MY RECLINER FINALLY CAME TO MY RESCUE

STOPPED NEAR KERR'S CAMPGROUND EARLIER TODAY  FOR A LEG STRETCH BUT THE MOSQUITOS GOT US
With temperatures already over 71F at 8 o’clock this morning I knew it was going to be ‘another’ inside day, and so it was.   Pheebs and I did get out for a short jaunt but going for a walk anywhere was totally out of the question.  We had one leg stretch stop and the Mosquitos were right on us.  Mosquitos love this kind of wretched hot and humid weather.

GLAD I WASN’T ONE OF THESE FELLAS WORKING IN TODAY’S HEAT

GUESS WE’LL BE SEEING LOTS OF THESE AFTER TODAY
We were back home about an hour after we left and aside from carrying some clothes out to the rig that was it for me.  It wasn’t that the day didn’t look nice, it did, but for me the air was way to ickily sticky.

GOLDENROD IN FULL BLOOM

Seeing a car drive slowly by out front this afternoon reminded me it was 15 years ago today Kelly and I in our search for a house drove into this Park and spotted a mobile home Park model on the bulletin board for sale.  The price was unbelievably low so we decided to have a look.  Driving down the street we spotted it and I knew instantly ‘this was it’.  And it was.  We’re still here all these years later.  Below is how we first saw it (with the exception of the 2 cedar trees) that day and nobody was in it.  In fact it had been empty for 3 years.  Where you see the wooden door is now where our sunroom is.

While looking for the above photo I came across a few pics of our first RV winter when we had a truck and fifth wheel'.

THIS NICE GMC TRUCK HAD WAAAAAAY TOO MANY ‘BELLS AND WHISTLES’ FOR ME

‘OMG’ MY SPAGHETTI JUST MOVED"!!

THIS WAS WHEN WE WERE TRULY A ‘BUNCH’ AND ON THE COUCH IS LITTLE CORA (MOTORMOUSE) AND MAX….CHECKERS IS ON THE FLOOR AND OF COURSE THAT’S THE HEAD HONCHO BACK THERE IN THE CORNER ON OUR SHARED LAPTOP COMPUTER …… PHOTO MIGHT HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN PANCHO VILLA STATE PARK COLUMBUS, NEW MEXICO

I THINK THIS MIGHT BE AT THE FOOT OF ‘KITT PEAK’ IN ARIZONA

HAD FORGOT TO POST THESE 3 PHOTOS LAST FRIDAY WHEN I MOVED OUR ‘BIRD FEEDING STATION’

MOVED THE FEEDER FROM THE TOP HOLE TO THE BOTTOM HOLE
After restlessly bonking around in the house for a few hours today my recliner finally came to my rescue about 2 p.m.  Every time I slip into the comfy cozy cushiness of my overstuffed chair I figure that's it, why would I in my right mind ever leave such a safe and secure comfortable place to go out and face the world again and again.  I don't have a decent logical answer for that so out of habit I keep dragging myself up to go do that silly world thing over and over day after day.  It just don't make no good darn sense to me……..

MISS PHEEBS TIPPY TOEING THROUGH THE WET DEW LADEN GRASS THIS MORNING
GROANER’S CORNER:(( Angus, while riding his heavy workhorse was trapped in a bog and seemed a goner when Big Mick O'Reilly wandered by. "Help!" Angus shouted, "I'm sinkin'!" Don't worry," assured Mick. "Next to the Strong Muldoon, I’m the strongest man in Erin, and I'll pull ye right out o' there." Mick leaned out and grabbed Angus’s hand and pulled and pulled to no avail. After two more unsuccessful attempts, Mick said to Angus, "I can't do it. The Strong Muldoon could do it alone, mebbe, but I’ll have to get some help." As Mick was leaving, Angus called "Mick! Mick! D'ye think it would help if I pull me feet out of the stirrups?
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- “There was a sign hanging in the window of a dry cleaners I passed by. It read: 'So-and-So Dry Cleaners. Working on the same spot for 72 years.'
- If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, then let's all get wasted together and have the time of our lives.
- On the Church bulletin board::  Thursday at 5:00 pm, there will be a meeting of the Little Mothers Club. All ladies wishing to be "Little Mothers" will meet with the Pastor in his private study.
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NO NEW WORDS TONIGHT BUT I STILL HAVE MORE OF THE SAME OLD ONES GOING ON:))

REALLY LIKED THE LOOKS OF THIS PERSON’S BACK YARD IN GODERICH THIS MORNING

Well I couldn’t think of any different words and I knew if I tried to learn a few new ones I’d forget them anyway so I’m back tonight with more of my same old words and stuff.

THOUGHT FOR SURE I WAS GOING TO HAVE MYSELF ‘A BIG RANT’ ABOUT BICYCLISTS TONIGHT BUT I COOLED OFF BY THE TIME I GOT HOME

CORN’S GOLDEN TASSLES STAND OUT AGAINST A STORMY SKY

Okay, let me see now...…..how can I start this post off by using most of my usual repetitive words.  Let's get hot and humid out of the way first.  In my world the weather is back in the dumpster again and the last couple days I've spent the majority of my time in the house close to my fans and A/C.  But here’s a couple bright spots for the coming week.  Two days with highs of 68:))  Summer's are getting hotter with humidity levels growing.  I am finding it both an increasing mental and physical challenge.  Now having said that I think being trapped inside by winter's cold is still worse than being trapped inside by summer's heat.  At least in summer, roads are safely driveable and one can get out and about and travel around without fear of snow and ice plus crippling winter storms.  No enchantingly easy forest walks in wintertime either.

OUR FRONT YARD BUTTERFLY BUSH HAS BEEN LIVING UP TO IT’S NAME LATELY

HOPING TO GET A FEW MORE BIRD FEEDERS UP BEFORE WINTER

Would you believe we never ever had air conditioning until about 7 years ago.  Never had A/C in my Stratford apartment which was the top floor of a house and I was there 4 years.  We never had A/C in the old farm house near Fullarton Ontario and we spent 7 years there.  And we never had A/C where we are now for the first 8 years we were here.  And believe it or not but we didn’t even have A/C in our Jeep Wrangler all the time we had it which was about 4 years.  Nosireeeee, nobody’s ever gonna convince me that our summer’s are not getting hotter!!!!!!

We are not late morning risers by any means but with 6:45 showing on the clock it was obvious we had both slept in.  Day's temperatures were already rising and the air was sticky.  Pheebs and I did take a spin through Goderich then slipped east out of town for a short walk.  It was already too hot and we were back to the Jeep in ten minutes.  My skin felt like someone had put a light coating of honey on me.  With the Jeep’s A/C on max we headed home.

DUE TO THE RISING HEAT AND HUMIDITY IT WAS A SHORT WALK FOR US EARLIER TODAY

FOLIAGE WAS KINDA THICK ON PARTS OF THE TRAIL BUT I THINK I CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF A RHINOSAUCEROUS CHASING A HIPPOPOTAMOOSE

Hard to believe this is Labor Day week-end already.  Wasn’t it just two weeks ago we had the big May 24th week-end??  I think it was the fastest summer ever.  Halloween must be right round the corner.

Amazingly I actually ‘remembered’ to start up the Motorhome this morning to see if the Bayfield Garage efforts at getting our dash A/C working was successful.  Happy to say it was and we now have ice cubes flying out of the rig’s vents again.  With less than two weeks to our departure date the Motorhome is taking up more of our thoughts.  When loading It’s much easier thinking ahead 6 weeks rather than 6 months and that seems quite acceptable to both of us now at this latter RV stage of ours.  Whether we’ll make a dash for warmer weather in January remains to be seen.  Just wished the great American Southwest wasn’t so darn far but who knows, after freezing our tails off and sliding around on icy roads here we might just say ‘the hell with it’ and take off.  My heart has always been in the southwest, still is, and always will be.  I have yet to see another part of America where I would rather be in the winter.

RECENT RAINS HAVE SPIKED MUSHROOM GROWTH IN AREA FORESTS

I think we still have one more RV left in our future but it won’t be this year.  Maybe not even next year but knowing how our travel priorities are changing we have to be prepared to make those changes if we hope to still do a bit of RVing.  The long trips are nearly at an end for us but we are hopeful of more smaller trips in the future and that includes simple day trips.  Two and three day jaunts or maybe a couple weeks here and there.  Although not actively looking for a smaller RV at the moment we are remaining aware of what’s out there that would best suit us at some point.  Yes we’ve been down that tricky ‘downsizing’ road before and it didn’t work out very well but life is changing for us now both mentally and physically and we both unfortunately have to go with the realities of those aging changes.

YES WE ARE STILL KEEPING ABREAST WITH WHAT’S OUT THERE IN THE WAY OF SMALLER RV’S

AT GODERICH’S ROTARY COVE THIS MORNING

The Bayfield Garage didn’t call us back Friday with a price quote on the manifold repair job so guess I’ll have to pop in there Tuesday morning.  Gotta get that done before we leave or we don’t leave until it’s done.

GROANER’S CORNER:((  If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

Don`t think that you`re thinking. If you think that you're thinking you only think that you're thinking.

When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?

If a train station is where a train stops, what is a workstation?

Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not adoor?

If you jogged backward . . .would you gain weight?

Being rich don't mean so much . Just look at Henry Ford, all those millions and he never even owned a Cadillac!

Employment application blanks always ask who is to be notified in case of an emergency. Wouldn’t a good response be to write . . . A Good Doctor!

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A Few Redneck Pick-up lines………….

- My Love fer you is like diarrhea, I can't hold it in.

- Do you have a library card cuz I'd like to sign you out

- You might not be the best lookin girl here, but beauty's only a light switch away.

- Yer eyes are as blue as window cleaner. 

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Henry goes to confession and says, "Bless me Father, for I have sinned. Last night I was with seven different women.  "The priest says, "Take seven lemons, squeeze them into a glass and drink the juice without pausing."  "Will that cleanse me of my sins, Father?"  "No," replies the priest.  "But it'll wipe that silly grin off your face."

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WHEN I CAN THINK OF SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Let me see now……how can I start this post off without using all my usual annoying repetitive words and phrases like weather, I, Hot, Pheebs and I, Humid, Goderich, we headed ourselves, Jeep, me, coffee, harbor, Hullett Marsh, countryside, tired, Motorhome, energy, Clinton, cloudy, it was a short Jeep ride we had, rural, McDonalds,  took a spin down around, etc.etc.etc.  It just goes on and on doesn’t it.  I’ll be back when I can think of something different.

SAW SOME CROWS THIS MORNING

GROANER’S CORNER:(( When I was married, my wife used to call me handsome. As a matter of fact, we are now divorced but she STILL calls me handsome. Every time I have some money, she says, HANDSOME OVER.

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