"HEY QUASIMODO, HOW'S IT GOING EH" AND A TORNADO NEAR MISS

SEEN ON MY COUNTRY ROAD WALK THIS MORNING...QUEEN ANNE'S LACE, CHICORY, AND CLOVER

I was up at 6:15 a.m. again, but I'm not complaining.  I've always liked starting the day off early, but these past few years, with Kelly being ill, our wake-up time had become later, with some days even as late as 8 p.m.  Quite often, a few years ago, Pheebs and I would be out the door and on the road for our morning drive shortly after 8 and we would be home again by nine or ten.  Now some days I don't even get out of the house until eleven or later:((  I've got to get myself back to some of my old ways:))

I sat down with my Kindle this morning and went to 'settings' as readers suggested.  I noticed something called airplane mode, and I knew I had seen that before, not too long ago, when I was pressing things trying to get the Kindle working properly.  I noticed the Kindle was in 'Airplane Mode', so I turned that off.  I went back to the home page and 'Holy Smackers', it worked.  The book I had tried to download a week ago was sitting there waiting for me to read.  I thought to myself, 'WOW' another major dilemma solved in my life.  Geeezzzz, maybe I'm on a roll......A reader, in a comment, asked, "So how is the new recliner"?  Well, I'm happy to say it is working out perfectly.  No soreness, stiffness, or headaches upon awakening.  And, I sleep like a log during the night.  No problem getting into or out of the chair, and the back tilts all the way back to just about level, and that's a big plus for sleeping.  However, there may be a downside to sleeping in a recliner like I have been for most of the past decade.  I have always been round shouldered and have never had good posture, (a grade 5 teacher once pointed that out to me) but now, I am really bent over, and that may be a direct result of my sleeping in a recliner all these years.  Sometimes, if I catch myself sideways walking past a full-length mirror, I am very disheartened by what I see, and the thought immediately comes into my mind, "I'm never going out of the house again"!!  It's a wonder nobody walking past me hasn't quipped, "Hey Quasimodo, how's it going eh":((  

 VEHICLE TRACKS IN A BEAN FIELD

At about 6:10 tonight I was startled by a loud warning screech coming from my iPhone.  Said a tornado was imminent, and people were to take shelter.  Of course, here in the pine forest we can't see the sky, so without further ado, I grabbed my camera and headed out the door.  A minute later, Subie and I were out of the Park and headed a short distance to clear the forest where I could get a clear look at the sky.  It didn't look too bad at first, so I continued east on Bayfield River Road to a crossroad where I could get a clearer view.  Although I didn't see any sign of a tornado, the skies were turning dark with massive cloud patterns mixing it up in the overhead sky and especially to the north toward Goderich.  Below, are a few photos I took..........................8:30 p.m. Update:: A tornado did touch down east of Goderich and maybe somwhere around Highway 8 and Orchard Line.  It may have touched down again near Clinton north of Holmesville.  I'll have more details in tomorrow night's post.

EAST OF OUR PARK ,ABOUT 2 MILES, AND I AM FACING SOUTH

 BAYFIELD RIVER ROAD FACING WEST

 ON WHY'S LINE FACING NORTH TOWARD GODERICH AND I COULD SEE THIS IS WHERE THE BULK OF THE STORM WAS WITH VERY DARK SKIES

 LOOKING EAST AND THIS IS THE WAY THE STORM WAS HEADING

 TURBULENT SKIES TOWARDS CLINTON

 AGAIN LOOKING NORTH AND THEY MUST BE GETTING CLOBBRED UP THERE

FACING SOUTHEAST AND THERE IS A SLIGHT RAINBOW IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER

 A SLIGHT RAINBOW TO THE RIGHT

 LOOKING NORTH TOWARDS GODERICH AGAIN

NORTH

 LOOKING NORTHEAST WITH A TOUCH OF BLUE SKY UP THERE

 EAST

 NORTHEAST TOWARDS HOMESVILLE MAYBE FOUR OR FIVE MILES DISTANT

 SUNS OUT:))

 LOOKING EAST TO WHERE THE STORM HAS GONE

Al's Music Box:)) Midnight At The Oasis by Maria Muldaur.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A pregnant woman gets into a car accident and falls into a deep coma.  Asleep for nearly six months, she wakes up and sees that she is no longer pregnant. Frantically, she asks the doctor about her baby.  The doctor replies, "Ma'am, you had twins! A boy and a girl. The babies are fine. Your brother came in and named them."  The woman thinks to herself, "Oh no, not my brother -- he's an idiot!" Expecting the worst, she asks the doctor, "Well, what's the girl's name?" "Denise," the doctor says.  The new mother thinks, "Wow, that's not a bad name! Guess I was wrong about my brother. I like Denise!" Then she asks the doctor, "What's the boy's name?"  The doctor replies, DeNephew.

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I have decided to quit my job as a personal trainer, because the weights are too heavy.  I just handed in my too-weak notice.

My doctor told me I have high blood pressure and short-term memory loss.
At least I don't have high blood pressure.

My wife yelled, "are you even listening to me?"  I thought that was a weird way to start an argument.
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It was a baby mosquito's first day to fly out from home.  When the mosquito came back home later that day, the father mosquito asked, "How was your journey?"  The baby mosquito replied, "It went great, everyone was clapping for me!"

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