A COUPLE OF READER'S QUESTIONS TONIGHT AND 'I STILL WANNA KNOW'

A LONE CORMORANT ON A ROCK AT GODERICH'S ROTARY COVE

With my large white plastic pail, a third filled with water in one hand and my blue fishing net (no, I'm not a fisherman) I set out two days ago, and commenced with my annual front yard frog pond round up.  Each year, I catch the little froggy fellers and transport them via wheelbarrow over to the Park's pond a few hundred yards away.  Our front yard pond is too shallow for the frogs to spend the winter in, so I take them to the big pond where they can burrow down into the mud for their winter hibernation.  So far, I have caught and relocated three frogs.  Or, have I relocated the same three frogs after they hopped back to our front pond in the dead of night?  From my past frog catching experience over the past decade, it's likely the latter:((

MY FIRST TWO FROGS AWAITING TRANSPORT TO THE PARK'S BIG POND

AND, HERE THEY ARE AT THEIR WINTER QUARTERS

Two questions from readers to answer tonight, and thank you for the questions. First, from an anonymous reader, "So when you were reading Delores Cannons books, the only thing I was left with (not the desire to go read them all) was this question: Delores said they had tried this two(?) times before. What was she talking about"?   In her series 'The Convoluted Universe' I read four and a half of her five books about four years ago and I have to answer this reader's question with an, I don't know'.  Her books are chock-full of so much information that it is hard for my mind to retain much of what I have read.  Sorry, anonymous, I wish I could have had an answer for you.........Carin, in my sidebar's 'Shout Box' asks regarding the Sunday night television show 'The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch',"what do you think is in the Mesa"??  Great question, and I'm sure there are millions of viewers wondering the exact same thing.  I'm kind of leaning towards the U.S. Government having something to do with it, but many of the strange happenings on the ranch suggest something much bigger, and much stranger.  Maybe it's a collaboration of the government and alien technology.  Maybe it's a crashed alien spacecraft, or some kind of underground facility run by the U.S. Military.  I guess we will all have to stay tuned to The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.  Will they ever find that Mesa??  I don't know, and maybe it's an answer we're all better off not knowing.  Umm, ya but I still wanna know!!

 QUITE A CAST OF CHARACTERS AND CRITTERS MONDAY NIGHT'S SUNSET CLOUDS

 LOOKS LIKE A BIG BLACK BEAR UP THERE

HEY, IS THAT SNOOPY UP THERE

Woodsy rolled in Tuesday afternoon, and I'm glad she did.  I had an appointment for 3 p.m. today to have the Subaru undercoated at Krown Rustproofing in Goderich, and if Woodsy hadn't been here to remind me of that appointment, I would have totally forgotten about it.  And, here's another nice bonus...the house smells like home cooking again instead of peanut butter sammiches.  

CAN YOU FIND THE 'KROWN RUSTPROOFING' SIGN??

 IN THE WAITING ROOM READING MY KINDLE

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A young man called his mother and announced excitedly that he had just met the woman of his dreams. Now what should he do? His mother had an idea: "Why don't you send her flowers, and on the card invite her to your apartment for a home-cooked meal?" He thought this was a great strategy, and a week later, the woman came to dinner. His mother called the next day to see how things had gone "I was totally humiliated," he moaned. "She insisted on washing the dishes." "What's wrong with that?" asked his mother. "We hadn't started eating yet."

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- Did you hear about the guy who tried to date a nun? He wanted to take her to the county fair, but she declined on account of she had taken a vow of abstinence from Carnival pleasures.

- “I don't mind kids playing hopscotch in most places, but my driveway is where I draw the line.”

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One lovely morning, Ben and Thomas were out golfing. Ben slices his ball deep into a wooded ravine. He grabs his 8-iron and proceeds down the embankment into the ravine in search of his ball. Ben searches diligently through the thick underbrush, and suddenly he spots something shiny. As he gets closer, he realizes that the shiny object is in fact an 8-iron in the hands of a skeleton lying near an old golf ball.
Ben excitedly calls out to his golfing partner: "Hey Thomas, come here, I've got big trouble down here."  Thomas comes running over to the edge of the ravine and calls out, "What's the matter, Ben?" Ben shouts back in a nervous voice, "Throw me my 7-iron! Looks like you can't get out of here with an 8-iron."

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THROWING THE DOOR OPEN TO READER'S QUESTIONS

 A HONEY BEE IN OUR BACK YARD THIS AFTERNOON

In the sidebar on my blog's 'Shout Box' I noticed a question from blog reader Carin a couple of days ago about my thoughts on the TV series, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch  I have posted about this before several times, but will say again, this is the one and only TV show that I look forward to watching in the Fall over these past five years.  I find the show credible, exciting, and equally mysterious.  The subject matter is fascinating and may be only the tiniest minuscule tip of the Universe's secrets.  For me, it's a must-watch show viewed with an open mind and two words,  'What If'.  Will they ever find out what's in that Mesa related to all the strange happenings on that entire ranch?  Who knows.  Will it involve the U.S. Government, Alien technology, or other Dimensions??  Maybe some things are best left undiscovered, but, in this case, I don't think so.  Two thumbs up for 'The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch':))

 YES, TIS A COZY BACK YARD WE HAVE

I also remember another question from a reader a while ago about 'where do I get all the material for Al's Doggy World, Meanings, and Al's Art Gallery??  One word, 'Facebook'.  Example...if you see a cute dog picture on Facebook and you click on it, Facebook will then start sending you more doggy pictures.  I have created a few new files where I put all these pictures in.  Example...I have a file called 'Paintings' and that is where I put all the Facebook pics for 'Al's Art Gallery'. 'Toons' is the file for cartoons and humorous sayings.  'Doggies' is the file for dogs, and 'Meanings::' is where I put all the various sayings that Facebook sends me.  'Kelly & Pheebs Corner of course comes from my own photo files.  So, there you have it.  Sometimes, people ask about what kind of camera I use.  My main everyday camera is a Sony RX10 IV and my backup camera is a Nikon Coolpix P900  I also carry with me at times a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX90V small compact camera.  I will add...all three of these cameras are a direct result of an anonymous donor somewhere in the United States:))  Okay, so while I'm on the subject of questions and answers, and because I have forgotten to answer so many questions from readers over the years, I am going to take a chance here and throw open the door to readers' questions while I am momentarily out of this annoying short-term memory fog of mine.  Oh dear, now I've gone and done it. 

 MY TWO MAIN CAMERAS

 SONY ON THE LEFT AND NIKON ON THE RIGHT

 MY COMPACT SONY CYBER-SHOT

Al's Music Box Theme From A Summer Place by The Lettermen.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( After the Great Britain Beer Festival, in London, all the Presidents of the brewreys decide to go to the pub for a drink. The coors President said "Can I have the only beer made with Rocky Mountain Spring Water: a Coors, please." The bartender gave him the drink. Then the Budweiser President orders, "The King Of Beers -- Budweiser." The bartender proceeds with the order. The Amstel President walks in and orders "The Finest Beer ever." The bartender gives him an Amstel. Then the Guinness President says, "I'll have a coke please." The bartender is taken aback by this but gives the coke to him anyway. All the Presidents looked over at him and said, "Why have you ordered a coke?" He replied, "Well if you all aren't drinking real beer, then neither shall I."

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Husband: "I want to tattoo your name on me. What do you think, shall I do it on my arm or neck?" Wife: "How about on your will?"

“Look, Charlie,” the coach said, “you know the principles of good sportsmanship. You know the Little League doesn’t allow temper tantrums, shouting at the umpire, or abusive language.” “Yes sir, I understand.” “Good, Charlie. Now, would you explain that to your father?”

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I worry about the germs in the holes of bowling balls. Nobody cleans those holes. There are years of impacted pizza fingers in there. Taco fingers. Chicken fingers. I'm amazed those balls still have holes. Ever smell a bowling ball? You think the balls are knocking down the pins? You're wrong. The pins are passing out from the smell.

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SPILLING ITS CONTENTS ALONG THE WAY

Heavy rains in the night, beating on our steel roof, woke me up several times.  I remembered the hole I had dug near the front porch Friday,  and promptly had a nightmare of our septic tank floating out the driveway, spilling its contents along the way.  Some nightmares should not be remembered!!  And yes, it's a good thing I spent about forty minutes yesterday watering all my newly planted grass seed.  I should have checked the weather report:((  It looks like a nice evening shaping up for a walk, maybe a sunset, and if I'm lucky, some quiet time under the stars.  Or, maybe I will go chasing off after another blinking red light communication tower flashing its beacon on the far distant horizon.  Yes, I know.....I'm an odd duck, alright.  But, I have become quite comfortable with that:)) 

Al's Music Box Sea Of Heartbreak by Don Gibson

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Starting the day off with some frivolity::

- Two little Morons walk into a building..........you'd think at least one of them would have seen it.
- Phone answering machine message - "...If you want to buy marijuana, press the hash key..."
- I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any.
- Saw my butcher the other day and I bet him 50 dollars that he couldn't reach the meat off the top shelf. He said, "No, the steaks are too high."
- My friend drowned in a bowl of muesli. A strong current pulled him in.
- A man came around in the hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I've cut your arms off".
- I went to a seafood disco last week...and pulled a muscle.
- Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly. They lit a fire in the craft and it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
- A man goes to the doctor with a strawberry growing out of his head. The Doc says, "I'll give you some cream to put on it."
- 'Doc I can't stop singing The Green, Green Grass of Home' "That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome. ' Is it common? ' "It's not unusual."
- What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.
- Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. There are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my Dad, or my older Brother Colin, or my younger Brother Ho-Cha-Chu? But I think its Colin.
- Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, and the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.
- "You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen. It said, 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice."
- A man walked into the doctor's office. He said, "I've hurt my arm in several places." The doctor said, "Well, don't go in those places anymore."

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Two Cows are talking through a fence. One cow says to the other, "You know, I'm really worried about this Mad Cow Disease." The other cow says to him, "I wouldn't be too worried about it. It can't affect us chickens."

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Arriving late for a political conference, the college student asks another student standing by the door, "How long has the candidate been talking now?" "Half an hour." "And what is he talking about?" "That I wouldn't know, he hasn't said."

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