I DON'T KNOW WHO OR WHAT SNUCK UP BEHIND ME LATE THIS MORNING BUT......'SHAZAM'

 I DIDN'T TAKE ANY OUTSIDE PICS TODAY BUT I HAD A FEW BASSWOOD RAINDROP PICS FROM YESTERDAY LEFT OVER

A sunny sunrise this morning but it was marred by an icy cold wind driving the wind chill factor down to the freezing mark.  No car windows down on our short Subie ride and my mind didn't seem to be on finding any photos.  

Here are a few emails Kelly sent early this morning..... 'No one on the GI team put me on the Endoscopy list.  Somehow got overlooked'.....'Youngish guy took 4th bed , he is quiet.'  'In Goderich hemoglobin had gone to 77. After their blood transfusion, it was 81 for 2 nights.  Overnight test came back 70. Another blood transfusion this morning:((.....  But then, she phoned this afternoon saying someone had made a mistake about that hemoglobin number so she didn't need the blood transfusion after all.  What is with this hospital!!!! She was slated for an Endoscopy first thing this morning but the nurses were late getting her to the appointment and she lost her spot in the que.  Had to wait in a freezing cold room for 45 minutes before she got in for the Endoscopy.  The Endoscopy showed nothing again which doesn't solve the problem of where she keeps bleeding from.  What is with this hospital!!!!  I guess she will be home tomorrow and in another few weeks she will probably have another massive bleed and this whole scenario is again repeated for the 6th or 7th time now.  What is with this hospital!!!!  She hadn't eaten anything since Monday at suppertime and even after the Endoscopy that found nothing they still hadn't brought her anything to eat.  What is with this hospital!!!!  After our 2 o'clock phone call she was going to take herself and her intravenous tree down the elevator to the third-floor cafeteria and get herself 3 pieces of Pizza, a 12 inch Sub, half a dozen donuts, and a pail full of coffee.  What is wi........ya, you've heard it before.  I'm guessing Kelly will be home tomorrow......until the next time:((

 KELLY TOOK THIS PHOTO OF THIS MORNING'S SUNRISE FROM HER HOSPITAL ROOM WINDOW....THAT'S THE HOSPITALS MAIN ENTRANCE BOTTOM CENTER AND DOWNTOWN LONDON CAN BE SEEN TOP RIGHT

KELLY TOOK A PICTURE OF THE SHOWER FLOOR IN HER ROOM....NOT GOOD!!

I don't know who, or what snuck up behind me late this morning and slipped one jumper cable to my foot and the other one to the back of my hair and then 'hit the switch' linked to the Bruce Nuclear Power Generating Station just a meer 58 miles north of us.   'Shazam' I was suddenly super energized.  After using our leaf blower to blow out the carport, driveway, front porch and deck I slipped into the house, grabbed a role of paper towels and glass cleaner and went to work on the insides of our sunroom windows.  While in the middle of this project I slipped out to the carport, grabbed the small stepladder and headed back inside.  It's probably 12 feet or more from our sunroom floor to the ceiling in the middle of the room.  At that altitude up there and with a fan constantly rotating slowly, it has become a maze of cobwebs which can only be reached by a stepladder.  Cobwebs don't bother me much if they are up that high and it's kinda neat like being in Dracula's old castle when I tip back in my recliner and look up.  With the fan going, the cobwebs kinda waft and softly sway in the faint breeze.  Groovy.  However, I figured it was maybe about time I got up there with a duster and got after those mesmerizing psychedelic webs.  So that's what I did as well as rearranging some furniture. (that'll make Kelly nervous when she reads this) When I later tipped my recliner forward to vacuum underneath and behind it I had to be careful not to work the vacuum too hard and burn it out.  Good thing I had a shovel for backup.  I don't think I had vacuumed behind there since the cows came home back in the summer of 1946.  Our gas fireplace stove has been building up dust since we had it installed nearly twenty years ago so I got busy with a bristly scrub brush, a bucket of hot soapy water, and went to town on it.  It now looks like the stove was just newly installed about 20 minutes ago.  I was as pleased as a herd of Elephants in a crate of Bananas.  Of course, we have a host of knick-knacks in the sunroom so they had to be all cleaned as well.  Oh ya, I did some laundry and sparkled up our twin stainless steel kitchen sinks too.  I did get some other stuff done but how the heck can I remember all that.  Yup, just like years ago, I was multi-tasking and it was all smoothly coming together too.  I have about half the sunroom done and if that same whatever sneaks up behind me again tomorrow and 'plugs me in again' I'll darn well get the other half of the sunroom done plus half a dozen other things to be sure.  Maybe I should go up on the roof and blow the pine needles off......NO!!....Update on Kelly.....SShe phoned at 6:30 tonight and they had brought her some supper.  While talking, she was undergoing an iron infusion.  She said because they couldn't find the bleeding source 'AGAIN', they are releasing her probably sometime tomorrow afternoon.  No, she doesn't have to hitch-hike home.....I'll be there to pick her up:)))))))

 I'M ON MY LADDER UP IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF OUR SUNROOM

 YUP, I GOT MY DUSTER IN ACTION

HUBBA BUBBA SCRUBA SCRUBA

 PHEEBS IS GENERALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF WHATEVER I'M DOING AND SHE HELPS ME BY JUST BEING THERE

Al's Music Box This Guy's In Love With You is a hit song written by burt Bacharach and Hal David and released by Herb Alpert in May, 1968. Although known primarily for his trumpet playing as the leader of the Tijuana Brass, Alpert sang lead vocals on this solo recording, which was arranged by Bacharach. Alpert recognized in the song qualities that made it a good fit for himself as a singer and trumpet player. The composition had a recognizable Bacharach-David feel, a spot for a signature horn solo in the bridge and in the fadeout, and it was an easy song to sing for singers like Alpert with a limited vocal range.  Alpert's filmed version of "This Guy's in Love with You" appeared on April 22, 1968 as a part of his CBS television special The Beat of the Brass. In the film, which has a studio recording of the song as its soundtrack, Alpert can be seen walking around in various natural environments in Malibu, California (including a woodland and a beach), singing the song to his wife Sharon. In response to numerous viewer telephone calls to the network following the broadcast, Alpert decided that the song should be released as a single recording. Alpert's commercially released recording featured a slightly different vocal performance than the recording used as the film soundtrack in the television special. His single reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in June of that year, remaining in the top position for four weeks. It was not only Alpert's first No. 1 single, but it was also the first No. 1 single for his A&M record label, as well as the first No. 1 in the U.S. for Bacharach & David. The song also spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart. For the single's B-side, Alpert chose "A Quiet Tear" from his first album in 1962, The Lonely Bull.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Two hobbyists get into their balloon for an excursion. After a while, the wind unexpectedly picks up, and the balloon goes out of control. The two balloonists, with great effort, manage to keep the balloon stable, upright, and away from power lines. But they are lost. With more effort, they get the balloon near the ground. While floating over a country road, they see a man walking below. One of the balloonists calls down to him:  "We're lost! Can you tell us where we are?"The man thinks for a while, looks down, looks up,   looks down again, stares into space for a minute, and then cries out:  "You're in a balloon!"  The wind picks up, and the balloon floats off. After a moment, one balloonist says to the other:  "That man must be a manager."  "Why?"  "Three reasons. First, he took a long time to answer. Second, he was perfectly correct. Third, his answer was perfectly useless!"

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- I gave my father $100 and said, “Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.”  So he went out and bought a present for my mother.

- A pirate walks into a bar with a paper towel on his head, sits down and orders a drink.  Bartender serves the pirate his drink and asks about the paper towel.  The pirate smiles and says, "That be the bounty on me head!"
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The psychiatrist was not expecting the distraught stranger who staggered into his office and slumped into a chair. "You've got to help me. I'm losing my memory, Doctor," he sobbed. "I once had a successful business, a wife, a home and family.  I was a respected member of the community. But all that's gone now. Since my memory began failing, I've lost the business - I couldn't remember my clients' names. My wife and children have left me, too and why shouldn't they - some nights I wouldn't get home until four or five in the morning. I'd forget where I lived...And it's getting worse Doctor - it's getting worse!"  "This is not an unusual form of neurosis," the psychiatrist said soothingly. "Now tell me, just how long ago did you first become aware of this condition?"  "Condition?" The man sat up in his chair. "What condition?"____________________

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KELLY WAS RUSHED BY AMBULANCE TO THE HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT

RAINDROPS ON A BASSWOOD LEAF IN OUR DRIVEWAY

It was about 9:45 Monday night and I was in the sunroom reading when I thought I heard Kelly's faint voice somewhere.  I instantly knew something was wrong.  She was in the bathroom and when I opened the door I was shocked at the amount of blood on the floor with Kelly looking very pale and week.  I had never seen that much blood in one place before and she was still throwing up.  She hadn't felt well all day and while watching TV she suddenly became very nauseated and made a dash for the bathroom.  I'll spare you the photo of all the blood on the floor.  I called an ambulance and they were here about 15 minutes later.  They also took a picture of the blood and then weren't long getting her into the ambulance and were soon on their way to the Goderich hospital with their lights going........... I called the Goderich hospital first thing this morning and she had already been transferred to London's University Hospital around 2 a.m.  I called London and they said Kelly would call me back, and she did.  Under the circumstances, she was in reasonably good spirits despite undergoing a blood transfusion in Goderich and being all hooked up to intravenous things again now in London's emergency ward.  Said she was awaiting an Endoscopy and feeling sick.  I  again talked to her an hour later and I could tell she was discouraged. 

 I FOUND SOME MORE COLOR IN OUR PARK THIS MORNING

 THE PARK'S ROAD LEADING UP INTO THE HARDWOOD FOREST

Under sunny blue skies, Pheebs and I did get out for a short morning car ride  Too cold for windows down though.  Figured I had maybe better stay close to our house phone today, so that is what I did. 

 IT WAS GREAT TO SEE BIG BLUE SKIES TODAY

 CANADA GEESE

 A GROUP OF MALLARD DUCKS

 KIND OF REMINDS ME OF PUBLIC SCHOOL WHEN WE WOULD BOB FOR APPLES IN A BIG GALVANIZED TUB

 CANADA GEESE TAKING OFF

With the weatherman now predicting well below freezing temperatures for Wednesday morning I figured I had better get our outside water turned off and garden hoses drained.  So, I did that.  Squiggling myself into a pretzel I dropped down through the trap door in our front deck and scrunched and wedged myself partway under our unit just far enough to reach the water taps to be closed.  I'm already looking forward to again doing this scrunchy pretzel move next April sometime when I'll turn the outside water back on.  That will be a big happy 'Yaaay Team' day:))

THE TRAPDOOR IN OUR FRONT DECK

 THERE IS A RED VALVE TOP CENTER THAT I TURN TO SHUT OUR OUTSIDE WATER OFF

 ONE OF TWO DRAIN TAPS I OPEN TO DRAIN WATER OUT OF THE LINES

 NOT MUCH ROOM UNDER HERE

 NOW, IF I CAN JUST GET MYSELF BACK OUT OF HERE WITHOUT HAVING TO CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT'S RESCUE TEAM

Kelly called shortly after noon and sounded better.  She was still awaiting her endoscopy.  We sent a couple emails back and forth.  She called again at 2 still waiting.........  When I didn't hear from her later I figured she was undergoing the Endoscopy.  Nope!!  She called at 5:30 this afternoon saying she was about to be moved from the Emergency ward to the GI unit on the eighth floor.  After being told this morning she would have the Endoscopy today she figures they must have forgotten.  In the meatime, she will probably continue to bleed!!  Looks like the Endoscopy will be tomorrow now.  She's been on the eighth floor twice before and both times she was stuck in a room with 3 other people.  The first time it was with 3 other annoying men.  Kelly called again at 6:30 tonight saying she was now on the eighth floor in a room with one woman, one man, and an empty bed.  She's worried they might bring in a 600-pound Sumo Wrestler with an impacted wisdom tooth, an attitude, and refusing pain meds:((((  We'll see what tomorrow brings..................   

 SOME EARLY CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS GOING UP IN THE PARK

 DESPITE A FEW COLD SNAPS THAT FERN IS STILL DOING WELL

 YES, WE DO HAVE DEER WANDER INTO THE PARK ON OCCASION

 THE PORCH AND DECK HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE NEW HOUSE IN THE PARK

Al's Music Box:)) Silly Love Songs is a song by the British–American rock band Wings that was written by Paul and Linda McCartney. The song first appeared in March 1976 on the album Wings at the Speed of Sound, then it was released as a single on 1 April in the US, and 30 April in the UK. The song, which features disco overtones, was seen as being written in response to music critics accusing McCartney of predominantly writing "silly love songs" and "sentimental slush".  However, McCartney has since clarified that the song was actually directed to John Lennon who accused him of writing such songs.  The song was McCartney's 27th American number one as a songwriter; the all-time record for the most number one hits achieved there by a songwriter.  With this song, McCartney became the first person to have a year-end No. 1 song as a member of two distinct acts. McCartney previously hit No. 1 in the year-end /Billboard chart as a member of the Beatles with "I Wand to Hold Your Hand." in 1964 and "Hey Jude" in 1968.  Despite its popularity, McCartney has not performed the song live since the dissolution of Wings.  "Silly Love Songs" was written as a rebuttal to music critics (and his former Beatles bandmate, John Lennon) who had criticized McCartney for writing lightweight love songs.  Author Tim Riley suggests that in the song, McCartney is inviting "his audience to have a laugh on him," as Elvis Presley had sometimes done.  But over the years people have said, "Aw, he sings love songs, he writes love songs, he's so soppy at times." I thought, Well, I know what they mean, but, people have been doing love songs forever. I like 'em, other people like 'em, and there's a lot of people I love -- I'm lucky enough to have that in my life. So the idea was that "you" may call them silly, but what's wrong with that?  The song was, in a way, to answer people who just accuse me of being soppy. The nice payoff now is that a lot of the people I meet who are at the age where they've just got a couple of kids and have grown up a bit, settling down, they'll say to me, "I thought you were really soppy for years, but I get it now! I see what you were doing!"  By the way, "Silly Love Songs" also had a good bass line and worked well live — Paul McCartney, Billboard .  The song includes a build-up of multiple vocal parts sung in counterpoint, similar to the Beach Boys,  "God Only Knows", a song that McCartney cited as his favorite of all time.  McCartney allowed the horn section to create their own parts for the song.

GROANER'S CORNER:((  Being a “little older,” I am very fortunate to have someone call and check on me every day. He is from India, and he is very concerned about someone scamming me and hacking into my Computer/Banking details. He is always helpful and asks for my Password to fix my problem.

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- Don't worry about “getting old.” Worry about “thinking old.”

- After that “Covid thing” a few years ago, my “going out” clothes have missed me so much. I put them on and they hugged me so tightly, I could barely breathe.
- A Genie granted me one wish, so I said, “I just want to be happy.” So now I'm living in a little cottage with 6 dwarfes and working in a mine. 

- Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

 - Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

 - Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

- Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

 - Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

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