BUT THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE IT KNOWS I'M GOING TO SEE THE HIP SURGEON IN THE MORNING

MORNING SUNSHINE LIGHTS UP THE COLORS IN OUR FRONT YARD EARLIER TODAY

For Richard and I, our usual bi-monthly country road coffee tours are normally on Thursdays but due to the fact that Kelly, Pheebs, and I will be in Sarnia Thursday morning, our coffee and muffin drive was re-scheduled to this morning.  And a fine sunny blue sky morning it was too with temps pushing 60F today.  Our travels around the area took us through a neighboring mobile home park called Pine Lake.  It was over 21 years ago since I was last in this Park.  Before moving to where we are now Kelly and I had briefly looked at a place in Pine Lake.  The very same day we looked at a place there, we found our current digs right here in the Bayfield Pines which was then called, 'Five Seasons Estates'.  The very first time I was ever in Pine Lake was over 50 years ago when my Dad had a trailer there. 

 WAITING FOR RICHARD THIS MORNING I TOOK A FEW PHOTOS AROUND THE END OF OUR DRIVEWAY

 NO LEAVES LEFT ON OUR SUMAC TREES

With such a nice Autumn day going on this afternoon I couldn't resist the call of the 'Outdoors'.  Noticing a dozen leaves lying in our driveway I wasn't long in hauling out my 3,000 horsepower leaf blower and blowing those dozen leaves up into some semblance of an organized leaf pile.  I also hauled out our big 20-gallon shop vac and vacuumed out the Jeep.  And, I needed every gallon of space too what with all the dog fur and dropped doggy snacks all over the place.  A couple bird feeders were needin a fillin so I took care of that too.

Needless to say, it was a much better day than yesterday.  An afternoon walk took Pheebs and I past the Park's pond and on down around the far end of the Park's property and back.  My hip was on its best behavior this afternoon but only because it knows I'm going to see the hip surgeon in the morning for a consultation.

 OUR AFTERNOON WALK TOOK US ALONG THIS ROAD THAT SHOULDN'T BE HERE....THANK HEAVENS OUR PARK CHANGED OWNERSHIP NEARLY A YEAR AND HALF AGO JUST IN TIME TO STOP ANY FURTHER RAMPANT DAMAGE BEING DONE TO IT

 PHEEBS STANDS ON THE SPOT WHERE MY FAVORITE MAPLE TREE ONCE STOOD ALONGSIDE A  QUIET FOREST PATH.....THE PARK'S PREVIOUS OWNER MINDLESSLY, RECKLESSLY, AND NEEDLESSLY DESTROYED THE FOREST HERE

 THIS OLD HOMEMADE UTILITY TRAILER IS ABOUT ALL THAT'S LEFT OF THE TONS OF JUNK MACHINERY THE PARK'S PREVIOUS OWNER HAD LEFT SCATTERED AROUND THE PARK'S PROPERTY

Ellen's Groove:)) Another great video showcasing Ellen's bass-playing progress. She really heats up the frets and rocks this one out..... Disco Daddy .

 A PARK NEIGHBOR HAS BEEN BUSY WITH CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS

IMAGINE HOW NICE THIS IS ALL GOING TO LOOK AFTER A GENTLE WINTER'S SNOWFALL

 AND YEP, THERE'S A PHEEBS IN THE PHOTO

Al's Music Box:)) Escape (The Pina Colada Song) is a song written and performed by British-American singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes taken from his 1979 fifth studio album 'Partners In Crime'. The song was inspired by a want-ad he read whilst idly scanning the personals one day. As Holmes put it, "I thought, ‘what would happen to me if I answered this ad?’ I'd go and see if it was my own wife who was bored with me." The title of the song was originally going to be "People Need Other People", The chorus originally started with "If you like Humphrey Bogart", which Holmes changed at the last minute, replacing the actor with the name of the first exotic cocktail that came to mind and fit the music. The original lyrics said, "If you like Humphrey Bogart and getting caught in the rain." ...As I was getting on mic I thought to myself, I've done so many movie references to Bogart and wide-screen cinema on my earlier albums, maybe I shouldn't do one here. I thought, What can I substitute? Well, this woman wants an escape, like she wants to go on vacation to the islands. When you go on vacation to the islands, when you sit on the beach and someone asks you if you'd like a drink, you never order a Budweiser, you don't have a beer. You're on vacation, you want a drink in a hollowed-out pineapple with the flags of all nations and a parasol. If the drink is blue you'd be very happy. And a long straw. I thought, What are those escape drinks? Let's see, there's daiquiri, mai tai, piña colada... I wonder what a piña colada tastes like? I've never even had one. I thought that instead of singing, "If you like Humphrey Bogart," with the emphasis on like, I could start it a syllable earlier and go, "If you like piña-a coladas. Holmes said in 2019 that he still does not drink Pina Coladas.

OUR FRONT YARD LATE THIS AFTERNOON

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A husband and wife were driving down a country lane on their way to visit some friends. They came to a muddy patch in the road and the car became bogged down. After a few minutes of trying to get the car out by themselves, they saw a young farmer coming down the lane, driving some oxen before him.  The farmer stopped when he saw the couple in trouble and offered to pull the car out of the mud for $50. The husband accepted and minutes later the car was free. The farmer turned to the husband and said, "You know, you're the tenth car I've helped out of the mud today."  The husband looks around at the fields incredulously and asks the farmer, "When do you have time to plough your land? At night?"  "No," the young farmer replied seriously, "Night is when I put the water in the hole."

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If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.

Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

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