TRAVEL WITH THE BAYFIELD BUNCH:))

Friday, June 13, 2025

THIS IS MY 29,469TH DAY ON THE PLANET

Under cloudy skies, I was once again on the road early heading to the True Center Autopro (NAPA) for an oil change on the Subaru. McDonalds' is only a block south of the Napa garage, so to put in some time, I walked down there and had myself an egg & sausage McMuffin with a hash brown and a coffee. Back to Napa, I had only a half-hour wait until the car was done, and I was soon on my way home under clearing skies. Still dealing with tiredness, I didn't feel much like doing any outside stuff, so with watermelons on sale at the 'No Frills' grocery store in Grand Bend, off we went. It was a nice day for a drive through the countryside. Sunny and warm with a pleasantly cool breeze. A wisp of energy must have blown through the screen door beside my living room recliner, and before I knew it, I was out in the driveway washing Woodsy's car. Woodsy was nowhere to be found because she was out whizzing around on her new bicycle. After washing Wizzy's VW 'Wizmobile car', I came back inside and took my recliner for another spin over to dreamland and back. And so went another Friday. And, by the way, this is my 29,469th day on the Planet:))

SPOTTED 'OLD LONESOME' ON MY WAY TO GODERICH THIS MORNING

BREAKFAST AT McDONALDS

THE NAPA GARAGE

AND THERE'S SUBIE UP ON THE HOIST

OUT FOR A THURSDAY EVENING DRIVE WE SPOTTED THIS WILD TURKEY STRUTTING ACROSS A FIELD

ON OUR WAY BACK FROM GRAND BEND, WE STOPPED AT ZEHR'S MENNONITE MARKET SOUTH OF BAYFIELD, AND I SPOTTED THIS LITTLE FELLOW CONVERSING WITH A FLOCK OF CHICKENS

A WALK AROUND OUR FRONT YARD FROG POND THIS AFTERNOON

Al's Music Box:)) A Day Is Gonna Come is a song by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Produced by Hugo & Luigi and arranged and conducted by Rene' Hall, the song was the B-side to "Shake". The song was inspired by various events in Cooke's life, most prominently when he and his entourage were turned away from a whites-only motel in Louisiana. On October 8, 1963, en route to Shreveport, Louisiana, Cooke called ahead to the Holiday Inn North to make reservations for his wife, Barbara, and himself, but when he and his group arrived, the desk clerk glanced nervously and explained there were no vacancies. While his brother Charles protested, Sam was furious, yelling to see the manager and refusing to leave until he received an answer. His wife nudged him, attempting to calm him down, telling him, "They'll kill you," to which he responded, "They ain't gonna kill me, because I'm Sam Cooke." When they eventually persuaded Cooke to leave, the group drove away calling out insults and blaring their horns. When they arrived at the Castle Motel on Sprague Street downtown, the police were waiting for them, arresting them for disturbing the peace. The New York Times ran a UPI report the next day, headlined "Negro Band Leader Held in Shreveport," but African-Americans were outraged. In 2019, then-Shreveport mayor Adrian Perkins apologized to Cooke's family for the event, and posthumously awarded Cooke the key to the city.Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, "A Change Is Gonna Come" is widely considered one of Cooke's greatest and most influential compositions and has been voted among the greatest songs ever recorded by various publications. In 2007, the song was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress by the National Recording Registry, having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." In 2021, Rolling Stone magazine placed it at number 3 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and in 2025, the magazine placed it at number 1 on its list of "The 100 Best Protest Songs of All Time."

INVERTED COLORS ON A COUPLE OF HOSTA LEAVES

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A Chinese person walks into a bar in America late one night, and he sees Steven Spielberg. As he was a great fan of his movies, he rushed over to him and asked for his autograph. Instead, Spielberg turns away and says, "You Chinese people bombed Pearl Harbor, get out of here." The astonished Chinese man replied, "It was not the Chinese who bombed your Pearl Harbor, it was the Japanese". "Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, you're all the same," replied Spielberg. In return, the Chinese says, "You sank the Titanic; my forefathers were on that ship." Shocked, Spielberg replies, "It was the iceberg that sank the ship, not me." The Chinese man replies, "Iceberg, Spielberg, Carlsberg, you're all the same."

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My doctor's diagnosis was that I have high blood pressure. I took that diagnosis with a grain of salt.

Q: Why do farmers put bells on cows?
A: Their horns don't work.
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So I walked into a this bar and heard two girls speaking in what sounded like a lovely Scottish accent. I said: So, are you two girls from Scotland? One of them said: "Wales, you Idiot!" So I said: "Oh, I am terribly sorry about that. So, are you two Whales from Scotland?" That's the last thing I remember.

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Al's Doggy World

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Kelly & Pheebs Corner

KELLY JOTS DOWN A DEER PARK LODGE GOOKING WHILE LITTLE CORA LOOKS ON

CUTTING UNCLE HARRY'S HAIR AT THE RITZ VILLA IN MITCHELL, ONTARIO

Al's Art Gallery

Thursday, June 12, 2025

FOR SURE THAT WAS GOOD NEWS

ANOTHER SUNSET FOR WOODSY AND I WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Everything went off like clockwork this morning. I was up before my 'getting up' time and was on the road slightly before 7 a.m. A nice cloudy morning drive all the way to the Stratford Hospital. A short time in the first waiting room, a longer time in the second waiting room, and then into the stent removal room. Dr. Bukala said he got all of the kidney stones out and I would not have to come back for a second procedure. For sure, that was good news. So, 'Zippy-do-da', I was soon out of the hospital and on my home, minus the stent. Cold and raining when I left the hospital, but sunny and warmer by the time I reached home an hour later........

A quick trip to Goderich for Woodsy and I, where I had a prescription to pick up. A drive down around the harbor, and a quick stop at Giant Tiger, and we were on the road home. This morning's early start led to a lazy afternoon.

THE NEXT THREE PHOTOS SHOW THE ADVANTAGE OF A TELEPHOTO LENS

Al's Music Box:)) Incense and Peppermints is a 1967 song by the American psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock. The song is officially credited as having been written by John S Carter and Tim Gilbert, although it was based on an instrumental idea by band members Mark Weitz and Ed King. It was released as a single in May 1967 by Universal Records and reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in November of that year. The song was featured in the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. During the recording sessions for "Incense and Peppermints," the band members were not considered a right fit for the lead vocal track, which John S. Carter had written using a rhyming dictionary, so the lead vocals were sung by Greg Munford, a friend of the band who was present at the recording session. The regular vocalists in the band provided background and harmony vocals on the record. Band members Mark Weitz and Ed King were both denied songwriting credits by producer Frank Slay despite the fact that they contributed to the song. The songwriting credits instead went to Carter and his songwriting partner Tim Gilbert, despite the latter not participating in the song's writing. King would go on to greater fame as a member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. "Incense and Peppermints" initially appeared on the B-side of Thee Sixpence's fifth single, "The Birdman of Alkatrash," released on All-American in April 1967.^] However, local radio stations began playing "Incense and Peppermints" instead of the A-side, and the song began to gain in popularity in and around Los Angeles. Sensing the possibility of a national hit, Uni Records picked up the record for national distribution, and the single was re-released in May with the sides reversed. By the time of this second pressing, the band had changed its name to "The Strawberry Alarm Clock" to avoid confusion with another local band. "Incense and Peppermints" spent 16 weeks on the Billboard chart, reaching the #1 spot for the week ending November 25, 1967. The single earned a gold disc from the RIAA on December 7 for sales of one million copies.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A man joins a big corporate empire as a trainee. On his very first day of work, he dials the pantry and shouts into the phone, "Get me a coffee, quickly!" The voice from the other side responded, "You fool you've dialed the wrong extension! Do you know who you're talking to, dumbo?" "No," replied the trainee. "It's the CEO of the company, you fool!" The trainee shouts back, "And do you know who YOU are talking to, you fool?!" "No," replied the CEO indignantly. "Good!" replied the trainee, and puts down the phone.

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Getting my toy drone stuck in a tree hasn’t been the worst thing that happened to me today. But it’s definitely up there.

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After a recent college basketball game, the coach spotted a cell phone lying on the floor. He picked it up and handed it to one of the referees, saying, "Here's your phone."

"What makes you think its mine?" the ref asked. "Easy," the coach replied. "It says you missed 13 calls!"

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