BLOGGERS ANONYMOUS 12 STEP PROGRAM

ANOTHER COLD AND BLEAK SNOWY MID JANUARY MORNING

Well, we are definitely caught in January's icy grip with our temps starting out today 16F.  It sure doesn't give one much incentive to venture outside but outside Pheebs and I did venture anyway.  Monday we took the Subaru and today the Jeep, just to keep a good charge on both batteries.

 NO THIS ISN'T SIBERIA, IT'S SOUTHERN ONTARIO

 PARK RESIDENT MKE AND HIS DOG ALFIE OUT FOR THEIR DAILY MORNING WALK

 NOT EVEN PHEEBS LIKES THIS COLD WEATHER

 'I DON'T EVEN WANT TO LOOK OUT THE WINDOW ANYMORE DAD'

Our dull and gray afternoon was no different than all the previously dull and gray afternoons lately so there isn't much for me to say about that except, 'second verse same as the first'.

 A FEW PICS ALONG THE WAY THIS MORNING

Facebook threw me a January 15th, 2011 memory yesterday which I forgot to include in my Monday post.  Based on the twelve steps of the AA program which I well remember, I revised it a bit and came up with, 'Bloggers Anonymous 12 Step Program'.

 GOLDFINCH

 MOURNING DOVE

 WOULD YOU BELIEVE WE ACTUALLY HAD A WHOLE 30 SECONDS OF SUNSHINE THIS AFTERNOON

Al's Music Box:)) El Paso is a western ballad written and originally recorded by Marty Robbins, and first released on 'Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs' in September 1959. It was released as a single the following month, and became a major hit on both the country and pop music charts, becoming the first No. 1 hit of the 1960s on both. It won the Grammy Award for Best Country and Western Recording in 1961. It is widely considered a genre classic for its gripping narrative which ends in the death of its protagonist, its shift from past to present tense, haunting harmonies by vocalists Bobby Sykes and Jim Glaser, (of the Glaser Brothers) and the eloquent and varied Spanish guitar accompaniment by Grady Martin that lends the recording a distinctive Tex-Mex feel. The name of the character Feleena was based on a schoolmate of Robbins in the fifth grade, Fidelina Martinez.  Members of the Western Writers of America chose "El Paso" as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.  In 1998, the 1959 recording of "El Paso" on Columbia Records by Marty Robbins was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

 HOW NICE TO SEE THIS VIBRANT SPLASH OF COLOR ALONG THE WAY

GROANER'S CORNER:((  One day an employee came in to work with both of his ears bandaged.  When his boss asked him what happened, he explained:  "Yesterday I was ironing a shirt when the phone rang and I accidentally answered the iron instead of the phone!"  "Well," the boss said, "that explains one ear, but what about the other?" "They called back!"

- Only in America...do people buy domestic brand tires, because they want to "buy American," and install them on their imported cars...

- Only in America...do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke...

- Only in America...do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and leave useless things and junk in boxes in the garage...

- Only in America...do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight...

A man received two sweaters for Hanukkah from his mother. The next time he visited her, he made sure to wear one of the two sweaters. As he entered her home, instead of the expected smile, she said, "What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?"

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