CANADA'S 'WIARTON WILLY' HAS PREDICTED AN EARLY SPRING:))))

 NO, THIS IS NOT WIARTON WILLY...THIS IS ONE OF OUR RASCALLY FRONT YARD SQUIRRELS

Under overcast skies at 8:07 a.m. on this February 2nd Friday morning, Wiarton Willy, Canada's greatest living Prognogtiscator did not see his shadow.  Therefore, it is quite safe to say we are in for an early Spring.  Now how's about that for something positive to look forward to eh:)))))

 ALL PHOTOS TODAY ARE FROM MY FILES  (TUNDRA SWANS)

Kind of another nothing day and I again chucked the few photos I took this morning into the garbage.  With the trail across the road leading to the pond free of snow now, I took Pheebs and my cane for a much-needed walk around the pond and beyond.  I did good most of the way but my hip was sure barking by the time we got back.  Today's hoped-for Sun never happened.  Maybe tomorrow.............  

Fifteen years ago today in Arizona's Huachuca Mountains we took ourselves for a Rough & Tumble Drive In Carr Canyon.  We had a Hyundai Santa Fe at the time.

Al's Music Box:)) Sunny  is a soul jazz standard written by Bobby Hebb in 1963.  Hebb's parents, William and Ovalla Hebb, were both blind musicians. Hebb and his older brother Harold performed as a song-and-dance duo in Nashville, beginning when Bobby was three and Harold was nine. Hebb performed on a TV show hosted by country music record producer Owen Bradley.  Hebb wrote the song after his older brother, Harold, was stabbed to death outside a Nashville nightclub. Hebb was devastated by the event and many critics say it inspired the lyrics and tune. According to Hebb, he merely wrote the song as an expression of a preference for a "sunny" disposition over a "lousy" disposition following the murder of his brother.  Events influenced Hebb's songwriting, but his melody, crossing over into R&B together with the optimistic lyrics, came from the artist's desire to express that one should always "look at the bright side". Hebb has said about "Sunny":  All my intentions were to think of happier times and pay tribute to my brother, basically looking for a brighter day, because times were at a low. After I wrote it, I thought "Sunny" just might be a different approach to what Johnny Bragg was talking about in "Just Walkin' in the Rain".

 GRACKLE

GROANER'S CORNER:(( I was walking past a clothes shop and saw a beautiful dress in the shop window. I went in and asked the shop assistant, “Hi, can I please try on the dress in the shop window?”  “Of course,” nodded the shop assistant, “but you know we also have changing rooms, right?”

Wow, honey, I never thought our son would go that far!  Yeah, the catapult is really amazing. Let's go get our daughter!

Waiter, there’s a fly twitching in my soup!”  And what do you expect for the price? A ballet?!”

A Texan tourist stands under the Eiffel tower in Paris and looks upon it in awe.  “Amazing tower,” he comments to a French guy nearby, “how many barrels does it get out in a day?”

Paul: “I’ve got problems with mathematics.”  Michael: “Me too.”
Eric: “Yeah, that makes four of us.”

Why is women’s soccer so rare?  It’s hard to find enough women willing to wear the same outfit.

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