NICE TO HAVE A PHYSICALLY TIRING DAY FOR A CHANGE

OUR BAYFIELD DIGS FROM THE AIR & YOU CAN SEE WINNIE THE BAGO PARKED ON THE ROAD OUT FRONT…BROWN STUFF ON OUR METAL ROOF IS PINE NEEDLES & THAT NICE ROUND CANOPY TREE BY OUR FRONT PORCH IS A BASSWOOD…TREE AT TOP CENTER IS A SUNBURST LOCUST & BOTTOM LEFT CORNER IS A RED BUD…CAR IN DRIVEWAY IS OUR HYUNDAI SANTA FE…………….

Rain in the night left us with an overcast moderately humid day which later cooled down nicely. But no matter about the earlier humidity though, I was out trimming & cutting down more weed trees around the house this morning anyway. When these little energized working bees hit me it's best I go with it & get as much done as I can. Could be awhile before I get another one.

GORD ROLLED IN ABOUT 10:30 THIS MORNING

 

TOOK ME FOR A RIDE IN THE BUCKET WHICH CAN REACH 110’ INTO THE AIR

<<< THE BIG MACHINE IS SITTING IN THE SPOT WINNIE NORMALLY OCCUPIES

Gord, neighbor & tree cutter guy here in the park rolled in with the big reach boom machine about 10:30. Took down the tall skinny & quite dead pine tree beside the Winnie Wagon. That puts an end to the sawdust & chewed pine needles all over the rig & the Jeep. And that's the end of the gnawing pine beetles who were slowly sawing that tree down. And that's the end of me worrying about that tree breaking & coming down on our rig. Gord moved on to a second dead tree while I busied myself cleaning & loading up logs & dead branches from the first tree in my utility trailer. After lunch he started on a large live pine that was posing a threat near our carport while Pheebs & I took another utility trailer load to the recycling area. Friday the tree cutting will continue so I'll be busy again. Nice to be physically tired at the end of the day:))

 

KELLY TAKING A PICTURE OF ME WHILE I AM TAKING A PICTURE OF HER

  

HEIGHTS DON’T BOTHER ME BUT 5’ OFF THE GROUND ON A SHAKY LADDER DOES

Talked to Aunt Jean on the phone Wednesday night. She hasn't been on the golf course since June & she feels it has taken a toll on her mobility. Morning walks have been shortened up as Jean deals with some breathing problems & a growing stiffness in her back. But she's not throwing in the towel & is determined to get herself back out on the golf course as soon as they dry out a bit from Florida's heavy rains. We talked a bit about travel plans but Jean is not sure if she will be able to make it out to Arizona this winter or even back to Canada again. We'll just have to wait & see how she feels.

AND ANOTHER PINE LOG HEADS FOR THE GROUND

 

CUTTING IT OFF AT THAT READ LINE LEAVES ME A 12’ STUMP TO HANG OUR THERMOMETER & A NIGHT LIGHT ON

 
GORD MAKES SHORT WORK OF OUR BUG INFESTED PINE TREE

Ever thought of having horses living in your house? John & Brenda from DOGPOUND NORTH have not only thought about, they are doing it. Traveling between two homes one of which is in Alberta Canada & the other South West of Phoenix Arizona (DOGPOUND SOUTH) they have acquired themselves a very large 5th wheel horse trailer to travel back & forth with. John & Brenda living at one end & their beloved horses at the other. Be sure to follow their travels & many great horse rides in the back country of Alberta during the summer & Arizona during the winter. These folks are true horse people living the life of genuine north American ranchers & cowboys.  And ya gotta have a look at that big long white trailer they have.  Maybe they call that one HORSEPOUND IN THE MIDDLE:))

GORD SAYS HE LIKES GETTING HIGH UP INTO THE TREE TOPS & WORKING ALONE

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A few business term explanations today
-CEO -- Chief Embezzlement Officer.
-CFO -- Corporate Fraud Officer.
-BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
-VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
-P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the
market keeps crashing.
-BROKER -- What my broker has made me.
-STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.
-STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
-STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets
equally between themselves.
-FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.
-MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.
-CASH FLOW-- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
-YAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.
-WINDOWS -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought
Yahoo @ $240 per share.
-INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.
-PROFIT -- An archaic word no longer in use.
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- Tourists see the world, travelers experience it.
- Home is where your pet is:))
- "If having a soul means being able to feel
love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals
are better off than a lot of humans."
(James Herriot)
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails -William Arthur Ward
- The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now...AL.
- It is not so much having nothing to do as it is not having the interest to do something....AL.

EARLIEST APPOINTMENT KELLY CAN GET WITH THE LONDON LIVER SPECIALIST IS DECEMBER 16TH………OH OH!!

Kelly was back to the Goderich Medical Clinic for more blood work this morning. This will continue on a monthly basis now as her blood is checked to see how her Liver is doing. She already contacted the Wickenburg hospital in Arizona about continuing those tests through the winter months & they said sure, no problem & they will fax the results to Kelly's Doctor here in Canada. Can be done at any hospital as we are traveling & it is not expensive. And a call on our answering machine this afternoon from Dr. Haffner's office in Stratford regarding an appointment for Kelly with a Liver specialist Doctor in London Ontario for December 16th. Oh Oh!! Kelly phoned the London Doctor's office & re-booked the appointment for mid April. They did not feel the appointment was urgent & said April would be just fine.

The day was definitely not as hot or humid as Tuesday so I was able to get some yard work maintenance done in the earlier morning. I did skip our Pine forest walk again though.  Should be good to go Thursday morning as our temps are slated to drop overnight.  At the moment tornado watch warnings have been issued for areas about an hour south of us as heavy storms are moving across that region.  Our internet has kicked out a couple times tonight.

No sign of our tree cutters today & that is just as well until the days cool off a bit. It was a perfect day for a motorcycle ride though & I did take advantage of that to take myself out for a nice enjoyable toot around the countryside. Not to hot, not to cold, & with the blue sky sporting big white fluffy clouds it was great to feel that wind trying to relocate my face again.

Suggested to Kelly we head for the South-West earlier than October 19th but of course that idea didn't fly. Well, at least I keep trying. I'd like to slip through Arizona's Monument Valley maybe. Of course the sooner we get away the better our chances of that. Just exactly which route we choose once we get to Colorado is all going to depend on when we leave here & the weather in the mountains. Good weather maybe we go west up & over the mountains. Bad weather maybe we go south through New Mexico. We won't know till we get into that area.

Noticed today we have a new Blog Follower on our old Blog Followers list so we here at the Bayfield Bunch welcome the folks from RV & OUTDOOR ADVENTURES WITH JULIE & TOM. Thanks for dropping in guys & we appreciate you stopping by our Blog. Thanks:))

Been awhile since I posted my 12 step program version of Bloggers Anonymous. A few years ago I went to the bookshelf & dusted off one of my good old AA books, sat down at my keyboard & opened the pages. There before me was the official Alcoholics Anonymous Twelve Steps To Recovery program that was so instrumental to my sobriety years ago.  Taking some thought from that 12 step program I came up with my own version of Blogger’s Anonymous which I first posted in 2009…………………………………

‘BLOGGER’S ANONYMOUS’
Step One: "We admitted we were powerless over blogging - that our lives had become unmanageable."
Step Two: "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to our lawnmowers."
Step Three: "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our Spouses as we understand them."
Step Four: "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our thought patterns & blog archives."
Step Five: "Admitted to our Spouses, to ourselves, & to another blogger person the exact nature of our blogging woes."
Step Six: "Were entirely ready to have our Spouse remove all nasty posts from our blogs."
Step Seven: "Humbly asked Her/Him to remove our shortcomings, our spell checkers, & our publish buttons"
Step Eight: "Made a list of all fellow Bloggers we had commented to, and became willing to make amends to them all."
Step Nine: "Made direct amends to such Bloggers wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them, their rants, or their blusterings."
Step Ten: "Continued to take personal writing inventory and when we were wrong promptly didn't blog about it."
Step Eleven: "Sought through humbleness and fear to improve our conscious contact with our Spouse as we understood Her/Him, begging only for knowledge of Her/His will for us and maybe our keyboards back to carry that out."
Step Twelve: "Having had a Blogger's awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to all fellow Bloggers, and to practice these principles in all our restructured blogging affairs."
Hi, my name is AL & I am a Blogger:))

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A Post Office worker at the main sorting office finds an unstamped, poorly hand-written envelope addressed to God. He opens it and discovers it is from an elderly lady, distressed because some thief robbed her of 100 dollars. She will be cold and hungry for the rest of the month if she doesn't receive some divine intervention. The worker organizes a collection amongst the other postal workers, who dig deep and come up with 96 dollars. They get it to her by special courier the same morning. A week later, the same postal worker recognizes the same hand on another envelope. He opens it and reads: 'Dear God, Thank you for the 100 dollars. This month would have been so bleak otherwise. P.S. It was four dollars short but that was probably those thieving bastards at the Post Office.'

What do you say to a hitchiker with one leg? Hop in.

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- Tourists see the world, travelers experience it.
- Home is where your pet is:))
- "If having a soul means being able to feel
love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals
are better off than a lot of humans."
(James Herriot)
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails -William Arthur Ward
- The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now...AL.
- It is not so much having nothing to do as it is not having the interest to do something....AL.

ONE PROJECT COMPLETED TODAY & ANOTHER ONE COMING UP MAYBE WEDNESDAY

Had ourselves a bit of a busy morning lined up & of course a big swatch of humidity had to move in & turn it into a real cooker. I didn't do our morning walk because I knew the bugs would be bad & I didn't want to end up feeling like a big ball of sticky paste. Besides, I had furniture to move.

Had our living room cleared except for 2 recliners & our TV entertainment center thingy. Chris, a friendly personable fella from GAVIN CLEANING & DISASTER RESTORATION rolled in right on time & started with our living room carpet first.  No, we didn't have a disaster or need a restoration but we did have a carpet & loveseat in need of cleaning. Both items were way overdo for a professional touch.

 

THAT TRUCK OF CHRIS’S IS QUITE A SET UP
Great job on the carpet & loveseat recliner & we could notice quite a difference right away. Took Chris about an hour & half to complete the job. Nice feeling to have a couple more things stroked off our 'to do' list.

WORKING UP SOME STEAM

 

AND WORKING UP SOME SWEAT IN THE MOTORHOME DOING THE LOVESEAT RECLINER

Next little job will be the taking down of a few pine trees around the property. A tall pine standing right beside the rig & Jeep died this summer & we suspect termites. The tree has to come down now because the bugs are chewing it up & covering our vehicles in sawdust & pine needles. I'm worried their frenzied munching will weaken the tree to a point soon where it could break & topple right down on top of Winnie the Bago or our little Jeepster. There's a chance those trees might be coming down Wednesday or Thursday. Like I said before, nice to be busy.

BITS OF CHEWED SAWDUST & PINE NEEDLES ON THE HOOD OF WINNIE THE BAGO

 

IT IS THE TREE WITH THE THERMOMETER & LIGHT ON IT THAT HAS TO COME DOWN

To hot to take Pheebers with me when I headed off to Goderich to run a few errands.  I’m not one much for popping into more than a couple stores at any one given time but this morning I hit Walmart, Canadian Tire, the Solo gas bar, Food Basics, Home Hardware, & the TSC store.  That’s gotta be a record for me.  Takes a lot of patience for this fella to haul himself in & out of that many stores in one outing.

By 3 this afternoon we had all our furniture moved back into the living room. Pheebs was contentedly asleep on her Nauga Monster couch & all again was well. We didn't venture outside at all because of the heat. No wonder the weather channel had issued a humidex & heat advisory for today. In my opinion it was brutal out there. With 88F showing on the computer's weather page it meant we were 25 degrees hotter than Congress Arizona at 4 p.m. Ontario time. Toronto was the hottest spot in Canada with temps in the mid to high nineties pushing the humidex factor to well over 100 degrees. Wednesday is to be a repeat weather performance.  Think I’ll be sticking pretty close to my 3 bladed fan & A/C tomorrow.  Luckily this heat wave is short lived & should be moving out of the area sometime late Wednesday.  I have my fingers crossed I will not have to complain about this heat & humidity again now until next summer sometime.  Was that a collective sigh of relief I just heard out there…………………:))

TRYING OUT A FEW NEW SPOTS FOR THE COUCH

 

YEP, I THINK SHE LIKES HER NEW COUCH ALRIGHT:))

THESE TWO BUMS ALMOST LOOK TOO COMFORTABLE

Kelly had an appointment with her Bayfield Doctor today & went over some of her latest test results.  Her latest Echocardiogram a week ago shows she still has some fluid around her heart.  Fortunately it doesn’t bother her but says she can sometimes feel it.  Other than that things are looking on the up & up.  Still waiting for an appointment call from the Liver specialist in London Ontario.  Kelly is feeling great, her weight loss has stopped, her energy levels are back up & she is back to her old self at last.  Not saying she is old of course but she is definitely back to her self:))

BAYFIELD’S LAKE HURON AT DUSK

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A skydiver is enjoying his free-fall, when he realizes that he has reached the altitude where he must open his parachute, he pulls the ripcord, but nothing happens. “No problem,” he says to himself, “I still have my emergency chute.” So he pulls the ripcord on his emergency parachute, and once again, nothing happens. Now the man begins to panic. “What am I going to do?” He thinks. “I’m a goner.”
Just then, he sees a man flying up from the earth toward him. He can’t figure out where this man is coming from or what he’s doing, but he says to himself, “I hope he can help me. If he can’t, then I’m in real trouble.” When the man gets close enough to him, the skydiver cups his hands and shouts, “Hey, do you know anything about parachutes?”
The man coming up cups his hands and yells back, “No! Do you know anything about lighting gas stoves?”

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- Tourists see the world, travelers experience it.
- Home is where your pet is:))
- "If having a soul means being able to feel
love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals
are better off than a lot of humans."
(James Herriot)
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails -William Arthur Ward
- The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now...AL.
- It is not so much having nothing to do as it is not having the interest to do something....AL.

SOME SAD NEWS FROM A FELLOW RV BLOGGER TODAY

It is a sad day here in Blogville. One of our own Rving fellow bloggers, RETIRED ROD, has just lost his beloved wife Loyce just 8 days after celebrating their 45th year of marriage on September 1rst. It happened suddenly leaving many in a state of shock. Difficult days for Rod & his family as they now try to cope with Loyce's untimely passing. Very sad. And very sad for their little dog Biscuit as well. I understand Loyce & Biscuit were very close. We are all thinking of Rod & his family at this time of sadness & sorrow.  Our hearts go out to them.

With some hastily written ‘back road’ short cut instructions we were out our driveway heading for a destination in Komoka Ontario by 9 a.m. this morning. Our utility trailer has small tires that are older than dirt so I wanted to stay off the 60 mph highways just in case. Had aired up the tires plus the spare & things looked good to go. Half an hour after leaving I realized we were temporarily off track & slightly lost. My back roads shortcut did not jive with my Map Quest directions. Dead reckoning came to the rescue again but we still had to stop & ask for directions in the town of Parkhill. We weren't too far off course & were soon well on our way again.  Didn’t bring our Garmin Gertie GPS unit because her & I always argue over directions anyway.  Some days she’s right & some days I’m right.  And other days we’re both wrong & Kelly’s right.  Decided to stay on the highway finally because there was hardly any traffic anyway. Bonus. We arrived at our destination in Komoka shortly before 11.

 

We were very pleased with the NAUGAHYDE Loveseat for sale & found it in great condition. Some may remember that term Naugahyde from a bunch of years ago in the 60’s & 70’s when a lot of furniture & car seats were made from that fabric. It's tough stuff & that is why this Loveseat has stood the test of time. Urban legend says it comes from the hide of a Nauga but if you click on the above link you will see where it really came from.

Paid the lady for the couch & her husband helped me carry it out to our utility trailer. Not nearly as heavy as a Loveseat recliner with all the steel in it. No problem heading back to Bayfield as the traffic was still surprisingly light. We did run into a coincidence on the way home though & it occurred at a Tim Horton coffee shop in Parkhill.

SPOTTED THIS LITTLE LADY BUG  EARLIER TODAY

We still had the instructions for the couch/air-bed that Ron Krauter from FOUR SEASONS PERFORMANCE (couldn’t access your site link tonight Ron) had removed from our Winnie Wagon last week. We planned to drop them off in Grand Bend on our way back this morning. While standing at the Tim Horton counter ordering up a couple coffee's to go Ron his very self came walking through the door. He had spotted our Jeep in the parking lot on his way by. He & another fella had just dropped off a couple RV’s somewhere & were on their way back to Grand Bend. We were able to give Ron the couch/air bed instructions right there & that saved us having to go through Grand Bend & construction further north along highway 21 on the way home. Ron says he thinks he has the couch/air bed sold but it will depend if it fits the coach someone is bringing in to his place Wednesday.

First thing Kelly & I did when we got home was carry the Nauga Monster Loveseat up the steps & set it on our front porch for Pheebs to try out. We both sat on it with her for some snuzzles. We will leave it on our porch for the night because we have a professional carpet cleaning person coming in the morning to do our living room carpet plus the Loveseat/Recliner in the rig. We will move Pheebs Nauga couch into the house sometime Tuesday.

DESPITE THE TOUGHER NAUGAHYDE I THINK WE’LL END UP PUTTING A DOGGY BLANKET ON THE BROWN NAUGA MONSTER

And my apologies to GORDON W for possibly sending him on a wild Goose cyber chase. In Sunday's post I mentioned my pair of new shoes. Gordon's 'Shout Box' question was, "Al, I have no idea what "‘Crawford’ slip on shoes" are. How about a photo or further info". Well, it's no wonder Gordon couldn't find any info on Crawford shoes because these are Hathaway shoes I have.   In what I can only call a 'Senior Moment' I had the wrong name. Maybe had a hang-over from an old Joan Crawford movie or something. They are 'HATHAWAY' shoes & apparently Costgo carries them. Or they did.  If I could have found a good link for Hathaway shoes I would have included it.   Below is a photo of my Hathaways:)) And for some always excellent photography be sure to check out Gordon's professional photography site at GORDON WOLFORD PHOTOGRAPHY.  Now here’s a guy with the patience & smarts to do things right:))

MY HATHAWAYS  ALMOST LOOK LIKE COWBOY BOOTS FROM THIS ANGLE

 

KIND OF A SEMI SOFT SUEDE FEEL TO THEM & I LIKE ALL THE KNOBBY GRIPTION…THESE ARE NOW MY DAILY WALKING SHOES

I WILL PUT LACES BACK IN THE NEW SHOES I BOUGHT LAST MONTH & USE THEM FOR HIKERS

Chinle over at SPOTTED DOG RANCH has picked up her heavy duty Cargo/RV trailer, spent a few nights in it already & is somewhere in Idaho heading who knows where.  Kinda hard keeping track of Chinle sometimes.  Just about as hard as keeping track of RV SUE & HER CANINE CREW.  These Gals sure like to wander.  But it’s not hard to keep track of Chinle’s excited new to her trailer enthusiasm right now though:))

  

RED SUMAC LEAVES ARE ALWAYS A SURE SIGN OF AUTUMN

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A guy walks in to the Barbershop. Barber says, "What will it be today?" Guy says, "well I want half my hair going backwards with my waves on top, want the other half faded to one side with the back fluffed up like an Afro. And just make it all look out of shape and really messed up." Barber says, "Now why in the world do you want your hair cut like that."Guy says, "That’s how you cut it last time."

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- Tourists see the world, travelers experience it.
- Home is where your pet is:))
- "If having a soul means being able to feel
love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals
are better off than a lot of humans."
(James Herriot)
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails -William Arthur Ward
- The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now...AL.
- It is not so much having nothing to do as it is not having the interest to do something....AL.

GOT THE UTILITY TRAILER HOOKED UP & MONDAY MORNING WE’RE OFF ON A MISSION:))

In Saturday's post I mentioned something about my mind coming up with more & more blogging topics over the years. What I didn't mention are the times I reach the end of the day with an empty head & nothing written. Kinda like tonight:((

I’ll breeze you through my boring habitual weather forecast by simply saying we had ourselves a beautifully sunny 68F sunny Autumn day.  Why can’t it stay like this all year.  Cleaned both vent screens in the Winnie Wagon.  The bathroom one was an ordeal & it was Kelly to the rescue to get that Mossmagator put back together properly.  Won’t be doing that again!!.  We hit a couple scratch & dent stores in Clinton today looking for a nice small comfortable Pheeber couch.  No luck but Kelly did spot a pair of new ‘Crawford’ slip on shoes for me at $20.  I tried them on & bought em right away.   They are soooooo comfortable I wore them for the rest of the day I just may wear them to bed tonight.  Maybe even in the shower Monday morning.

JUST ONE OF A FEW CRITTERS IN OUR FRONT YARD JUNGLE

Later in the day Kelly tracked down a nice looking Loveseat for sale on Kijiji.  People are updating their cottage furniture so we scored their older Kroehler Loveseat for $70.  We are heading out in the morning with our utility trailer to Komoka Ontario which is about a 50 mile drive south of us to pick it up.  Their cottage is just south of Bayfield but they took the Loveseat home a couple days ago to sell it.  Oh well, we’ll go down to Komoka & bring that Loveseat right back to Bayfield.  We have our fingers crossed Pheebs is going to like it because it really is for her to stretch out on.  Below is a picture of the Loveseat in their cottage.  It’s the one on the left.

Sure has been nice to be busy this past week.  I love all the running around we have been doing.  Nice to see time moving a little faster these days.   Up to the Ripley area a couple times looking at properties, London looking at Loveseat recliners, Grand Bend a couple days ago to get that couch/blow-up bed taken out of the Winnie Wagon at Ron’s FOUR SEASONS PERFORMANCE, Clinton today looking at some furniture, Goderich Saturday doing the same.  And Monday morning off to Komoka which is west of London.  I always enjoy heading off somewhere in search of something.  Because of our older utility trailer we will be running back roads all the way to Komoka & back in the morning so that means some new scenery.  I love dat:))  Oh, & PETER wondered, “where has that nice looking love seat from your rig gone”?   Ron at ‘Four Seasons Performance’ has someone coming to look at it Wednesday.  If the fellow doesn’t want it Ron will put the couch/air bed on Kijiji & sell it there.  He has a far better chance of selling it than we do.  He has a lot of contacts in the RV business & he doesn’t figure it will be any problem to sell it.

GROANER’S CORNER:((  An elderly man moved into a nursing home. After he'd been there a few days, a nurse noticed him leaning to the right, and strapped his left arm to the chair. A few days later, she noticed him leaning to the left, and strapped his right arm to the chair. Not long after that, she noticed him leaning forward in his chair, so she strapped him to the back of the chair. His daughter came to visit him. "How do you like this place?" she asked him. "It's not bad," he replied, "except they won't let me pass gas."

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- Tourists see the world, travelers experience it.
- Home is where your pet is:))
- "If having a soul means being able to feel
love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals
are better off than a lot of humans."
(James Herriot)
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails -William Arthur Ward
- The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now...AL.
- It is not so much having nothing to do as it is not having the interest to do something....AL.