CARRYING ON AT TIMES LIKE A WHOLE MOB OF MEATBALL MANIACS

AT THE CORNER OF OUR DRIVEWAY

An overnight and morning snowfall dumped about a foot of fluffy cold snow on us.  Windy conditions and 19F temps found me busy outside once again on the end of my snow shovel, shoveling and shoveling and shoveling.   It sure knocks the stuffings out of me, but the exercise is welcome, and I need that.  Spent nearly an hour outside and then came in for some porridge and a sit-down coffee before heading back outside again.  I was encouraged by a few sun splashes here and there, brightening up things for a short few minutes.  Spring can't come soon enough for this guy!!  At the time of publishing this tonight it is still storming like totally nuts and at times I can't even see Monica's house across the road!!!!:((

 I AM SURE GETTING MY EXERCISE THIS WINTER, SHOVELLING THE DRIVEWAY

 LOOKING WEST ALONG OUR STREET, I CAN'T EVEN SEE THE END OF IT, TWO SHORT BLOCKS AWAY

I can't remember the last time I had Chinese food and I think it goes back further than a few weeks, months, or years.  Decades would probably apply here.  On a whim, while in Goderich on Sunday, to pick up a few groceries, Woodsy and I decided to pick up some Chinese food on our way home.  After Walmart, we slipped up the street to the China Wok restaurant and grabbed ourselves a 'Dinner For Four to go.  We weren't long in scurrying home with our big paper bag of yummy smelling goodies.  Four Egg Rolls, Sesame Chicken, Sweet & Sour Chicken, Chicken Chow Mein, Beef with Mushrooms, Chicken Fried Rice, and Four Fortune Cookies. We thoroughly enjoyed it and Lorraine fixed up a plate for our good neighbor, Monica.  For lunch today, it was a repeat of left over Chinese food.  I don't think I'll wait decades for my next Chinese food splurge.

 A QUICK WALK AROUND OUR BACK YARD

It turned out to be another nasty winter day here again with high winds blowing the fluffy snow all over the place.  The winds were roaring like a speeding freight train through our tall pine trees.  I'm sure school buses would have been pulled off the roads again.  I remember back in 2003 a particular bad school bus driving day when I was driving for Murphy Bus Lines out of Clinton.  It was mid winter and the day had started out okay, but the weather began deteriorating around noon, and by the time I, and other drivers rolled into Clinton's Catholic High School, we were already into whiteout conditions.  I probably had thirty or forty kids on board with a lot of stops north of Clinton in Londesborough and Belgrave which was about a thirty-mile round trip with all the rural country road stops thrown in.  One of the other bus drivers lived up in that neck of the woods and knew the roads well, so he said for me to follow him to the point where he had to split off on his route and I on mine.  I remember so well following the rear end of his school bus through the raging winter storm.  I had no idea where the sides of the road were.  I just stayed in his tracks until we reached our departure point.  From there, I have no recollection of how things went except to say I must have gotten all the kids to their designated spots somehow, and then managed to find my way back to Clinton again.  The only thing I can say is that years ago while, driving for the Stratford Airport (passenger van) between Stratford, Goderich, and Pearson International Airport in Toronto, I had picked up a lot of winter driving experience, bucking through heavy winter snowstorms along the infamous 401, and sometimes as far west as Goderich on highways and secondary roads.  The only thing I can think of is that I must have somehow used some of that hard-earned driving experience from those years to get all those kids home on that long-ago stormy winter day here in Southwest Ontario's Huron County.  Driving school bus is not something I would ever want to do again.  But, I do remember some zany days with loads of rambunctious kids sitting behind me carrying on at times like a whole mob of meatball manics.

 AN EMPTY 20 POUND PLASTIC BAG OF BIRDSEED CAUGHT BY THE SWIRLING WINDS HAD BEEN SPINNING ROUND AND ROUND MAKING THESE CIRCLES ON OUR FRONT DECK

 I ALWAYS LIKE TO KEEP THE PATHS TO MY TWO SHED SHOVELED...ONE NEVER KNOW WHEN ONE MIGHT NEED A CARDBOARD BOX OR SOMETHING EH

Al's Music Box:: Misty by Johnny Mathis

 LOOKING DOWN OUR DRIVEWAY LATE THIS AFTERNOON

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A doctor of psychology was doing his normal morning rounds, and he entered a patient's room to find his patient sitting on the floor, sawing at a piece of wood with the side of his hand. Meanwhile, another patient was in the room, hanging from the ceiling by his feet. The doctor asked his patient what he was doing, sitting on the floor. The patient replied in an irritated fashion, "Can't you see I'm sawing this piece of wood in half?" The doctor inquired, "And what is the fellow hanging from the ceiling doing?" "Oh. He's my friend, but he's a little crazy. He thinks he's a light bulb."The doctor asks, "If he' s your friend, don't you think you should get him down from there before he hurts himself?" "What? And work in the dark?"

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A man and his wife are dining at a table in a plush restaurant, and the husband keeps staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sits alone at a nearby table. The wife asks, "Do you know her?" "Yes," sighs the husband, "she's my ex-girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up seven years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since." "My God!" says the wife. "Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?"  
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A man was wheeling himself frantically down the hall of the hospital in his wheelchair, just before his operation. A nurse stopped him and asked, "What's the matter?" He said, "I heard the nurse say, 'It's a very simple operation, don't worry, I'm sure it will be all right.'" "She was just trying to comfort you. What's so frightening about that?" "She wasn't talking to me. She was talking to the doctor!"

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A BLAST FROM OUR PAST

 HERE'S PHEEBS WITH ALL FOUR PAWS OFF THE GROUND ROMPING WITH HER BEST PAL 'LADY' ON DARBY WELL ROAD, WEST OF AJO, ARIZONA BACK IN JANUARY OF 2012

A Blast From Our Past:)) Say, Have I Told You Lately Why We Love the Southwest 

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Al's Music Box:: Blue Shadows On The Trail by Roy Rogers and The Sons Of The Pioneers.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( George W. Bush, in an airport lobby, noticed a man in a long flowing white robe with a long flowing white beard and flowing white hair.  The man had a staff in one hand and some stone tablets under the other arm. George W. approached the man and inquired, "Aren't you Moses?" The man ignored George W. and stared at the ceiling.  George W. positioned himself more directly in the man's view and asked again, "Aren't you Moses?" The man continued to peruse the ceiling. George W. tugged at the man's sleeve and asked once again, "Aren't you Moses?"  The man finally responded in an irritated voice, "YES, I AM!"  George W. asked him why he was so uppity and had taken so long to answer him.  The man replied, "The last time I spoke to a Bush I ended up stuck in a desert for forty years!

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Harry and Esther are out shopping one morning when Esther says, "Darling, it's my mother's birthday tomorrow. What shall we buy for her? She said she would like something electric." Harry replies, "How about a chair?"

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A passenger train is creeping along, slowly. Finally it creaks to a halt. A passenger sees a conductor walking by outside. "What's going on?" she yells out the window.

"Cow on the track!" replies the conductor.
Ten minutes later, the train resumes its slow pace. Within five minutes, however, it stops again. The woman sees the same conductor walk again. She leans out the window and yells, "What happened? Did we catch up with the cow again?"

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