EASY FOR HER, SHE'S THE ONE WITH THE FUR COAT ON

 AN OLD ABANDONED FARMHOUSE IN THE AUTUMN OF ITS YEARS FACES ANOTHER LONG AND LONELY COLD WINTER

Overcast and a bit chilly with Pheeb's passenger side window down but every time she lay back down on the seat I zipped the window back up real quick.  After a minute or two she would sit up again and put her paw on the glass.  That is her way of letting me know to get that darn window down!!  Easy for her, she's the one with the fur coat on.  We didn't wander far again but we did enjoy our quiet Sunday morning in the countryside.  Found a few pics here and there. 

EVEN THE HORSES HAD THEIR WARM WINTER BLANKETS ON

 NO, THIS IS NOT PHEEBS...IT'S A FARM DOG COMING TO CHECK US OUT

I didn't feel like hooking up the utility trailer to the car and loading up my piles of leaves today but when I checked the weather for the next few days and saw rain in the forecast I figured I had better get off my duff and get those piles of leaves down to the recycle yard before it gets all wet and muddy down there.  Subie doesn't like getting mud on her new 3-month-old tires.

THERE WERE A LOT OF CANADA GEESE IN THE AIR TODAY

Home again and feeling tired, I headed inside and slunk into my sunroom recliner with my book and spent most of the afternoon there.  It seems Sundays are good days for doing that.  

 SHADOWS ON A BARN

Not a good day for Kelly.  The new anti-biotic pills are giving her a lot of nausea.  I could sense her discouragement again today with all the different medications she has to take.  Will that liver transplant call ever come..........

A WELL TO DO FARM LANE

Al's Music Box:))  I Only Have Eyes For You  by the Flamingos is a song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin. The song was written for the 1934 film Dames, in which it was performed by Dick Powell.  Several other successful recordings of the song were made in 1934, and it later became a hit for the Flamingos in 1959 and Art Garfunkel in 1975.  The Flamingos recorded a doo-wop adaptation of "I Only Have Eyes for You" at Bell Sound Studios in New York City in 1959. Their version was commercially successful, peaking at number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 3 on the Billboard Hot R&B chart.  Building on the surprise success of the Flamingos' single "Lovers Never Say Goodbye", which had become a number 52 crossover hit on the Hot 100 in February 1959, "I Only Have Eyes for You" was selected by producer George Goldner among a group of 33 standards that the Flamingos might record for the album Flamingo Serenade. The Flamingos recorded a dozen songs from Goldner's list, but "I Only Have Eyes for You" proved difficult. Flamingos high tenor Terry 'Buzzy Johnson, who was also the group's arranger, was advised by lead tenor Nate Nelson to do something exotic with the refrain: "Go way out on it! Make it Russian, like 'Song of the Volga Boatman'". The solution came to Johnson while he was sleeping, and he quickly called the group to his room at around 4 am to have them rehearse the new version, complete with doo-wop backing vocals and harmonies. In the studio, Johnson directed the session musicians to play piano, guitar and gentle brush-driven drums in a stretched-out triplet rhythm, emphasizing the third of the chord in the guitar and the fifth in the piano. This created a floating counter-melody to the vocal harmonies. Heavy reverberationr was added to the vocals at the mastering stage, under the direction of Goldner.  Goldner initially thought the song was not commercial enough to be a single, and so he sequenced it first on side two of the album Flamingo Serenade. Radio DJs started playing the song, however, and it was released as a single in early May 1959.  It first entered the Billboard pop chart on May 30 at number sixty, peaking at number eleven in July. The Billboard Year-End chart ranked it as the 73rd biggest hit of 1959.  Rolling Stone magazine placed the Flamingos' version of "I Only Have Eyes for You" at number 158 on their 2011 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Tiime".  In 2003, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.  In 2009, Johnson said the song was making even more money for him at the time than when the Flamingos were together.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Two elderly couples were enjoying friendly conversation when one of the men asked the other,” Fred, how was the memory clinic you went to last month?" "Outstanding," Fred replied. "They taught us all the latest psychological techniques: visualization, association, etc. It was great." "That's great! And what was the name of the clinic?" Fred went blank. He thought and thought, but couldn't remember. Then a smile broke across his face and he asked, "What do you call that flower with the long stem and thorns?" "You mean a rose?" "Yes, that's it!" He turned to his wife, "Rose, what was the name of that memory clinic?"

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- Apparently, the clocks go back in November but I can't remember where I bought mine.

- A helpful eating tip....Avoid any food that would gag a buzzard.

- My 7-year-old asked me to take him to McDonald's. I told him if he can spell it, I'll take him.  He said, "Forget it, take me to KFC."

Teacher: Are you good in history?
Little Johnny: Yes and no.
Teacher: What does that mean?
Little Johnny: Yes, I’m no good in history.

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I pulled up to the drive-thru of a fast-food restaurant and ordered coffee. I asked the clerk to put some ice cubes into the cup so that I could drink the cool coffee quickly. At the window, there was a delay. Finally, the clerk came to the window looking frustrated, and announced, "I'm having a problem. The ice keeps melting."

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I SHUDDER TO THINK HOW MUCH MONEY WE SPEND ON BIRDSEED EACH YEAR

Heavily overcast skies this morning and thankfully not a spit of wind in the air to blow around the 37F temps.  I dressed warm.  Traveling bands of rain showers in our area Friday have left the cornfields still too wet for heavy farm machinery so many fields stand only partially harvested.  Heading southwest of Bayfield to the Linwood Wildlife area, Pheebs and I loaded up a shopping bag of apples while there.  No, not for us but for our front yard Critters.  

THE COUNTRYSIDE IS RAPIDLY LOSING ITS AUTUMN COLORS

SEEING THE CORNFIELD HAD BEEN HARVESTED AT THE LINWOOD SITE I WAS HOPING TO FIND A CORN SPILL BUT THIS HARVESTING CREW WAS TOO EFFICIENT AND NOT A KERNEL WAS  FOUND

 UP THERE ALONG THE HEDGE ROW ARE A FEW APPLE TREES

 LOTS OF APPLES ON THE GROUND FOR PICKING

 AFTER A COLD CLOUDY START TO THE DAY THIS IS OUR FIRST SUN SPLASH AND DID YOU NOTICE THE SHADOW COWBOY

 ON THE WAY BACK TO THE CAR PHEEBS SNIFFS FOR CORN COBS

Heading home, we stopped in at the Porters Hill Wild Birdseed Company for three 20-pound bags of birdseed.  I shudder to think about how much money we spend on birdseed each year.

 SNAPPED A FEW PICS ON THE WAY HOME

 WE WENT BY BIG BARKY'S HOUSE AND HE SURE CAME FLYING OUT AND GAVE US A BIG SCOLDING

 PHEEBS JUST SITS QUIETLY IN HER SEAT WHILE BIG BARKY MAKES A BIG BLUSTER OF HIMSELF

Home again and with the Sun out now full tilt, I was soon busy outside with my pitchfork, leaf rake, and wheelbarrow.  Friday's rain showers traveling through the area made for wet leaves today and wet leaves are easier to work with than dry flighty leaves.  The rain binds the leaves together adding weight and making them easier to rake and pitchfork into piles.  Sunday's weather looks good so I will likely hitch up the utility trailer and haul myself a big load of leaves to the Park's recycle area.

 SOMEWHERE BEHIND THIS BIG PILE OF LEAVES IS OUR HOUSE

 RAINDROPS IN THE LEAF PILE

With sunshine and blue skies overhead, Pheebs and I headed off for a walk back into the Park's forest.  It was a bit muddy going in places but we didn't get bogged down.  Entering the pine forest I noticed that Park owner Adam has cleared a way through an area of heavy brush and brambles alongside a small creek running south in its own little valley.  This previously unwalkable area with its cluster of Silver Birch trees is now accessible.  I don't know what Adam plans for this area but it would make for a nice forest path with the creek running alongside below.  

 NICE TO HAVE A NEW PLACE TO WALK IN OUR PARK

 THERE IS A TINY CREEK DOWN THERE BUT IT'S HIDDEN BY ALL THE LEAVES

 YES, OUR PARK'S LANDSCAPE IS CHANGING

 WALKING PAST THE PARK'S POND ON THE WAY HOME

 AND YES, WE STILL HAVE DANDELIONS BLOOMING

 COLORFUL LEAVES ALONG THE POND'S BANK

Al's Music Box:)) Welcome To My World by Jim Reeves is a popular music standard written by Ray Winkler and John Hathcock , The melody was likely written by Eddie McDuff rather than Winkler.  A traditional love song, the bridge includes lyrics taken from Matthew 7:7-8 ("Knock and the door will open; seek and you will find; ask and you'll be given ... ," from the Sermon on the Mount)    The most well known version of this song was performed by country music singer Jim Reeves, who styled the song in his favoured style of Nashville Sound. Reeves' version was included on his 1962 album A Touch of Velvet and was released as a single in the United States in early 1964, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the spring of that year. The song became one of Reeves' last major hits in the U.S. during his lifetime before he was killed in a plane crash on July 31, 1964.  Reeves' version had been a hit single in the United Kingdom prior to its release as a single in the U.S., peaking at No. 6 in July 1963.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A film crew is on location in Kenya, when a tribal shaman approaches the director and says, "Tomorrow rain." The director pays no attention, but the following day it pours and shooting has to be delayed.  That night, the director sends his assistant to bring the shaman back. "What will be the weather tomorrow?" asks the director.  "Bigger rain tomorrow, much wind," and sure enough a terrible storm once again delays the filming.  But then the witch doctor disappears for a week and the director, now depending on him, sends his people out to find him and bring him back to camp.  Finally, he is located and brought to the director's tent. "What will be the weather tomorrow?" asks the director in desperation.  "No idea," says the shaman, "Radio batteries dead."

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My wife asked me to buy ORGANIC vegetables from the market. I went and looked around and couldn't find any.
So I grabbed an old, tired-looking employee and said, "These vegetables are for my wife. Have they been sprayed with any poisonous chemicals?"  "The produce guy looked at me and said, "No. You'll have to do that yourself."

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A zookeeper is ordering new animals. As he fills out the forms, he types “two mongeese”. That doesn’t look quite right, so he tries two mongoose, and then two mongooses.  Giving up, he types, “One mongoose, and while you’re at it, send another one.”

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