I DON'T MEAN TO IMPLY THE SURGEON IS A 'HIP' GUY

 A PEEK AT FUTURE DAYS TO COME

I've been over-using the word 'beautiful' these past months in describing our morning weather patterns.  So, let me just say what a marvelously swell start to the day we had.  I think Mother Nature must have got wind of my Wednesday post about me not feeling the magic in this mid August air yet because that magic was definitely in this morning's air in Spades:))

Managed to get our back yard grass cut and the weeds whacked before the #!!%&## mosquitos drove me back into the house.  There will be no afternoon walks for Pheebs and I until those miserable mosquitos are finally eradicated for another year!! 

 A BIG SPISH-SPLASH IN OUR BIRD BATH THIS AFTERNOON

 BY GOLLY IT'S A GRACKLE

 AND A VERY SOGGY GRACKLE AT THAT

A call from my nurse practitioner's office today saying an appointment has been set up for me on November 16th to have a chat with a hip surgeon at Sarnia's hospital in Sarnia Ontario.  Now,  I don't mean to imply the surgeon is a 'hip' guy as in kinda cool.  This is a surgeon guy who does all that slicing and dicing and makes the blood go flying stuff.  Oh wait, maybe he will turn out to be a kinda cool hip guy too.

IT WAS A NICE MORNING FOR A DRIVE OUT TO GODERICH'S ROTARY COVE

"COME ON HONEY BUNS FASTER FASTER FASTER I SAY"!!!!

 AND GOING BY I'M SURE I HEARD HONEY BUNS MUMBLING SOMETHING ABOUT !!#%**##!!!!&##

Al's Music Box:)) Memories by Elvis Presley from the album 'Elvis'.  1968  This song is one of two favorites of mine by Elvis.  The song was written by Billy Strange and Mac Davis specially for Presley to perform on Elvis, his comeback TV spcial that would air on NBC on December 3rd 1968.  Mac Davis later said " They had asked for a song about looking back over the years and oddly enough I had to write it in one night.  I stayed up all night at Billy Strange's house in Los Angeles.  He had a little office set up in his garage.  I wrote it right there".

GROANER'S CORNER:((  I went to the doctors with hearing problems.  He said, "Can you describe the symptoms?"  I said, "Homer's a fat bloke and Marge has big blue hair!"

- My dog ran off in the park last night.
I walked around for 30 minutes but could not find him.  The missus said I should look harder...So I shaved my head and got a tattoo.  I still can't find him!

- A drunk was walking down the sidewalk with a limp. A man coming in the opposite direction notice that he only had one shoe on. The man said to the drunk, "hey buddy, what's the matter, lose a shoe"? The drunk replied, "Nah, found one".

- A visitor to a certain college paused to admire the new Hemingway Hall that had been built on campus.  "It's a pleasure to see a building named for Ernest Hemingway," he said.  "Actually," said his guide, "it's named for Joshua Hemingway. No relation."  The visitor was astonished. "Was Joshua Hemingway a writer, also?"  "Yes, indeed," said his guide. "He wrote a check."

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