LOOKING FORWARD TO COMPLAINING ABOUT HOT & HUMID INSTEAD OF COLD & WET

TONIGHT’S AFTER SUPPER WALK ALONG THE PARK’S POND

No, no, no, I am determined not to start another post off with a weather report telling you it is again cloudy, cold, damp & wet.   But I will tell you we are still having to wear our winter coats on some of our morning walks & I had the furnace running again to day in order to take the chill out of the air. 

OUR HOSTAS ARE COMING ALONG NICELY

Recently retired TOM  up there in that Alaska place has some good basic advice regarding the financial trials & tribulations of retirement.  Tom's suggestion to a friend may have that friend on his way to less worry & more accountable money.

LOVE TO SEE BLUE SKIES WHETHER THEY ARE OVERHEAD OR REFLECTED IN A SWAMPY POOL OF FORESTED WATER

There are 4 photos of people’s pets on this PET FRIENDLY website.  One of them you just might recognize:))

In case anyone missed it there is a comment in my Shout Box about my using a paragraph from one of my previous posts.  A re-written paragraph I may add.  Occasionally on a slow writing day or for whatever reason I may chose I will go back & pull up something I have written about previously over the years.  I sometimes do the same with file photos.  Subject matters are still current & with new readers always dropping by the content is always new to them.  I am curious about something though.  Wondering how readers feel about a Blogger sometimes using file photos or excerpts from previous posts.  Does it fall under the lash of being repetitive or is it just an personal burr under someone’s saddle again.  When I pull a paragraph, topic, or photo out of my own files I do so for a reason.   Should a Blogger be required to add a disclaimer saying it is a file photo, or a paragraph from a previous post?  Just curious.  And just for the record……all words & photos for tonight’s post come fresh from tonight’s mind:))

 

Because of our recent cold wet weather we haven’t been doing very much in the rig but tonight with ‘feeling good’ sunny weather upon us again I slipped out & took a few photos of how our couch makes into a bed.  With the press of a button it takes a smooth 15 seconds to have the couch made into a bed or vice versa.  This is the slickest & most practical couch/bed we have ever had in any of our RV’s.  A covered piece of foam behind the couch can easily be placed on top.  Pheebs & I have been on it for a few scruffles & it seems comfortable even without the foam.  My first night’s sleep on the bed will be the true test though.

COUCH IN NORMAL POSITION

 

COUCH CAN BE USED IN ANY POSITION FOR RECLINING –-- FOLDS DOWN INTO A MINI-BED

WITH EASE THE BOTTOM SECTION IS MANUALLY PULLED OUT (PRETTY DARN CUTE MODEL i HAVE TONIGHT I’D SAY)

 

CENTER PART LIFTS UP & CAN BE USED AS A FOOT REST, COFFEE TABLE, OR WHATEVER –-- BED FULLY DEPLOYED HAS LOTS OF ROOM FOR PHEEBS & I

AND THE BULK OF THE WORK IS DONE BY THIS SIMPLE LITTLE SWITCH IN THE COUCH ARM

We ended our day under clearing skies & temperatures over the next 2 days are predicted to rocket up into the 80’s.  Can you hear me complaining about the heat related humidity already.  I can but I will try to keep a lid on it best I can………………….

ON OUR WALK TONIGHT I SPOTTED THIS TWO HEADED CANADA GOOSE

GROANER’S CORNER:((  The balding middle-aged man asked his barber, "Why do I have to pay full price for a haircut -- there's so little of my hair left."  "Well," said the barber, "actually I only charge a little for cutting it. What you're paying for mostly is my time searching for what little hair you have left."

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MY HO-HUM DAY

ALWAYS LOTS OF GOLDFINCHES IN OUR YARD THIS TIME OF YEAR

Well I definitely had myself a ho-hum day alright & was determined not to write a post tonight but here I am again with myself ker-plunked down at the keyboard.  My determination sometimes has a few holes in it.  Maybe it is a need for people like myself to express themselves.  Whatever it is, for the most part I do enjoy the daily challenge of attempting to come up with something remotely interesting to write about.  Sometimes it is as mundane as saying I’m attempting to come with something remotely interesting to write about.  Say, have I told you about my fear of repetition…………………………

SPRING IS DEFINITELY IN THE AIR
It was almost non-stop lightning for about half an hour late Wednesday night & the rains were torrential.  Checking live radar on my computer I could see a line of several small severe weather cells had formed up out over Lake Huron & steam rolled their way directly into & right on through Bayfield.   Our driveway looked like a lake in the lightning flashes.   Our power somehow remained uncharacteristically on for a change.  Most amazing.

Kelly is re-thinking the vanity sale.  Didn’t appear to be a lot of interest in it plus Kelly’s youngest daughter Rebecca today said she is thinking she may like to have it.  If so we’ll hang onto it until Rebecca & husband Ricardo can slip on over to Bayfield & pick it up.

<<< THIS RED BREASTED MALE GROSBEAK WOULD NOT TURN AROUND & SHOW US HIS BRIGHT RED CHEST

That overnight speeding freight train of a thunderstorm blew all our warm air & humidity out of town & replaced it today with cloudy & cold.  The cooler air spurred me on to finish up my little back yard project this morning.  As well I slipped on up my tall step ladder & cleaned a bunch of wet rotting pine needles out of our front porch eaves trough & that yukky job soon had me inside running my frozen hands under the hot water tap.

A FEW FINISHING TOUCHES YET & WE SHOULD SOON HAVE A GRASSY AREA TO PUT OUR LAWN CHAIRS ON

Years before we were the Bayfield Bunch we were the 'Dreamweaver's'.  In the late nineties living in an old farmhouse near Fullarton Ontario we decided on that name after buying an old & aging (think it was a 1979) 17' Class C Dodge Centurion. It was our first RV. We were very new to computers in those days but I do remember putting some kind of RV site together even then. It was probably 5 years or so before we even knew about Blogger. In fact I'm not sure if the word 'blog' had even been thought of then. I remember having a few pics on the site along with some kind of blurb. I don't think anyone ever saw it except Kelly & I but at least it was a start to something we knew nothing about. Those were exciting days & I did have a slight inkling even back then that maybe something just might come out of all that darn fancy new space age computer stuff. Digital photography was new to me & had re-newed my lapsed interest in a 35mm photography hobby I had dropped years earlier.   Traveling has always been in my blood & it wasn’t long before another long lost but not forgotten interest from years gone by made it's presence known again. Writing. Kelly's Son made up some decal lettering for us & you can see our Dreamweaver name & website on the back of our rig in the photo below. 

 

WE WERE DEFINITELY A BIT YOUNGER THEN & I EVEN OCCASIONALLY WORE SHORTS

The whole RVing thing was new to us but we were eager to learn & get out there & be a part of that daring lifestyle. We began weaving our dreams into a plan & that is how our first name came about. 'Dreamweavers'. It wasn't long before large pieces of the giant jigsaw puzzle started falling into place & I began to realize how to tie all our interests of Traveling, Photography, RVing, & Writing together. Yes indeed, those were exciting days. You can see how young we looked back then & our dear boy Max was only a year or two old.  Photos were taken at the PINERY PROVINCIAL PARK about a half hour’s drive south of Bayfield. 

YES WE DO LIVE IN A NICE AREA

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A guy goes into a bar. He's sitting on the stool, enjoying his drink when he hears, "You look great!" He looks around - there's nobody near him. He hears the voice again, "No really, you look terrific."  The guy looks around again. Nobody. He hears, "Is that a new shirt or something? Because you are absolutely glowing!" He then realizes that the voice is coming from a dish of nuts on the bar.  "Hey," the guy calls to the bartender, "What's with the nuts?"  "Oh," the bartender answers, "Well they are complimentary."

HORN ME IF YOU WILL BUT I WILL NOT HORN YOU BACK

After weather forecasters predicting another cold wet rainy day you can imagine our delighted surprise at having ourselves a warm sunny 70+ day.  Some things are just a downright bonus in the old weather department.

OUR FRONT YARD IS GREENING UP NICELY

 

THESE 2 CHAPS KEEP CLOSE WATCH ON ALL OUR GREENERY

No point in me trying to jazz up our day's activities.  Nice day of course but just not too jazzable in the old writing department.  If it doesn't interest me to write about our day it sure isn't going to interest anyone to read about our day.  There is always a very fine line between what makes a post interesting or ho-hum.  Always a challenge for any Blogger sitting down to write a post to know where that line lies.   A very fine line indeed.

Kelly has had an old antique vanity in her bedroom for years & after re-vamping her room this week decided it was time for the vanity to go.  Deciding to list it on a couple area 'For Sale' sites she needed a picture.  We carried the vanity to the sunroom where I took a photo of it.  Funny thing happened.  She had over a dozen replies right away but only two of them were interested in the vanity.  The other replies were folks answering just to say how much they liked the picture.  Don't know if I have ever heard of that happening before.  Frustrating for Kelly though because she has not had any firm offers on the vanity.  It does need re-finishing but maybe folks aren’t into doing that so much anymore & maybe older furniture has lost it’s charm over the years.  We do have a much younger buyers market out here these days.

 

STILL BUSY ORGANIZING, RE-ORGANIZING, PRE-ORGANIZING & POST ORGANIZING THE RIGS BINS

Our 03 Hyundai Santa Fe is still at the BAYFIELD GARAGE waiting to have a new clutch installed.  Latest word from our trusted garage is we may have the Santa Fe home Friday afternoon sometime.  Ever since meeting Kelly back in the summer of 93 we have always known the convenience of being a 2 vehicle family.  Sure would take some adjusting on our part if we were to ever decide on having just one vehicle.  With our own independent natures we are both just used to coming & going anywhere anytime we please.  But come to think of it now as I am writing this, we are actually a 1 vehicle family for half the year.  In Congress Az we only have the Jeep & by golly come to think of it we get along with that just fine.

DOGGY RUNNING FAST IN THE GRASS THIS AFTERNOON

I have never been a horn honker.  You can cut me off in traffic, do something totally stupid, be a flaming idiot with your vehicle, hog the lane beside me or do whatever it is you do but you will not get me to honk my horn at you.  Experience has shown me horn honking just makes an already unpredictably unstable situation worse.  I'm sure many road rage cases are quickly escalated by drivers hammering on their horns when another driver intentionally or unintentionally does something stupid.  Now instead of having one emotionally upset driver, you have two.  Sometimes it doesn’t require a driver to do anything wrong at all.  Horn honkers will use their horns to bull their way through traffic anyway.  So horn me if you will but I will not horn you back…………10-4:))

SPRING IN THESE PARTS IS ALL ABOUT BEING GREEN:))

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Said the FBI agent to the bank teller after the bank was robbed for the third time by the same bandit: "Did you notice anything special about the man?"  "Yes, he seemed better dressed each time!"

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Mother decided that 10-year-old Cathy should get something 'practical' for her birthday. 
"Suppose we open a savings account for you?" mother suggested. Cathy was delighted. 
"It's your account, darling," mother said as they arrived at the bank, "so you fill out the application."   Cathy was doing fine until she came to the space for 'Name of your former bank.' After a slight hesitation, she put down 'Piggy.'

WE ARE FAR MORE FAMILIAR WITH RVING IN THE STATES THAN WE ARE ABOUT RVING RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN PROVINCE

WATER RUNNING OVER SOME ROCKS IN A NEARBY CREEK CREATED THIS MYRIAD OF BUBBLES

Had ourselves a cold, wet & miserable weather day.  Outside activities were  consequently curtailed.  Even our morning walk was rained out.  Nice to see everything greening up so fast though.
  

GUESSING THIS MAY BE AN INDIGO BUNTING ON OUR FRONT YARD FEEDER WITH THE GOLDFINCH – MAMA ROBIN ON HER NEST IN OUR BACK YARD
Took us awhile to find a wall space in the rig big enough to hang up our big South-West Lizard but we did finally locate a space in our bathroom for him.  He fit in there just about fine.

Last summer Kelly's daughter bought herself a new Blackberry & gave Kelly her old one.  Kelly just activated that Blackberry last week & likes it.  That means the cell phone she normally carried now goes to me & I have it hung on my belt beside my Canon point & shoot camera.  Guess that kind of brings us up a notch in the cell phone world.  If I can ever remember to turn mine on that is.
In about a month kids will be getting out of school so we hope to take the Big EEE out on her shake-down cruise before all the kids & families flood the campgrounds, Provincial Parks & scenic areas around our Province.  I'm thinking we'll probably head north up along the Lake Huron shoreline somewhere.  Been quite awhile since we have been up that way so have no idea what's out there for internet etc.  We have heard some Provincial Parks have Wifi now.  Guess we will just have to venture forth & find out.  Since about 99% of our RV travels have been south of the border we sometimes feel like strangers in our own land.  We are far more familiar with RV sites thousands of miles away than we are with what’s available right her in our Provinces own back yard.  We hope to make some in-roads about that this summer.  We have traveled through many Ontario areas & places years ago but we just haven’t done a lot of it in an RV.  Especially one 36’ long so we will be kinda feeling our way along seeing what works for us & what doesn’t when we get out there.  We do have some marvellously scenic country north of us up along the Bruce Peninsula between Lake Huron & Georgian Bay.  Even got shipwrecks up there in them waters too.  Just gotta wait for some sunny warm weather now before heading out in probably early June:))

LOOKING FORWARD TO SUNNIER DAYS AHEAD

Should add that my new header photo is actually a file photo from last summer.  Some of you may remember it.  Soon as I manage to get out & get myself an acceptable current up to date picture I will replace it again.  Thanks to the reader for reminding me to change my header photo.  I always seem to forget that.

MONICA’S MAGNOLIA

GROANER'S CORNER:((  Before going to Europe on business, a man drove his Rolls-Royce to a downtown New York City bank and went in to ask for an immediate loan of $5,000. The loan officer, taken aback, requested collateral. "Well, then, here are the keys to my Rolls-Royce", the man said. The loan officer promptly had the car driven into the bank's underground parking for safe keeping, and gave him $5,000.   Two weeks later, the man walked through the bank's doors, and asked to settle up his loan and get his car back. "That will be $5,000 in principal, and $15.40 in interest", the loan officer said. The man wrote out a check and started to walk away.
"Wait sir", the loan officer said, "while you were gone, I found out you are a millionaire. Why in the world would you need to borrow $5,000?"   The man smiled. "Where else could I securely park my Rolls-Royce in Manhattan for two weeks and pay only $15.40?

A TRILLIUM WALK

We spent most of our day just puttering about.  Nice walk this morning through our peaceful Pine forest.  From previous years we knew Trilliums would be in bloom so branched off on another loop trail leading through an adjoining hardwood bush.  The forest floor was covered in white, pink, & burgundy Trilliums with white making up the majority of flowers.  We are so fortunate to have all these natural woodland wonders at our very doorstep.

 

  

 

 

GROANER’S CORNER:((  Although he was a qualified meteorologist, a local broadcaster ran up a terrible record of forecasting for the TV news program. He became something of a local joke when a newspaper began keeping a record of his predictions and showed that he'd been wrong almost three hundred times in a single year.
That kind of notoriety was enough to get him fired.
He moved to another part of the country and applied for a similar job. One blank on the job application called for the reason for leaving his previous position.
In the blank he wrote quite honestly, "The climate didn't agree with me."