MUSIC PLAYING SOFTLY AND UNINTERUPTINGLY IN THE BACKGROUND

I recently blogged about the trouble I've been having with my TV automatically going into 'Stand By' mode every two hours and how frustrating that has been, with seemingly no way to change that with the new equipment our internet company had installed.  I am accustomed to sleeping all night with soft music in the background, and that wasn't happening anymore.  And, anytime I wasn't home or was outside for two hours and walked back in the house, it was walking into a tomb.  For me, the silence was deafening.  What to do, what to do!!  Enter my good neighbor Andrew, who came over Saturday night and wrestled my TV problem to the ground.  And here's the added bonus, he was also able to, through a lot of complicated wrangling involving passwords, and log-ins, etc, and more etc's, find and install SiriusXM on my TV.  And there it was, my favorite channel, 'The Spa'.  But, we weren't out of the woods yet.  Would the TV still go into its dreaded 'stand-by' mode after two hours??  We both felt it would:((  It didn't with the XM music channel, but it still did with the Eastlink TV channels stuff so Andrew came back this evening and made more changes, which I will talk about tomorrow.  But last night, I blissfully slept all night with my soothingly soft ambient meditative music playing softly and uninteruptingly in the background:)))

A QUIET SUNDAY MORNING ON THIS FARM

THIS FELLOW IS GOING TO DO SOME SPRAYING THIS MORNING

 HERE'S A FARM LADY USHERING SOME HORSES FROM ONE PASTURE, ACROSS THE FARM LANEWAY TO ANOTHER PASTURE

 HORSES?  WHAT ARE HORSES??

 ROADSIDE FLOWERS

And yet another beautiful late May day, I thought to myself, walking along my country road this morning.  I followed that with a slow drive around the lush countryside.  Everything is growing full tilt right now.  So lush and so green.

 SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED A GOOD FRIEND TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE PUSH TO GET YOU GOING

 A FEW MORE PICS FROM MY FRONT PORCH THIS AFTERNOON

 HEY IS THAT DARTH VADER IN THE FRONT YARD

A short drive into Bayfield this afternoon netted me a foot-long hot dog and a small ice cream cone at the Woodland Drive-In.  A few photos down around the beach area as well.

ONE SAILBOAT AND A GROUP GATHERING A FEW HUNDRED YARDS OFF SHORE AS SEEN FROM PIONEER PARK

 A SAILBOAT HEADS DOWN THE BAYFIELD RIVER HEADING FOR THE OPEN WATERS OF LAKE HURON

Al's Music Box:(( She's Got You by Patsy Cline.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Rick, fresh out of accounting school, went to a interview for a good paying job. The company boss asked various questions about him and his education, but then asked him, "What is three times seven?" "22," Rick replied.
After he left, he double-checked it on his calculator (he *knew* he should have taken it to the interview!) and realized he wouldn't get the job. About two weeks later, he got a letter that said he was hired for the job! He was not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, but was still very curious. The next day, he went in and asked why he got the job, even though he got such a simple question wrong. The boss shrugged and said, "Well, you were the closest."

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An 8 year old girl went to the office with her father on 'Take your kid to work Day'.

As they walked round the office she started crying and getting cranky. Her father asked what was wrong. As the staff gathered round she sobbed loudly, "Daddy, where are all the clowns you said you worked with?"

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Its been a couple of years since I actually worked in an office, so I thought I should do something to prepare to get back into the typing, filing and phone answering, and what not. So what I did was I had a friend of mine go with me down to the local swimming pool, and I had him tie me up in a burlap sack and sink me to the bottom of the pool. And then just as I was about to suffocate, he yanked me up and gave me a lunch break.

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I CRANKED UP MY WHEELBARROW, AND DUSTED OFF MY SHOVEL

 A CROW IN THE FRONT YARD 

Noticing a big dump truck load of topsoil on a new neighbor's lawn yesterday, I cranked up my wheelbarrow, dusted off my shovel, and headed on over across the road this morning to lend a hand distributing all that topsoil around to a couple of large flowerbeds Andrew and Sheila had laid out in their front yard.  I was also able to help rake a lot of that dirt out to a reasonable level as well.  Being a licensed wheelbarrow driver and certified dirt raking technician, it was an enjoyable way for me to help someone out on a beautiful late May Saturday morning.  Andrew, as you might remember, is the fellow who figured out a way to get my favorite SiriusXM music channel working again in the Subaru a week ago.  I had been without my favorite music channel for three months.

 BLUE JAY

 MOURNING DOVE

 MALE CARDINAL

RED WING BLACKBIRD WITH A LEG UP

My afternoon didn't really amount to much, but I did write this whole post sitting outside on the front porch, and while sitting there, I was able to snap a few front yard bird photos and a couple of leafy trees.

 SUNBURST LOCUST LEAVES

SUMAC LEAVES

 BUSH FERNS

Al's Music Box:: Since I Fell For You by Lenny Welch

THE VIEW FROM MY PORCH CHAIR

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Bumper Stickers::

'Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.'
'Born Free. . . . .Taxed to Death'

'Cover me. I'm changing lanes.'

'As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools'

'The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.'

'Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot.'

'Conserve toilet paper, use both sides.'

'REHAB is for quitters'

'I get enough exercise just pushing my luck!'

'Sometimes I wake up grumpy; Other times I let her sleep'

'I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather....Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car....'

'Montana --- At least our cows are sane!'

'I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.'

'I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!'

'According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist.'

'Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.'

'A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.'

'How Can I Miss You if You Won't Go Away?'

'Forget about World Peace.....Visualize Using Your Turn Signal !'

'He who laughs last thinks slowest'

'Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.'

'Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.'

'Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.'

'Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.'

'Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.'

'i souport publik edekasion'

'We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.'

'Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.'

'3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.'

'Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?'

'Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?'

Auntie Em: Hate you, Hate Kansas, Taking the dog. -Dorothy.'

Lead me not into temptation, I can find it myself.

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