KELLY'S SON BEN AND HIS TWO BOYS CAME FOR A VISIT TODAY

 GOING BY THIS HOUSE, IT WAS THE 'SHADOWED' WORD ON THE BRICKS THAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION....LOOK CLOSELY AT HOW THAT SHADOW WAS CAST...SECONDS AFTER I TOOK THIS PHOTO, THE SHADOW DISAPPEARED...CAN YOU FIGURE OUT WHY??  

I saw an improvement in Kelly's condition first thing this morning compared to yesterday's sad day when she was so weak and barely able to lift herself up from a sitting or lying down position.  It was encouraging to see strength slowly ebbing back into her weakness.  Kelly had some library books to be returned to Bayfield's library so with her feeling a bit better, I loaded up Pheebs and off we went to take those books back comfortable in the thought that she would be okay for the short time we were gone.  It is the two compression fractures in Kelly's back right now that are giving her the most grief and making it difficult for her to be in motion.  

 QUIET DAYS NOW ALONG BAYFIELD'S BEACH

MILES OUT ON LAKE HURON'S HORIZON, I SAW A DOT SO I ZOOMED IN WITH MY CAMERA LENS AND  IT WAS LIKE A DESERT MIRAGE APPEARING

EVEN FURTHER OUT A SECOND GHOST SHIP APPEARED OUT OF THE HAZE....BOTH FREIGHTERS WERE INBOUND TO THE PORT OF GODERICH

I THINK THIS GUY ALONGSIDE THE BAYFIELD RIVER IS GIVING ME THE FISHERMAN'S EYE

 STILL SOME AUTUMN COLORS LEFT IN BAYFIELD

Home again I quickly got a walker out of our carport that we've had for a long time.  My Mother bought this walker new back around 2003 when she was in a Tavistock nursing home.  After my Mother passed away in 2006 we brought the walker home and put it up in the rafters of our carport until I took it down again about four years ago when Kelly took the walker to Spencerport New York for her Mother.  When her Mother passed away the walker came back to it's spot in the carport and has been up there in the rafters ever since.  Well, untill today.  I got it down, brought it in the house and cleaned it up.  Within minutes Kelly took it for a spin down our hall and back and remarked how much better that it was for her to get around.  With one appointment in Goderich and one in London next week, that walker will come in very handy.  Kelly and I have been doing a lot of down-to-earth talking these past few days since our lives turned over a new chapter last week.  We have both accepted the inevitable reality now and we are looking ahead to what needs to be done and not back to things that have been done.  We have to plan and prepare for all scenarios coming up.  Arrangements have to be made, loose ends tied up and organized.  It is no problem for us to talk about these things because we have always been on the same page with most everything, including the end of life for either one of us.

 MY MOTHER'S WALKER

 HITCHED UP MY LAST UTILITY TRAILER LOAD OF YARD WASTE FOR THE YEAR

 THE NEXT TIME I BACK INTO OUR PARK'S YARDWASTE AREA WILL BE NEXT SPRING

Ben and the boys arrived shortly after 2 and  we all piled into the living room for the remainder of the afternoon.  For supper, it was decided to go with pizza.  Kelly called it in and Ben slipped into Bayfield to pick it up at the newly opened, Locals Pizza.  It was two pizzas we had with Kelly, Ben, Darion, and I eating one, and Kai having his own gluten-free pizza because he has Celeac Disease.  The pizza's were very good.  Each of the boys made Kelly a card with a nice note inside and I could tell Kelly was touched by both those cards.

 A RELAXING AFTERNOON AT OUR HOUSE

KAI ON THE LEFT AND DARION ON THE RIGHT

 BOTH OF KELLY'S GRANDSONS MADE HER NICE CARD

Someone called from Paramedicine this afternoon canceling tomorrow's in-home appointment and rescheduling it for Saturday, December 7th...................By the end of the day, Kelly was feeling better than yesterday at the same time.  We'll see how things go tomorrow.

A BIG HUG FROM HER SON BEN

 A HUG FROM DARION

 OOOPS, I WAS TOO SLOW ON THE DRAW AND MISSED KAI'S HUG

Al's Music Box:)) You Are The Sunshine Of My Life is a 1973 single released by Stevie Wonder. The song became Wonder's third number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and his first number-one on the Easy Listening chart.  It won Wonder a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and was nominated for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. This song was the second single (following "Superstition") released from the 1972 album entitled Talking Book, which stayed at number one on the R&B albums chart for three weeks.  Rolling Stone ranks the song at number 183 on their list of the Greatest Songs of All Time".  Billboard called it "a soft, haunting ballad with outstanding electric piano runs and outstanding production work.  In 2002, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.  The first two lines of the song are sung, not by Wonder, but by Jim Gilstrap; Lani Groves sings the next two.  Gilstrap and Groves, together with Gloria Barley, also provide backing vocals. The single version of the song differs from the album version with the addition of horns to the mix; this version is also included in the greatest hits compilation album Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium(1982).  Cash Box said that Wonder "changes the pace from 'Superstition' and delivers a stirring ballad performance that is also certain to go gold instantly." It said that the "tune that's been covered many times is done best by the originator."

 MEANING .....' ENCHANTED'

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Bubba applied for an engineering position at a Lake Charles refinery. A Yankee applied for the same job and both applicants having the same qualifications were asked to take a test by the manager. Upon completion of the test, both men only missed one of the questions. The manager went to Bubba and said: "Thank you for your interest, but we've decided to give the Yankee the job."Bubba asked: "And why are you giving him the job? We both got nine questions correct. This being Louisiana, and me being a Southern boy, I should get the job!"
The manager said: "We have made our decision not on the correct answers, but rather on the one question that you both missed." Bubba then asked: "And just how would one incorrect answer be better than the other?" The manager replied: "Bubba, its like this. On question #4 the Yankee put down; "I don't know." You put down, "Neither do I."

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KELLY SPENT MOST OF THE DAY IN BED AND IN HER RECLINER

 SORRY FOLKS, I DIDN'T GET AROUND TO TAKING ANY PHOTOS TODAY

While Kelly relaxed in her recliner, Pheebs and I took a quick drive around half the Park earlier this morning and checked our mailbox which was empty of course because Canada Post is on strike.  We came right back home again.  The Subaru never even got warmed up.  It is unlikely that Pheebs and I will go out at all tomorrow.  At 43F it was a cold, gray, and very windy day.  The weather forecast is calling for snow on Friday and continuing for the next 7 or 8 days after that.  They are calling it a Snowmageddon heading our way.  Beam us up Scotty, get us out of here!!!!

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Pheebs has a soft rubber toy that when squeezed, makes a loud squawking sound.  She doesn't play with it anymore and has graciously agreed to let Kelly have it.  With Kelly and I often at different ends of our unit it is hard for me to hear her weakened voice if she should need assistance, especially during the night.  So, this is where Pheeb's squawker toy comes in.  Kelly keeps it close at hand and only has to give it a quick squeeze to send a resounding 'Squawk' echoing down the hallway and jolting me out of my sleep to quickly come to her aid. So far, she hasn't had to use the squawker except for a test -'Squawk' late this afternoon.  Kelly spent most of the day in her bed.  She is still very weak.

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Finished my book Walking Home by author Rick Rogers a few days ago and it was another book I enjoyed as I followed this fellow's sometimes stumbling and sometimes bumbling trek from south to north along the Pacific Crest Trail.  He writes with a sense of humor and I liked how he interacted and took an interest in other hikers he met along the trail.  His honesty appealed to me as well.  Kelly and I intersected this trail one time in Warner Springs, California when In Search Of The Great Stone Eagle

Kelly posted these words and picture to her Facebook page yesterday::

As many of you know I have fought liver disease for 10 years. After just being discharged again from the hospital after a very tough episode I have decided to lay down my sword. Even warriors get tired. I'll be cared for by palliative care. "The worse the passage the more welcome the port"

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Al's Music Box:)) Silhouettes is a song made famous by the doo-wop group the Rays in 1957, peaking at number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. In May 1957, songwriter Bob Crewe saw a couple embracing through a window shade as he passed on a train. He quickly set about turning that image into a song. Frank Slay, who owned the small Philadelphia record label XYZ with Crewe, added lyrics, and they soon had a complete song ready to record.  The story has frequently been reported that Slay heard the Rays audition for Cameo-Parkway Records, for which he worked, and immediately decided that they were the perfect group for "Silhouettes". However, Slay and Crewe were actually already familiar with the group, as "Silhouettes" was their third single with them.  Neil Arena of the original Mello-Kings maintains that Slay and Crewe had first written the song for their group, but since they were away on tour and unable to record it when Crewe offered it to Herald Records boss Al Silver, the writers opted for the Rays instead.  The song received a break when popular Philadelphia disc jockey Hy Lit fell asleep with a stack of newly released records on his record player. "Silhouettes" happened to be the last to play, and so it repeated until he woke up. He began to play the song on his show.  It became popular enough that Cameo-Parkway picked it up for national distribution, and it eventually reached number 3 on both the R&B Best Sellers chart and Billboard Top 100, while also hitting the top five on both the sales and airplay charts. It was the group's only top 40 hit.

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GROANER'S CORNER:(( A little girl asked her mother: "How did the human race appear?"  The mother answered, "God made Adam and Eve; they had children; and so was all mankind made."  Two days later the girl asked her father the same question.  The father answered,  "Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved."  The confused girl returned to her mother and said, "Mom, how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?" The mother answered,  "Well, Dear, it is very simple.  I told you about my side of the family, and your father told you about his."

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What do you call it when you mix alcohol and American Literature?  Tequila Mockingbird.

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Harry and his neighbor Joe often borrowed things from each other. One day, Harry asked to borrow Joe's ladder.  Joe said, "Sorry Harry, I've lent it to my son." Remembering a saying that his grandma often used to tell him, Harry said, "Joe, you should never lend anything to your children because you'll never get it back."  Joe replied, "Don't worry, it's not my ladder - it's my dad's."

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