, which Lennon and Paul McCartney refused to allow. The two held Orbison back from returning to the stage.  Rolling Stone listed "In Dreams" at number 319 of their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2012.  Orbison claimed that "In Dreams" came to him while he was sleeping, as many of his songs did. He often heard music while asleep.  Orbison was half-awake when he imagined "In Dreams", and thought, "Boy that's good. I need to finish that. Too bad things don't happen in my dreams." When he woke up the next morning, he wrote the song in twenty minutes.  Like many of Orbison's songs, "In Dreams" rejects the typical song structure of rock music.  It begins like a lullaby with minimal acoustic guitar strums, with Orbison introducing the listener to "a candy-colored clown they call the sandman" half-spoken and half-sung. The sandman puts him to sleep, and Orbison begins singing about dreams of his lover. Drums pick up the rhythm to follow the lyrics further into his subconscious, and a piano joins as the lyrics recount how Orbison spends time with her in his dreams, accompanied by breathy backup singers. Orchestra strings counter his melody, with the effect of representing a singing voice in themselves.  Orbison's voice rises as he wakes up to find his lover gone. The climax is a powerful crescendo, as he cries "It's too bad that all these things "Can only happen in my dreams", and the resolution follows his voice from falsetto to the final note an octave below as he sings "Only in dreams-In beautiful dreams", as the other performers conclude with him abruptly.  The song never repeats a section in the two minutes and forty-eight seconds it runs.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Marriage Quotes::

- There was a man who said, "I never knew what happiness was until I got married...and then it was too late!"
- Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.
-They say when a man holds a woman's hand before marriage, it is love; after marriage, it is self-defense.
- When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a ten-year married man looks happy, we wonder why.
- A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -

- A gentleman is one who never swears at his wife while ladies are present.
- A husband is living proof that a wife can take a joke.

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- Dolphins are so intelligent that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw fish to them three times a day.

- “I'm really good at being lazy. In fact, my doctor even said that if I continue being this lazy I should expect atrophy.”

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Bill: Where did you get that gold watch Joe?
Joe: I won it in a race.
Bill: How many people participated in it?
Joe: Three, a policeman, the owner of the watch, and me!

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I COULD TELL SHE WAS WANTING TO HEAD BACK TO THE CAR

 A REAL NICE LOOKING SUNDAY MORNING

A beautiful summer's morning with deep blue skies and big white puffy clouds.  And a refreshing breeze to gently move the overnight's cooler air around.

 A FARM LANE BETWEEN A WHEAT FIELD AND A CORN FIELD

 PHEEBS LIKES WHEN WE HAVE SUBIE'S MOONROOF OPEN AND THE AIR RUSHES IN AND RUFFLES HER FUR

It was out to our country road walking spot Pheebs and I went to see if we could get our half-mile walk in.  We did pretty good but I could tell she was wanting to head back to the car.

 A RECENTLY HARVESTED HAY FIELD ALONGSIDE OUR WALKING ROAD

 'COME ON DAD LET'S GO HOME AND HAVE A HOT DOG'

From our walking spot, we doodled around half a dozen country roads stopping here and there for a few photos.  Being a quiet Sunday morning, we pretty much had the roads and countryside all to ourselves.  For us quiet guys, that is always the best:))

 THESE TWO WERE DOING A LOT OF NUZZLING

We were home well before noon, and of course, sounding like an old broken record again, I stayed in out of the heat with the exception of a short walk with Pheebs over to the Park's pond and back.       

 BUTTERFLY IN FLIGHT

 OUR HOSTA'S ARE IN BLOOM

Al's Music Box:)) Blue On Blue is a popular song composed by Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Hal David, first recorded and released by Bobby Vinton in April 1963, backed by Burt Bacharach and his Orchestra.  The success of "Blue on Blue" prompted Bobby Vinton to record an entire album of blue-themed songs, also titled Blue on Blue, which produced an even bigger hit in the No. 1 "Blue Velvet".

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A man walked into a doctor's office and the receptionist asked him what he had. He replied, "I got shingles."  She said, "Fill out this form and supply your name, address, medical insurance number. When you're done, please take a seat."  Fifteen minutes later a nurse's aide came out and asked him what he had. He said, "I got shingles."  So she took down his height, weight, and complete medical history, then said, "Change into this gown and wait in the examining room."  A half hour later a nurse came in and asked him what he had. He said, "I got shingles."  So she gave him a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, and told him to wait for the doctor.  An hour later the doctor came in and asked him what he had. He said, "Shingles."  The doctor gave him a full-cavity examination, and then said, "I just checked you out thoroughly, and I can't find shingles anywhere. " The man replied, "They're outside in the truck. Where do you want them?"

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A man walks into his doctor’s office and says, “Doctor, I think I’m addicted to Twitter.”
The doctor looks at him and says, “Sorry, I don’t follow you."

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Patient: Doctor, I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life........is this true?  Doctor: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it... don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer.  That's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap.

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I'VE BEEN THINKING THE SAME THING FOR YEARS