JUST LIKE HER MOM WAS

With a cold (30F) and cloudy morning upon us I wasn't too inspired photo-wise, so Pheebs and I slipped down to the end of Bayfield River Road, turned around, and came home.  Pheebs mobility is beginning to slip, so I had to lift her into the car before we left.  Her bum slipped off the seat onto the floor and I had to relift her back up onto the seat.  She didn't have the strength to pull herself up and I had noticed earlier that she wasn't too keen on going for a car ride this morning.  I'm afraid all our wonderful days together are slowly slipping away:((

By late-morning Old Sol was making his way down through the cloud cover and we had some patches of blue sky.  Despite that, Woodsy and I did take a drive into Clinton this morning for gas and stopped at Elliot's Liquidation for a browse.  Now, as readers already know, I am not a browser and usually stay in the car while the browsee browses all the browsables inside. And such was the case this morning.  No way was I going in there with all those humanoids milling about all over the place.  Besides, it's a good opportunity to catch up on my Kindle reading.  From Elliots, it was a gas stop then Hortons for two coffees and a muffin to go.  We headed east toward Seaforth because I wanted to show Woodsy a shorter, faster, and easier way to come and go from her apartment location in Stratford's east end.  By this route she won't have to go through downtown Stratford and she can completely eliminate going through Sebringville, Mitchell, Dublin, and Seaforth.  I always used this little traveled express route when driving for the Stratford Airporter years ago.  Basically, it is Quinlin Road all the way west from Stratford's northwest corner to northwest of Seaforth. Then left to Highway 8 and straight on to Clinton.  A couple deeks in Clinton's southeast end and she's on the homestretch for the Bayfield Pines Park where Pheebs and I are:)) 

 READING MY KINDLE IN ELLIOTTS PARKING LOT

Kelly's daughter Sabra phoned me this afternoon to say how happy and supportive she was that Lorraine and I had renewed our friendship from over forty years ago.  Kelly's son Jason also left a positive comment on one of my posts a few days ago as well.  Both Sabra and Jason's understanding and acceptance is very much appreciated.  Sabra said, "with the way Mom thought I knew she would have encouraged you to move on."  Sabra and her husband Derek have a condo in Fort Myers Florida, and encouraged Lorraine and I to come down anytime.  It's always nice talking to Sabra because she is a positive thinking, caring, and warm, friendly person just like her Mom was.

 'AWWWWW NUTS' THE GRACKLES ARE BACK ALREADY AND WILL NOW DOMINATE THE FEEDERS FOR THE NEXT 7 MONTHS!!!!!

Al's Music Box:)) Do You Believe In Magic is a song by the American folk rock band the Lovin' Spoonful. Written by John Sebastian, it was issued as the band's debut single in July 1965. The single peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. It later served as the title track of the band's debut album, issued that November.  John Sebastion composed "Do You Believe in Magic" in May 1965.  Sebastian drew inspiration from a teenage girl who attended one of the Lovin' Spoonful's performances at the Night Owl Cafe, a club in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City at which the band were then holding a residency. The younger girl stood in contrast to the older beatnik crowd who typically attended folk performances, and Sebastian recalled that "she was dancing like we danced – and not like the last generation danced".  He also remembered: "Zal Yanovsky and I just elbowed each other the entire night, because to us, that young girl symbolized the fact that our audience was changing, that maybe they had finally found us."  Sebastian composed the song the following night, and the rest of the band worked with him at the Hotel Albert to finish its arrangement.  In 1965, the Lovin' Spoonful originally recorded and released the song as the first single from their debut studio album Do You Believe in Magic. The single was well received by the public and became a top ten hit, peaking at number 9.  According to the lyrics, the magic referenced in the title is the power of music to supply happiness and freedom to both those who make it and those who listen to it. The Lovin' Spoonful's version was ranked number 216 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Billboard said of the original single release that the "pulsating folk-flavored rhythm number serves as a strong and exciting debut for new group in the Byrds vein." Cash Box described it as a "rollicking, teen-angled romancer with an infectious danceable riff." Record World said that it has "plenty of beat and plenty of contemporary grit sound."  Joe Butler in 2000 said, "We were in a rented Cadillac riding in from the Los Angeles airport toward Hollywood ... when we heard "Magic" on the radio for the first time. We were all jumping up and down, punching each other and screaming ... We had to pull the car over. We were hyperventilating with excitement and validation and joy."  In a 2007 DVD entitled The Lovin' Spoonful with John Sebastian - Do You Believe in Magic, author Sebastian illustrates how he sped up the three-chord intro from Martha and the Vandellas 'Heat Wave to come up with the intro to "Do You Believe in Magic."  In 2002, "Do You Believe in Magic" by The Lovin Spoonful was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

 THE CARDINALS ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE GRACKLES BEING BACK EITHER

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A man jumps the fence into a tiger enclosure, saying God would protect him.  He is quickly eaten and finds himself at the pearly gates before God.  "Why did you not protect me from the tigers?" the man asks. "I tried to," God replies. "What did you think the fence was for?"

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The pastor was greeting folks at the door after the service. A woman said, “Father, that was a good sermon.”  The priest replied, “Oh, I have to give the credit to the Holy Spirit.”  “It wasn’t THAT good!” she said.

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- They told me, "Follow your dreams..."So I went back to bed.

- Teacher: Now class, whatever I ask, I want you to all answer at once. How much is six plus 4?  Class: At once!

- What does the 1286BC inscribed on the mummy's tomb indicate?  The registration of the car that ran him over!

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A guy goes into a bar and orders a beer. As he takes a sip of his beer, he hears a tiny little voice say: "Nice tie." He looks around but sees no one. He take another sip of his beer and hears: "A nice shirt, too." Again he looks around and sees no one.  He signals the bartender over, and hesitantly explains that he's hearing voices talking to him... "Of course," smiles the bartender. "It's the peanuts -- they're complimentary."

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 WE LOVED OUR DESERT WALKS EVERY MORNING

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FROM ONE OF KELLY'S LONG-TIME FRIENDS

Pheebs and I made it out on another beautiful looking sun drenched morning.  With all the melting going on, country roads were a muddy mess and having just washed the Subaru at the Bayfield carwash Monday morning, I was not anxious to muddy it all up again so we stuck to paved roads.  

AND JUST A SHORT WHILE AGO THERE WAS A COUPLE FEET SNOW COVERING THESE FAR FIELDS

MAPLE SYRUP TIME IS ALWAYS AN EARLY SIGN OF SPRING

 SPOTTED THIS SMALL GATHERING OF TUNDRA SWANS IN A DISTANT FIELD

Home again, and being the impatient person I can be at times, I grabbed my shovel and began in the back yard digging out a number of broken pine tree branches that had been brought down by this winter's storms.  I could wait a few days and let Mother Nature melt the snow, but oh no, who's got the patience for that at this time of year.  So, I dug the branches out and enjoyed every minute of it.  Now I've got a pile of pine branches stacked up and no way to get them into my snowbound utility trailer.  Oh I'm a real planner aren't I.

In yesterday's post. I mentioned about Kelly having the nickname Kelly but I was unclear when how she came by that name.  In last night's post comments, that question was finally answered and the comment came from one of Kelly's long-time friends, Archee.  Here is that comment..."Around 7th grade 3 very close friends decided we each should have a nickname, Barb became Mic, Gail became Kelly and Linda (me) became Archee (with 2 ee's).   And there ya go, now we all know:))

 SUNSET FROM BAYFIELD'S PIONEER PARK

A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE OF BAYFIELD'S NORTH AND SOUTH PIERS

 'WOODSY'

 CHECKING HER iPHONE SUNSET PICS

Al's Music Box:)) Until I Kissed You is a song written by Don Everly and recorded by the Everly Brothers. It was released as a single in 1959 and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Chet Atkins played guitar on this record and Jerry Allison played drums.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A family had twin boys whose only resemblance to each other was their looks. If one felt it was too hot, the other thought it was too cold. If one said the TV was too loud, the other claimed the volume needed to be turned up. Opposite in every way, one was an eternal optimist, the other a doom & gloom pessimist. Just to see what would happen,on the twins' birthday their father loaded the pessimist's room with every imaginable toy and game. The optimist's room he loaded with horse manure.  That night the father passed by the pessimist's room and found him sitting amid his new gifts crying bitterly.  "Why are you crying?" the father asked.  "Because my friends will be jealous, I'll have to read the all these instructions before I can do anything with this stuff, I'll constantly need batteries, and my toys will eventually get broken." answered the pessimist twin.  Passing the optimist twin's room, the father found him dancing for joy in the pile of manure. "What are you so happy about?" he asked.  To which his optimist twin replied, "There's got to be a pony in here somewhere!"

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I had some words for my wife...
She had some paragraphs for me!

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A guy went to the cinema one day and noticed an old man with a dog in the front row. It was a sad, funny kind of film and the guy noticed that during the sad parts the dog cried his eyes out, and during the funny parts, the dog laughed its head off.  This happened throughout the film. After the film ended, the guy decided to go and speak to the old man.  "That's the most amazing thing I've seen," he said. "That dog really seemed to enjoy the film." The old man turned to him and said: "Yeah, it is amazing. He hated the book."

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 KELLY IN ALGODONES MEXICO IN 2016...ALGODONES IS ACROSS THE BORDER FROM YUMA ARIZONA

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