I PROBABLY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY THE BILL ANYWAY

I was able to stretch my right leg far enough around behind me this rainy morning to haul off and kick myself out the door.  I even managed to take a few photos on my following slow travels around a few country roads.  I decided this afternoon that if I can't say anything positive about how I'm feeling, I had better not say anything at all.  And, so be it.

 THIS CORN CROP IS ALREADY SHOWING ITSELF

Lorraine/Woodsy, headed back to her place in Stratford this afternoon for a few days.  She will be back to put up with me, maybe early next week again.  When older men aren't feeling well, it isn't pretty.  She sure is a trooper, and she sure has been a huge help to me in these previous difficult months.

In my Spring clean-up this year, I found something a few weeks ago that I may have posted about once before, a long time ago.  It is a simple auto tune-up repair bill from Ruby's Garage in Tavistock, Ontario, for a vehicle I had March 16th, 1967.  I've had a lot of vehicles over the years and this might have been one of two Ford Falcons I had.  So, here's the bill....6 spark plugs-$6.00.  One set of points....$2.70.  One condenser....$1.85.  One fan belt....$2.65.  Total $12.70.  Tax .64 cents.  Labor....$5.00.  Total cost for the tune-up, parts, and labor....$18.34.  And, here's the kicker.  Knowing me back in those years, I probably didn't have enough money to pay the bill anyway.  

Al's Music Box:))  Break It To Me Gently is a pop song written by blues musician Joe Seneca with lyrics by Diane Lampert.  Brenda Lee recorded "Break It to Me Gently" on August 31, 1961, with Owen Bradley producing the session at his Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville, after another track from the same sessions, "Fool #1", which became a top 10 hit. "Break It To Me Gently" was released as a single at the end of 1961 and reached number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1962. In 2008, the Brenda Lee version of the song was featured at the closing of season 2, episode 7 of the AMC series Mad Men. 

Groaner's Corner:(( There's a man named Ralph who goes into a bar, looking very depressed. A friend approaches him and asks, "Why the long face, Ralph?"  "Oh, I'm just bored. I know every person in the entire world now, and there's just nothing left to challenge me."  His friend says, "No, you can't know everyone. Do you know Paul McCartney?"  He says, "Sure, Paul's an old friend of mine. Here, I'll show you." He goes over to a phone, dials a number. His friend overhears a British accent, "Hey Ralph, how ya doing?"  He talks for a while, but when Ralph hangs up, his friend is not really sure that it was Paul McCartney on the other end of the line, so he asks him if he knows the president.  Ralph says, "Sure, we go way back." This time he lets him listen in as he calls a private number. It sounds like the president on the other end of the line, and they go into a big discussion of the current economic scene, and Ralph offers a few suggestions. Drawing the conversation to a close, Ralph wishes him well and hangs up.  His friend is a little dumbfounded at this point. "Well, there must be someone that you don't know." He goes over a few more people in his mind, and thinks, 'He can't possibly know the Pope. After all, he's a Protestant.'  But Ralph claims to know him, so to convince himself otherwise, his friend decides to fly both himself and Ralph to the Vatican to get positive proof of Ralph's conviction.  So they arrive at the Vatican, and Ralph suggests that his friend wait out in St. Peter's Square until Ralph has cleared things with the Pope. He's standing in the courtyard when who walks out onto the balcony of the private residence, arm in arm with the Pope, but Ralph.  Ralph looks down, sees that his friend has apparently passed out, and runs down to see what can be done for him. "What happened to you? Couldn't you accept the fact that I really do know the Pope?"  "No, I'd begun to accept that possibility. But what really took my breath away was some stranger standing next to me who said, 'Who's that guy standing there with Ralph?'"

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- I went out for a run this morning, but I came back after a couple of minutes because I forgot something.  I forgot that I can't run for more than a couple of minutes.

- A teenage boy with spiked hair, nose ring, and baggy clothes was overheard telling a friend, "I don't really like to dress like this."
"Then why do you?" asked the friend.
"It keeps my parents from dragging me everywhere with them."

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The priest was preparing a man for his long day's journey into night.  Whispering firmly, the priest said, "Denounce the devil! Let him know how little you think of his evil!"  The dying man said nothing.  The priest repeated his order. Still the dying man said nothing.  The priest asked, "Why do you refuse to denounce the devil and his evil?"  he dying man said, "Until I know where I'm heading, I don't think I ought to cheese anyone off!!"

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Al's Doggy World

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Kelly & Pheeb's Corner

 AUNT JEAN AND KELLY AT A RANCH HOUSE WE WERE INTERESTED IN NORTH OF ELFRIDA, ARIZONA

 AUNT JEAN, PHEEBS, AND KELLY IN OUR MOTORHOME

 ON A DAY TRIP WE STOPPED FOR A LUNCH BREAK NEAR BAGDAD, ARIZONA

 PHEEBS AND THE MOTORMOUSE

Al's Art Gallery