I GUESS EVERY DAY CAN'T QUITE BE A GREAT BIG GROOVY ADVENTURE

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GROANER'S CORNER:(( She greeted her husband and then watched in horror as he sat down to his dinner. To her surprise, the husband really enjoyed his dinner. "Darling, this is the best dinner you have made for me in forty years of marriage. You can make this for me any old day."  Needless to say, every bridge night from then on, the woman made her husband the same dish. She told her bridge cronies about it and they were all horrified.  "You're going to kill him!" they exclaimed.  Two months later, her husband died.  The women were sitting around the table playing bridge when one of the cronies said, "You killed him! We told you that feeding him that cat food every week would do him in! How can you just sit there so calmly and play bridge knowing you murdered your husband?"  The wife stoically replied, "I didn't kill him. He fell off the mantel while he was cleaning himself."

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- We all know where the Big Apple is but does anyone know where the ...
Minneapolis?

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Two old women were sitting on a bench waiting for their bus. The buses were running late, and a lot of time passed. Finally, one woman turned to the other and said, "You know, I've been sitting here so long, my butt fell asleep!'.
The other woman turned to her and said "I know! I heard it snoring!"  

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A Manager of a retail clothing store is reviewing a potential employee’s application and notices that the man has never worked in retail before. He says to the man, “For a man with no experience, you are certainly asking for a high wage.”  “Well Sir,” the applicant replies, “the work is so much harder when you don’t know what you’re doing!"
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TURNS ME INTO A TREMBLING MUMBLEPEG

Woke up to a snowy world this morning.  Not a happy camper!!  Pheebs and I didn't make it out for a car ride.  Kind of a lost day of sorts but it ended up having it's own share of stress waiting for me.  

 THIS IS WHAT WE WOKE UP TO THIS MORNING

 I FEEL SO SORRY FOR THIS POOR LITTLE SINGLE CROCUS FLOWER

With me in a dither, Lorraine (Woodsy) and I slipped up to Goderich with my Lenovo laptop in hand this morning.  I had upgraded it from Windows 10 to Windows 11 a month or so ago and have had some frustrating issues with it ever since.  Stopped at the ContinuIT computer place and a young lady there was able to quickly (but not effortlessly) track down the problems and fix them right there at the counter.  No charge:))  I thought that Continu-IT was very decent for doing that.  With a McDonalds coffee in hand and a quick stop at Dollorama, we were soon back to Bayfield......  So, with one dilemma solved, I soon found myself right smack dab into another one with Bell Telephone.  And that problem had us back to Goderich again late in the afternoon.  If I thought I had myself in a dither over my laptop computer problem, I hadn't met my afternoon Bell Telephone problem yet.  My bill had soared dramatically in the past couple of months with another four hundred dollar bill pending.  With Lorraine's help, it was back to Goderich with a stop at my bank for a print-out of my chequing account from November 1st up to now.  With that in hand, it was over to the Bell Telephone store to try and sort things out.  And, thanks to a nice lady there, we did.  It seems when we transferred all of the telephone stuff from Kelly's name to mine back in January, our long-distance USA plan fell off somewhere.  Nobody mentioned to me that that plan was no longer in effect and I incurred a number of long-distance phone calls to my Aunt Jean in Florida.  Jamie, the nice lady at the Bell store put me in touch with Bell Telephones head office and thanks to another nice lady at that end, a total of $335.00 in long-distance fees were lifted.  I never thought I'd ever say this but.....Thanks, Bell Telephone:))  Following that, we were back to Bayfield and I have Lorraine to thank for helping me through my muddlement today.  I'm not the most pleasant person to be around when things like this occur.  Some forms of stress I handle well and some I do not. Computers not working right sets me on fire every time now, and anything to do with paperwork, banking, numbers, electronics, and newer technology, etc. turns me into a trembling Mumblepeg.  I seem to get so confused by a lot of stuff these days:((   

I FORGOT TO BRING OUR FROG POND PUMP IN OVERNIGHT AND IN THE-FREEZING TEMPS FORMED SOME WATERFALL ICE CREATIONS THIS MORNING

Al's Music Box:)) Take It To The Limit is a song by the Eagles from their fourth album One of These Nights from which it was issued as the last third single on November 15, 1975. It reached No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was also Eagles' greatest success to that point in the United Kingdom, going to No. 12 on the charts. Billboard ranked it as the No. 25 song for 1976.  The song, written by Eagles members Randy Meisner, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey began as a solo composition by Meisner, who sang lead on it. As it remained unfinished when the time came for the One of These Nights album to be recorded, Henley and Frey assisted Meisner in completing it. Meisner's performance of the song was popular with the audience in Eagles concerts, but disputes over his reluctance to perform it would also directly lead to Meisner's departure from the band.  

EVEN MY POOR LITTLE DUCKY GUYS GOT FROZEN UP IN THE POND'S SURFACE ICE

GROANER'S CORNER:(( It was autumn, and the Indians on the remote reservation asked their new Chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was an Indian Chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets, and when he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the hell the weather was going to be. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side,he replied to his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect wood to be prepared.  But also being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea.He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked,  "Is the coming winter going to be cold?"  "It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold indeed," the Meteorologist at the weather service responded.  So the Chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more wood in order to be prepared.  One week later he called the National Weather Service again."Is it going to be a very cold winter?" he asked.  "Yes," the man at National Weather Service again replied,"it's going to be a very cold winter."  The Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of wood they could find.  Two weeks later he called the National Weather Service again. "Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?" "Absolutely," the man replied. "It looks like it's going to be one of the coldest winters ever."  "How can you be so sure?" the Chief asked.  The weatherman replied, "The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy".

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BLOWING SNOW....AWFULL!!

DESPITE OUR COLD AND WET SPRING, FARMERS HAVE STILL BEEN ABLE TO GET OUT ON THEIR LAND

Old man Winter, although having officially left the area two weeks ago, just won't loosen his grip on us with overnight temps below freezing again.  It is shaping up to be a cold April here in these parts.  A short car ride for Pheebs and I and we were soon home again.  Clouds eventually replaced the earlier morning sunshine as the afternoon rapidly deteriorated into a cold rain turning to nasty blowing snow.  Awful!!!! 

A NASTILY COLD AND BITTER AFTERNOON

Woodsy and I spent time cleaning out some more kitchen cupboards today.  A few more boxes and bags for the Saint Vincent de Paul Thrift Store in Goderich.  

 A FEW MORE SATURDAY NIGHT SUNSET PHOTOS

YUP, THAT SHADOW IS ME TAKING A PIC OF SUBIE AT BAYFIELD'S BEACH

A TOUCH OF SUNSET ON THE STERN OF THIS BAYFIELD FISHING BOAT AS WE MAKE OUR WAY FROM BAYFIELD'S BEACH UP TO BAYFIELD'S PIONEER PARK 

 EVENINGS GLOW AT PIONEER PARK

 THESE PARK BENCHES WILL SOON BE FILLED WITH SUNSET FOLKS GAZING OUT OVER THE LAKE WAITING EOR THE DAY' MAIN EVENT

   

 BAYFIELD'S RAY BAUER

 SPOTTED THIS ARTWORK IN A BAYFIELD SHOP WINDOW ON THE WAY HOME

Al's Music Box:)) Rhinestone Cowboy is a song written and recorded by Larry Weiss in 1974, then popularized the next year by American country music singer Glen Campbell. When released on May 26, 1975, as the lead single and title track from his album Rhinestone Cowboy, it enjoyed huge popularity with both country and pop audiences.  In late 1974, Campbell heard the song on the radio and, during a tour of Australia, decided to learn it. Soon after his return to the United States, Campbell went to Al Coury's office at Capitol Records, where he was approached about "a great new song" – "Rhinestone Cowboy".  Several music writers noted that Campbell identified with the subject matter of "Rhinestone Cowboy" – survival and making it, particularly when the chips are down – very strongly.  As Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic put it, the song is about a veteran artist "who's aware that he's more than paid his dues during his career ... but is still surviving, and someday, he'll shine just like a rhinestone cowboy."

SPRING CROPS CONTINUE TO GREEN AND GROW DESPITE OUR COLD WET SPRING

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A clergyman walking down a country lane and sees a young farmer struggling to load hay back onto a cart after it had fallen off.  "You look hot, my son," said the cleric. "why don't you rest a moment, and I'll give you a hand."  "No thanks," said the young man.  "My father wouldn't like it."  "Don't be silly," the minister said.  "Everyone is entitled to a break. Come and have a drink of water."  Again the young man protested that his father would be upset. Losing his patience, the clergyman said, "Your father must be a real slave driver. Tell me where I can find him and I'll give him a piece of my mind!"  "Well," replied the young farmer, "he's under the load of hay."

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Judge: Silence in court! The next person who laughs again will be thrown out of court.
Accused: Hahahaha
Judge: I wasn't talking to you!
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 BOONDOCKED SOMEWHERE IN THE GREAT AMERICAN SOUTHWEST

KELLY AT OUR ARIZONA HOUSE ON THE PHONE TO HER MOM IN SPENCERPORT NEW YORK

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