THIS IS MY 29,469TH DAY ON THE PLANET

Under cloudy skies, I was once again on the road early heading to the True Center Autopro (NAPA) for an oil change on the Subaru.  McDonalds' is only a block south of the Napa garage, so to put in some time, I walked down there and had myself an egg & sausage McMuffin with a hash brown and a coffee.  Back to Napa, I had only a half-hour wait until the car was done, and I was soon on my way home under clearing skies.  Still dealing with tiredness, I didn't feel much like doing any outside stuff, so with watermelons on sale at the 'No Frills' grocery store in Grand Bend, off we went.  It was a nice day for a drive through the countryside.  Sunny and warm with a pleasantly cool breeze.  A wisp of energy must have blown through the screen door beside my living room recliner, and before I knew it, I was out in the driveway washing Woodsy's car.  Woodsy was nowhere to be found because she was out whizzing around on her new bicycle.  After washing Wizzy's VW 'Wizmobile car', I came back inside and took my recliner for another spin over to dreamland and back.  And so went another Friday.  And, by the way, this is my 29,469th day on the Planet:))

SPOTTED 'OLD LONESOME' ON MY WAY TO GODERICH THIS MORNING

BREAKFAST AT McDONALDS

THE NAPA GARAGE

 AND THERE'S SUBIE UP ON THE HOIST

 OUT FOR A THURSDAY EVENING DRIVE WE SPOTTED THIS WILD TURKEY STRUTTING ACROSS A FIELD

 ON OUR WAY BACK FROM GRAND BEND, WE STOPPED AT ZEHR'S MENNONITE MARKET SOUTH OF BAYFIELD, AND I SPOTTED THIS LITTLE FELLOW CONVERSING WITH A FLOCK OF  CHICKENS

A WALK AROUND OUR FRONT YARD FROG POND THIS AFTERNOON

Al's Music Box:)) A Day Is Gonna Come is a song by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke.  Produced by Hugo & Luigi and arranged and conducted by Rene' Hall, the song was the B-side to "Shake". The song was inspired by various events in Cooke's life, most prominently when he and his entourage were turned away from a whites-only motel in Louisiana.  On October 8, 1963, en route to Shreveport, Louisiana, Cooke called ahead to the Holiday Inn North to make reservations for his wife, Barbara, and himself, but when he and his group arrived, the desk clerk glanced nervously and explained there were no vacancies.  While his brother Charles protested, Sam was furious, yelling to see the manager and refusing to leave until he received an answer. His wife nudged him, attempting to calm him down, telling him, "They'll kill you," to which he responded, "They ain't gonna kill me, because I'm Sam Cooke."  When they eventually persuaded Cooke to leave, the group drove away calling out insults and blaring their horns. When they arrived at the Castle Motel on Sprague Street downtown, the police were waiting for them, arresting them for disturbing the peace. The New York Times ran a UPI report the next day, headlined "Negro Band Leader Held in Shreveport," but African-Americans were outraged. In 2019, then-Shreveport mayor Adrian Perkins apologized to Cooke's family for the event, and posthumously awarded Cooke the key to the city.  Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, "A Change Is Gonna Come" is widely considered one of Cooke's greatest and most influential compositions and has been voted among the greatest songs ever recorded by various publications. In 2007, the song was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress by the National Recording Registry, having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."  In 2021, Rolling Stone magazine placed it at number 3 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and in 2025, the magazine placed it at number 1 on its list of "The 100 Best Protest Songs of All Time."

 INVERTED COLORS ON A COUPLE OF HOSTA LEAVES

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A Chinese person walks into a bar in America late one night, and he sees Steven Spielberg. As he was a great fan of his movies, he rushed over to him and asked for his autograph. Instead, Spielberg turns away and says, "You Chinese people bombed Pearl Harbor, get out of here." The astonished Chinese man replied, "It was not the Chinese who bombed your Pearl Harbor, it was the Japanese". "Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, you're all the same," replied Spielberg.  In return, the Chinese says, "You sank the Titanic; my forefathers were on that ship."  Shocked, Spielberg replies, "It was the iceberg that sank the ship, not me." The Chinese man replies, "Iceberg, Spielberg, Carlsberg, you're all the same."

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My doctor's diagnosis was that I have high blood pressure.  I took that diagnosis with a grain of salt.

Q: Why do farmers put bells on cows?
A: Their horns don't work.
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So I walked into a this bar and heard two girls speaking in what sounded like a lovely Scottish accent. I said: So, are you two girls from Scotland?  One of them said: "Wales, you Idiot!"  So I said: "Oh, I am terribly sorry about that. So, are you two Whales from Scotland?"  That's the last thing I remember.

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Al's Doggy World

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Kelly & Pheebs Corner

 KELLY JOTS DOWN A DEER PARK LODGE GOOKING WHILE LITTLE CORA LOOKS ON

 CUTTING UNCLE HARRY'S HAIR AT THE RITZ VILLA IN MITCHELL, ONTARIO

Al's Art Gallery