TRAVEL WITH THE BAYFIELD BUNCH:))

Sunday, July 06, 2025

IT WAS NEARLY MIDNIGHT BEFORE WE MADE IT HOME AGAIN

Stepping out the door earlier this morning, I almost evaporated. It was already 78°F. Not hot for Florida, or the Sahara Desert, but plenty hot for me here in Ontario, Canada. We reached 90F today and that came with humidity too:((

HERE'S WOODSY PICKING UP A FEW INTERESTING STONES ON AN EVENING WALK A FEW NIGHTS AGO

Saturday night, Lorraine and I slipped out for ice cream at the Woodland Drive-In, and I figure if we don't soon curb these ice cream nights, I am going to have to trade the Subaru in for a heavy-duty pickup truck to transport all the extra weight we may be incurring!!

A SATURDAY NIGHT WALK OUT ALONG BAYFIELD'S SOUTH PIER

LOTS OF FOLKS OUT ENJOYING THE WATERS OF LAKE HURON ON A WARM SATURDAY SUMMER'S EVENING

BOYS JUMPING OFF THE PIER

OH TO RETURN TO THIS WORLD OF MARVELOUS WONDERS AND EXCITEMENT EVEN IF IT WERE FOR ONLY A FEW MINUTES

A COUPLE OF GALS OUT ENJOYING AN EVENING PADDLE ON THE LAKE

What a lovely, warm summer night it was, so we decided to take a walk out to the end of Bayfield's south pier and watch the sun go down. Lots of folks out there doing the same, and a bunch of young boys jumping off the pier into the sparkling waters of Lake Huron. Everybody had a chuckle when one of the young boys climbed up out of the water, saying, 'I stepped on a fish'. From our walk out on the pier, it was a leisurely cruise around Bayfield, and then it was off for home we went.

HEADING OUT FOR A SHORT BOAT RIDE

I THINK THIS OLDER FELLA HAS ENJOYED MANY A BOAT RIDE OVER THE YEARS

HEADING BACK IN....THANKS MOM AND DAD, FOR TAKING ME FOR BOAT RIDE

THE SUN IS SETTING ON ANOTHER FINE SUMMER'S DAY

A LONE SAILBOAT HEADS IN

THE SAILBOAT SLOWLY CRUISED UP THE BAYFIELD RIVER TO ITS BERTH

But, the day wasn't quite over yet. With a three-quarter Moon overhead, we later hopped into the Subaru and headed out into the countryside to my stargazing spot. What a beautiful night with a warm summer breeze in the air. Fireflies were doing their best to light up the night, but we were still able to pick out a few stars and constellations. It was nearly midnight before we made it home again.
YES, I'M THE TALL SHADOW ON THE RIGHT, AND BY GOLLY, THERE'S WOODSY HOPING I DIDN'T INCLUDE HER IN THE PHOTO:))

I guess you could call today an old-fashioned relaxing Sunday. Remember years ago when most everybody stayed home on Sundays and did about the square root of nothing. Stores were closed, and there were no trucks on the roads unless refrigerated. Today, with temps over 90°F, it just seemed to make more sense to stay inside.

THE BAND WAS SO LOUD HERE ON BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET SATURDAY NIGHT THAT WE COULD HEAR IT BACK AT OUR PLACE TWO MILES AWAY

Al's Music Box:)) Surfer Girl by The Beach Boys.

AN IPHONE SELFIE ON THE PIER SATURDAY NIGHT

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Sam consistently caught more fish than anyone else. Whereas the other guys would only catch three or four a day, Sam would come in off the lake with a boat full. Stringer after stringer was always packed with fresh trout. The warden, curious, asked Sam his secret. The successful fisherman invited the game warden to accompany him and observe. So the next morning the two met at the dock and took off in Sam's boat. When they got to the middle of the lake, they stopped the boat and the warden sat back to see how it was done. Sam's approach was simple. He took out a stick of dynamite, lit it, and threw it in the air. The explosion rocked the lake with such a force that dead fish immediately began to surface. Sam took out a net and started scooping them up. Well, you can imagine the reaction of the game warden. When he recovered from the shock of it all, he began yelling at Sam. "You can't do this! I'll put you in jail, buddy! You will be paying every fine there is in the book!" Sam, meanwhile, set his net down and took out another stick of dynamite. He lit it and threw it in the lap of the game warden with these words, "Are you going to sit there all day complaining or are you going to fish?"

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Teacher: Why are you late for school?

Student: Because of a sign down the road.
Teacher: What does the sign have to do with you being late?
Student: The sign said, “School Ahead, Go Slow!”

- Why did the math book look sad?
Because it had too many problems.

Teacher: What is the most common phrase used in school?
Student: I don’t know!
Teacher: Correct!

Teacher: We will only have a half-day of school this morning…
Students: Yay!!!!
Teacher: Then we will have the other half this afternoon.

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A plane is flying over the Mediterranean.

A pilot's voice comes on and says a terrible thing has happened. We’ve lost both engines and we’re gonna have to land in the Mediterranean. The plane will stay afloat for a very short time. And we’ll be able to open the door just long enough that everyone can get out. We have to do this in an orderly fashion. Everyone that can swim just go to the right wing and stand there.
Everyone who can’t swim just go to the left wing and just stand there. Those of you on the right wing you’ll find a little island it’s in the direction of the Sun about two miles off, and as the plane goes under just swim in an orderly fashion out and you’ll be fine.
And for those of you on the left wing…I want to thank you for flying Air Italia.
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Al's Doggy World

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Kelly & Pheeb's Corner
KELLY HELPING MY UNCLE HARRY WITH HIS TV'S REMOTE CONTROL

UNCLE HARRY AND KELLY IN OUR SUNROOM
UNCLE HARRY'S SISTER AUNT JEAN SERVES HIM HIS FAVORITE PIE...CHERRY
Al's Art Gallery

Saturday, July 05, 2025

I DID ALL THE WAITING IN THE CAR

Wished I could start my posts off with something more exciting and interesting than my usual blather about the daily weather. Wouldn't it be exciting if I could start off my post with 'today we went bungee jumping and the bungee cord broke' or 'this morning after I woke up I slipped on a banana peel and fell down 17 flights of stairs' or 'today a rhinoceros chased us down the street and I tripped and fell just as the rhinoceros reached me'. Oh well, until something exciting happens, folks, you will just have to put up with my little weather blurbs. Or, better yet, just skip over them. They are usually in the first paragraph of my posts.

CLAN GREGOR SQUARE WAS PACKED WITH CORVETTS AND PEOPLE
It felt hot and humid to me this morning, so the only outside thing I managed to accomplish was to water my newly planted grass seed (yesterday) near the carport, and trim a few overgrown mulberry branches hanging over the road out front. Subie was down to less than half a tank of gas, so on a short drive this morning I headed into the Bayfield Garage for gas. I had kinda forgotten about Vettefest this weekend, so there was a lot of traffic and a lot of Chevy Corvettes in town. Clan Gregor Square was packed with them, as were some of the backstreets. Well over a hundred Corvettes, I'd guess. After gassing up, I drove around the perimeter of Clan Gregor Square, taking a few 'drive-by' photos. Not the best pics, but it's all I have for today. Be sure to click on the above Vettefest link for better pics and what Vettefest is all about. It's an annual event for Bayfield, and it seems to grow bigger each year.

This afternoon it was off to Goderich for Woodsy and I. Food Basics, McD's for Al's coffee, and Tim Hortons for Lorraine's coffee, Giant Tiger, where Wiz bought me another pair of summer shorts and a couple of nice summer shirts. Holy smokes, it's going to be a bit of a shock to my body not wearing something from the Goodwill store. From Giant Tiger, it was down to the harbor, but there was so much traffic down there, we made a U-turn and headed back up out of the harbor to A&W for a double-buddy burger for me. From A&W it was over to Zehr's supermarket and picked up a 300 hundred pound watermelon, and then it was off for home we went. (Well hey, that melon sure felt heavy) As usual, Woodsy did all the shopping, and I did all the waiting in the car. No way was I going into any of those stores on a summer weekend with shoulder-to-shoulder tourists and weekenders, etc. Lorraine is used to shopping by herself anyway, and that works out best for us. (Especially me) I never went into the stores with Kelly either, unless we were on the road traveling, and then we both did the big Walmarts along the way together. I always considered those Walmart stops my 'people fix'. Walmartians everywhere and they did me in evertime:((

Al's Music Box:)) Masquerade by George Benson

GROANER'S CORNER:(( The barber's client looked depressed, so the barber told him, "Cheer up. I knew a guy who owed $5,000 he couldn't pay. He drove his vehicle to the edge of a cliff, where he sat for over an hour. A group of concerned citizens heard about his problem and passed a hat around. Relieved, the man pulled back from the cliff's edge." "Incredible," said the client. "Who were these kind people?" "The passengers on the bus."

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Three years ago my doctor told me I was going deaf...I haven’t heard from him since.

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A fair-haired lady in a pet shop asks about buying a gold fish. The salesperson ask if she needed an aquarium. She replied, 'I don't care what sign it is.'

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The local sheriff was looking for a deputy, so Gomer, who was not exactly the sharpest nail in the bucket, went in to try out for the job. "Okay," the sheriff drawled, "Gomer, what is 1 and 1?" "11" he replied. The sheriff thought to himself, "That's not what I meant, but he's right. What two days of the week start with the letter 'T'?" "Today and tomorrow." The sheriff was again surprised that Gomer supplied a correct answer that he had never thought of himself. "Now Gomer, listen carefully: Who killed Abraham Lincoln?" Gomer looked a little surprised himself, then thought really hard for a minute and finally admitted, "I don't know." "Well, why don't you go home and work on that one for a while?" So, Gomer wandered over to the barbershop where his pals were waiting to hear the results of the interview. Gomer was exultant. "It went great! First day on the job and I'm already working on a murder case!"

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