HAPPY NEW YEAR AND WE'LL SEE Y'ALL ON THE FLIP SIDE:))

THIS IS THE STERN OF MY FAVORITE BAYIELD SAILBOAT

I am again thinking of upping my photo game a notch by switching to a different photo editing program.   Picasa, the free editing program I have been using for the past 17 years is not supported anymore and if it were to suddenly go ker-ploop one of these days I would be the proverbial fish out of water.  I don't consider Microsoft's photo editing tools to be a viable option.  I'm looking at Adobe's Photoshop Elements again because it appears that it would be the easiest one for me to learn.  'Easy' is the operative word here.  If I'm going to get into another photo editing program I have to get in at the entry level or I will become quickly discouraged.  Entry level will be challenging enough for me without thinking I could try an advanced version.  I'm wondering if any readers out here are using this or another comparable easy-to-understand photo editing program.

 PHEEBS AND I TOOK OURSELVES FOR A WALK IN THE BAYFIELD CEMETERY THIS MORNING

 A COLD FISHING MORNING ON BAYFIELD'S SOUTH PIER

 NOW THERE IS SOMETHING I COULD USE MORE OF ON THESE COLD GRAY DAYS

 IT JUST DON'T SEEM RIGHT TO SEE SANTA STANDING ON GREEN GRASS INSTEAD OF SNOW

For the last year of the day, it was a cold wet mixture of drizzly rain and snow.  Pheebs and I did take a walk in the field next to the Bayfield Cemetery before the yukky weather set in.  For something to do today, I dragged out all my camera gear, cleaned and dusted it off, and then put most of the stuff away again.  Hey, at least it gave me something constructive to do for an hour on this cold and damp yukky last day of the year.  I'm already dreading the 6 weeks following my hip replacement when I will be prohibited from driving as well as being confined to the house until my hip is well enough for me to get out and about again.  I haven't told Pheebs yet that we won't be able to get out for our morning Jeep rides for a while.  No sense in both of us feeling depressed about it.

So, here we are at the end of another year balancing on the cusp of another new year.  No point in me trying to sum up 2023.  We met all the challenges we faced and we're still here.  We'll continue to do the same in 2024.  So, with that, I say Happy New Year to everyone and I wish you all the best in 2024.  And thank you to all my blog readers who have stuck with me for another grinding year.  You people are truly made of tough stuff!!  Okay, see y'all on the flip side:))       

 MORE DREDGED-UP STEEL ON BAYFIELD'S NORTH PIER

Al's Music Box:)) Auld Lang Syne by Canadian-born Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra is a popular song, particularly in the English-speaking world. Traditionally, it is sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. The poem's Scots title may be translated into standard English as "old long since" or, less literally, "long long ago", "days gone by", "times long past" or "old times". Consequently, "For auld lang syne", as it appears in the first line of the chorus, might be loosely translated as "for the sake of old times".

GROANER'S CORNER:((  The teacher noticed that Johnny had been daydreaming for a long time. She decided to get his attention."Johnny," she said, "If the world is 25,000 miles around and eggs are sixty cents a dozen, how old am I? "Thirty-four," Johnny answered unhesitatingly.  The teacher replied "Well, that's not far from my actual age. Tell me...how did you guess?"  Oh, there's nothing to it," Johnny said. "My big sister is seventeen and she's only half-crazy."

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Guy: Haven’t I seen you someplace before?

Girl: Yes, that’s why I don’t go there anymore.

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A doctor, an engineer, and a politician were arguing as to which profession was older.
"Well," argued the doctor, "without a physician mankind could not have survived, so I am sure that mine is the oldest profession."  "No," said the engineer, "before life began there was complete chaos, and it took an engineer to create some semblance of order from this chaos. So engineering is older."  "But," chirped the triumphant politician, "who created the chaos?"

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