A FEW TOUCHES OF AUTUMN

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GROANER'S CORNER:(( 

Bill: "I'm suffering dreadfully from insomnia. I've tried all sorts of remedies, but I can find nothing that will send me to sleep."

Bob: "Why don't you try talking to yourself?"

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PIGS, CHICKENS, AND GOOSES

OUR SUNBURST LOCUST TREE

Hard to imagine it's September 1rst already but here we are knocking on Autumn's door.  Fall is definitely in the air with our cooler nights and heavy morning dews.  Hot and humid will soon be a thing of the past until next year.  And for that, I am truly thankful.

Needing test strips and lancets for my One Touch Verio Plus Reflect blood sugar monitor Pheebs and I headed off to the Walmart Pharmacy in Goderich.  Warm sunny morning with a cooling breeze.  A spin down around the harbor and beach with a walk at the dog walking area.  

A SLOW SHALLOW WATER PADDLE ALONG THE BEACH

BY THE LOOK ON HER FACE I HOPE THAT'S NOT ANOTHER 'LOVERS LEAP' SPOT

MORNING COFFEE AT ROTARY COVE

'OOOPS' I JUST GOT BUSTED

MORNING STRETCH

DUNE GRASS BEACH WALK

NOPE, NO LOVER'S LEAP, I THINK SHE'S JUST TAKING A PHOTO WITH HER SMARTPHONE

From Walmart, we headed for home stopping for a few photos along the way.  It is very rare to ever see pigs or chickens any more and imagine my surprise when I spotted a couple of pigs along with half a dozen chickens and a few domestic geese all together in a field close to the road.  Had to make a U-turn and come back to make sure I wasn't seeing things.  I wasn't.  How nice to see chickens, pigs, and geese roaming free.  That was the norm years ago growing up but it's been many decades since I last saw a pig outside enjoying itself in the fresh morning air.  Kudos to the farmer for letting his animals out to delight in warm sunshine, eat fresh grass, and not feel restrained and hopelessly confined.

PIGS, CHICKENS, AND DUCKS ALL ROAMING FREE IN THE PASTURE

I COULD TELL THESE TWO WERE BIG PALS

THIS CHICKEN STUCK CLOSE TO THIS LITTLE PIG AND FOLLOWED IT EVERYWHERE

REMINDS ME OF THE CARTOON CHARACTER 'FOGHORN LEGHORN'

AND THIS LITTLE PIGGY RAN ALL THE WAY HOME

Getting closer to our shake-down cruise in the Winnie-Spirit.  Exactly when and where that will be we haven't decided yet.  Had hoped to be rolling right after the Labor Day weekend but that week is shot due to 3 med appointments for me so it looks like the week after that.  We'll only have maybe 4 to 6 weeks of doable travel time before the pre-winter nasty stuff sets in around these parts.  And like every other Snowbird here in Canada it is still a big unknown if any of us will make it down south somewhere this winter.

ARRANGING OUR INDOOR STORAGE AREA

OUR OUTDOOR GRAVITY CHAIRS ARE LOADED

NICE BRIGHT BEDROOM

THINGS ARE COMING ALONG

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A tired homemaker opened the front door of her home to find a young minister from the neighborhood who said, "I'm collecting donations for the new children's home we're building. I hope you'll give what you can."  "To be sure," said the beleaguered woman, "I'll give you two boys, two girls, or one of each."

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At a local gun show, two guys were bragging about their wife's abilities.
"My wife's a fine shot. She can hit a silver dollar at a hundred yards every time."
"That's nothing. My wife goes through my trousers twice a day and never misses a dime."

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STUCK FOR WORDS

Stuck for words again today folks...............

GROANER'S CORNER:(( 

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House in D.C. One from New Jersey, another from Tennessee, and the third, Florida. They go with a White House official to examine the fence. Florida contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. "Well," he says, "I figure the job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me." The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me." The New Jersey contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, "$2,700." The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?" The New Jersey contractor whispers back, "$1,000 for me, $1,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence." "Done!" replies the government official.

A WOODPECKER CAUSED MY POST TO BE LATE TONIGHT

JUNIPER BERRIES

Brief pockets of lite rain wandered ashore in our morning's pre-dawn hours bringing soft sounds of morning showers.  A moody looking sky greeted Pheebs and I as we rolled out shortly after eight.  It was a short drive into and around Bayfield before we were home again just in time to pick up Kelly and head over to Richard and Gayles with a peach and blueberry pie from the Maitland Market on highway 8 east of Goderich.  In other words, they made the coffee and we brought the eats.  Sticking to my new eating habits it was only half a piece of pie I had.  The second half piece of pie in three months.  Doin good but I'm still stuck at 195 pounds and can't seem to get under it.

MOODY MORNING SKIES

Possibly energized by the sugar in that half piece of pie I was perked up enough when we got home to get some outside things done instead of falling asleep in my recliner as I have been doing lately.  Next time I talk to my diabetic nurse in a couple weeks I'm going to have some questions for her.

ROUGH WATERS OF LAKE HURON THIS MORNING

Remember about a month ago or so when I had to wear a blood pressure monitor for a full 24 hour period?  Well, they finally phoned with the results of that blood pressure test Friday.  And the results were.......no results:((  The report had apparently been lost so now I have to do that 'squeezy thing on my arm' test all over again in a couple weeks from now.  Oh well, at least it doesn't hurt except to wake up screaming every thirty minutes in the night thinking a big snake has just wrapped itself around your arm.

ALONG BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET WITH IT'S OUTDOOR CAFE'S

Been quite a while since I last accidentally caused injury to myself but I made up for it this afternoon when while moving a couple of overhead boards I failed to see the brick sitting on top them.  My first awareness and acquaintance with the brick was a sudden jolt of pain to my big toe on my left foot.  I didn't see stars, I saw whole Universes!!  Hauled my sock off about an hour later expecting to see a bruised toe.  Nope, everything looked fine, or so I thought.  Not long after that I went to put my shoes on but it was 'no go' for my left shoe.  My darned toe had swelled up allowing me only into a loose-fitting bedroom slipper.  Little did I know that half an hour later I would be outside in the dark limping along the road and through bushes and trees.  We'll see how that toe looks in the morning.

LOTS OF COOL BLUE SKIES TODAY

So, it was exactly 6:40 tonight when we heard a loud 'bang' close by outside.  Our power flickered on and off seconds later and that was it......we were dead in the water.  Our power was 'OUT AGAIN'

SOME TREES ARE BEGINNING TO SHOW THE HARD EDGE OF LATE SUMMER

Okay, fast forward to 9 p.m. when our power finally came back on.  So what happened??  Luckily, there were 3 eyewitnesses who saw what happened and this is what they said.  It was a Woodpecker what did it.  Yep, a Woodpecker.  It was pecking around the transformer on a pole and 'ZAP'!!  They had the dead Woodpecker to prove it too.  Kelly saw it but I didn't.  I didn't need to see a poor little dead Woodpecker.  With my slippers on and a limp to go with them, I hobbled around the corner from our place, down the road, and through a bunch of trees to see if I could see the power company that Kelly had phoned a half-hour before.  And yes, there they were working on the floodlit transformer pole.  Nice to have our power back on so I had to hurry up and get busy with this unfinished post.............

OVERNIGHT RAINDROPS

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A Few Wise One-Liners::

- Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism.

- Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than they do.

- Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
- Teamwork is essential; it allows you to blame someone else.
- Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except technology.
- That which cannot be taken apart will fall apart.
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I'M REASONBLY SURE

OUR PARK'S POND

I seem to have got myself stuck in one of my temporary downtime blogging modes again.  Like all my other periodic writing blocks over the years, I'm reasonably sure this one will pass in a few short days.  In the meantime, Facebook today threw me a 2012 archive memory from 8 years ago on this day which I found relevant.  It's entitled, As Much As I Grumble And Complain Sometimes.  In this post, you will see a few photos of Bayfield's beach and what it once looked like with all its sand.  Below is how it looked this morning.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( I was ill and my husband volunteered to go to the supermarket for me. I sent him off with a carefully numbered list of seven items.  He returned shortly, very proud of himself, and proceeded to unpack the grocery bags. He had one bag of sugar, two cartons of eggs, three hams, four boxes of detergent, five boxes of crackers, six eggplants, and seven green peppers.

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TREES AND SHRUBS TRIMMED

More trees and shrubs trimmed today along with a bunch of pine needles raked up.  And yes, we had our usual morning Jeep ride as well:))

GROANER'S CORNER:((  I am so old......
When I walked into a bar they checked my pulse instead of my ID.  

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