THAT'S KINDA HOW PHEEBS AND I WERE YEARS AGO TOO

 NOT SURE WHAT THIS BIRD IS, BUT I SEE THEM FLITTING ABOUT IN THE WHEATFIELD ALONGSIDE MY WALKING ROAD

Decided to carry my Sony RXIV camera with me this morning on my walk, and take a few pics along the way.  Any day now, I expect a big grass-cutting machine to come rolling up the gravel road and mow down the ditches as it goes.  That means all the wildflowers growing along both sides of my walking road will be gone.  A lot of little yellow Butterflies and Dragonflies were fluttering about in those ditches this morning.  Evenings too.  After the ditches are mowed, those Dragonflies and Butterflies will move on, and I will miss them.  Well, at least that's what happened last summer around this time.

 CHICORY

 PURPLE VETCH

 MONARCH BUTTERFLY ON A MILKWEED PLANT

 TWAS A FINE LOOKING MORNING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

With a warm, sunny, and humid day upon us, I enjoyed spending time simply sitting on the shaded front porch, appreciating all the greenery in the front yard with the sounds of birds in the surrounding trees and chipmunks scampering about all over the place.  Also had my music with me and my camera.  Of course, there is seldom any more than a ten-foot separation between me, a musical device, or a camera of some sort.  That's kinda how Pheebs and I were years ago, too.  I sure miss her.

Al's Music Box:: Hello Stranger by Barbara Lewis.

DRAGONFLY IN A WHEAT FIELD THIS MORNING

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A terrifying explosion occurs in a gunpowder factory, and once all the mess has been cleared up, an inquiry begins. One of the few survivors is asked to make a statement. "Okay Simpson," says the investigator, "you were near the scene, what happened?" "Well, it's like this. Old Charley Higgins was in the mixing room, and I saw him take a cigarette out of his pocket and light up." "He was smoking in the mixing room?" the investigator said in stunned horror, "How long had he been with the company?" "About 20 years, sir" "20 years in the company, then he goes and strikes a match in the mixing room, I'd have thought it would have been the last thing he'd have done." "It was, sir."

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- I met a nice girl at a bar last night and asked her to call me when she made it home. She must be homeless.

- “Electricians go with the flow, never against the current!”
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A boy had reached four without giving up the habit of sucking his thumb, though his mother had tried everything from bribery to reasoning to painting it with lemon juice to discourage the habit. She tried threats, warning her son that, "If you don't stop sucking your thumb, your stomach is going to blow up like a balloon." Later that day, walking in the park, mother and son saw a pregnant woman sitting on a bench. The four-year-old considered her gravely for a minute, then spoke to her saying, "Uh-oh ... I know what you've been doing."

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