OUT THE DOOR LIKE A FLYING FLATULENT FORCE OF FIERY WIND GUSTS

It was a sunny cool morning as Pheebs and I slipped into and around Bayfield.  I think this picturesque little Village looks its yearly best at this time of year with all the old trees clothed in their finest Autumn colors.  And, especially so on Clan Gregor Square with its fine old ageless Maple trees.

A FEW DRIVE-BY PICS OF CLAN GREGOR SQUARE

We have definitely made the seasonal shift to cool and colder days and nights.  I am very much enjoying the dryer air.  Our Autumn colors are finally beginning to really 'pop'.  Such a pretty and nice feeling time of the year.  A month from now we'll be struggling through the cold wet and  bleak gray dregs of November.  Best not to think too far ahead sometimes.  

A FISHING BOAT LEAVES THE HARBOR LATE THIS MORNING

 LOOKING DOWNRIVER THERE IS ONLY ONE BOAT LEFT AT ITS DOCKS

 LOOKING UPRIVER THERE ARE NOT MANY BOATS LEFT IN THE WATER UP THERE EITHER

 CANADA GEESE PADDLING THEIR WAY ACROSS THE BAYFIELD RIVER

It was almost a repeat of yesterday afternoon with me in my recliner and sunroom spiders spinning webs around me.  While tipped back in my recliner reading, the thought suddenly popped into my head that I was doing exactly the same darn thing today as I was doing yesterday.  With that scary thought, I was out of my recliner, on my feet, and out the door like a flying flatulent force of fiery wind gusts.  I rounded up all the remaining outdoor summer furniture and put it away.  I burnt up a load of burnables in our burn barrel, moved all the stuff off our back deck into storage, raked up more pine needles, and restocked the bird feeders.  It won't be long now and that re-stocking of bird feeders will almost become a full-time job. 

 THIS OLD BUT RECENTLY REFURBISHED COTTAGE IN BAYFIELD IS FOR SALE

 A SHADY BAYFIELD STREET

THIS LADIES GROUP ON BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET ENJOYS A HOT COFFEE ON THIS CRISP MID-OCTOBER MORNING

Kelly's back is still bothering her but not quite as bad as those first few days after she injured it.  We have to hope it is in its healing stage now and understand that it may take longer to heal than in previous years.  

 A BLUE JAY AT ONE OF OUR FEEDERS

Al's Music Box:)) The Big Hurt is a pop song that was a hit for Toni Fisher in 1959. The song was written by Wayne Shanklin. "The Big Hurt" is notable because it featured phasing effects which at that time were rare in popular music.   American music industry veterans David S. Gold and Stan Ross, founders of the renowned Gold Star Studios in Hollywood, claim that "The Big Hurt" was the first commercial recording to feature a technique (or effect) now known as flanging. This "jet plane-like" sound effect may also be familiar to those who have listened to long-distance shortwave radio music broadcasts. (In radio, this effect was the result of multipath interference and varying propagation times.) To some, the flanging effect made this record sound like a distant shortwave broadcast.  In a 1968 report on sound effects in pop for Beat Instrumental, Crotus Pike wrote that Fisher's hit "was almost phased from start to finish. The result was like listening to an erratic signal on short wave radio." He wrote that the effect "turned a fairly ordinary song into a million seller", and also noted the precedent it set for the Small Faces' "Itchycoo Park" and Cat Stevens' "A Bad Night" (both 1967).  The song went to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart in the United States. 

GROANER'S CORNER:(( My girlfriend is impossible to buy for so I asked her best friend what I should get her for her birthday.  

Best Friend: “Does she like you?”  

Me: “Oh yes, I am positive she likes me!!!”  

Best friend: “If she likes you, she’ll like anything.”

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- Marriage Counsellor: Your wife says you never buy her flowers. Is that true? Spouse: To be honest, I never knew she sold flowers.

- Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done.

- I came.  I saw.  I forgot what I was doing.  Retraced my steps.  Got lost on the way back.  Now I have no idea what's going on.

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Former President George W. Bush decides it is time to do some public relations at a local Washington DC nursing home. The President begins his "tour" down the main hallway and passes by a little old man who doesn't seem to notice him.  Sensing this, President Bush backtracks to the resident and asks, "Do you know who I am?"  The little old man looks up from his walker and says, "No, but if you go to the front desk, they will tell you your name."

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COBWEBS BEGINNING TO FORM ON ME

HEADING EAST OUT OF OUR PARK THIS MORNING

With clear overnight skies, our temps dropped below 40F and with a stiff wind out of the north blowing those chilly temps around, it was a cold morning's drive under sunny skies with Pheebs window down.  Needless to say, we didn't go far but at least the countryside with its growing Autumn colors looked beautiful.  For whatever reason, I could not get myself into gear today so I spent the majority of my time in my sunroom recliner beside our toasty warm little gas stove, reading.  And, I felt quite alright with doing that.  

 OUR MORNING WALKING SPOT IS BEYOND THAT LINE OF TREES BUT I'M KEEPING AN EYE ON THIS CORNFIELD IN HOPES OF SOME CORN SPILLS WHEN IT'S HARVESTED

 HEADING ALONG THE PATH ACROSS FROM OUR HOUSE ON THE WAY TO THE PARK'S POND THIS AFTERNOON

 LOOKS LIKE AN UPSIDE DOWN RED CANOE IN THERE

Later, when I saw a couple cobwebs beginning to form on me I figured Pheebs and I had better get ourselves moving and head out for a late afternoon walk.  So, that's what we did.

 HERE'S A BUNNY IN OUR FRONT YARD CHOWING DOWN ON A HOSTA LEAF

WHEN A SMALL FLOCK OF LITTLE GRAY BIRDS FLUTTERED INTO OUR YARD THIS AFTERNOON I KNEW OUR WINTER JUNCOS WERE BACK 

Al's Music Box:(( (This one is for you Norm way down there in that Florida place) The Ballad Of Palladin is a song written by Johnny Western, Richard Boone, and Sam Rolfe and performed by Duane Eddy. The song reached No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962.   Members of the  Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.  Eddy's flip side was the theme to The Wild Westerners.  The song was produced by Lee Hazelwood and arranged by Bob Thompson.  Drummer Earl Palmer played on the session.  Duane Eddy was good friends with the show's star Richard Boone and appeared with him in a couple of the episodes. He also appeared with him in the 1962 motion picture The Wild Westerners. 

 LATE AFTERNOON POND REFLECTIONS

GROANER'S CORNER:(( If men ran the world...

- Telephones would cut off after 30 seconds of conversation.
- Breaking up would be a lot easier. A smack on the butt and a 'Nice hustle, you'll get 'em next time' would pretty much do it.
- Valentine's Day would be moved to February 29th so it would only occur in leap years.
- St. Patrick's Day would be celebrated every month.
- Garbage would take itself out.
- The only show opposite 'Monday Night Football' would be 'Monday Night Football from a Different Camera Angle.'

- It would be perfectly legal to steal a sports car, as long as you returned it the following day with a full tank of gas.
- When your girlfriend really needed to talk to you during the game, she'd appear in a little box in the corner of the screen during a time-out.
- Nodding and looking at your watch would be deemed as an acceptable response to 'I love you.'
- The funniest guy in the office would get to be CEO.

- Hallmark would make 'Sorry, what was your name again?' cards.

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Today I saved $236.17 by not going to Target for toothpaste. 

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AND MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS WERE HAD BY ALL

A mixture of sun and cloud on this 49F morning found Pheebs and I wandering around a few paved country roads.  Paved, because I washed the Subaru yesterday and didn't want to get it all dusted up on the gravel roads again.  Well, at least not for a few days anyway.  The County is paving more roads all the time and that is quite alright with me.  The corn harvest is in full swing so we kept our eyes open for corn spills alongside the road or cobs laying in the field close to the road.  Our corn pail came home empty.

 'OH MABLE, I JUST HEARD BILLY BIG BUTTS OVER THERE WAS SEEN WITH CRAZY CLARABELLE OVER IN THE BACK FORTY LATE LAST NIGHT'

Our good friends, Gayle and Richard invited us for Thanksgiving today so we headed on over to their place about 1 o'clock.  A great turkey dinner with all the fixins, and meaningful coversations were had by all.   We were home again by 4 o'clock.

Al's Music Box:)) The White Cliffs Of Dover is a popular World War II song composed in 1941 by Walter Kent to lyrics by Nat Burton. Made famous in the United Kingdom by Vera Lynn's 1942 version, it was one of Lynn's best-known recordings and among the most popular World War II tunes.  The song was written about a year after the Royal Air Force and German Luftwaffe aircraft had been fighting over southern England, including the white cliffs of Dover, in the Battle of Britain.  Nazi Germany had conquered much of Europe and in 1941 was still bombing Britain. With neither the United States nor the Soviet Union having joined the war against Germany and her allies, Britain was the only major power fighting the Axis powers in Europe.  The American lyricist, Nat Burton, wrote his lyric (perhaps unaware that the bluebird is not indigenous to Britain, though the migrant Swallow 'Bluebird' is a well known British harbinger of Spring and Summer) and asked Kent to set it to music.  Notable phrases include "Thumbs Up!" which was an RAF and RCAF term for permission to go, and "flying in those angry skies" where the air war was taking place. The lyrics looked toward a time when the war would be over, and peace would rule over the iconic white cliffs, Britain's symbolic border with the European mainland.  The full song includes two verses rarely found in recordings:

I'll never forget the people I met braving those angry skies.
I remember well as the shadows fell, the light of hope in their eyes.
And tho' I'm far away, I can still hear them say "Thumbs Up!"
for when the dawn comes up,... There'll be blue birds over...

When night shadows fall, I'll always recall out there across the sea
Twilight falling down on some little town;
It's fresh in my memory.
I hear mother pray, and to her baby say "Don't cry,"
This is her lullaby.... There'll be blue birds over..GROANER'S CORNER:(( Actual answers given by contestants on the game show The Family Feud:

- Name something that floats in the bath - Water
- Name something a blind person might use - A sword
- Name a song with 'moon' in the title - Blue Suede Moon
- Something you do before going to bed - Sleep
- Name a famous bridge - The bridge over troubled waters
- Something slippery - A con man
- A part of the body beginning with the letter 'N' - Knee
- Something you do in the bathroom - Decorate

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- My ducks may not be in a row, but at least they're having fun.  Your ducks probably hate you for making them line up like that. 

- “I got a job in the transmission shop. It's shift work.

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A pastor, known for his lengthy sermons, noticed a man get up and leave during the middle of his message. The man returned just before the conclusion of the service. Afterwards the pastor asked the man where he had gone.  "I went to get a haircut," was the reply.  "But," said the pastor, "why didn't you do that before the service?"  "Because," the gentleman said, "I didn't need one then."

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