THE FARTHER I GO THE FURTHER I CONFUSE MYSELF

FEMALE CARDINAL

Through our Park's pine trees I could see dapples of a deep orange sunrise.  Temperatures were already 76F and it was unusually windy for that time of day but thank heavens for the wind in the already too hot and humid air.  The consolation to all this was the cooler air the hot air storm front is expected to usher in sometime Wednesday.  Predictions this year are for a warm Autumn here in these parts.

Our morning Jeep ride was a basic repeat of Monday mornings drive with the exception of dropping into the Bayfield Garage.  Made a Motorhome appointment for an oil change Thursday morning as well as a look at the dash A/C to see why it isn't blowing cold air.  ABS light on dash is staying on and they will check all the tires.  Soon as that is done the Jeep goes in for an oil change as well.  With predictions of a warm Autumn and our aversion to humidity we really do need to have that dash air working.

AREA BEAN FIELDS ARE BEGINNING TO RIPEN UP

Under cloudy skies with a few drops of rain here and there I decided to forego a morning coffee again so from Bayfield Pheebs and I plodded along southeast of town with half an eye out for photos.  Couldn't seem to get myself into photo mode.  And again my energy was sapped and I hadn't really done anything.  Returning home I spent a sizeable chunk of the day slumped in my recliner again.  Sun poked it's nose through the cloud cover around 10:30 but it was too dastardly humid for me to set foot out the door.  Our skies finally cleared and we ended up under clear blue skies.  By the end of the day we had both a heat advisory warning as well as an overnight storm advisory as well with a fast moving storm headed our way packing high winds.

‘HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE YA FURRY VARMINT’!!!!!

‘THIS IS BIRDSEED NOT CHIPMUNK SEED’!!

‘GEEEEZZZZZ THAT STRIPED LITTLE VARMINT TICKS ME OFF’!!

‘DON’T CALL ME A STRIPED VARMINT YA BLUE BUZZARD’!!

‘JUST FOR THAT I THINK I’LL LOAD MYSELF UP ON ALL THESE PEANUTS TOO’

‘BY THE TIME I’M DONE HERE THERE AIN’T GONNA BE NUTHING LEFT FOR THAT GRABBY OLD BLUE JAY’

Kelly had brought a DVD home from the library last week titled Far From Home (Canada and the Great War) so figured it was a good afternoon in this heat to sit back in cool comfort and watch this 3 disc documentary on Canada's involvement in the First World War.  Interesting, Educational, and well done.  Only problem I had was trying to keep myself awake.  Not that it was boring but simply because I could hardly keep myself awake.  Doze off-rewind, doze off-rewind, doze off re-rewind. 

‘CAN WE GO TO THE MOON SOME DAY DAD’?

‘YES WE CAN PHEEBS, MAYBE SOON’

‘I WOULD REALLY LIKE THAT DAD’  ‘I WOULD TOO PHEEBS’

‘CAN WE GO TOMORROW DAD’??

Sometimes when life seems so far away I hesitate to ask myself where have I been.  Have I been where I’m needed.  Have I been where I’m wanted.  Have I been where I have wanted myself to be.  I don’t know the answers to any of this and it seems the farther I sometimes go, the further I sometimes seem to confuse myself…………..

GROANER'S CORNER:(( The beguiling ideas about science quoted here were gleaned from essays, exams, and classroom discussions. Most were from 5th and 6th graders. They illustrate Mark Twain's contention that the 'most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Q: What is one horsepower?

A: One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.

- Talc is found on rocks and on babies.

- The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.

- When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.

- Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.

- Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.

- A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.

- Lime is a green-tasting rock.

- Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.

- Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should.

- Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there.

- To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.

- Clouds are high flying fogs.

- Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.

- Rain is saved up in cloud banks.

- In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.

- A blizzard is when it snows sideways.

- A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.

- A monsoon is a French gentleman.

- Thunder is a rich source of loudness.

- The wind is like the air, only pushier.

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- “Ever since I switched to wrinkle free shirts my laundry issues have been less pressing.”

- Just remember: when you go to court, you are trusting your fate to twelve people that weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty!

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A mother and her young son returned from the grocery store and began putting away the groceries. The boy opened the box of animal crackers and spread them all over the table. 'What are you doing?' his mother asked. 'The box says not to eat them if the seal is broken' the boy explained. 'I'm looking for the seal.'

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TOO NOISY AND TOO MUCH TRAFFIC IN OUR ONCE QUIET LITTLE CORNER OF THE PARK:((

A LOT OF MONARCH BUTTERFLIES IN THE AIR RIGHT NOW AND I HAVE SEEN MORE MONARCHS THIS SUMMER THAN THE LAST TWO OR THREE SUMMERS COMBINED

Oh my what a gloomy wet morning we had and it all started about 3 a.m. with the gnashing and crashing of thunder and lightning in the night sky.  Thought a couple of those thunder cracks were going to shatter our windows for sure.

OUR MORNING OUTING UNDER STORMY SKIES

DID YOU NOTICE THE PHEEBS??

WE LOVE OUR QUIET COUNTRY ROADS

Rains let up along enough for Pheebs and I to make our country road rounds southeast of Bayfield but with little enthusiasm going for myself I never even stopped into town for a coffee to go.  We did manage to eat a few of our our cracker and dog biscuit snacks along the way though.  Despite a heat advisory for today it remained surprisingly cool this morning.  Bonus.   We were back home before 10 whereupon I crashed in my recliner and gladly stayed there for much of what was left of the wet rainy morning.

GOLDENROD

 

Until this summer the nosiest thing in our neighborhood was the neighbors truck but this summer even that truck takes a back seat to the tractors, dump trucks, tree trimmers, and cement trucks.  Pick-up trucks back and forth back and forth.  Dump trucks loaded with gravel and an 18 wheeler logging truck.  Bobcats and front end loaders.  Oh ya, then there is the 300 mph golf cart obviously driven by a younger worker.  All three new neighbors around the corner have small white cars so it looks like a herd of young white albino Elephants constantly rumbling past.  Back and forth they go all day long it seems.  For years our quiet little neighborhood corner was to our liking.  Not so much anymore.  Our quaint little Park is suddenly becoming populated.  I think our good friends and neighbors Gayle and Richard have the right idea.  They will soon be leaving the Park for the last time in search of quieter pastures……………

NICE TO SEE THE NEW COLORFUL SAILS (BLADES) ON THIS WORKABLE AUTHENTIC  DUTCH WINDMILL LESS THAN A MILE DOWN THE ROAD FROM OUR PARK

GROANER’S CORNER:(( Church Bulletin Bloopers::

Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands.

The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been cancelled due to a conflict.

Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B.S. is done.

This afternoon, there will be a meeting in the south and north ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.

Tuesday at 4:00 pm there will be an ice cream social. All ladies giving milk will please come early.

Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.

The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.

Due to weather conditions, there will not be any “Women Worth Watching” this week.

Don't miss this Saturday's exhibit by Christian Martian Arts.

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A three-year-old boy went with his dad to see a litter of kittens. On returning home, he breathlessly informed his mother, 'There were 2 boy kittens and 2 girl kittens.' 'How did you know?' his mother asked. 'Daddy picked them up and looked underneath,' he replied. 'I think it's printed on the bottom.'

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PROBABLY NOT A GOOD IDEA TO INVITE ME OVER TO YOUR HOUSE FOR SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS

AN OLD BARN GETS A NEW LEASE ON LIFE WITH A MAJOR NEW BARN BOARD FACELIFT

With the cloud base a couple hundred feet off the ground it was a hazy morning for awhile.  Kelly slipped over to Zurich and picked up some beans, pork chops, and cole slaw from the Bean Festival Saturday and she said it was a foggy drive.  Pheebs and I headed for the Hullett Marsh with only a bit of haze.

ONE OF OUR FAVORITE SPOTS TO STOP

ALTHOUGH WE DIDN’T SEE ANY MUSKRATS I COULD SEE THREE SEPARATE PATHWAY ENTRANCES LEADING TO AND FROM THE BANK

 

MUSKRAT PATHWAY THROUGH THE GRASS AND JEWEL WEED ON THE RIGHT

A LEOPARD FROG HIDES IN THE LONG GRASS

YEP WE SURE GOT OUR PAWS AND FEET WET WALKING THROUGH THIS HEAVILY DEW LADEN GRASS

LOTS OF SMALL LEOPARD FROGS OUT THERE

We did manage a bug free walk at the Marsh but with heavy overnight dews now everything is wet in the mornings so we ended up with watery paws and feet.  All was quiet except for the Dinosaur like rasps of the Blue Herons.  Many summer song birds have already departed the area.  It is only the chorus of Crickets we mostly here now.  Being a Sunday morning we met very few vehicles on our short jaunt through the countryside. 

ONLY SAW 2 BLUE HERONS AND THIS WAS ONE OF THEM

AND THIS WAS THE SECOND ONE

THE FIRST BLUE HERON TAKES TO THE AIR

AND THE SECOND BLUE HERON TAKES TO THE AIR AS WELL

It is completely unimaginable to me now how people living in heavily populated urban centers can say they enjoy being there.  And yet I can remember living in Toronto (Spadina and St. Clair area) for 9 months back in 1967 and 68 thinking it was just tickety boo riding the buses, trolleys, and subway.  Lived in Kitchener Ontario about 4 years all told and Stratford for 20.  So yes I’ve done my city time so I know what I’m talking about.  Never would I voluntarily live in a big city again though.  I’ve been countryfied:))

LOVE ALL THE LITTLE COUNTRY STREAMS MEANDERING THROUGH THE RURAL FARMLANDS

We puttered around in the Motorhome for awhile this afternoon arranging things but by 2 o’clock the rising humidity made doing anything outside prohibitive and that was the end of our puttering.  Looks like we have some miserably sticky weather coming up over the next three days. A heat advisory has already been issued for Monday.  #%*!!%^

DON’T THINK THIS TRAVEL TRAILER’S BEEN ANYWHERE FOR AWHILE

We had spaghetti and meat balls for supper and a thought occurred to me.  Don't ever ask me over to your house for spaghetti and meat balls and here's why.  Watching Kelly using a knife and fork to deftly eat her spaghetti I noticed she does it much nicer than I do.  She's got more table manners than I got.  I load my fork up with as much of that slippery stuff as I can then quickly haul the mass up to my mouth losing about half of it on the way.  Once into my mouth I am for a brief few seconds still connected to my plate.  There I sit partially hunched over with what seems like about 352 tomato pasted noodles wiggling out of my mouth and it's not until I can bite them off freeing up the connection to my plate that I can lift my head and return to some sense of visible decency.  Well that’s after I’ve wiped tomato sauce out of my moustache and beard that is.  A few seconds later I repeat the same process and by the way I would never order spaghetti and meat balls in a public restaurant.

PHEEBS ALWAYS LIKES A BIG DRINK AFTER OUR MORNING NATURE WALKS

GROANER’S CORNER:(( A Chinese Doctor can't find a job in a Hospital in the US, so he opens his own clinic and puts a sign outside.  'GET TREATMENT FOR $20 - IF NOT CURED GET BACK $100.'An American lawyer thinks this is a great opportunity to earn $100 and goes to the clinic.Lawyer: 'I have lost my sense of taste.  'Chinese: 'Nurse, bring medicine from box No. 22 and put 3 drops in patient's mouth.  'Lawyer: 'Ugh. this is kerosene.  'Chinese: 'Congrats, your sense of taste is restored.  Give me $20.'The annoyed lawyer goes back after a few days to recover his money.Lawyer:  'I have lost my memory. I cannot remember anything.'  Chinese: 'Nurse, bring medicine from box no. 22 and put 3 drops in his mouth.'Lawyer (annoyed): 'This is kerosene. You gave this to me last time for restoring my taste.  'Chinese: 'Congrats. You got your memory back. Give me $20.  'The fuming lawyer pays him, and then comes back a week later determined to get back $100.  Lawyer: 'My eyesight has become very weak I can't see at all.  'Chinese: 'Well, I don't have any medicine for that, so take this $100.  'Lawyer (staring at the note): 'But this is $20, not $100!!'  Chinese: 'Congrats, your eyesight is restored. Give me $20'.

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A woman invited some people to dinner. At the table, she turned to her six-year-old daughter and said, "Would you like to say the blessing?" "I don’t know what to say," the girl replied. "Just say what you hear Mommy say," the woman answered. The daughter bowed her head and said, "Lord, why on earth did I invite all these people to dinner?"

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