Wednesday:: Sorry folks, by the time I got to the end of Wednesday, I had run out of steam and didn't get a blog published. I started Wednesday morning off by slipping over to neighbor Monica's with a hedge trimmer, a weed whacker, a pair of work gloves, a wheelbarrow, a clippers, and a pair of pruning shears. A flower bed on the south side of her garage had become quite overgrown during the summer with ornamental grasses and a tough weed tree. It needed to be trimmed right back to ground level, so I got right at it and got that job done.
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| THE TASK AT HAND |
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| ALL DONE BUT THE CLEAN-UP |
Monica herself was still in St. Jacobs about 75 northeast of Bayfield. We had driven her there a couple of days ago, and after attending her sister's funeral in Peterborough, Ontario, on Tuesday, she was back at her son's in St. Jacobs and ready to come on. Under clear blue sunny skies, Woodsy and I set out this morning about 11:20 and reached St. Jacobs at 1 o'clock. We soon had Monica loaded up and off and set off for home. We had a small detour already preplanned along the way to a very popular and well-known Mennonite Eatery in Millbank, Ontario, called Anna Mae's Bakery And Restaurant. We knew there would probably be a line up, but we certainly hadn't expected the mass of people there. It quickly became obvious that the long wait time was not going to work in our favor, so we decided to get takeout dinners and bring the food us. We had Monica home shortly before 3 p.m., and the rest of the day just kinda quietly slipped away.
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| ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR A TABLE; THERE ARE MORE WAITING OUTSIDE AND IN THE GIFT SHOP |
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| WAITING FOR OUR TAKE-OUT ORDER (ONLY ABOUT 10 MINUTES) |
Thursday:: Lots of sunshine through the pine trees this morning as our wondrous Autumn weather continues. So far so good. Back from my morning walk, I raked up four more wheelbarrow loads of pine needles from the backyard and hitched up the utility trailer. I backed the trailer up Monica's driveway to where I'd cut down the tall foliage the previous morning, and loaded all that into the trailer. I then did a 'Lone Ranger' drive to the Park's recycling area. A 'Lone Ranger' drive?? Ya, you know....'To de dump to de dump to de dump dump dump':)) With the weather so nice, it's a real privilege just to be outside doing something physical. And it's a double privilege for me that I can still do a lot of it, and that I still enjoy doing it for the most part. However, today I created some unnecessary work for myself. While unloading the trailer load of brush, I accidentally flipped my blue-handled shovel out of the trailer and didn't notice my shovel missing until I got home. So back to the Park's recycling area I went and began digging and sorting through all the pine needles, tall bamboo grass, and twisted and entangled small branches from the weed tree. Of course I had to dig through 95% of the pile before finally finding my shovel in the last 5%. It wouldn't have been right if I had found it right away, would it!!
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| RAKING PINE NEEDLES IN THE BACKYARD |
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| AND IN THE SIDE YARD |
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| AFTER UNLOADING ALL THIS YARD WASTE, I HAD TO COME BACK HALF AN HOUR LATER AND DIG THROUGH IT ALL LOOKING FOR MY BLUE HANDLED SHOVEL |
Woodsie (Lorraine) headed back to Stratford for a few days, but she left enough food in the fridge and freezer to last me for months. I'm just not a big eater anymore. |
| IN OUR PARK |
Memories Music Box:: Beautiful by Gordon Lightfoot,
GROANER'S CORNER:(( A man realized he needed to purchase a hearing aid, but he felt unwilling to spend much money. "How much do they run?" he asked the clerk. "That depends," said the salesman. "They run from $2.00 to $2,000." "Let's see the $2.00 model," he said. The clerk put the device around the man's neck. "You just stick this button in your ear and run this little string down to your pocket," he instructed. "How does it work?" the customer asked. "For $2.00 it doesn't work," the salesman replied. "But when people see it on you, they'll talk louder!"------------------------------------
: Why did the little Moron try and steal a police car?
A: He saw "911" on the back and thought it was a Porsche.
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- Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
- “Law of Probable Dispersal”: Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
- The first myth of management is that it exists.
- For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
What is the difference between a woman and a battery? “A battery always has a positive side.”
- Whenever a moon landing goes horribly wrong, NASA must APOLLOgize.
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The psychology instructor had just finished a lecture on mental health and was giving an oral test. Speaking specifically about manic depression, she asked, "How would you diagnose a patient who walks back and forth screaming at the top of his lungs one minute, then sits in a chair weeping uncontrollably the next?" A young man in the rear raised his hand and answered, "A basketball coach?"
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