NO EXCUSES STANDING IN MY WAY TODAY

Pheebs and I headed straight off this morning to our country road walking spot to check if the cornfield on the west side of the road had been harvested.  It had, and try as we did, we couldn't find one single corn cob on the ground nor any sign of a corn spill along the road.  Nuts, foiled again!!  

OUR TEMPS DIPPED SLIGHTLY BELOW THE FREEZING MARK OVERNIGHT AND CLEAR SKIES LEFT US WITH A HEAVY FROST ON THE GROUND THIS MORNING

 TINY ICE CRYSTALS ON THIS TUFT OF YELLOWED GRASS

AS PLANTS EMERGE FROM THE COLD SHADOWS THE MORNING SUN'S WARM RAYS CAUSES A SLIGHT STEAMY MIST AS THE FROST DISSAPATES

 ICE CRYSTALS ON THE PINE NEEDLES

THE EAST SIDE OF THE BRIDGE I AM STANDING ON IS STILL IN MORNING SHADOW

THE WEST SIDE OF THE BRIDGE EMERGES IN SUNLIGHT

 THIS CREEK BED FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD IS COMPLETELY DRIED UP

From our walking road, we headed further east to the Bannockburn Line and turned south.  Under sunny skies I knew a few miles down the road we would enter a colorful forest wearing its Autumn finery.  We weren't disappointed.

 OUR FORESTS ARE FINALLY ABLAZE IN THEIR AUTUMN COLORS

 STILL IN SHADOW, FROST CAN STILL BE SEEN IN THIS RECENTLY WORKED FIELD

 'HEY DAD THERE'S A NICE FARM LANE OVER HERE'

 THIS FARM LANE WAS RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE LANE PHEEBS SAW

It wasn't just today's temperatures coming up, it was my energy levels as well and after returning home, and with no excuses standing in my way, it didn't take me long to head outside and get myself busy raking up a few wheelbarrow loads of pine needles.  Pheebs and I also took a pleasant afternoon walk around the Park's pond.

 LOOKING SOUTH ALONG THE BANNOCKBURN LINE

 LOOKING NORTH ALONG THE BANNOCKBURN LINE

 LOOKING UP THROUGH THE TREES

I'm currently reading Ten Days To D-Day by author David Stafford.  This is an interesting and well-written book with a behind-the-scenes look from many perspectives on both sides of the English Channel and far beyond. 

    HEY, IS THAT A MOOSE OVER THERE??

                                    YUP, IT'S A MOOSE ALRIGHT:))
Al's Music Box:)) Sukiyaki  上を向いて歩こう, "I Look Up as I Walk"), alternatively titled "Sukiyaki", is a song by Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto, first released in Japan in 1961. The song topped the charts in a number of countries, including the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1963. The song grew to become one of the world's best-selling singles of all time, selling over 13 million copies worldwide.  In Anglophone countries, the song is best known under the alternative title "Sukiyaki", the name of a Japanese hot-pot dish with cooked beef. The word sukiyaki does not appear in the song's lyrics, nor does it have any connection to them; it was used only because it was short, catchy, recognizably Japanese, and more familiar to English speakers. A Newsweek columnist compared this re-titling to issuing "Moon River" in Japan under the title "Beef Stew".  Kyu Sakamoto died on 12 August 1985 in the crash of Japan Air Lines Flight 123, along with 519 others on board the flight, making him a casualty of the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( An auditor is checking the books of an airline. He is puzzled by the excess use of fuel on a Melbourne to Canberra flight. He rings up the pilot and asks for an explanation.  "It was late at night'" says the pilot, "Canberra was covered in fog and I lost my bearings."  "I'm sorry," says the auditor, "but you'll have to bear the cost yourself."  "The cost of what?" asks the pilot. "Of the bearings you lost."

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- Monsters are not good at math.... Unless you Count Dracula.
- I would tell a joke about pzza, but its too cheesy
- I gave away all my batteries today ... free of charge
- Dracula doesnt have many friends because he's a pain in the neck.
- I stayed up all night wondering where the Sun had gone. Then it dawned on me.

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Q: Is it common for 50+ year olds to have problems with short term memory storage?

A: Storing memory is not a problem, retrieving it is a problem.

Q: As people age, do they sleep more soundly?

A: Yes, but usually in the afternoon.

Q: Where do 50+ year olds look for fashionable glasses?
A: Their foreheads.

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An elderly couple were in church. The wife leaned over and whispered to her husband, "I just silently passed a lot of gas... what should I do?" The husband replied, "Replace the batteries in your hearing aid." -

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HMMMMM, I WONDER WHAT MY EXCUSES WILL BE TOMORROW

Pheebs reminded me this morning that we were getting low on doggy treats and that we had better get ourselves up to Pet Value in Goderich right quick to get some more.  Well, I'm never one to disagree with Pheebs, so it was off to Goderich under cloudy skies the two of us went.

A COOL MORNINGS DRIVE TO GODERICH

Again, nothing out of the ordinary in Goderich today.  Same old, McDs, harbor/beach, Walmart, Pet Value, and home with a few pics along the way.

 SULLEN SKIES OVER LAKE HURON 

 MORNING EXERCISES FOR THIS FELLOW AT ROTARY COVE

I guess my excuse for staying inside today was the cold wind.  Or wait, maybe it was the mostly cloudy sky.  Okay, I was too tired.  Or, was it that I just didn't feel like going outside.  Maybe I wasn't feeling good.  No, it wasn't that one.  Could it be that it was all of them.....except not the not feeling-good one.  Sometimes I think I'm not sure what feeling good actually feels like.  Or, maybe I do and don't know that I do.  Say, you don't suppose I'm getting older and nobody's told me.  Told me what??  I don't know.  Hmmm, I wonder what my excuses will be tomorrow.............Goodnight:((

COMBINING CORN

 

 THAT GREEN COMBINE WILL TRANSFER ITS LOAD TO THIS RED WAGON AND THE GREEN TRACTOR WILL TOW IT OVER TO A WAITING TRUCK

 THE RED GRAIN TRAILER TRANSFERS ITS LOAD TO THIS WAITING TRUCK

 A CLOSER LOOK AT THE LOAD OF CORN

Al's Music Box:)) The Devil Went Down To Georgia is a song written and recorded by the American music group the Charlie Daniels Band and released on their 1979 album 'Million Mile Reflections'.  Daniels was inspired to write the song when he realized that the album he and his band were recording was lacking a song that featured a fiddle. He wrote the song on the spot at the Woodland Sound Studios where the band was recording.  The song tells a story about the Devil's failure to gain a young man's soul through a fiddle-playing contest. The song begins as a disappointed Devil arrives in Georgia, apparently "way behind" on stealing souls, when he comes upon a young man named Johnny who is playing a fiddle, and quite well. Out of desperation, the Devil, who claims to also be a fiddle player, wagers a fiddle of gold against Johnny's soul to see who is the better fiddler. Although Johnny believes taking the Devil's bet might be a sin, he fearlessly accepts, confidently boasting "I'm the best that's ever been."  The Devil plays first, backed by a band of demon musicians. When he has finished, Johnny compliments him ("Well, you're pretty good, old son.") and takes his own turn, rendering at least four old-time songs, named (though not played) in the Charlie Daniels Band recording—the third of the four being identified not by title, but by an excerpt of its lyrics: "Fire on the Mountain," the name of an early 19th-century fiddle tune, and also the name of Daniels' 1974 album, "The House of the Rising Sun," a traditional American southern folk song, "Chicken in the bread pan pickin' out dough," which was famously used in Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys song 'Ida Red'," and "Granny Will Your Dog Bite."  Realizing he has been defeated, the Devil lays his golden fiddle at Johnny's feet. Johnny then invites the Devil to "c'mon back if y'ever wanna try again" before repeating his claim to be "the best that's ever been".  Cash Box praised the "engaging narrative storyline" and said the song has "thundering piano", "screaming fiddle work", "pounding drums, and screeching guitar".  Record World said that Daniels "administers heavy doses of both [storytelling and fiddle-playing] with producer John Boylan capturing the excitement like no one else can."

GROANER'S CORNER:(( An irate woman burst into the baker's shop and said, " I sent my son in for two pounds of cookies this morning, but when I weighed them there was only one pound. I suggest that you check your scales." The baker looked at her calmly for a moment or two and then replied, "  "Ma'am, I suggest you weigh your son."

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Q: What stays in one corner but travels around the world?
A: A stamp.

- Bumper Sticker:: I'm Speeding Because I Have To Get There Before I Forget Where I'm Going

- What did the female dinosaur call her blouse-making business? "Try Sara's Tops!"

- Some people remind me of old TV sets. You have to hit them a few times until they get the picture.

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Two young men were out in the woods on a camping trip, when the came upon this great trout brook. They stayed there all day, enjoying the fishing, which was super.  At the end of the day, knowing that they would be graduating from college soon, they vowed that they would meet, in twenty years, at the same place and renew the experience.  Twenty years later, they met and traveled to a spot near where they had been years before. They walked into the woods and before long came upon a brook. One of the men said to the other, "This is the place!".  The other replied, "No, it's not!".  The first man said, "Yes, I do recognize the clover growing on the bank on the other side.  To which the other man replied, "Silly, you can't tell a brook by its clover."

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