THESE ARE GRAY NOVEMBER DAYS

 I DIDN'T TAKE ANY PHOTOS TODAY

It was heartening to see Kelly feeling a touch better this morning.  Our biggest fear right now is that she will suddenly start bleeding again.

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We needed a few things from Walmart this morning so it was a quick trip to Goderich and back for Pheebs and I in a slightly cold snowy rain drizzle.  No drive down around the harbor but a quick stop at Richard and Gayles on the way home to see how they were doing.  They are basically in the same boat Kelly and I are in.  These are difficult times for all four of us. Kelly spent the day either in her bed or her recliner.  Amongst other things, it is still the back pain giving her the most grief.  These are gray November days.................

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Al's Music Box:)) A double whammy in tonight's Music Box.......Please Help Me, I'm Falling is a 1960 song written by Don Robertson and Hal Blair and first recorded by Hank Locklin. The single was Locklin's most successful recording and was his second number-one on the country charts.  "Please Help Me, I'm Falling" spent 14 weeks at the top spot and spent nine months on the country chart, and crossed over to the Hot 100 peaking at number eight.  Later in 1960, Skeeter Davis had a hit with an answer record titled "I Can't Help You (I'm Falling Too)", which peaked at number two for three weeks on the Hot C&W Sides charts and number 39 on the Hot 100. I Can't Help You (I'm Falling Too) is a song written by Hal Blair, Skeeter Davis, and Don Robertson. In 1960, Skeeter Davis recorded and released the song as a single for RCA Victor. It was an answer song to Hank Locklin's major country pop crossover hit entitled, "Please Help Me, I'm Falling". It was Davis' second answer song in response to a Locklin tune.  "(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too" was recorded on May 13, 1960, at the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. The song was released as a single in July 1960, and it peaked at number two on the Billboard Magazine Hot C&W Sides chart later and number thirty-nine on the Billboard Hot 100. The single became Davis' highest-charting single to that point and her fourth solo hit. It also became her first single to chart on the Hot 100. In the later months, the song was issued onto Davis' second studio album entitled, Here's the Answer.

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GROANER'S CORNER:(( One Sunday morning, a mother went in to wake her son and tell him it was time to get ready for church, to which he replied, "I'm not going."  "Why not?" she asked."I'll give you two good reasons," he said. "One, they don't like me, and two, I don't like them."  His mother replied, "I'll give YOU two good reasons why you SHOULD go to church. One, you're 54 years old, and two, you're the pastor!"

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- You might be a red neck if you refer to the 5th grade as "my senior year."

- One man said to the other, "You know, there are really only three kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't.

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Eight-year-old Sally brought her report card home from school. Her marks were good...mostly A's and a couple of B's.
However, her teacher had written across the bottom: "Sally is a smart little girl, but she has one fault. She talks too much in school. I have an idea I am going to try, which I think may break her of the habit."
Sally's dad signed her report card, putting a note on the back: "Please let me know if your idea works on Sally because I would like to try it out on her mother."  

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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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{Quote} Love what you have now before life teaches you to love what you have lost.

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