HEADING HOME WITH OUR HEADLIGHTS ON

 A STOP AT AN OLD CONCRETE RAILWAY UNDERPASS ALONG THE TRAIL

It was early Saturday evening when we saddled up the E-Bikes and headed into Bayfield.  We buzzed Main Street, biked around a few neighborhood blocks, and landed ourselves back on Main Street again. The line up for ice cream at Rosies Ice Cream Shoppe was a quarter of a block long, so that was the end of that story.  Biked down to the beach and out onto the pier with the sun setting over the lake. With the sun down, it was back up into the village we went before heading home with our headlights on.  Another nice summer evening bike ride into Bayfield and back.

 BEACHGOERS ENJOYING THEMSELVES ON SUNNY WARM AFTERNOON BELOW BAYFIELD'S PIONEER PARK

 LOOKED LIKE A MOM AND HER SON ENJOYING A DAY AT THE BEACH

 GETTING THE LITTLE FELLA ACCUSTOMED TO THE WATER

 AND, I THINK THEY ARE BOTH HAVING FUN

 WE HEADED DOWN TO THE BEACH AND OUT ONTO THE PIER

 LOTS OF PEOPLE

 I WONDERED IF THIS FELLOW MIGHT HAVE BEEN A VIDEOGRAPHER

A lower humidity level made my morning walk doable, and I was grateful for that.  Home again, I put the E-bike carrier on the back of the car and loaded up the bikes.  It was well after noon when we headed for a trailhead in Blyth, Ontario.  It wasn't long before we had the bikes off the car and had tires on the Mailtand Trail heading east in the direction of Walton, Ontario.  It was a perfect day for a bike ride with a nice mixture of sun and shade along the way.  We didn't go as far as Walton, but by the time we returned to the car we had travelled 7.5 miles.  

 BIKES ARE UNLOADED AND WE'RE READY TO RUMBLE

 A VERY SCENIC TRAIL ALONG THIS STRETCH

 A COUPLE OF BIKERS BLAZING BY WITH THE THROTTLE DOWN

 NEARLY BACK TO THE CAR

 THE BLYTH TRAILHEAD IS BEHIND THIS ONCE POPULAR BUT NOW CLOSED HIDE AND TANNERY OUTLET WHERE BACK IN THE LATE 80'S WOODSY AND I CAME HERE ONE DAY TO FIND ME A NICE JACKET.....I  CHOSE A DARK BLUE LEATHER ONE THAT I WORE FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS

Al's Music Box:(( The Blizzard by Jim Reeves.

ON THE FRONT PORCH SATURDAY NIGHT AFTER RETURNING FROM OUR BIKE RIDE, WOODSY CHECKS HER SMART WATCH TO SEE HOW MANY CALORIES SHE HAD BURNED....SHE TAKES THIS EXERCISE STUFF SERIOUSLY.....ME, NOT SO MUCH

GROANER'S CORNER:((The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing public enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 percent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the language is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud, of kors, be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German lik zey vunted in ze forst plas.

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- Question: How much should I spend on a really good bottle of wine? Half an hour?
Twenty minutes?

- This young man was elated when he turned eighteen in a state where curfew is 11:00 p.m. for anyone under seventeen years of age. He told his Dad how happy he was that now he could stay out until 3:00 a.m. if he wanted. “Yes you can stay out as late as you want, but the car is under seventeen and it has to be in the garage by eleven,” his father said.

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A blind man enters a ladies' bar by mistake. He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a drink. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, "Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?" The bar immediately falls absolutely quiet. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, sir, you should know five things:

1 - The bartender is a blonde girl.
2 - The bouncer is a blonde gal.
3 - I'm a 6-foot tall, 200-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4 - The woman sitting next to me is blonde and is a professional weight lifter.
5 - The lady to your right is a blonde and is a professional wrestler.
Now think about it seriously, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?"
The blind man thinks for a second, shakes his head, and declares, "Nah, not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times."

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I FINALLY MADE IT INTO THE STARS

 BY GOLLY, I FINALLY MADE IT INTO THE STARS

Yup, I missed September alright.  In yesterday's post, my opening paragraph mentioned about a month from now being at the end of the first week in October.  A couple of readers comments on my post asked, 'What happened to September?  Thanks to those folks for bringing it to my attention.  Missing September is kind of a good example of how my mind works these days.  Makes me wonder what other things I've missed or got wrong, and don't know about.  

 COULD THIS BE A LAKE OR POND NEAR US.....WELL MAYBE, BUT FIRST, IT WAS A GRAVEL PIT THAT FILLED IN WITH WATER

 WE HAVE A NUMBER OF ACTIVE, AND INACTIVE GRAVEL PITS IN OUR AREA

 NEAR ONE OF THE TWO GRAVEL PITS ABOVE, I STUMBLED ACROSS THIS EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SPOON PLANT, ONLY FOUND IN THIS AREA OF THE WHOLE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINANT

After my Friday evening chat with Aunt Jean (we switched our time from 8:15 to 7 p.m. now) I headed out to my walking road and followed that up with a routine drive to Clinton for a Tim Horton coffee to go, before heading off to my night sky spot atop a hill on Tower Line Road.  

 I JUST CAUGHT THE TAIL END OF FRIDAY'S SUNSET

A few days ago, while cleaning up and rearranging things in the carport, I came across a forgotten night light thingy I had years ago which projects colorful stars on walls and ceilings.  I noticed it had a USB plug-in, so I took it along with me Friday night to see what it would look like inside the car.  Well, as you can see, I had fun playing with it.  I also tried out some pics with my iPhone on a tripod selfie stick that I just remembered I had after buying it last summer.   

 IT SURE LIT UP THE INSIDE OF THE CAR WITH LOTS OF PRETTY COLORS

 I WAS A BIT SHOCKED BY THIS iPHONE SELFIE TO SEE HOW MUCH HAIR I HAVE ACTUALLY LOST

 MY APOLOGIES FOR THE SELFIES AGAIN, BUT WITHOUT PHEEBS WITH ME....I'M IT

Because of the morning's heat and humidity, I cut my walk short and instead cruised a few country roads in the cool comfort of Subie's A/C.  A few pics along the way.

 MANY FARMS HAVE NICE LANDSCAPING NOWADAYS AND ESPECIALLY THE DUTCH FARMS

 I THINK THIS HORSE HAS A LEG UP ON ALL THE OTHER HORSES

 HAD MYSELF A LITTLE GAME OF PEEK-A-BOO WITH THIS COW EARLIER TODAY

Woodsy and I headed for downtown Goderich shortly after noon.  There's always a summer market in the square, and she wanted to have a look at all the veggies and stuff.  Me, not so much, but I went along anyway, keeping an eye out for some candid people pics.  I like snapping pics of people just being themselves.  A quick stop at 360 Bikes n Boards to inquire about a howl in the rear hub of my E-bike, and a stop at Walmart before heading home.  

 IT WAS ODD TO SEE A MUSLIM LADY WEARING A BASEBALL CAP

COLORS ALWAYS CATCH MY EYE

Al's Music Box:: Yesterday Once More by The Carpenters.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( There was this party in the woods and, all of a sudden there was a downpour of rain and thunder. These two young men ran for about 10 minutes in the pouring rain, and finally reached their car just as the rain let up. They jumped in the car, started it up and headed down the road, laughing and, of course, still drinking one beer after the other.  All of a sudden an old man's face appeared outside the passenger window, and he tapped lightly on the window! The man on the passenger side screamed out, "Eeeeeeekkk! Look at my window!!! There's an old guy's face there!" (Was this a ghost?!?!?!) The old man kept knocking, so the driver said, "Well, open the window a little and ask him what he wants!" So the passenger rolled his window down partway and said, scared out of his wits, "What do you want???" The old man softly replied, "Do you have any tobacco?" The passenger, terrified, looked at the driver and said, "He wants tobacco!" "Well, offer him a cigarette! HURRY!!" the driver replies. So he fumbles around with the pack and hands the old man a cigarette and yells, "Step on it!!!" rolling up the window in terror. Now going about 80 miles an hour, in the blinding rain, they calm down, and start laughing again, and the passenger says, "What do you think about that?" The driver says, "I don't know. How could that be? I was going pretty fast." Then all of a sudden AGAIN there is a knock, and there is the old man again. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, there he is again!" the passenger yells. "Well, see what he wants now!" yells back the driver. He rolls down the window a little ways and shakily says, "Yes?" "Do you have a light?" the old man quietly asks. The passenger throws a lighter out the window at him and rolls up the window and yells, "STEP ON IT!" They are now going about 100 miles an hour and still guzzling beer, trying to forget what they had just seen and heard, when all of a sudden again there is more knocking! "OH MY GOD! HE'S BACK!" He rolls down the window and screams out, "WHAT DO YOU WANT?" in stark fear. The old man replies, "You want some help getting out of the mud?"

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A man was driving down the road. He passed a traffic camera and saw it flash.

Astounded that he had been caught speeding when he was under the speed limit, he turned around and, going even slower, he passed by the camera. Again, he saw it flash. He couldn't believe it! So he turned and, going at snail's pace, he passed the camera. AGAIN, he saw the camera flash. He guessed it must have a fault, and home he went. Four weeks later he received 3 traffic fines in the mail, all for not wearing a seatbelt.

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