AND THAT'S WORTH ANOTHER BIG #!!%**!!!!

Because of the #!!%**!! time change overnight my day began at 5 a.m.!!!!  Also because of the time change, the network carrying the show I watch Sunday night, 'Skinwalker Ranch' came on at 11 instead of 10.  Why the network decided to switch their programming time back before midnight I don't know, but needless to say, I fell asleep before Skinwalker was over and didn't see it all.  And that's worth another big #!!%**!!!!

HALF OF A NEW DOUBLE-WIDE UNIT IS BEING SET UP ON ONE OF THE PARK'S LOTS

 I'LL HAVE PICS TOMORROW OF BOTH HALVES JOINED TOGETHER

 WHEN FINISHED, THIS UNIT ON A CONCRETE PAD WILL BE SOLD FULLY FURNISHED

Under overcast and mild drizzly skies, Pheebs and I followed Subie's windshield wipers to Goderich and back this morning.  Coffee, the harbor, Walmart, and home again.  I didn't get around to taking many pics.  With milder 60F temps upon us today I figured it was a good time to clean all the wet pine needles out of our eaves and not freeze my hands off doing it.  So that is what I did.  Afternoon rains precluded any thoughts of a walk for Pheebs and I so it was inside we stayed except to top up the bird feeders.  I love watching the bunnies jump and frolic about in our front yard.  Too many raindrops in the air for a walk this afternoon.

 IT WAS A DRIZZLY MORNING BUT AT LEAST IT WAS ON THE MILD SIDE

THE OBORISHTE IN PORT TODAY AT THE GODERICH GRAIN TERMINAL

Talking to Park owner Adam this afternoon, he confirmed that my assumption a few days ago about a new park trail alongside a little creek was true.  He plans to incorporate that section of trail into a longer forest trail that he has plans for. Good stuff:))

We have a mouse problem.  Well okay, not so much we as me.  But no matter, I found 3 more mouses in a drawer beside my living room recliner.  None of them were moving of course so I gently picked one up and pressed it here and their hoping to see a flicker of light.  Nope, nothing.  I even tried inserting a battery into it.  Nope, nothing, and the same with the other two mouses.  So why would someone keep three dead mouses in a drawer you might ask?  It's a question I don't have an answer for.  No, I'm not a mouse hoarder.  With that said, I threw all four dead mouses into the garbage.  You do know I'm talking about my current and older computer mouses, right?  Oh, and that stop at Walmart this morning.....ya, I got myself a new mouse.  Its name is Logi and it was made by Logitech.   And yes I do know about the word mouses not being grammatically correct but in my world, the term is mouses, not meeces.  Heavens to Murgatroyd!!

 A COLORFUL OUTDOOR LIBRARY AT THE SOUTH END OF ORCHARD LINE

Al's Music Box:(( Pretend by Brenda Lee is a popular song, written in 1952 by Dan Belloc, Lew Douglas, Cliff Parman and Frank Levere.  Having sold over 100 million records globally, Lee is one of the most successful American artists of the 20th century. Her U.S. success in the 1960s earned her recognition as Billboard's Top Female Artist of the Decade and one of the four artists who charted the most singles, behind Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and Ray Charles. Her accolades include a Grammy Award, four NARM Awards, three NME Awards, and five Edison Awards.  She is the first woman to be inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.  In 2023, she was named by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest singers of all time.

 'HEY DAD, I THINK THERE IS AN ELEPHANT IN THE GLOVE COMPARTMENT'

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A woman meant to call a record store but dialed the wrong number and got a private home instead.  "Do you have 'Eyes of Blue' and 'A Love Supreme'?" she asked.  "Well, no," answered the puzzled homeowner, "But I have a wife and eleven children."  "Is that a record?" she inquired.  "I don't think so," replied the man, "but it's as close as I want to get."

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- What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).

- A backward poet writes inverse.

- A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

- If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.

- Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.

- When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

- The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

- A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

- You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

- Every calendar's days are numbered.

- A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.

- He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

- The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

- When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.

- Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.

- Acupuncture is a jab well done.

- Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.

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HEY ELLA, WAY OVER THERE IN SPAIN....THIS ONE IS FOR YOU

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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