WE LOVE WHERE WE LIVE BUT I’M AFRAID THE OUTSIDE WORLD HAS FINALLY DISCOVERED OUR TREASURED LITTLE HIDEAWAY

I sensed a slight change soon as I stepped out the door this morning.  Air was cooler and I noticed a heavy due on everything.  I heard Crickets and felt energized.  Aha, the first ever so slight stirrings of Autumn I thought and that of course filled me with encouragement. 

It was the Hullett Marsh where Pheebs and I ventured off to this morning.  A grand morning for being out in bug free air and best of all the cooler air hung around a little longer than previous days.

I FIRST SPOTTED THIS WILD TURKEY

THEN SPOTTED THE REST OF THE FAMILY

WITHIN 10 SECONDS THE ENTIRE FAMILY HAD TOTALLY DISAPPEARED INTO THE LONG GRASS

The following sequence of Great Blue Heron (or are they Sand Hill Cranes) photos were taken in the Marsh.  Shooting at a full 300mm I saw a few Blue Herons (or Cranes) lift off and tried to catch them in the air.  It wasn’t until I was home later and edited the photos that I saw all the birds on the ground.  As hard as it might be to believe I did not see them when I took the photos.  These birds were about a quarter mile away and unfortunately were taken through the Jeep’s windshield so the photos are blurry making the proper ID difficult.  Herons or Cranes??

I SAW ONLY TWO HERONS LEFT ON THE GROUND

AND THEN THE HERONS WERE ALL GONE

A COUPLE STUDENT SUMMER WORKERS CAME ALONG AND STOPPED TO CHAT FOR A BIT

From the Marsh we slowly ambled our way back home the long way on well packed country roads through picturesque rural farm lands.  Once home I was able to get a bit of yardwork caught up.  But once again I tired too quickly and didn’t finish it.

ONE RAIL LINE IS USED AND MAINTAINED WHILE THE OTHER IS NOT

HAY WAGONS

THESE WAGONS ARE SEED HOPPERS METHINKS

THIS FARMER CLIMBED OUT OF HIS TRACTOR AND DISAPPEARED INTO THE CORN FIELD

DON’T KNOW WHAT YEAR IT IS BUT IT’S A DODGE

Pheebs and I managed a short walk on the Pine Tree trail this afternoon then it was all three of us into the Jeep and off to Zurich Ontario.  Pheebs had to be at the Vets for a second treatment for her itchy ears.  Fifteen minutes later we were back in the Jeep heading home.  Quick stop in Bayfield at the Country Market and Library and that was about it for us guys for another day.

FARMER’S BUSH LANES ARE ALWAYS GREAT PLACES TO STOP FOR A WALK

SAW ANOTHER HERD OF WILD TURKEYS ON THE WAY HOME

For so long we’ve had it so nice here in the Five Seasons Estates.  In the nearly 16 years we’ve been here there have only been two new units brought in which replaced one old unit and one that had burnt.  Last year we had a new mobile come in that replaced another old one which had been removed years ago.  But this year it’s like the flood gates have opened with people wanting to get into this Park.  We can understand why because it is hands down the nicest Park we have ever seen.  Around the corner from us is (was) a short quiet road we would sometimes walk.  Max and I often strolled down that way at night years ago to look at the stars.  Right now two new units are under construction there with talk of a third one.  Also talk of other units coming in a few streets southwest of us.  I guess change is inevitable but it’s not exactly the kind of change we had expected.  I suppose it’s my age showing again but we kind of liked our ‘quiet’ little Park the way it was although we also knew that one day this little hidden treasure where we live would sooner or later be discovered by the outside world.  I’m afraid that ‘sooner or later’ day has finally arrived………………….

GROANER’S CORNER:(( Mr. Jones, the elementary school principal, made it a practice to visit the classes from time to time. One day he walked into Miss Sandy Smith's 4th grade class, where the children were studying American History. Mr. Jones asked the class how many states they could name. They came up with about 40 names. Miss Sandy Smith came up with four more.  Not impressed, Mr. Jones told them that in his day students knew the names of all the states.  From the back of the room Little Johnny yelled, "Yeah, but way back in those days there were only 13!"

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It was the first day of school and the teacher was asking the little boy about his family."And what does your Daddy do?""He's a magician.""That must be exciting, what tricks can he do?""He can saw people in half.""That is clever, and tell me do you have any brothers or sisters?""Yes, one half brother, and two half sisters."

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CONCLUSIONS CONCLUDED, SPECULATIONS SPECULATED ABOUT AND A FEW UNRESOLVABLES THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE

Richard’s turn to drive this morning so off we went out into the wild green yonder of Huron Counties rural farmlands.  Sunshine and blue skies followed us around wherever we went.  Once again solved many of the world’s unsolvable problems as well as a few of our own along the way.  Conclusions concluded, speculations speculated about as well as a healthy dose of unresolvables thrown in for good measure.  It was quite a mixed pot of current, past and present topics we stirred around.  Were we any further ahead three hours after starting out??   I guess only our own confused and aging minds may or may not remember.   Well, how would we know, we’re male and we’re Seniors and it’s easy for us to fool ourselves.  Sometimes we appear to be comfortably stabilized on the Merry-Go-Round we travel and other times we cling precariously to the frantic whirling out of control Ferris Wheel of life as it repeatedly tries it’s best to fling us off into the far flung deepest and darkest reaches of outer space.  Even the lady at McDonald’s Drive-Thru had to shout over the intercom today. “Can you two old fools settle down, stop your nattering and tell me want you want in your coffees”!!!!

 

Tonight’s photos are from around our yard the past couple days. 

Feeling tired again to day so I didn’t venture back outside after returning from our morning coffee run.  Spent most of the afternoon in my recliner sleepily whiling away the hours.

Having had my mind on other concerns this past week and a half I haven’t been doing a lot of thinking about our upcoming travel plans which are tentatively set to launch less than 5 weeks from now.  Maybe I’m needing a good jolt of cooler weather to get that travel blood in my veins pumping again…………………

GROANER’S CORNER:(( The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy.Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.There will be growing public enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter.In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the language is disgrasful, and they would go.By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v".During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud, of kors, be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German lik zey vunted in ze forst plas.

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