ONLY TWO MORNING PARK DRIVES LEFT BEFORE WE BUST OUT INTO THE COUNTRYSIDE:))

DOGGY IN A PARK RESIDENT'S WINDOW THIS MORNING

A big bright sunny day for the most part.  I like it when that happens.  Now, if we could just get some heat in the air.  It's always the earlier part of March every year when I begin checking the 14-day weather forecast looking for warming trends and by golly, it looks like after today our daytime highs, aside from a few minor short-lived dips will continue well into the beginning of April.  And, I see a lot of sunny days coming up.  Oh my, is it even remotely possible this is the end of it and that we may have actually survived another miserable Winter.......

 PHEEBS AND I WILL SOON BE OUT WALKING IN THE PINE FOREST AGAIN

 MORNING SHADOWS

Another drive around our Park for Pheebs and I this morning with only two Park drives left before we bust out into the countryside again.  I will be so glad to get out in the mornings and resume our old routines.  Country road walks, conservation area hikes, farm crops, Lake Huron's shoreline, cows, horses, tractors, big ships, green fields, Spring flowers, tree buds, and much, much more.  Okay big guy, bring on that Spring weather:)))))

 I HOPE THESE LITTLE FELLERS DON'T BECOME COVERED WITH SNOW AGAIN

With sunshine beaming through our sunroom windows it was an afternoon of reading for me with the exception of a walk around the Park's pond for the furry Kid and I.   

 I FIGURE A MUSKRAT POKED THIS HOLE UP THROUGH THE POND'S ICE

Al's Music Box:)) Rainy Night In Georgia is a song written by Tony Joe White in 1967 and popularized by R&B vocalist Brook Benton in 1970. It was originally released by White on his 1969 album, Continued, on Monument Records, shortly before Benton's hit single was issued. In a January 17, 2014, interview with music journalist Ray Shasho, Tony Joe White explained the thought process behind the making of "Rainy Night in Georgia" and "Polk Salad Annie".  When I got out of high school I went to Marietta, Georgia, I had a sister living there. I went down there to get a job and I was playing guitar too at the house and stuff. I drove a dump truck for the highway department and when it would rain you didn't have to go to work. You could stay home and play your guitar and hangout all night. So those thoughts came back to me when I moved on to Texas about three months later. I heard "Ode to Billie Joe" on the radio and I thought, man, how real, because I am Billie Joe, I know that life. I've been in the cotton fields. So I thought if I ever tried to write, I'm going to write about something I know about. At that time I was doing a lot of Elvis and John Lee Hooker onstage with my drummer. No original songs and I hadn't really thought about it. But after I heard Bobbie Gentry I sat down and thought ... well I know about Polk because I had ate a bunch of it and I knew about rainy nights because I spent a lot of rainy nights in Marietta, Georgia. So I was real lucky with my first tries to write something that was not only real and hit pretty close to the bone, but lasted that long. So it was kind of a guide for me then on through life to always try to write what I know about.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, "This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you." The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, "Which do you want, son?"  The boy takes the quarters and leaves. "What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never learns!"  Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store. "Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?"  The boy licked his cone and replied, "Because the day I take the dollar, the game is over!"

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- Little Johnny: "Mom, Dad just backed out of the garage and ran over my bicycle!"
Mom: "Maybe in the future you shouldn't leave it on the front lawn."

- One man said to the other, "You know, there are really only three kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't.
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The Teacher had asked the class to write an essay about an unusual event that happened during the past week.  Little Johnny got up to read his. It began, "My daddy fell in the well last week."  "Good Lord!" the teacher exclaimed. "Is he OK?"
"He must be," said Little Johnny. "He stopped calling for help yesterday."
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A friend was laid up at home with the flu. His fiancee called and volunteered to come over and fix dinner and play nursemaid to him. He declined, not wanting to pass on the flu to her.  "Okay honey", she told him, "We'll wait till after we get married. Then we can spend the rest of our lives making each other sick!"

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