SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY, POST

OUR PARK THIS MORNING

Saturday:: I kept a wary eye on the clock Saturday evening, knowing the Harvest Moon was due to rise at 7:02 and the sun due to set at 7:14 p.m. 

 A CORNFIELD AT DUSK ON THE WAY TO MY WALKING ROAD

AN AREA FARMER TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE TWILIGHT HOURS

 BIG SKY AT SUNDOWN

I finished up my country road walk just as the Sun slipped over the horizon and then went off to find the Moon, which should have been in the sky by then.  I drove a short distance to higher ground and waited.  But no Moon, despite the Sun having already set.  I scanned the cloudy horizon, but to no avail.  Drove to another hill, and there it was, about ten degrees above the horizon already, barely visible, in a cloud-shrouded eastern sky.  To the west, skies over Lake Huron had been clear for the sunset, but no such luck looking East.  With the Moon barely discernible, I headed into Clinton and grabbed my coffee to go at Hortons before heading off across the darkening countryside to my night sky viewing spot.

 TOPPING A HILL THIS WAS MY FIRST SIGHTING OF THE HARVEST MOON

 ON THE WAY TO MY NIGHT SKY SPOT

TOOK THIS PICTURE OF THE MOON THROUGH MY LIVING ROOM WINDOW AFTER I GOT HOME

Sunday:: Most years, when Autumn is early upon us, I've thought about planting Spring bulbs, but each year, except for maybe one, I never did.  However, this year I was more determined than ever to get some Spring bulbs and get them into the ground.  Checked online to see if the Goderich Canadian Tire Store had Spring bulbs.  They did, so with that on my list, and after my morning walk, I headed straightaway to Goderich on another beautiful sunny late September morning.

 SEAGULLS HAVING A NICE RELAXING DAY AT THE BEACH

THE GULLS WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES HAVING A NICE DAY AT THE BEACH

FOLIAGE ALONG COVE ROAD

 TOOK THIS SLIGHTLY WISPY PHOTO OF THE MOON AT 11:10 SUNDAY NIGHT FROM MY REAR DECK

Home again, with a few groceries and bulbs in hand, I set about planting them, but not all of them just yet.  Two spots for now, and later in the week I'll figure out a few more spots.  I'm already looking forward to seeing them all blooming in the Spring.  Tulips, Daffodils, Narcissus, Hyacinths, and Crocus.

MY PACKAGES OF SPRING BULBS

 I PLANTED SOME OF THE BULBS ALONG THAT STRIP BESIDE THE HOUSE AND AROUND THE CORNER INTO THOSE ROCKS

 MORE BULBS WENT INTO THE GROUND AROUND THIS LARGE ROCK AT THE FOOT OF MY DRIVEWA WHERE THE LAMP POST IS

Woodsy popped in mid-afternoon, so I took a break from bulb planting, and she brewed up some coffee.  Later we stopped into the Woodland Drive-In for a bite to eat and then took ourselves for a little drive around Bayfield.  What a gorgeous weather day it was.  Woodsy stayed till nearly eight o'clock and then headed back to Stratford.  The Moon was again shrouded in cloud cover, so I didn't head out anywhere.

LATE AFTERNOON SUNSHINE ON LAKE HURON

 WOODSY CHECKS THE PHOTO SHE JUST TOOK WITH HER CELL PHONE

AT BAYFIELD'S BEACH

Monday:: All showered up, shaved, and with my hair combed, I headed out the door this morning to my first ever 10:30 exercise class at the Bayfield Community Center.  Feeling a little shaky I headed in, but as soon as I went through the lobby door and heard the loud strains of Dolly Parton singing 'Joline' Joline.' I knew there might be something amiss.  And there was. Up the stairs I went to where 'Joline' 'Joline' was being belted out louder and louder.  Reaching the top, I could see through the glass doors what appeared to be a lot of ladies doing dancersizes, or whatever they call that.  And there was a sign on the door saying, 'Do Not Open This Door after 10:15'.  Can you just imagine the bee's nest I might have walked into had I not seen that sign.  I quietly made a hasty retreat down the stairs and out of the building to my car.  Knowing me as well as I do, I knew that I must have read the daily events for the exercise classes wrong.  Home again, I saw that I did. But here's the positive side of this: at least I made the effort and went.  It looks like the exercise class is Wednesday morning at 10:30, and I do plan to be there. Well, that's my intention anyway.  But now there is a dark horse standing in the wings.  I have been troubled lately with a lot of pain at the top of my spine on the left side.  It feels like somebody is sticking a hot poker into the top of my shoulder. I first noticed that pain about twenty years ago, and more recently it has increased with some chairs I sit in as well as sometimes driving and e-biking.  Planting bulbs yesterday brought it on, and the two Tai Chi classes I have attended greatly aggravated it as well.  I'll see what happens with the upcoming exercise class. My Tai Chi class did not go well today with the pain in my upper back/lower neck and my unexpected inability to once again focus, remember, and retain what is being taught.  I don't understand why my mind is having so much trouble with this, but I it is.

 THIS GREAT WEATHER HAS BEEN GREAT FOR AREA FARMERS HARVESTING THEIR BEANFIELDS

Al's Music Box:: Along The Navajo Trail by the Sons of the Pioneers.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A man went to an upscale Manhattan restaurant and ordered soup du jour. When the waitress brought it out, he exclaimed, "What is this?" The waitress said, "Why, it's bean soup." The man said, "I don't care what it has been, what is it now?"

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A guy walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says to the bartender: "I’ll take a beer, and one for the road."

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- “I think there are about 1-2 million baseball fields in the world, but that's just a ballpark figure.”

- My brain is like the Bermuda Triangle. Information goes in and then is never found again.

- You know it's cold outside when you go outside, and it's cold.

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A young lady came home from a date, rather sad. She told her mother, "Jeff proposed to me an hour ago." "Then why are you so sad?" her mother asked. "Because he also told me he was an atheist. Mom, he doesn't even believe there's a hell." Her mother replied, "Marry him anyway. Between the two of us, we'll show him how wrong he is."

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