D'YA EVER WISH SOMETIMES THAT YOUR HAIR WOULD STOP GROWING!!

I WONDER WHAT THIS FELLA AT GODERICH'S ROTARY COVE COULD BE WATCHING

A very much most better day.  I like it when that happens.  Another beautiful early September-like sunny day in November.  So nice, in fact, that I took my afternoon coffee outside and sat on the front porch.  It was just perfect, and I think we probably broke another temperature record with temps in the low 70s.  I especially enjoyed the sound of a wind chime hanging in a nearby cedar tree.  Years ago at our Arizona house, Kelly's brother Peter and his wife came to visit us for a week.  They gifted us an oriental wind chime that I hung on a Mesquite tree in our front yard on Ghost Town Road, and every time I hear that chime here in my cedar tree now, it takes me back to Arizona and reminds me of the lovely, fun, and memorable times we spent with Leslie and Peter, both times they visited us.

 OF COURSE WHEN I SIT ON MY FRONT PORCH I ALWAYS HAVE COMPANY

 THIS LITTLE FELLOW KNOWS I'VE GOT PEANUTS IN MY POCKET

 THIS LITTLE CHIP WAS CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT I WAS WRITING ABOUT

 THIS LITTLE GUY WAS MORE INTERESTED IN WHAT I HAD IN MY SHIRT POCKET

With a few things to pick up in Goderich earlier today, I was out the door and on my way.  Enjoyed watching the antics of a few wind surfers out at Rotary Cove.  Today's gusting winds made it perfect, with some of them reaching twenty and thirty feet in the air with their para-sails twisting and turning in the wind above them.

 IT WAS A GREAT DAY FOR WIND SURFERS AT GODERICH'S ROTARY COVE TODAY

 SOME OF THESE GUYS WOULD SOAR TWENTY AND THIRTY FEET UP INTO THE AIR

 JUST CASUALLY HANGING OUT

My son Sean does a lot of music scores for various film and series productions, and one of them has been nominated at the 'Blood In The Snow' Film Festival for Best Movie Score.  Yes, I am very proud of that fine young lad. 

 THAT'S A GAL SUITING UP OVER THERE

 MAYBE SHE'S CALLING HER INSURANCE BROKER TO SEE IF SHE IS COVERED FOR WATER DAMAGE

 STRUGGLING WITH THE KITE AS A FELLOW SURFER HELPS GET HER HOOKED UP

 WITH EFFORT SHE MAKES HERE WAY TO THE WATER'S EDGE

 SHE IS SECONDS AWAY FROM LIFT OFF

 'LIFTOFF'

AND TERE SHE GOES ROCKETING INTO THE SKY

OH-OH..../SPLASHDOWN'

 NOT TO WORRY, SHE WAS SOON BACK IN THE AIR MIXING IT UP WITH THE BOYS

With all the recent rains and flooding in Arizona, I was thinking about Wickenburg and wondering how folks there are making out with the unpredictable Hassayampa River.  There is a narrowing of the river through a canyon just outside of Wickenburg that Pheebs and I liked to drive through and get the Jeep's tires wet.  Paws and boots too sometimes.  In this particular narrows, the river actually runs underground for a stretch, leaving only shallow puddles on the surface.  I imagine it's a raging torrent through there right about now and no doubt washing things out.  Here is a link for one of our drives through that narrows.....Return To Little Box Canyon And The Narrows

D'ya ever wish sometimes that your hair would stop growing!!  Probably not high on anyone's 'wish list' of course, but sometimes between haircuts, that thought does occur to me occasionally when I catch sight of myself in a mirror.  You know, on those rare occasions that for some unknown reason, your hair just looks 'just right'.  You think, why couldn't my hair just stay like this forever and not look like the whole Chinese army just marched over my head while I was sleeping. It's at that stage where it's not too short and not too long and in your mind just looks fantabulously perfect.  Now, why can't it just STAY THAT WAY!!!!

 AND THIS IS WHAT THEIR PARA-SAILS LOOK LIKE IN THE AIR

 OF COURSE NOT EVERYONE WAS PARA-SAILING THIS MORNING

Memories Music Box::  Saturday Night Fever by The Bee Gees.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( On the first day God created the cow. God said, "You must go to the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves, and give milk to support the farmer. I will give you a lifespan of sixty years." The cow said, "That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. Let me have twenty years and I'll give back the other forty." And God agreed.

On the second day, God created the dog. God said, "Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. I will give you a life span of twenty years." The dog said, "That's too long to be barking. Give me ten years and I'll give back the other ten." So God agreed (*sigh*).

On the third day God created the monkey. God said, "Entertain people, do monkey tricks, make them laugh. I'll give you a twenty-year lifespan." The monkey said, "How boring, monkey tricks for twenty years? I don't think so. Dog gave you back ten, so that's what I'll do too, okay?" And God agreed again (...???...)

On the fourth day God created man. God said, "Eat, sleep, play, have fun, enjoy. Do nothing, just enjoy, enjoy. I'll give you twenty years." Man said, "What? Only twenty years? No way, man. Tell you what, I'll take my twenty, and the forty cow gave back, and the ten dog gave back and the ten monkey gave back. That makes eighty, okay?" "Okay," said God. "You've got a deal."

So, that is why for the first twenty years we eat, sleep, play, have fun, enjoy, and do nothing. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain our grandchildren; and for the last ten years we sit in front of the house and bark at everybody.

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- When your girlfriend comes home in a white suit covered in bee stings and smelling like honey...You know she's a keeper.

- People always ask where is Bigfoot? But never ask How is Bigfoot? Yeti never complains

- A friend told me he doesn't let his kids watch orchestra performances
cuz there's too much sax and violins.

- My friend asked me if I had ever tried blindfolded archery. I replied that I hadn't.
He said, "It's great. You don't know what you're missing!

- I am looking for someone to brush their teeth with me...I just found out that 9 out of 10 dentists say brushing alone won't reduce cavities.

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A boy was having a lot of difficulty in French class. To encourage him, his teacher said, "You'll know you're really beginning to get it when you start dreaming in French."

The boy ran into class all excited one day, saying, "Teacher, teacher! I had a dream last night and everyone was talking in French!" "Great!" said the teacher; "what were they saying?" "I don't know," the boy replied; "I couldn't understand them.

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