AUNT JEAN HAD A FALL

 TUYLL STREET IN BAYFIELD

A fantabulous weather morning with cooler air and sunshine.  Kelly is 'finally' feeling better now that the antibiotics are beginning to kick in.  Before heading out for our morning drive, Pheebs and I took a short drive around our Park.

 'OH-OH' FOREST FIRE?? NOPE, JUST STUMPS AND BRANCHES BEING BURNED IN OUR PARK

 HANGING FLOWER BASKETS ON OUR PARK'S LAMP POSTS

 IF I  WAS A LITTLE BIRD I MIGHT JUST MAKE THIS LITTLE RED HOUSE MY HOME

We hadn't taken a swing through Bayfield since about a week ago, so off we went to have us a look around.  We always head straight for the harbor and beach area and follow that up with a swing up into the village for a slow cruise along main street.  Sometimes from there, we head off to the cemetery for a walk or out into the countryside south of Bayfield to dust up a few country roads.  This morning we did neither and headed on back  home.

 HEADING INTO BAYFIELD

 LAKE HURON'S PRETTY COLORS 

 A LADY SPEED WALKING ON BAYFIELD'S SOUTH PIER

 I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE SEEN A HOUSEBOAT DOCKED IN BAYFIELD

 ONE OF THE BIGGER FISHING BOATS

 BOAT TALK

 THE HURON EXPLORER 1 WAS IN PORT THIS MORNING

 NEAR BAYFIELD'S PIONEER PARK

It was just me in the Subaru early this afternoon heading to Goderich.  I had a 2 p.m. appointment with my Nurse Practitioner and Diabetes  Lady.  From my blood test last week they were pleased with the results saying, my diabetic numbers have come down and are in a range where they need to be.  That was good enough for me I thought as I later went whistling out the door.  My next stop was at the Motor Vehicle branch to renew my driver's license.  Things went okay there as well.  I was able to let a fellow who had come in after me go ahead of me because I could tell he was a working fella in a hurry.  And, for me, that topped off my day:))

From the Motor Vehicle Branch, I headed down to the harbor to see if I could maybe drum up a few photos and from there I headed home.

LAKE HURON OUT AT ROTARY COVE

I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE TAKING PICTURES OF LAKE HURON'S SPARKLY WATERS

 RESTING BENCHES ALONG THE DOG WALKING PATH AND THIS WOULD BE A GREAT PLACE TO WATCH THE SUNSETS OUT OVER LAKE HURON

Talked to Aunt Jean a few nights ago and she had herself a fall last week.  She had taken her walker outside the main door at Sarasota Florida's Sunnyside Village to walk around the parking lot in an effort to strengthen her steadily weakening legs.  Despite the heat of the day, everything went well so she came back inside and decided to slip out the north side of the building to where she knew I shady porch was located.  Being the only one out there she sat for a while enjoying the quiet tropical surroundings.  After a while she decided to come back inside, but when she stood up from the chair her legs cumpled under her and down she went, landing square on her keester.  Having a medical background in nursing, she quickly determined that she hadn't broken anything.  But, here's where she ran into a second problem.  She couldn't get up despite trying to pull herself up by the chair.  Reluctantly, she finally had no choice but to press a device on her walker that notified the staff that someone had fallen and that they were outside somewhere.  Most folks go outside through the main door where the lobby is, so that is where the staff began their search for whoever it was who had fallen.  Aunt Jean said it was a maintenance lady who finally found her.  She asked the lady to help her up so she could get on her way but the lady said she could get into trouble if she did that.  She notified staff where Jean was and a nurse was soon there.  After the nurse determined Aunt Jean hadn't broken anything, she, with the help of the maintenance lady were able to get Jean up on her feet and back to her room.  Jean said she is feeling fine with the only lasting injury being to that of her pride.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE SEEN THE FEDERAL KATSURA

 A LARGE OPEN DECK HATCH

I finished another book last week. Evidence Of Animal Afterlife by author Edward Anderson.  An uplifting read if one reads it with an open mind.  I am currently reading Soul Proof by author Dr. Mark Pitstick.  Also an uplifting read for my ever-inquiring mind.

 I SPOTTED THIS MIATA CONVOY EXITING THE BEACH STREET RESTAURANT PARKING LOY

 A FIELD OF DROOPY HEADED LITTLE SUNFLOWERS ON THE WAY HOME

Al's Music Box:)) Walk Right In by The Rooftop Singers is a country blues song written by musician Gus Cannon and originally recorded by Cannon's Jug Stompers in 1929.  In 1959, it was included in a compilation album 'The Country Blues'.  Another version of the song by the Rooftop Singers, with the writing credits allocated to group members Erik Darling and Bill Svanoe, became an international hit in 1963.  In 1962 group member Erik Darling recruited two friends to join him in this effort after hearing the original Cannon recording. Darling wanted the track to have a distinctive sound, so he and group member Bill Svanoe both played twelve-string guitars, although they had some difficulty in acquiring the instruments. Darling is quoted as saying that prior to the making of this record, "you couldn't buy a 12-string guitar.  I ordered one from the Gibson Company, but in order to record the song with two 12-strings, we had to wait for the company to build a second one for Bill!" (a left-handed model).  The success of the song was a boon to Cannon, who was in his late 70s and had been forced to pawn his banjo the previous winter to pay his heating bill; he received royalties as a songwriter and saw renewed interest in his music, which led to a recording contract of his own.  When released as a single, it spent two weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1963.  It spent five weeks atop the Easy Listening chart, which later became known as the Adult Contemporary chart.  In addition, "Walk Right In" reached both the R&B chart (peaking at No.4) as well as the Country Music chart, peaking at No.23.  It was included on the album Walk Right In, and was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Folk recording.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A couple go for a meal at a Chinese restaurant and order Chicken Surprise. The waiter brings the meal, served in a lidded cast iron pot. Just as the wife is about to serve herself, the lid of the pot rises slightly and she briefly sees two beady little eyes looking around before the lid slams back down.  "Good grief, did you see that?" she asks her husband.  He hasn't, so she asks him to look in the pot. He reaches for it and again the lid rises, and he sees two little eyes looking around before it slams down.  Rather perturbed, he calls the waiter over, explains what is happening, and demands an explanation.  "Please sir," says the waiter, "what you order?"  The husband replies, "Chicken Surprise."  "Ahh so sorry," says the waiter, "I bring you Peeking Duck."

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A man goes to the doctor complaining about constantly hearing the song "Delilah" in his head.  The doctor says, "That sounds like a textbook case of Tom Jones syndrome."  The man asks, "Never heard of that. Is it common?"  The doctor responds, "It's not unusual."

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Prisoner: Look here, doctor! You've already removed my spleen, tonsils, adenoids, and one of my kidneys. I only came to see if you could get me out of this place!  Doctor: I am, piece by piece.

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- Justice is a dish best served cold...
If it were served warm, it would be justwater.

Sure Signs That You've Joined a Cheap HMO::

- Directions to your doctor's office include, 'take a left when you enter the trailer park.'

- Tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicle.

- Only proctologist in the plan is 'Gus' from Roto-Rooter.

- Only item listed under Preventive Care feature of coverage is 'an apple a day.'

- Your 'primary care physician' is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill last month.

3. The only expense covered 100% is embalming.

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HOLDING BACK THE SUN'S HOT RAYS

 THE GODERICH SALT MINE REFLECTED IN THE CALM GREEN WATER OF THE HARBOR

It was a drive to Goderich and back for Pheebs and I on this overcast Sunday morning.  Picked up some gas and a few things at Walmart while there.  With the afternoon cloud cover still holding back the Sun's rays, the furry Kid and I managed a slow walk around the Park's pond.  There is still a lot of humidity in the air.  Looking forward to cooler air moving into the area soon.....At the time of posting this tonight, it's raining................

 RELAXING BY THE QUIET WATERS OF LAKE HURON READING THE SUNDAY MORNING FUNNIES

 'HEY DAD LET'S HEAD FOR HOME AND GET SOME WEENIE SNACKS GOING'

Al's Music Box:)) Laughter In The Rain is a song composed and recorded by Neil Sedaka, with lyrics by Phil Cody. It includes a 20-second saxophone solo by Jim Horn.  The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1975.  (Sedaka's first single to top the Hot 100 since 1962) The song was released on Elton John's Rocket label in the US.  After hearing a version of "Laughter in the Rain" by singer Lea Roberts on the radio several weeks before the planned release of his single, Sedaka phoned Elton John to have MCA Records rush the Sedaka version to release within five days.  The opening chord of the chorus was based on that used by John in 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road', which Sedaka has described as a "drop-dead chord."  He combined that with a pentatonic melody inspired by Aaron Copland.  Cody recalled experiencing writer's block when initially attempting to write the lyrics at first, but after a two-hour outdoor nap aided by a small amount of marijuana, the lyrics came to him, allowing him to finish the song in about five minutes:  Neil and I started writing the song early in the day and I just wasn't getting it. So, I went for a walk, smoked a very small amount of weed and sat under a tree and took a short nap. It was a bright sunny day, not a cloud in the sky and yet, when I got back to my post at Sedaka's right elbow, the lyric just fell onto the page with very little effort from me. Somewhere, in my consciousness, I guess I was having a Gene Kelly moment.  The song spent two weeks at the top of the adult contemporary chart.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Why Dogs Are Better Than Kids.........

- It doesn't take 45 minutes to get a dog ready to go outside in the winter.
- Dogs cannot lie.
- Dogs never resist nap time.
- You don't need to get extra phone lines for a dog.
- Dogs don't care if the peas have been touched by the mashed potatoes.
- Dogs are housebroken by the time they are 12 weeks old.
- Your dog is not embarrassed if you sing in public.
- Average cost of sending a dog to school: $42  Average cost of sending a kid: $103,000

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"I'm a walking economy," a man was overheard saying..."My hairline's in recession, my waist is a victim of inflation, and together they're putting me in a deep depression."

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A Sunday school teacher asked little Susie, "Who's your favorite person in the Bible?"Susie said, "King Solomon.""Can you tell us why?""Because he was so nice to ladies and to animals.""What do you mean?""He had six hundred wives and three hundred porcupines."

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Teacher: "What is the chemical formula for water?"
Student: "HIJKLMNO."
Teacher: "What are you talking about?"
Student: "Yesterday you said it's H to O!"

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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.