THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU

THIS IS ONE OF ONLY TWO PHOTOS I TOOK TODAY WITH MY iPHONE

Rain came in the night and continued its wetness throughout the whole entire day, casting a gloomy pall over everything outside.  Not my kind of day, so I had to dig deep and be thankful it wasn't snow.  Never set foot out the door except to toss a few peanuts out for the poor little rain-soaked chipmunks. I hauled my exercise bike (it has wheels) out of the sunroom to the living room where I had access to my YouTube channel on the large screen TV.  I climbed aboard the bike and pedaled my way through a number of interesting YouTube things, with the main one being a two-hour documentary/interview with Bill Medley, who many will remember as the tall bass singer from the singing duo, The Righteous Brothers.  It was a difficult life, and especially so after his long-time singing partner, Bobby Hatfield, passed away in 2003.  I always find documentaries on musicians entertaining, and I enjoy hearing all the backstories of how everything came about in their musical careers.  And Bill Medley has a lot of backstories.  The interviewer is Mike Moreno, and the interview is a two-parter, with the second part being an interview with Bill's new singing partner for the past eleven years or so.  His name is Bucky Heard, and his story is equally fascinating and filled with more entertaining and amusing backstories. The documentary wraps up with both Bill and Bucky together talking about their lives, their future, their friendship, and their professional admiration for each other.  Bill Medley is eighty-six now and shows no signs of slowing down.  The Righteous Brothers are still performing for sold-out audiences.  And did you know that The Righteous Brothers opened for The Beatles on the Beatles' very first United States tour way back in February of 1964. 

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It has been a while since I last expressed my gratitude to all my Bayfield Bunch readers, who have stuck with me over the years, and the newer folks who have recently stumbled across my blog.  As I've said over and over through the years, if it wasn't for all of you readers supporting my musings, moods, silliness, and daily weather grumbles, there would be no blog.  When occasionally looking at my Blogger Statistics, it is beyond my understanding how and why my blog's viewership has grown the way it has.  Of course, like an aging old dinosaur, it has been up and running for two decades now, but I have particularly noticed the number of 'hits' on the blog has been substantially increasing over this past year.  I don't know who all you inquisitively good people are, but from my heart I say thank you for enabling me to continue my beloved hobbies of writing, photography, and travel, although my travels over the past seven years or so have been greatly curtailed since our previously adventurous RV days. So, before I go off on a long ramble, let me wrap this post up by simply saying, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you:))

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In regard to my Saturday post about not seeing my blog's sidebar on cell phones, several readers left comments and instructions on how to do that.  From Arrowhead Gramma...' On my iPhone 17Pro, when I go to the Bayfield Bunch, it doesn't show the sidebar. However, if I scroll to the bottom of the post in the "fine print" it shows "View web version." By clicking on that, it brings up the blog again with the side bar. Take care'.  From   From Anonymous...'About not seeing the sidebar on your phone, at the bottom of the blog after the comments there is a box that says home under it says VIEW Web Version click on it should show blog with the sidebar'.  Cactus Flower said,  Just scroll to bottom, click "view web version", change settings to "Landscape" & I can see sidebar. My  thanks to these fine folks tor their instructional help:))

Al's Music Box::  Scarborough Fair by Simon and Garfunkel.

 AND THIS IS MY SLIGHTLY WELL DONE TWO EGG AFTERNOON OMELETE

GROANER'S CORNER:(( "How was your game, dear?" asked Jack's wife Tracy.  "Well, I was hitting pretty well, but my eyesight's gotten so bad I couldn't see where the ball went," he answered.  "But you're 75 years old, Jack!" admonished his wife. "Why don't you take my brother Scott along?"  "But he's 85 and doesn't play golf anymore," protested Jack. "Well, he's got perfect eyesight. He would watch the ball for you," Tracy pointed out.  The next day Jack teed off with Scott looking on. Jack swung, and the ball disappeared down the middle of the fairway. "Do you see it?" asked Jack.  "Yup," Scott answered.  "Well, where is it?" yelled Jack, peering off into the distance. "I forgot."

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There was a very gracious lady who was mailing an old family Bible to her brother in another part of the country. "Is there anything breakable in here?" asked the postal clerk. "Only the Ten Commandments," answered the lady.

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- Why can't a bankrupt farmer complain?
He's got no beef.
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A long two-engine train was crossing America. After they had gone some distance, one of the two engines broke down. "No problem," the engineer thought, and carried on at half power. Farther down the line, the other engine broke down, and the train came to a standstill. The engineer decided he should inform the passengers about why the train had stopped, and made the following announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for some time. The good news is that you decided to take the train and not fly."

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