WE AGREED NOT TO BOTHER LOOKING AT REALLY OLD RV'S ANYMORE

With a loud clap of thunder at 3:23 a.m. I had a doggy on my lap.  First time I've ever seen Pheebs react to thunder but the clap was so loud it scared me awake as well.  Both of us had been sound asleep.  Thirty seconds later Pheebs hopped off my lap and resumed her favorite sleeping spot on the couch and all was well again.  Rains that came Thursday evening lasted all night leaving us with water puddles in the driveway.  No matter as the little Boogs and I splashed our way out the driveway anyway heading for Clinton.  Low on wild birdseed we stopped into the Sun Country Eco Store and stocked up before grabbing a coffee at Clinton's Tim Hortons and heading on out of town.  Noticed right away how quickly our trees are changing now.  Forests are finally becoming ablaze with color.

Country roads were muddy but no matter the Jeep was dirty anyway as we headed over to the Bannockburn Conservation area hoping nobody would be there.  Two vehicles in the parking lot so we breezed right on by to the Baird Cemetery nearby.  Quiet cemeteries are always nice people free places to walk.

Our dismally dreary skies hung around all day so spent my time reading and snoozing in the sunroom.  Can't seem to dredge up enough energy to get interested in going outside.  Too cold and damp.  However, something did perk my interest later in the afternoon.

Kelly had spotted an older 1995 Class C 27' Jamboree on Kijiji a half hours drive away from our place so later this afternoon we headed over to Londesborough Ontario to have us a look see.  I didn't have any expectations for something that old and it was just as well I didn't.  It did have some good points about it but it was just too old and had seen better days.  We agreed on the way home not to bother looking at really old RV's
anymore.  Our search continues..............

GROANER'S CORNER:((   In the ascertainment of an excogitation of linguistic proclivity, one might ascribe to the mentation that a phratry exists in which some encyclopedists designedly cultivate a nonplussed ambience hypothecated to befuddle the vox populi.

TRANSLATION: Judging from the words some people use, you'd think they purposely write to confuse the average person. 

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A research team proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact size of which was unspecified.  One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure; subsequently the second member of the team performed a self-rotational translation oriented in the same direction taken by the first team member.
TRANSLATION:
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.

Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.

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SO WHY ARE THE RUSSIANS LOOKING AT MY BLOG!!!!

CANADA STEAMSHIP LINES.....ASSINIBOINE IN THE GODERICH HARBOR TODAY

If it was March we'd be jumping for joy if day time temperatures were over 40F.  But it's October and we're now grumbling because daytime temps have dropped into the 40's.  Crazy huh!!

SPOTTED THIS MORNING MOON ON OUR WAY TO GODERICH THIS MORNING

MOWING ROADSIDE DITCHES

BEAN HARVEST IS PRETTY MUCH OVER SO NEXT IT WILL BE THE CORN HARVEST

Sure glad we had a double carport built years ago.  No scraping frost off the windshield on cold mornings or snow in the wintertime.  I actually prefer a carport over a garage.  I don't know why that is it just is.  Some prefer to have a basement in their house and some don't.  I do.  Lots of folks like a second story on their house.  I am not one of those people.  I grew up in a big two story brick house so I've been there and done that.  So what am I getting at here.  I don't know, just blabbering.

THE ALGOMA BUFFALO WAITS FOR THE ASSINIBOINE TO LOAD UP AND HEAD OUT

Some readers may wonder from time to time about my spelling of certain words.  Especially Canadians.  Why do I spell color instead of colour or neighbor instead of neighbour.  And why do I use miles instead of kilometers, feet instead of meters, and farenheit instead of celcius.  Well, there's a couple reasons actually.  First, about 75% of my blogs readers are in the United States.  Second, I've just never adjusted to the metric system.  Yes I know I should have by now but I haven't.  

'HEY PHYLISS DID YOU HEAR WHAT RALPH WAS UP TO LAST NIGHT'

Sticking with numbers did you know my blog's American readers have always led the way as far as readership goes but imagine my surprise this morning when I decided to have a look at Google Analytics and found out Americans are not the main readers of my blog anymore and it's a little disconcerting to see Russia is now number 1.  Here's the stats today for my readership according to Google.  I don't know what the 'page views' time frame is for the numbers.
Russia --------------- 10,934
United States ------  10,471
Canada -------------    3,346
Ukraine -------------      272
Germany -----------        86
Australia -----------        67
United Kingdom --       59
Vietnam ------------        58
Unknown Region -       33 ---- Aliens:))
France --------------       31
Pageviews last month -------- 112,761
Pageviews yesterday Oct 14th 2019 ----- 3,765
Pageviews all time history ----- 8,079,651
Strange about that Russian number eh.

WINDOW REFLECTION OF A PORCH ORNAMENT

Another gorgeous Autumn day with lots of sunshine and cool temperatures.  Pheebs and I bombed around for about an hour and a half this morning before heading home.  At the time of posting this tonight rains are almost upon us and it looks like we are probably in for a couple days of wet stuff.

I PLANTED THIS CLUMP OF BAMBOO GRASS AT THE PARK POND ABOUT SIX YEARS AGO

FRONT YARD POND

CHIPPY SCOOPS UP SOME BIRDSEED ATOP A STUMP

Nice being able to get out for afternoon walks with Pheebs around the trails here in the Park.  Won't be long and that will come to a jarring halt as winter sets in.  I remember the first few years we were here when we had our first dog Max.  We didn't let the snow stop us and would dress up warm and head out to trudge through the forest snow anyway.  We're not into that so much anymore. 

PHEEBS WAITS PATIENTLY WHILE I TAKE A COUPLE PHOTOS NEAR THE POND

GROANER'S CORNER:(( There was a young Scottish boy called Angus who decided to try life in Australia. He found an apartment in a small block and settled in. After a week or two, his mother called from Aberdeen to see how her son was doing in his new life.  'I'm fine, ' Angus said. 'But there are some really strange people living in these apartments. One woman cried all day long, another lies on her floor moaning, and there is a guy next door to me who bangs his head on the wall all the time.' 'Well, ma laddie,' says his mother, 'I suggest you don't associate with people like that.' 'Oh,' says Angus, 'I don't, Mam, I don't. No, I just stay inside my apartment all day and night, playing my bagpipes.'
---------------------------- Went to the gym and there's a new machine.  I used it for an hour and felt sick. Its good though, it does everything.  Kit Kats, Mars bars, Snickers, etc...
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TAKE A LOOK AROUND YOU, WHAT DO YOU SEE

Highway 21 runs right through Bayfield and crosses the Bayfield River in doing so.  The bridge over the Bayfield River has been in place for a long time and a few years ago a decision was made to replace it.  That work has now finally begun.  A new temporary bridge first has to built while the old one is torn down and the new one constructed.  Think I heard it is a two year project and I figure that new bridge will be well in place long before Bayfield's Tim Horton coffee shop ever opens up.

BAYFIELD'S BRIDGE PROJECT IS UNDERWAY

I'M GUESSING THE TEMPORARY BRIDGE WILL GO HERE

Because it's mid October I'm increasingly having to wear warmer clothes now and that is Okay.  I would sooner put on a few extra duds as opposed to having to shed clothes because of the heat.  And I like the feeling of a warm cozy house after coming in from the outside's cool and cold temperatures.  We were in the low 40's when Pheebs and I headed out this morning.

ANOTHER FINE AUTUMN MORNING FOR A DRIVE

LOVELY CLOUDS TODAY

With each passing day our Autumn colors are becoming more prevalent.  We're still not in Autumn's glorious splendor yet but it's coming.  Maybe another week will turn the tide.

ALWAYS NICE TO BE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

REFLECTIONS IN A MUD PUDDLE

I OVER SATURATED THIS PHOTO TO PUNCH OUT THE COLORS

I recall someone asking me if I used a tri-pod on my Bee photos a few blogs back.  Wished I had the patience to use a tri-pod but I never do.  Those bee shots were done 'hand held' at a full 300mm.  I know I could greatly improve my photos if I were to use a tripod and wasn't so lazy.  I do have a good Manfrotto tri-pod but with the exception of night shots I hardly ever use it.  Like I've said before I am kind of a one shot Charlie who doesn't have enough patience to spend time perfecting a photo.  Truth be known I probably take more than half my photos right from the driver's seat of the Jeep.  And another question about what lenses I use.  All my photos are done with one lens and it is a  an AF-S Nikkor 18-300mm 3.5-6.3G-DX-VR.  In other words it is an 18mm wide angle right up through to a 300mm telephoto all in one lens.  I have that lens on my Nikon D7200 camera.  This lens and camera combination is very convenient for me for the type of photos I take and not being a perfectionist it suits me just fine.

KERR'S CAMPGROUND PROPERTY

KERR'S CAMPGROUND IS LOCATED ON THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BANNOCK BURN LINE AND CENTENNIAL ROAD

THIS CAMPGROUND IS A NICE PLACE FOR A WALK AND THAT'S THE JEEP BOTTOM RIGHT

Up until a few months ago I had been keeping tabs of my book (Kindle) reading and listing them here in my blog sometimes with comments.  From that point to this I have read so many more great books and subsequently fallen behind in my listings.  I'll try to catch you up to where I think I might have left off last time.
- With The Old Breed by E.B. Sledge
- Amazing Airmen: Canadian Flyers in the Second World War by Ian Darling
- Squadron Leader Tommy Broom by Tom Parry Evans
- Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice by Adam Makos
- The Biggin Hill Wing 1941 by Peter Caygill
- Green Ink: Memoirs of a Fighter Pilot
- No Ordinary Men: Special Ops by Bernd Horn
- The Wrecking Crew by Kent Hartman
- A Pilot's Story by Irwin D Lebow
- Spitfire by Squadron Leader B.J. Ellan
- Things I'll Never Forget: Vietnam Marine by James M. Dixon
- Through A Pilot's Window by Lt. Col. William McKean Gilbert
- Angels Ten: Spitfire Pilot by Richard Gilman
- Scramble: Battle of Britain by Norman Gelb
- Anatomy of a Song by Marc Myers
- Baa Baa Black Sheep by Gregory Boyington
- Atlantic Nightmare by Richard Freeman
- Air War in the Pacific by  General George C Kenny
- Skies of Fire by Alfred Price
- A Penguin in the Eyrie by Hector Bolitho
- The Big Show: WW2 by Pierre Clostermann
- Journeys Into Night by Don Charlwood
- Check Six: A Thunderbolt Pilot by Jim Curran
- Flying in Defiance of the Reich by Peter Russell
- Two-Man Airforce by Philip Kaplan
- Sky Warriers by Alfred Price
- Alone I Fly by Bill Bailey
- Tail Gunner by Richard C. Rivaz
Okay I think that might catch me up.  What I like so much about these books is they are fact not fiction.  I enjoy reading about how these people started out in their younger years, grew into their teen years then made the decision to join the Armed Forces.  I find it so interesting to read how they made their way through the war years and how those years affected them in later years after the war when they came home.  Many had very successful careers.  It was a way different world than it is now and I look back at these people from that era with great respect and awe.  Not only the pilots and air crew but the soldiers, civilians, sailors and the general moxie of most people from that era.  Over and over I read of these folks and the more I read the more I understand the term, 'The Greatest Generation'.  Being born in 1944 and although I didn't understand it I was part of that generation for a short while until the 50's evolved into the 60's and things began to change.  Change is inevitable I guess but sometimes it doesn't exactly head off in the best direction.  Through these books I read I see a different character of people in those years up to the late fifties.  And then it all began to change and here we are now.  Take a look around you, what do you see.................

GROANER'S CORNER:((  Ma & Pa were on the porch & Pa said, " You know, Ma, I'd sure like a big bowl of ice cream."  "OK, Pa", she said, as she shuffled off toward the kitchen. "Write it down," he said, "...you'll forget" "Oh, Pa, don't be silly" "Write it down" he said, "cause I want some chocolate syrup on it.", he insisted."Ice cream..with chocolate syrup" she said, as she walked into the kitchen. 10, 15, 20 minutes passed and finally Ma came out & handed Pa a big bowl of oatmeal. "See, Ma, what'd I tell you....you forgot the toast."
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Tony had just finished reading a new book entitled, 'You Can Be The Man of Your House.  'He stormed to his wife in the kitchen and announced, 'From now on, you need to know that I am the man of this house and my word is Law. You will prepare me a gourmet meal tonight, and when I'm finished eating my meal, you will serve me a sumptuous dessert.  You are going to draw me a bath so I can relax. You will wash my back and towel me dry and bring me my robe. Then, you will massage my feet and hands. Then tomorrow, guess who's going to dress me and comb my hair?' His Sicilian wife Gina replied, "The funeral director would be my first guess."
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