A FEW OF THIS MORNING'S PHOTOS

I couldn't quite pull things together today so I will give it another whirl tomorrow.  However, I will leave you with a few of this morning's photos..........

Al's Music Box:)) Fortunate Son is a song by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released on the band's fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys in October 1969. It was previously released as a single, together with "Down on the Corner", in September 1969.  It soon became a Vietnam anti-war movement anthem and an expressive symbol of the counterculture's opposition to U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War and solidarity with the soldiers fighting it. The song has been featured extensively in pop culture depictions of the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement.The song reached number 14 on   the United States charts on November 22, 1969. It won the RIA Gold Disc award in December 1970.  Pitchfork Media placed it at number 17 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s".  Rolling Stone placed it at number 99 on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in 2004 and 2010; it was moved down to number 227 in the 2020 edition. In 2013, the song was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."  The song, released during the peak period of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, is not explicit in its criticism of that war in particular, rather, it "speaks more to the unfairness of class than war itself," and the children of the wealthy being able to avoid the draft, according to its author, John Fogery. "It's the old saying about rich men making war and poor men having to fight them."   In 2015, while on the television show The Voice, he also said:  The thoughts behind this song—it was a lot of anger. So it was the Vietnam War going on. Now I was drafted and they're making me fight, and no one has actually defined why. So this was all boiling inside of me and I sat down on the edge of my bed and out came "It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son!" You know, it took about 20 minutes to write the song.  According to his 2015 memoir, Fogerty was thinking about David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who married Julie Nixon after he escorted her at the International Debutante Ball, the daughter of then-President-elect Richard Nixon 1968, when he wrote "Fortunate Son". Eisenhower spent three years in the military, most of it as an officer aboard the USS Albany in the Mediterranean Sea.  "Fortunate Son" wasn't really inspired by any one event. Julie Nixon was dating David Eisenhower. You'd hear about the son of this senator or that congressman who was given a deferment from the military or a choice position in the military. They seemed privileged and whether they liked it or not, these people were symbolic in the sense that they weren't being touched by what their parents were doing. They weren't being affected like the rest of us.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Harry was finally a groom and was very excited about his upcoming marriage.  He was on his way out of the office when his boss came over to him with an outstretched hand,  "Congratulations Harry! I just wanted to tell you I've been married for twenty-two years, and I am sure that you will always remember this day with the fondest of memories, as the happiest day of your life."  "But sir", said Harry, a little bit confused, "I'm not getting married until tomorrow!"  "Yeah, I know," said his boss.

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I was sitting on the sofa last night watching TV, when my wife from the bedroom yelled, "Do you ever get pains in the chest like someone's got a voodoo doll and they're stabbing it?" I replied, "No."  Then she asked, "How about now?

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A man realized he needed to purchase a hearing aid, but didn't want to spend a lot of money. "How much do they cost?" he asked the salesman.  "Anything from $2 to $2,000."  "Can I see the $2 model?" said the customer.  The salesman put the device around the man's neck, and said: "You just stick this button in your ear and run this little string down into your pocket."
"How does it work?" asked the customer.
"For $2, it doesn't work," said the salesman. "But when people see it on you, they'll talk louder."

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{Quote} In our evolutionary process, there comes a time in every individual's life when we must face death, and ideally, even welcome it as a passage into another kind of existence.

AND STUFF OUR POCKETS WITH APPLES FROM AN ORCHARD THERE

 WE WALKED A QUIET FOREST FLOOR THIS MORNING

Pheebs and I never even got ourselves out of the Park this morning.  We slowly cruised around taking a few photos and checking on the progress of the Tuckersmith Communications Co-op (TCC) fiber optic cable installation.  Lots of machinery working on different streets.  

 I LIKE THESE CREATIVE LITTLE HOUSES THAT ARE ALL ON ONE PROPERTY JUST AROUND THE CORNER AND DOWN THE ROAD FROM US

It's been a few years since we walked up into our Park's hardwood bush so this morning we parked Subie in the yard-waste recycle area and got our paws and boots on the ground.  So quiet in the forest with many of the summer songbirds already gone south or on their way.  With an old logging road wandering through the bush, walking was easy as Pheebs and I followed the road around in a loop.  In the first few years in the Park, Kelly, Max, Checkers, Cora; (Motormouse) and I would many times do our morning walks through this forest.  Sometimes we would go all the way down the steep forest embankment to the Bayfield River and sometimes we would head off the other way on another path to a neighboring property and stuff our pockets with fallen apples from an orchard there.   Forest walks are my favs.  I guess I could broaden that out and say anytime walking in Mother Nature's quiet wonders is always a highlight for me.  Following our forest walk, we hopped back into the car and were home two minutes later:))

 PHEEBS AND I HEAD UP INTO THE HARDWOOD BUSH

 SO SERENELY PEACEFUL HERE

 CHECKING OUT ALL THE GROOVY SMELLS

 BEECH TREE LEAVES

LONG MORNING SHADOWS ACROSS THE TRAIL

 PHEEBS ALWAYS KEEPS AN EYE ON ME TO MAKE SURE I AM STILL COMING AND HAVE NOT FALLEN DOWN AND GONE 'BOOM'

WE SAW THIS VOLLEYBALL-SIZED PUFFBALL WITH TWO SMALLER ONES NEARBY

 ALMOST BACK TO THE CAR

With our utility trailer full of yard waste I was anxious to hook it up to Subies new trailer hitch and make sure everything fitted together and worked right.  It did, so off I went to the Park's recycle area and unloaded all the leaves, branches, and pine needles, etc.  Everything went off without a hitch...well with a hitch on the car but without a hitch.  No, I mean with a hitch....a trailer hitch hitched to the car, and no not like 'hitch up yer britches before ya hitchhike'!!  Awwwwww nuts, ya know what I mean!!   

I WAS ANXIOUS TO GET THIS LOAD CARTED OFF TO THE RECYCLE AREA AND UNLOAD IT

 BY GOLLY AND AMAZINGLY ENOUGH, ALL THE PARTS FIT TOGETHER JUST LIKE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO....WILL WONDERS EVER CEASE

 SUBIES FIRST TRIP AS A WORKHORSE

Al's Music Box:)) Bahama Mama by Yam Yam released in 2005 is a catchy little tune with a catchy little beat you probably haven't heard before.  Be careful now because this tune could get stuck in your head and you'll know it when you find yourself walking around going, 'Bahama' 'Bahama Mama'.  Don't say I didn't warn ya:))  I couldn't find much Wikipedia info on it.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Okay, so a Texas rancher comes upon a farmer from Maine.  The Texan looks at the Mainer and asks, "Say, how much land you think you got here?"  Mainer: "Bout 10 acres I'd say."  Texan (boasting): "Well, on my lot, it takes me all day to drive completely around my property!"  Mainer: "Yep, I got one of them trucks too."

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After writing a simple equation on the board the teacher asked if anyone could solve the problem.
Little Johnny walked up to the board, erased it, and said, “Problem Solved.”

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Walter: I aint afraid of the cops around Santa Ana. You seen some of these guys? What, cops on bicycles? How intimidating is that!!  Alright buddy, pull it over. Ching-ching-ching? What do they do when they arrest somebody? Alright, get in the basket.

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“I lift weights only on Saturday and Sunday because Monday to Friday are weak days.”
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Little Emily was complaining to her mother that her stomach hurt. Her mother replied, “That’s because it's empty. Maybe you should try putting something in it." The next day, the pastor was over at Emily's family's house for lunch. He mentioned having his head hurt, to which Emily immediately replied, "That's because it's empty. Maybe you should try putting something in it."

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- Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

OKAY, SO NOW I'M NERVOUS!!

Just me in the Subaru under sunny skies this morning heading to the Canadian Tire Store in Goderich.  I had a 9:30 appointment to have a trailer hitch installed.  Figuring it would probably be an hour or more I took along my Kindle.  Before sitting down in the waiting room to read I decided it would be an excellent opportunity to get myself some much-needed leg exercise.  So, without further ado, I headed out the door into the parking lot and proceeded to walk around the perimeter of the whole Mall complex.  It's a fair-sized property that has a Canadian Tire Store, Walmart, Zehr's Supermark, Pet Value, Dollarama, two gas stations, a Harveys, and a Tim Hortons coffee shop.  The coffee shop was on the perimeter along the way so I stopped in for a sit-down coffee.  It had been many years since I had last been in this Tim Hortons facility.  With coffee in hand, I found a comfy little soft seated tub chair right next to an in-wall gas fireplace.  Reading, I wiled away about 20 minutes here sipping away at my hot coffee.  Resuming my perimeter walk I was finally back to Canadian Tire about 15 minutes later.  Subie was on a hoist with a young fella standing underneath with outstretched arms doing something under the car's rear end.  I plunked myself down in a soft chair in the waiting room, opened my Kindle book, and waited.  It was about 10:15.  Twice in the next hour I took myself for a walk around the Canadian Tire store as well as a walk over to Walmart to pick up a few groceries and a prescription for Kelly.  I looked into the garage a couple times and one of those times I saw they had Subie's rear bumper off with three guys standing around looking at it.  Okay, so now I'm nervous!!  It was about 11:30 when I finally got the tap on the shoulder to say the Subaru was ready to go.  So, with that, I made a bee-line for home.  But, not before I double-checked to make sure they had put the rear bumper back on.  They had, and by golly, there was actually even a real official-looking trailer hitch installed snugly under the bumper:))

 THIS PHOTO SHOWS ABOUT HALF OF THE MALL PARKING LOT

 I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER BEEN IN A TIM HORTONS WITH A FIREPLACE BEFORE

 HEY AND I EVEN HAD MY OWN TABLE

 AND THERE'S THE GUY WITH HIS HANDS ON SUBIE'S REAR END

'OH-OH' NOW I'M NERVOUS!!

 SNAPPED THIS PHOTO ON MY WAY OVER TO WALMART

 SNAPPED THIS PHOTO ON MY WAY BACK FROM WALMART.....I'M LESS NERVOUS NOW

 AND THIS IS HOW THE HITCH ASSEMBLY IS BOLTED ON

Not much going on this afternoon.  Kelly's nurse practitioner phoned her this morning and after more test results were in, switched her antibiotics and that is the prescription I picked up this morning.  The problem Kelly is having at the moment is a urinary tract infection.  UTI       

 PICKED UP A FEW SMALL CORN COBS ON THE GROUND AT THE LINWOOD WILDLIFE AREA WEDNESDAY THAT DEER HAD BEEN CHEWING ON

 BROUGHT THEM HOME FOR OUR FRONT YARD CRITTERS AND WAS GLAD TO SEE THIS LITTLE BUNNY EATING ONE OF THEM BEFORE THE SQUIRRELS CARRIED THEM OFF

Al's Music Box:)) September is a song by the American band Earth, Wind & Fire released as a single on November 18, 1978.  Initially included as a track for The Best of Earth, Wind & fire, Volume 1.  "September" was very successful commercially and reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart.  The song remains a staple of the band's body of work and has been sampled, covered, remixed, and re-recorded numerous times.  It was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.  Using a chord progression written by Earth, Wind & Fire guitarist Al McKay, vocalist Maurice White and songwriter Allee Willis wrote the song over one month. Willis was initially bothered by the gibberish "ba-dee-ya" lyric White used throughout the song, and begged him to rewrite it: "I just said, 'What the hell does 'ba-dee-ya' mean?' And he essentially said, "I learned my greatest lesson ever in songwriting from him, which was never let the lyric get in the way of the groove."  

GROANER'S CORNER:(( If Women ruled the world...

- Men would sit around and wonder what WE are thinking.
- Singles bars would have metal detectors to weed out men hiding wedding rings in their pockets.

- A man would no longer be considered a 'good catch' simply because he is breathing.

- Fewer women would be dieting because their ideal weight standard would increase by 40 pounds.
- Shopping would be considered an aerobic activity.
- Men would not be allowed to eat gas-producing foods within two hours of bedtime.
- Men would be secretaries for female bosses, working twice as hard for none of the credit.
- Men would bring drinks, chips and dip to women watching soap operas.
- Men would learn phrases like:'I'm sorry,' 'I love you,' 'You're beautiful,' 'Of course you don't look fat in that outfit.'
- Men would be judged entirely by their looks, women by their accomplishments.
- Men would pay as much attention to their woman as to their car.
- All toilet seats would be nailed down.
- Men would work on relationships as much as they work on their careers.
- TV news segments on sports would never run longer than 1 minute.
- All men would be forced to spend one month in a PMS simulator.
- Overweight men would have their weight brought to their attention constantly.
- After a baby is born, men would take a six-week paternity leave to wait on their wives hand and foot.
- For basic training, soldiers would have to take care of a two-year old for six weeks.

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- Animals are such agreeable friends.  They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.