MY MOTORCYCLE IS NOW OFFICIALLY FOR SALE

FROM A DISTANCE I THOUGHT THESE WERE 2 BLUE HERONS BUT LATER EDITING THE PHOTO I REALIZED THEY WERE NOT……..I SHOULD KNOW WHAT THEY ARE BUT JUST CAN’T SEEM TO ACCESS MY MEMORY FILES TONIGHT (UPDATE) 'CORMORANTS'....THANKS GORDON W.
I was startled awake by a familiar sound about 5 a.m. this morning and seconds later in my pajamas I found myself outside hastily making my way across the driveway in the direction of our Motorhome.  Thankfully I had remembered to put my hat on......as well as a raincoat.  It was the pounding of heavy rain on our metal roof I had heard and that of course had spurred my worried mind into overdrive.  What had I left outside?  What doors and windows had I left open?  Oh-no!! The Motorhome windows!!!!!  Not once did my mind remind itself that I had indeed gone around closing windows and doors Wednesday night knowing rain could very well be upon us by morning.  Wasn't until I had got parts of me good and wet that I made it to the Motorhome only to find  all the windows closed and it was only then I remembered closing them earlier.  Now to make my way through the driving rain back to the house.  Soggily, my day was under way.
A FEW ODDS AND SODS PHOTOS OVER THE PAST WEEK OR SO

PARKED AT THE HULLETT MARSH ONE DAY LAST WEEK

HEY THAT’S ALL YOU REALLY NEED TO GET YOURSELF OUT OF A TENT AND UP OFF THE GROUND

KIND OF A NICE SET-UP

MY IDEA OF A SELFIE I GUESS

A WATER ERODED MOUNTAINSIDE??

NOPE, JUST SOME WATER EROSION AT A LOCAL GRAVEL PIT

SHOULD BE SEEING LOTS MORE OF THESE AUTUMN COLORS SOON:))
I was hoping the 'Blogger'/'Word Press' problem would have resolved itself overnight but I see all Word Press blogs are still all piled in the basement at the bottom of my list.  If you scroll to the bottom of my 'visible' Bloggers list look for the tiny words which say 'show all' and click that.  The list will then expand to show all the rest of our blogging friends and for now until things are hopefully resolved you can find a number of our 'Word Press' blogging folks unfortunately piled up in the basement.  Judging from feedback I’ve received this is a problem with a lot of folks at the moment:((  SUNBURST LOCUST TREE JUST OUTSIDE OUR SUNROOM WINDOW Richard walked over shortly before 9 and we hopped into the Jeep and headed off on another one of our semi- monthly cross country coffee tours.  As always a most enjoyably informative couple hours for both of us.  Some old memories, some new ideas, and always some vintage humor along the way:))
SEEN ON OUR MORNING CROSS COUNTRY COFFEE TOUR EARLIER TODAY






I’M GUESSING THE KIDS ON THIS FARM HAVE LONG SINCE MOVED AWAY Humid again today but not quite as intense as the past couple days and I think I even felt a slight smile breaking out across my face.  And believe me when I have a smile of any kind emanating from my grumpy looking face it is a rare occurrence indeed so you know how good I was feeling about the slightly lower humidity level and prospects of cooler days ahead:)) Finally made a decision about my Motorcycle and it is now officially for sale.  Kelly has put it on Kijiji.  There is no point paying insurance 12 months of the year for something I am not using.  Haven’t even gone through one tank of gas this summer.  My 02 Honda Shadow Aero 1100 is a beautiful bike that deserves to be on the road with someone who has the same biking enthusiasm I once had. 
BIKE LOOKS AS GOOD TODAY AS THE DAY THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN BACK IN 2008….THE BLUE COLOR YOU SEE IS ACTUALLY PURPLE
Pheeb’s ‘Hot Spot’ on her face is looking a bit better day and we’re hopeful the Vet meds will clear the problem up.  She is being very good about not scratching the spot and not trying to rip her ‘sock’ off. 

PHEEBE ROLLS OVER TO SHOW OFF HER SOCK

YEP THAT’S ONE OF MOM’S SOCKS ALRIGHT AND I’VE BEEN CALLING HER ‘LITTLE MISS SOCK HOP’ ALL DAY
 
GETTING THE SOCK ON AND YOU CAN SEE PHEEBS ‘HOT SPOT’ BETWEEN HER EYE AND EAR

BOTH HERE IN BAYFIELD ONTARIO AS WELL AS CONGRESS ARIZONA PHEEBS HAS HER VERY OWN COUCH….OH AND SHE HAS HER VERY OWN COUCH IN THE MOTORHOME TOO…THE POOR LITTLE WEINER SURE HAS A TOUGH LIFE EH
Pulled out my annual RV ‘to do check-list’ this morning and figured I had better re-write and bring it up to date.  Been using the same paper list now for about 7 years and along with the it being in quite a state of tatterness it really does need some serious updating to be brought further along into the 21rst Century.
ANOTHER ONE OF MY FAVORITE FILE PHOTOS FROM A FEW YEARS BACK…..TAKEN IN THE HAY SWAMP WEST OF EXETER ONTARIO GROANER’S CORNER:((   Dovey, the baby pigeon was nervous about flying long distance with its mother and grumbled, 'I don't think I can make it, it will be too tiring for me.' Mama pigeon tried to pacify Dovey and said, 'You have nothing to worry about. I'll tie a piece of thread to one of your legs and the other end to mine.' On hearing this, Dovey began to cry. 'Why are you crying baby?' asked the worried mother. Dovey replied, 'You don't want me to be pigeon towed, do you?' -------------------------- Recently a teacher, a garbage collector, and a lawyer wound up together at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter informed them that in order to get into Heaven, they would each have to answer one question.   St. Peter addressed the teacher and asked, "What was the name of the ship that crashed into the iceberg? They just made a movie about it."  The teacher answered quickly, "That would be the Titanic." St. Peter let him through the gate.  St. Peter turned to the garbage man and, figuring Heaven didn't *really* need all the odors that this guy would bring with him, decided to make the question a little harder: "How many people died on the ship?"
Fortunately for him, the trash man had just seen the movie. "1,228," he answered.  "That's right! You may enter."  St. Peter turned to the lawyer. "Name them."

HAD TO TAKE PHEEBS TO THE VET TODAY AND COULD THERE BE SOMETHING AMISS BETWEEN ‘BLOGGER’ AND ‘WORD PRESS’??

Not a bird in the air not a bird in a tree

Not a bird in the water just Pheebe and me 

No birds on the ground not even a sound

Just two tiny Butterflies in the Marsh we found

With humidex numbers high our morning's air felt heavy and maybe that had something to do with keeping the Marsh birds grounded.   Scooped us a few Butterfly pics then it was back into the air conditioned Jeep and off for home we went. 

With today's humidity factor figured in Toronto weather people said it would feel like 110F and I'm sure it did!!  But no matter as we hung out in our very comfortable 72F cool house.  I wonder how many times this summer I have offered up a silent 'thank you' to the person or persons who years ago were responsible for inventing air conditioning.  Why suffer with the heat if you don't have to.  Looking at the long range forecast for the next 10 days it looks like today may have been our last ‘hot one’.  Happy to see temps dropping into the 70’s and high 60’s starting Thursday.  Very much looking forward to getting myself back on track:))

I’m wondering if there may be something amiss between ‘Blogger’ and ‘Word Press’ at the moment.  My friend Jim’s blog went missing off my sidebar today and I later found it near the bottom of my list and it had not refreshed itself.  While looking for Jim’s blog I also found a couple other current Bloggers dumped down into my sidebar basement as well.  Now here’s the interesting thing…….all 3 dumped blogs are using the ‘Word Press’ platform.  Co-incidental or has something gone ka-flooey between Blogger and Word Press.  This is not the first time this has happened.  We’ll see what Thursday morning brings.…………………….

 

We took Pheebs to the Vet in Zurich Ontario this afternoon after she developed a raw spot on her face this past week-end.  Commonly called a 'hot spot' the Vet shaved her fur around the area then prescribed some medications to hopefully clear it up.  Rather than put a cone around her head to keep her from scratching the spot raw we have taped a sock around her back left paw.  So far so good. 

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A little boy was sitting outside a store eating one snickers candy bar after another, when an older man walked up and said: "You shouldn't be eating so much candy, it'll rot your teeth, it's just bad for you to eat so much candy."  The little boy looked up and said: "My grandfather lived to be 95 years old."  The older man asked: "Oh? by eating snickers candy bars?"   The little boy said: "No... by minding his own business."

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Knock Knock
Who's there?
Mecca!
Mecca who?
Mecca me happy!

‘AWWWW NUTS’-YUKKY ICKY STICKY IS BACK AND WHAT’S A ‘FACE SAGGING LIKE A SACK FULL OF EARTHWORMS’ GOT TO DO WITH ANYTHING EH!!

Heat and humidity rolled back into our area late Monday morning cutting my outside activities short and a ‘heat’ advisory’ is out for today and Wednesday so for me that’s two partially lost days of getting a bunch of outdoor ‘to-do’ things done. 

LIGHTING IS ALWAYS NICER EARLIER IN THE MORNING….ALL OF TONIGHT’S PHOTOS EXCEPT 2 WERE TAKEN FROM THE DRIVER’S SEAT AGAIN

At 8 a.m. it was 68F so I didn’t waste any time in loading Pheebs up to get out and enjoy what would be the coolest part of day.  It wasn't a long Jeep ride for us this morning because by 9 a.m. it was already too hot and sticky for this guy.  Buzzed through Walmart and the Canadian Tire Store, grabbed us some gas and with a Horton's coffee and carrot muffin in hand we made our way down to the Goderich harbor.  Stood by the water for a short while listening to the waves and then back into the Jeep with us and home we went;

SPOTTED THIS FELLOW CUTTING WHAT APPEARED TO BE A MIXTURE OF GRASS AND CLOVER…..SURE SMELLED NICE AS WE PASSED

Coming home from Speedy Glass in Goderich late last Friday afternoon with the new passenger side window installed I could hear a lot of flexing noises over around that side of the dash.  Figured maybe it was the new glass seating itself in so this morning with Kelly and Pheebs aboard we took the rig out for a short drive to see if that noise had cleared itself up and it had.  Kelly noticed 3 loose screws in the dash and windshield bar separating the windshield so she tightened them up before pulling out and that might have had something to do with the squeaks last Friday.  Of course the real test will come with the first big rain storm we run into wherever that may be.

I’M THINKING ONE OF OUR READERS MAY HAVE IDENTIFIED THIS AS JOE-PYE WEED SO I’M GOING TO SET OUT TO DIG ME SOME UP AND BRING HOME

Back home we continued with more puttering about around the rig.  I'm gathering things together which will be going with us this winter.  Don’t want to forget our satellite dish etc. 

HERE’S A PROUD DAD CHAUEFFERING JUNIOR OFF TO HIS FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL PERHAPS

WHEN PHEEBS ISN’T HOLDING DOWN THE FRONT SEAT SHE SLIPS INTO THE BACK FOR A SHORT SNOOZE SOMETIMES AND YEP THAT’S ME AND MY PIZZA SHIRT ALRIGHT

I also have our annual frog round-up underway and so far have transported four big frogs from our front yard pond to the larger Park pond across the road.  I have to move them because our pond is not deep enough for the frogs to survive the winter.  The first 8 years we had the pond it was nothing to move 30 or more frogs each Autumn but the past 3 years we hardly had any frogs at all and I attribute that to neighbor's cats in our front yard cashing in on a delicacy of frog legs.  This year I have not seen one cat and our frog population is growing again.  I probably have another half dozen frogs to catch. 

TWO OF FOUR FROGS IN MY PAIL TODAY

While scooping some water from our pond into a bucket to carry the frogs in I came upon a bit of a major mystery.  There in the white bucket I saw movement which at first glance I thought was a water spider or something.  Looking closer I recognized a familiar shape but how was it possible!!  Peering even closer I quickly determined I was looking at.......a fish.  No mistake about it.  Only about a half inch long it looked like a Guppy type Minnow and having had tropical fish aquariums years ago I know a fish when I see one, but how?????  Calling upon all my onboard logic I came up empty handed as to how such a tiny fish could possible get into our front yard frog pond.  Any theories??

A BIT BLURRY BUT A FISH IS A FISH IS A FISH EH

Our good friend and helpful neighbor Bruce dropped around with a can of roofing tar in hand this afternoon.  I had forgot the last time he tarred around our sunroom's skylight a few months ago he said he'd be back to put a second coat on.  While up on the roof he trimmed some overhanging Sunburst Locust branches as well.  Unlike me this heat and humidity doesn't bother Bruce as much so he didn't mind climbing up a wobbly ladder onto a hot metal roof that had been heating up in the afternoon sun for hours.  I can do a lot of stuff by myself but climbing up wobbly-ass ladders onto hot metal roofs is definitely not one of them!!

NOPE NOT IN MENNONITE COUNTRY…..JUST SOME NICE HORSES ON A FARM ALONG ORCHARD LINE NOT TOO FAR FROM OUR PLACE

Eyes puff out like pillows?  Hair limp and wimpy?  Face sagging like a sack full of earthworms?  Cash flow down to a trickle? Rover smellin’ like an backhouse on fire?  Blimping out, are we???????  In case your wondering what all this is about I suggest you drop on over to Jim’s blog at Lifetime Sentences and let him fill y’all in real good on what’s goin on……:))

HEY, WHO’S YOUR DADDY!!

GROANER'S CORNER:((   These are supposedly actual signs. You be the judge. Whether or not they are real::

In the front yard of a funeral home,
'Drive carefully, we'll wait.'

On an electrician's truck,
'Let us remove your shorts.'

Outside a radiator repair shop,
'Best place in town to take a leak.'

In a nonsmoking area,
'If we see you smoking, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.'

On a maternity room door,
'Push, Push, Push.'

On a front door,
'Everyone on the premises is a vegetarian except the dog.'

At an optometrist's office,
'If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place.'

On a taxidermist's window,
'We really know our stuff.'

On a butcher's window,
'Let me meat your needs.'

On a fence,
'Salesmen welcome. Dog food is expensive.'

At a car dealership,
'The best way to get back on your feet - miss a car payment.'

Outside a muffler shop,
'No appointment necessary. We'll hear you coming.'

In a dry cleaner's emporium,
'Drop your pants here.'

On a desk in a reception room,
'We shoot every 3rd salesman, and the 2nd one just left.'

In a veterinarian's waiting room,
'Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!'

In a Beauty Shop,
'Dye now!'

In a restaurant window,
'Don't stand there and be hungry, come in and get fed up.'

Inside a bowling alley,
'Please be quiet. We need to hear a pin drop.'

In a cafeteria,
'Shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria. Socks can eat any place they want.'

LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING OUR 2016/17 RV TRAVELS ON THE ROAD NEXT MONTH

With morning temps starting out at a pleasant workable 53F I concentrated my efforts and energies on the Motorhome.  Cleaned all the glass, buffed up the front end and sparkled up the whole cockpit area.  It's that fun time of year again:)) 

It's been a long hot summer so let's just shove all this heat and humidity behind us once and for all and get on with Autumn’s glorious splendor.   So much looking forward to getting our 2016/17 RV travels on the road next month:))

GROANER’S CORNER:(( Two priests were going to Hawaii on vacation and decided that they would make this a real vacation by not wearing anything that would identify them as clergy.  As soon as the plane landed, they headed for a store and bought some really outrageous shorts, shirts, sandals, sunglasses, and etc.

The next morning they went to the beach, dressed in their “tourist” garb and were sitting on beach chairs, enjoying a drink, the sunshine and the scenery when a “drop dead gorgeous” blonde in a tiny bikini came walking straight towards them. They couldn't help but stare and when she passed them, she smiled and said, “Good morning, Father” – “Good morning, Father,” nodding and addressing each of them individually, then passed on by. They were both stunned. How in the world did she recognize them as priests?

The next day they went back to the store, bought even more outrageous outfits-these were so loud, you could hear them before you even saw them-and again settled on the beach in their chairs to enjoy the sunshine, etc. After a while, the same gorgeous blonde, wearing a string bikini this time, came walking toward them again. (They were glad they had sunglasses, because their eyes were about to pop out of their heads.)

Again, she approached them and greeted them individually: “Good morning, Father,” “Good morning Father,” and started to walk away. One of the priests couldn't stand it and said. “Just a minute, young lady. Yes, we are priests, and proud of it, but I have to know, how in the world did YOU know?”

“Oh, Father, don't you recognize me? I'm Sister Angela!”