BAYFIELD LAUNCHES......THE BAYFIELD BREEZE:))

SITTING ON THE PORCH THIS AFTERNOON TYPING AN EMAIL TO MY AUNT JEAN IN SARASOTA, FLORIDA

A darkened thunderstorm with accompanying rain rolled in across the lake about 7 a.m leaving a beautifully fresh & sunny Saturday morning in it's wake. Saturday mornings have always been my favorite time & I suppose that harkens back to the old school days when Saturday mornings were for sleeping in, no school, hanging out with the gang & planning the week-end's adventures. It's a custom that has remained with me all through my working years & I can still feel like an adventuress little boy on sunny Saturday morning even after all these years. AND.....THAT IS A MOTORCYCLE FLOORBOARD

A new on line news source for the village of Bayfield & surrounding area has just been launched calling itself the BAYFIELD BREEZE. The site is designed to be the voice of the village & will rely on submissions & ideas from the local community to make it a success. Nice looking site with an airy feel to it, well laid out & easy to read. AND A LITTLE SMOOCH FOR MY NEW ARIZONA FRIEND

Since posting my "Motorcycle For Sale" ad on the area KiJiJi SITE yesterday I have had 134 people look at the ad but not one response. That tells me my price is too high or buyers figure they can take advantage of sellers because of the present economy. Well, I'm not giving this motorcycle away!!!! So, with that in mind I hopped on the bike & took myself on a big Saturday morning country cruise. With my toes a tappin on the bikes floorboards & my big voice belting out Johnny Horton's "Honky Tonk Man, I motored through the countryside scaring the cows & stampeding the sheep. Aw, ya just gotta love a Saturday morning:)) OH OH, LOOKS LIKE I'VE STARTED SOMETHING HERE.....SORRY GUYS I'M OUT OF SMOOCHES

Read on one of my Astronomy websites this morning a review in Canada's SKY NEWS magazine about a newer technology & reasonably successful MOSQUITO REPELLENT. Just in case anyone was interested:)) LIVE.WORK.DREAM. ON THE LEFT & BAYFIELD BUNCH ON THE RIGHT

Jim, over at LIVE.WORK.DREAM. has some good tips on boondocking for anyone in the lifestyle who might be interested. We met Jim & Rene' this past February while ranch sitting in southeastern Arizona. (it was the same day I smooched a horse) They stopped in at the ranch for an overnighter before heading on over to New Mexico, Texas, & eventually Colorado. Real darn nice folks they was too. (and the horse wasn't so bad either:)) KELLY, MOTORMOUSE, RENE' & JIM

And you can tell I have worked very hard again to come up with another in a series of "stinkers" for To-day's Humor:))

TO-DAY'S HUMOR: A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel, and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office, and asked them to disperse.'But why,' they asked, as they moved off.'Because,' he said, 'I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer.'

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INTERNET.....THE GLUE THAT HOLDS US TO-GETHER

FOR SALE:((

After a lengthy decision making process over the past couple of months I have finally decided it is time to sell my motorcycle. I put the ad up onto the internet this morning. I lost the excitement of motorcycling along the way somewhere a few years ago & try as I did I just couldn't get it re-started again. It was hard to justify paying insurance 12 months of the year for something that could only be comfortably used for 3 or 4 months. Interests & priorities change & this marks the end of a motorcycling era for me that brought a lot of enjoyment in the early years I rode. I will miss the bike on those few special warm summer days every year but in the long run I know I will feel better having at last made my decision. And so it is done.

EITHER THIS BIRD WAS EATING STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM OR MULBERRIES OFF A NEARBY MULBERRY TREE

Without the internet we would all have far fewer friends & much smaller address books. Isn't it amazing how many old school chums, business associates, fellow workers, relatives, & neighbors we all have now. Where were all these people before the internet. Personally I think the internet is the greatest invention since pickled chicken feathers. It allows us, in the privacy & comfort of our own homes to go out there on-line and meet people we'll probably never really meet in real time anyway & enables us to keep in touch with those remaining people that we actually have met. It is a comfortable kind of distance friendship for people like me who are not out-going & socially bubbly. I have what might be called, Wizard of Oz syndrome. I can ruffle & bluster & make a big noise on my keyboard but if you pull the curtain away you will find a slightly portly, quiet, shy, unassuming, & somewhat uncomfortable aging cursmudgeon hiding under a shock of graying hair complete with moustache & beard. Aw yes, it is the age of Ozlike Cyber Cursmudgeonism:)) (I know cursmudgeon isn't spelled right but I prefer to have a little s ahead of my mudge) 2002 HONDA SHADOW AERO 1100

It is still early July but to-day I found myself sitting with Atlas & magnifying glass in hand pouring over various routes to the American west. We have a standard route we like that takes us into the southeast corner of New Mexico but if we decide on the Mesa Verde National Park area near Durango Colorado this fall it's going to mean a totally different trek. Two years ago we slipped through Chicago straight across to Denver & then over the mountains to our first destination of Moab, Utah. I imagine we would use the same route as far as Limon & then head southwest down through Colorado Springs. However, I haven't checked our mountain directory guide yet so that may change things. As beautiful & breathtaking as the Rocky mountains are they can be a real SOB to haul a motorhome & car through. RV friends of ours blew a Motorhome engine last year in the mountains on their way south from Alberta. Not a good thing to have happen!! From the 4 corners area we would then make our way south into Arizona running down through Apache Junction to southeastern Arizona for our 3 week November Ranch sitting job again near Douglas. Well, it all sounds good in theory anyway. In the meantime I had better get myself busy collecting pop bottles for some gas money again!!

TO-DAY'S HUMOR: A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm, and says: 'A beer please, and one for the road.'

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A VISIT FROM SOME FELLOW DESERT TRAVELERS

MIKE & MAUREEN......FELLOW DESERT TRAVELERS

No wonder I feel soooooo tired most every day. I'm always too busy on the night shift & last night was no exception again. My RV dreams seemed centered around me pulling a very large trailer into some very weird situations. I recognized some of the people in the dream but this morning I can't remember who they were. Fellow RVers I think. Sure was busy moving that long trailer around though & I'm probably going to need an afternoon siesta later to-day. CANONVILLE, UTAH....BAYFIELD BUNCH ON LEFT & MnMnM's RIG IN THE CENTER

Kelly had to slip over to London this morning to pick up her permanent residence card. Because she is an American citizen with duel citizenship living in Canada the renewal of that card is required every 5 years. Because I am a Canadian citizen with a duel appetite living in Canada, the renewal of my Cracker Barrel restaurant card is required every 6 months:)) MIKE & MAUREEN AT THE NORTH RIM OF THE GRAND CANYON

It's not often we have visitors but this afternoon we were happy to have an RV couple drop in whom we had met at a KOA Campground in Cannonville, Utah back in November of 2007. Mike & Maureen had just pulled into that campground minutes before we did & aside from one other rig, we were the only ones in the whole park. And, as co-incidences go they were fulltimers who had called London Ontario their home. Bayfield is only a short 1 hours drive from London. We loosely traveled to-gether over to Zion Canyon later & then down to Kanab where we all visited the north rim of the Grand Canyon. They moved on from Kanab to Page & we swung down around & over to the south rim of the Canyon & we didn't see Mike & Maureen again until February of 08 when we visited them in an RV Park in Ajo, Arizona. Shortly after that we were all boondocked just off the Darby Wells road west of Ajo. On the morning of February 23rd 08 we left our boondocking site, stopped by Mike & Maureen's site to say good-bye & began our long trek back to Ontario. That was the last time we saw them until this afternoon. WEST OF AJO, ARIZONA....MnMnM's ON THE LEFT & THE BAYFIELD BUNCH ON THE RIGHT

We noticed right away that neither one of them had aged one bit. Another testament to that fulltiming RV lifestyle I'd say. It was nice to get caught up on things & reminisce about some old times although we didn't spend a whole lot of time to-gether back then. I have always noticed there is a special type of friendship & bond between RV folks even if you don't know them well. Friendships are often like ships passing in the night. There is a wave, a shout of "ahoy there," greetings are exchanged, a few words, a few laughs, & then the ships disappear into the darkness again. I remember those shouts & greetings & I remember the brief passings & there is something very special about that. Whether it is sharing area information with another passing couple on a far off mountain trail or having a 30 second chat with a fellow RVer at Flying J fuel stop, I remember those brief encounters. The meetings may only last minutes but the memories last forever. BYE GUYS......TILL WE MEET AGAIN

Mike & Maureen & Molly their dog (MnMnM) are in an RV Park over in Strathroy & plan to spend this winter in London before resuming there fulltime life on the road next spring again. Nice to see them & I'm sure our ships will soon again pass in the night somewhere. Maybe here, maybe London, or maybe far off in the land of mountains & deserts again. We may meet on a mountain trail, a quiet desert plateau, or we may pass in the night with a wave, shouts of "ahoy there", some greetings, some words & some laughter. Safe travels my friends........................................:)) SAFE JOURNEYS MY FRIENDS

TO-DAYS HUMOR: A woman has twins, and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt , and is named 'Ahmal.' The other goes to a family in Spain ; they name him 'Juan.'Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, 'They're twins ! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal.'

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