LUCKILY, I FIGURED OUT THE E- BIKE'S POWER LOSS PROBLEM THIS MORNING

A wispy Sunday night cloud cover didn't make for the best sky watching, but I headed out anyway to partake in the evening's twilight glow.  So quietly peaceful in the countryside at that time of day........ Before loading my bike onto Subie's bike carrier this morning to take to 360 Bikes n Boards with a 'no power' problem, I decided to take the bike's battery off and put it back on again, just to see if maybe.........what the heck, it worked.  My bike once again had full power.  I'm guessing a bit of dirt or dust may have got onto one of the power connecting points on the battery.  Riding on the bike carrier on the back of the car does make them very susceptible to dust and stuff swirling up behind the car when going down the road.  A key is needed to get that battery off the bike, so I'll be riding with the battery key in my pocket at all times after this.  I did do a quick whiz-bang around the Park late this afternoon, and everything worked perfectly....even me.  And, by the way, Woodsy did offer to bike home, get the car with the bike carrier already on it, and come back and pick me up.  We weren't that far from home, and after all, it is a bicycle, so my decision was to simply ride it home....Which I did.  Maybe not so simply though, but at least I got it home:))

Heading down Bayfield River Road this morning to my walking spot, I noticed something odd.  On the south side of the road just west of Stirling Line (my walking road) there were seven black SUV type vehicles all parked single file where a long laneway leads south through a field, then into some trees.  I didn't see anyone around.  None of those cars were marked police cars, but still, I think something serious was going on somewhere!!  Arriving at my walking spot, I could see yesterday's farmer was back in his alfalfa field again after cutting the field Sunday morning.  This time, what looked to be the same tractor was pulling a different device that was raking the newly mown alfalfa into rows.  Then, after a bit, I saw a combine enter the field and begin to swoop up those rows.  Two more tractors towing wagons came into the field and began working with the combine.  So altogether at the same time in the same field, there were three tractors, two large wagons, and a combine working in unison.  Quite an operation. 

 THIS RED PIECE OF EQUIPMENT BEHIND THE TRACTOR RAKES UP NUMEROUS SMALL ALFALFA ROWS INTO ONE LARGE ROW MAKING IT EASIER FOR A FORAGE HARVESTER TO SCOOP IT UP NEXT

YOU CAN SEE HERE HOW CLOSE MY CAR WAS TO THE ALFALFA FIELD

Needing a few things, I slipped up to Goderich's Walmart and Canadian Tire Stores after my walk.  Nothing exciting going on, and I didn't even make it down to the harbor.  It wasn't long and I was on my way home.  Some usual outside putterings this afternoon until the heat and humidity finally drove me inside.

SOON, ABOUT HALF A MILE AWAY, I SAW MORE FARM EQUIPMENT IN THE SAME FIELD

 THERE IS A FORAGE HARVESTER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT WAGON, FUNNELING ALFALFA INTO THAT GREEN FARM WAGON

 HERE'S THE WHOLE FARM TEAM WORKING TOGETHER....WHEN THAT FIRST GREEN WAGON ON THE LEFT IS FULL, IT PULLS AWAY AND THAT EMPTY SECOND GREEN WAGON ON THE RIGHT  DRIVES UP AND TAKES ITS PLACE

 THE UNSEEN COMBINE IS TOWING SOMETHING BEHIND IT, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS

 AND HERE COMES THAT FORAGE HARVESTER NOW

THE TRACTOR AND WAGON PULL AWAY AND HEAD BACK TO THE FARM

 THE SECOND TRACTOR AND WAGON TAKE THE PLACE OF THE FIRST TRACTOR AND WAGON

Al's Music Box:: After I Pass Away  I find the words to this song to be so true.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( The Wednesday night church service coincided with the last day of hunting season. During the service, our pastor asked who had bagged a deer. No one raised a hand.Puzzled, the pastor said, “ I don't get it. Last week many of you said you wouldn't be at church Sunday because of hunting season. I had the whole congregation pray for your deer.” One hunter said, "Well, preacher, it worked. They're all safe.”

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- Dad, will you help me with my homework?" "I'm sorry," replied the father. "It wouldn't be right." "Well, " said the boy, "at least you could try."

- A schoolteacher asked her primary six class to construct sentences with the words: defeat, detail, defense. There was a pause before a pupil raised his hand and said he could make a sentence with them; "The cow jumped over defense and detail went over defeat."

- Why did the cows keep returning to the field of marijuana? It was the pot calling the cattle back.

- A man sees his buddy carrying a box.
"What's that?" he ask. "Oh, I got a case of beer for my wife." Man nods sagely, "Good trade."

- Interviewer: Would you mind explaining this 4-year gap on your resume?
Me: I went to Yale during this time period.
Interviewer: Wow, excellent! You’re hired!
Me: Thank you! I really needed this yob!

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A guy went to the cinema one day and noticed an old man with a dog in the front row. It was a sad, funny kind of film and the guy noticed that during the sad parts the dog cried his eyes out, and during the funny parts, the dog laughed its head off. This happened throughout the film. After the film ended, the guy decided to go and speak to the old man. "That's the most amazing thing I've ever seen," he said. "That dog really seemed to enjoy the film." The old man turned to him and said: "Yeah, it is amazing. He hated the book."

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