TRAVEL WITH THE BAYFIELD BUNCH:))

Sunday, April 06, 2025

LUCKILY, I ONLY HAD TO GO INTO ONE OF THE THREE:))

DESPITE OUR ONGOING COLD SPRING, THE DAYLILIES ARE SURGING UPWARD FROM THEIR WINTER HIBERNATION

Sunny day.......but cold. No matter, more yard work caught up this morning. I'm slowly getting there. Woodsy and I slipped up to Goderich early this afternoon with a planned 3 stops. Food Basics, Zehr's Supermarket, and Walmart. Luckily, I only had to go into one of the three to pick up a prescription at the Walmart Pharmacy. A lazy afternoon........

OUR FROG POND PUMP IS UP AND RUNNING FOR ANOTHER SEASON

WITH ANOTHER COLD DAY UPON US MY LITTLE YELLOW POND DUCKIES ARE ARE COZYING UP AND STAYING WARM
It was 7:15 this evening when we hopped into the Subaru and took the short drive into Bayfield for another sunset. Drove down to Bayfield's beach for a series of photos then back up the bluffs into Bayfield's Pioneer Park for a second series of photos. I will post a few of tonight's pics and a few more tomorrow when I think it is a cloudy day we are in for.

AT BAYFIELD'S BEACH

HERE'S WOODSY SENDING SUNSET PICS ON HER iPONE TO HER FRIEND DAWN BACK IN STRATFORD

AT THE NORTH END OF BAYFIELD'S PIONEER PARK

WE WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES TAKING SUNSET PICS TONIGHT

Al's Music Box:)) Mellow Yellow is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. Released in the US in 1966, it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside the US, "Mellow Yellow" peaked at No. 8 in the UK in early 1967. The song was rumored to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s, though this aspect of bananas has since been debunked. According to Donovan's liner notes for the album Donovan's Greatest Hits, the rumor that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumor three weeks before "Mellow Yellow" was released as a single. Donovan had originally written the song as a throwaway sing-a-long for private parties, and was surprised when producer Mickie Most chose it to be the follow up single to "Sunshine Superman". The song was arranged by session musician John Paul Jones and became one of his first to achieve international success. At first Donovan was disappointed in the horn sound, until Jones came up with the idea to use "hats" (horn mutes) to achieve the required "mellow" mood. In addition, Donovan tuned his acoustic guitar to a D-major drone to mimic slide blues players. Paul McCartney can be heard as one of the background revelers on this track but contrary to rumour, the "quite rightly" whispering line in the chorus is not McCartney, but rather Donovan himself. Donovan had a small part in coming up with the lyrics for "Yellow Submarine", so McCartney returned the favor by helping out on the title track and playing uncredited bass guitar on portions of the MellowYellow Submarine album.

I THINK THESE JUST MIGHT TURN INTO DAFFODILS ONE OF THESE DAYS

GROANER'S CORNER: A Chinese person walks into a bar in America late one night and sees Steven Spielberg. As he was a great fan of his movies, he rushes over to

him, and asks for his autograph.
Instead, Spielberg gives him a slap and says "You Chinese people bombed
our Pearl Harbor, get out of here."
The astonished Chinese man replied "It was not the Chinese who bombed
your Pearl Harbor , it was the Japanese".
"Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, you're all the same," replied Spielberg.
In return, the Chinese gives Spielberg a slap and says "You sank the
Titanic; my forefathers were on that ship."
Shocked, Spielberg replies "It was the iceberg that sank the ship, not
me."
The Chinese replies, "Iceberg, Spielberg, Carlsberg, you're all the
same."

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Saturday, April 05, 2025

TO CATCH A SUNSET OVER LAKE HURON

Rain came in the night and stayed for most of the morning. Too wet and damp to do anything outside this afternoon so I stayed inside and worked away at cleaning out a kitchen closet. Kelly and I sure accumulated a lot of stuff over our years together.

HERE'S WOODSY TRYING TO GET A PICTURE OF A SQUIRREL GETTING A COB OF CORN ON A TWIRLYGIG THING THAT STEVE AT PORTERS HILL WILD BIRDSEED COMPANY GAVE ME

With a case of the munchies and needing a break from cooking, Lorraine and I headed out to the south end of Bayfield to the Woodland Drive-In. Poutine for Woodsy and a hamburger with the works and a small fries for me. Good stuff. Following that it was over to Pioneer Park to catch a sunset over Lake Huron.

THERE WERE ALREADY PEOPLE THERE TAKING PICTURES

Al's Music Box:)) Ramblin Man is a song by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band, released in August 1973 as the lead single from the group's fourth studio album, Brothers and Sisters (1973). Written and sung by the band's guitarist, Dickey Betts, it was inspired by a 1951 song of the same name by Hank Williams. It is much more grounded in country music than other Allman Brothers Band compositions, which made the group reluctant to record it. Guitarist Les Dudek provides guitar harmonies, and it was one of bassist Berry Oakley's last contributions to the band. The song became the Allman Brothers Band's first and only top 10 single, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 12 on the Easy Listening chart. "Ramblin' Man" was first created during songwriting sessions for Eat a Peach. An embryonic version, referring to a "ramblin' country man," can be heard on the bootleg The Gatlinburg Tapes, featuring the band jamming on an off-day in April 1971 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Betts continued to work on the song for a year, but the lyrics came together in as little as twenty minutes. "I wrote "Ramblin' Man" in Berry Oakely's kitchen [at the Big House] at about four in the morning. Everyone had gone to bed but I was sitting up," said Betts in 2014. Drummer Butch Trucks noted that the band acknowledged it was a good song but were reluctant to record it, as it sounded too country for them. New member and keyboardist Churck Leavell enjoyed the song, noting, "It's definitely in the direction of country but that didn't bother me in the least. I think our attitude was, 'Let's take this thing and make it as great as we can.'" The band went to the studio to record a demo of the song to send to a friend, which is where the long guitar jam near the finale of the song was created. ^] Having not considered it an Allman Brothers song before, they felt the solos fitted the band well and decided to put it on the album. Guitarist Les Dudek, who was contributing to Brothers and Sisters, was sitting in the control room when the song was being recorded. He and Betts had worked out the harmony parts together. Betts continued to approach him for his thoughts on the recordings. Eventually, he asked him to come record the song with him. "We played it all live. I was standing where Duane would have stood with Berry just staring a hole through me and that was very intense and very heavy," said Dudek. When the song was completed, the management team and road crew gathered to listen to it. According to Dudek, the room was silent after it ended and roadie Red Dog remarked, "That's the best I heard since Duane". (Duane Allman had previously died in a motorcycle accident and the same fate was about to befall Berry Oakley as well)

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A serious drunk walked into a bar and, after staring for some time at the only woman seated at the bar, walked over to her and kissed her. She jumped up and slapped him silly. He immediately apologized and explained, "I'm sorry. I thought you were my wife. You look exactly like her." "Why you worthless, insufferable, wretched, no good drunk!" she screamed. "Funny," he muttered, "you even sound exactly like her."

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I phoned my wife earlier and asked her if she wanted me to pick up Fish and Chips on my way home from work but she just grunted at me...I think she still regrets letting me name the twins!

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I walked into a bakery and asked the lady at the register if I could buy a bagel with cream cheese. "Sorry" she replied. "We only accept cash"

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A fly with a bug on its back said
Hey is that a mite? The mite replied "I mite be". The fly replied that's the worst joke I've ever heard! The mite said, well I came up with it on the fly!

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