TRAVEL WITH THE BAYFIELD BUNCH:))

Monday, March 24, 2025

NO, NOT LOOKING TO BUY ANYTHING...JUST CURIOUS

Cloudy and cold with snow in the air. A drive in and around Bayfield for Pheebs and I this morning. I didn't take any photos today but I have a few from Sunday morning when I took a drive by myself because Pheebs didn't want to go. Woodsy and I took a drive up to Kincardine along the shores of Lake Huron Sunday afternoon. I had stumbled across an RV place south of Kincardine on the internet called Pierson Motors and RV. No, not looking to buy anything, just curious to see what they had.

A NICE LOOKING SUNDAY MORNING BUT COLD

THESE TWO HORSES STILL HAVE THEIR WARM WINTER BLANKETS ON

SKIFFS OF SNOW IN A WINTER WHEAT FIELD

'SHEESH, I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE HAS TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME PREENING HERSELF!!'

'WHAT DID YOU SAY MELVIN'??....... 'NOTHING DEAR'

SEEN IN KINCARDINE ALONG THE SHORES OF LAKE HURON

Al's Music Box:)) Here, There And Everywhere is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. A love ballad, it was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney. McCartney includes it among his personal favorites of the songs he has written. In 2000, Mojo ranked it 4th in the magazine's list of the greatest songs of all time. McCartney began writing "Here, There and Everywhere" at Lennon's house in Weybridge, in early June, while waiting for Lennon to wake up. McCartney recalled: "I sat out by the pool on one of the sun chairs with my guitar and started strumming in E. And soon I had a few chords, and I think by the time he'd woken up, I had pretty much written the song, so we took it indoors and finished it up." When discussing his song "Here, There and Everywhere", McCartney has often cited the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows", his favorite pop song of all time, as a source of inspiration. In 1990, McCartney told Beach Boys biographer David Leaf it was "just the introduction that's influenced [by the Beach Boys]", referring to the harmonies he and Lennon devised for the opening lines of "Here, There and Everywhere". McCartney added that, with this style of introduction, they wanted to capture the "old-fashioned" idea of a preamble to the song. The Beatles recorded "Here, There and Everywhere" towards the end of the sessions for their 1966 album Revolver. The band worked on the song at Abbey Road Studios over three session dates – on 14, 16 and 17 June. Before carrying out overdubs, they taped 13 takes before achieving a satisfactory basic track. The recording is noted for its layered backing vocals, which McCartney, Lennon and George Harrison spent much of the three days attempting to perfect. McCartney mentioned in the 1989 radio series McCartney on McCartney that the vocals were meant to have a Beach Boys sound; he has also said that he was trying to sing it in the style of Marianne Faithfull. McCartney's lead vocal on the recording is multi-tracked. In his book Revolution in the Head, Ian MacDonald also comments on Harrison's lead guitar part being given a mandolin-like tone via a Leslie speaker effect, before it adopts a "horn-like timbre" for the song's ending. "Here, There and Everywhere" was released in August 1966 as the fifth track on Revolver, sequenced between Harrison's Indian-styled "Love You To", and the children's song "Yellow Submarine". Writing of its positioning in the running order, music critic Tim Riley says that "Here, There and Everywhere" "domesticates" the "eroticisms" of "Love You To", and he praises the composition as "the most perfect song" that McCartney had written up to that point. In his review for AllMusic, Richie Unterberger describes "Here, There and Everywhere" as one of its author's "outstanding contributions" to the genre of "love ballads", and a song with "the sound of an instant standard". Unterberger comments on the recording: "The delicacy of the execution is exquisite, the sensual imagery more explicit, the sense of desire and fulfillment tangible." Less impressed, Ian MacDonald admired the "ingenuity of the music", but concluded that "for all its soft-focus charm, the song's overall effect is chintzy and rather cloying." In his chapter on Revolver in the book The Album, James Perone describes "Here, There and Everywhere" as a "mid 1960s love ballad that could find its way into the set list for bands at a senior prom" and a track that to some listeners appears "syrupy and mushy". Ch ris Coplan of Consequence of Sound pairs it with "Got to Get You into My Life" as songs that are "seemingly out of place" on Revolver amid the overtly psychedelic and experimental music that typifies the album. In his authorised biography, Many Years from Now, McCartney names "Here, There and Everywhere" as one of his personal favourites. Beatles producer George Martin also highlighted it among his favourite McCartney songs. Lennon reportedly told McCartney that "Here, There and Everywhere" was "the best tune" on Revolver. In a 1980 interview for Playboy magazine, Lennon described it as "one of my favourite songs of the Beatles". In 2000, Mojo placed "Here, There and Everywhere" at number 4 on its list of the greatest songs of all time. In April 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it 25th out of the "100 Greatest Beatles Songs". Art Garfunkel described the song as "intoxicating": "If music can be defined as that which perfumes the atmosphere, then ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ does it like no other single I’ve ever heard. It’s supreme."

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A well-worn one-dollar bill and a similarly distressed twenty dollar bill arrived at a Federal Reserve Bank to be retired. As they moved along the conveyor belt to be burned, they struck up a conversation. The twenty dollar bill reminisced about its travels all over the county. "I've had a pretty good life," the twenty proclaimed. "Why I've been to Las Vegas and Atlantic City, the finest restaurants in New York, performances on Broadway, and even a cruise to the Caribbean.""Wow!" said the one dollar bill. "You've really had an exciting life!" "So tell me," says the twenty, "where have you been throughout your lifetime?" The one dollar bill replies, "Oh, I've been to the Methodist Church, the Baptist Church, the Lutheran Church ..." The twenty dollar bill interrupts, "What's a church?"

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- Who is the coolest doctor in the hospital?
The hip consultant.

- She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.

- An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

- How does one train hear another train coming? With its engineers.

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It was my wedding day, and no one was happier than my 78-year-old mother.
But as she approached the church doors, an usher asked, “Which side are you on?”
“Oh, no,” she said. “Are they fighting already?”

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Sunday, March 23, 2025

NO POST

Sorry folks, no post tonight.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

AUNT JEAN WAS DIAGNOSED WITH PULMONARY HYPERTENSION

A SNOWY DAY HERE AT TIMES

A snowy cold morning left me with little desire to even go out the door so Pheebs and I skipped our morning car ride. With below-freezing overnight temperatures upon us again and more on the way, I slipped down under our front deck and turned the outside water off. First time in over 22 years I've had to do that. Well, at least I got all the mud hosed off the Subaru yesterday afternoon and it looks like a car again, instead of a muddy mud bucket going down the road......Talked to Aunt Jean Friday night and she is doing much better. She only has to have the oxygen tubes in at night while sleeping, and only if she feels the need to do so during the day. Her doctor has diagnosed her with Pulmonary Hypertension. We didn't stay on the phone for as long as we usually do because I could tell she was tired........A quiet day here. Worked away at clearing some cupboards in the kitchen. Oh, and the reason Woodsy was briefly walking on that side of the road yesterday was to wait until I had passed with the car before crossing over to the other side of the road.

Al's Music Box The Great Pretender is a popular song recorded by the Platters, with Tony Williams on lead vocals, and released as a single in November 1955. The words and music were written by Buck Ram, the Platters' manager and producer who was a successful songwriter before moving into producing and management. The song reached No. 1 on Billboard's Top 100. Sam Cooke's cover of the song is believed to have inspired Chrissie Hynede to name her band the Pretenders. Buck Ram, the manager of the Platters, said that he wrote the song in about 20 minutes in the washroom of the Flamingo Hotel in order to have a follow-up to the success of "Only You." Ram had boasted to Bob Shad that he had an even better song than "Only You", and when pressed by Shad on the name of the song, Ram quickly replied "The Great Pretender". He said the song would be a hit even before he had written the song to go with the title. The song was recorded by the Platters and released in November 1955. Plas Johnson played tenor saxophone on the recording. It became the best-selling R&B song in January 1956, and reached No. 2 on the Top 100 chart on Billboard in February 1956. It was also the 12th best-selling single of 1956. The Platters performed "The Great Pretender" and "Only You" in the 1956 musical film Rock Around the Clock, and was also in the film American Graffiti. In 2002, "The Great Pretender" by the Platters on Mercury RecondsGrammy Hall of Fame was inducted into the, which lists the date as 1956. In 2004, the song was ranked 360th in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

A ROBIN LISTENING FOR SOME CHILLY DEW WORMS UNDER THE SNOW

GROANER'S CORNER:(( It doesn't hurt to take a hard look at yourself from time to time, and this should help get you started. During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the director what the criterion was that defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized. "Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub." "Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup." "No," said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a room with or without a view?"

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God: "Whew! I just created a 24-hour period of alternating light and darkness of Earth." Angel: "What are you going to do now?" God: "Call it a day."

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-"I believe in dragons, good men and other fantasy creatures."

- If someone with multiple personalities threatens to commit suicide, is that considered a hostage crisis?

- Last night, my wife and I watched two movies back to back.
Fortunately for me, I was the one who was facing the television.

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Twenty-one reasons why English is hard to learn.
1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7. Since there was no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I did not object to the object.
11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12. There was a row among the oarsmen on how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when does are present.
15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18. After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.