REMEMBERING CB RADIOS

THAT RAINBOW CAME DOWN & LIT UP A DISTANT ELECTRICAL TOWER (Click to enlarge)

Last night was one of those blogs that rolled off my keyboard & ended up later giving me a hard time about the thoughts I had put into it. When I re-read it this morning I didn't feel right about what I said regarding fellow RVers traveling lifestyles & inferring that doing the same old thing all the time was boring or unexciting. I'm sure there are many types of adventurers out there who would find our type of travel not to their preference either. We are all different people traveling the road of life with many varied destinations & stops along the way. Wherever we are on that road & whatever stage we are at we generally feel it is the best place for us at the time. Interests change, eras come & go, new challenges are met & old ones are left by the roadside. It's a good thing we are all different or we would be a planet of robotic drones without spark, fire, or that special kind of thunder that individually makes us who we are. To-day Kelly & I embrace the adventurous spirit within us for as long as we can make it last. There fast approaches a time when interests & circumstances will change & we'll move on to a new era of forced winters in Canada again or maybe just taking the shorter route to Florida & happily lazing the days away in an RV Park remembering the good old days & waiting for the early bird specials. One thing is certain though, despite me repeatedly using the phrase 'same old' in last night's blog, nothing ever remains the 'same' & the word 'old' only applies to dinosaurs, left over pizzas & aging hippies!! Interesting post on the RV NET this morning about the use & abuse of CB (Civilian Band) radios. Many RVers have them in their rigs including us. I remember getting my first CB radio in 1975 when most of the channels were alive with all kinds of colorful chatter. The CB craze was in full swing & it seemed like everyone & their dog had a CB. A lot of guys on CB's were trying to sound like truckers with lots of phony southern drawls, big 10-4's at the ends of sentences, loads of swearing & tall tales. Remember C.W. McCall's popular trucker song, Convoy. And did you know that was not his real NAME. Anyway, fast forward 32 years to when I decided to put a CB radio in our motorhome. I honestly felt I had a defective radio because all the channels were silent. The non stop chatter from the mid 70's was gone & there was not much of anything left but dead air. Times have sure changed in CB-Ville. I leave the radio on channel 19 now while traveling & the only other people on there seem to be the truckers. Sometimes their conversations are interesting & sometimes they are just plain rude. In the 3 years I have had the radio I have never had occasion to use it. Idle chatter isn't my thing but I do like to have the radio present for traffic congestion & emergencies, etc. And who knows, maybe someday I'll just grab that old mike & let loose with a big, Hey little Buddy how's it goin........10-4:)) MOTORMOUSE IN THE LAUNDRY BASKET

It's now July & we have entered the dog days of summer. If your wondering where that phrase came from just hop on over to JENNY'S blog & she'll tell ya all about it. RICK, on the other hand blogged about his favorite RV accessories he wouldn't leave home without. I, in turn left a comment on Rick's blog about something Max, Checkers, me, & the Motormouse wouldn't leave home without either:)) WORKING ON A LITTLE WALLPAPER TRIM IN THE BATHROOM.....YES, WE DO LIKE TO MAKE THINGS COLORFUL IN KEEPING WITH OUR SOUTHWEST THEME:))

Did a Twitter Tweetdeck update to-day & it really messed around with my Facebook account & website. Took me awhile to get things straightened out but everything appears to be back as it was & no Tweetfaces were harmed in the process. Sun is shining, computer stereo is rocking with ambient tunes, I'm in the same chair at the same time of day with the same coffee cup typing on the same keys using the same cranium I work with every night. I have on the same track pants, flannel shirt, & brown socks, I had on last night. Same, same, same, so everything is somewhat basically the same as usual. Now if that isn't routine excitement for an aging RV hippy type guy........then what the heck is huh........:)) Adios Amigos A TOUCH OF DUTCH JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM OUR PLACE ABOUT HALF A MILE

TO-DAY'S HUMOR: A blind man with a guide dog enters a Wal-mart & begins swinging the dog around over his head by it's collar. The store manager rushes up yelling, "stop, what are doing!!!! The blind man answers, "just looking around."

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JUST BLOWING ALONG WITH THE WIND:))

NEAR SEDONA ARIZONA

ANOTHER cold, gray, overcast day in the neighborhood. T-shirt, long sleeve flannel shirt & my lined Mexican jean jacket was the order of the day. Oh well if it wasn't for the weather what else could I complain about anyway. And speaking of weather I noticed a good weather site posted on RV NET this morning. You can find out about yearly weather in many cities & towns all over the U.S. Average temps, precipitation, snowfall, etc. WEATHER ATOP GROSVENOR'S ARCH IN UTAH

While driving over to London to-day I got to thinking about how we end up in places while we're RVing. A lot of folks know precisely where they are going when they leave home, exactly how many hours it will take them to reach their destination, cost of fuel & how many gallons will be used to get there. They know where they will be stopping & what they will be eating while stopped there. A strict schedule will be adhered to & their destination will probably be the exact same spot in the very same RV Park they have been to for the last umpteen same years. Same friends, same BBQ, same tree beside the cement pad, & the same view out their window as last year because the very same neighbor will be in his very same spot again as well. Boy, sure sounds exciting huh!! HIKING IN THE AJO MOUNTAIN RANGE....ORGAN PIPE NATIONAL MONUMENT, ARIZONA

I feel soooooo fortunate that neither Kelly or I are into that structured kind of traveling. Not saying there is anything wrong with that, it's just simply different strokes for different folks. Here's an example of how a typical RV trip goes for us. We leave home knowing the area of country we are headed for which in our case is The American Southwest. We start our traveling part of the journey each day not knowing where we will end that night. Some people would find that stressful....and so do we sometimes when it's mid to late afternoon & we've got the map out trying to track down a nearby State Park. Nerves can become a little frayed until we've settled in somewhere but at least it's not boring, routine, or predictable. We don't usually dilly-dally along too much while heading for the southwest so we generally scoot across the country lickity split & in about 5 or 6 days we've reached the eastern edge of what we consider to be our southwest winter stomping grounds. Coming across flat Texas into New Mexico my eyes begin to strain for the first glimpse of our beloved mountains & once we've put Roswell NM behind us & begin to climb into those mountains through the Apache Pass to Alamogordo I feel we have reached our second home & our adventurous snowbird lifestyle begins. PARK AVENUE IN ARCHES NATIONAL PARK, UTAH

We kind of blow along in the wind like a tumbling Tumbleweed sometimes & the least little crosswind can blow us off into an entirely different direction. Two seasons ago after talking to some RV boondocker folks in Why Arizona we decided to have solar panels installed on our motorhome because we knew we did not want anything more to do with RV Parks. We had heard of a fellow in Slab City California who did quality solar panel installations so that's where we headed. Spent about 3 days at the Slabs & didn't have a clue where we were going next until a 5th wheel RV couple rolled in to Solar Mike's to have some work done on their solar batteries. Said they were camped in a great spot west of the Salton Sea at a place called Peg Leg Smiths just outside of Boreggo Springs. Well, the name Peg Leg Smith is enough to perk anybody's interest so as soon as our installation was complete we put a big California sunrise behind us early one morning & headed west for a place called Boreggo Springs. SOLAR INSTALLATION DAY IN SLAB CITY, CALIFORNIA

Swung down around the southern edge of the Salton Sea, north to Salton City & then hung a big left turn heading for the looming San Bernardino Mountains & Boreggo Springs. No problem finding the Peg Leg place out in the desert but as we drove up & had us a look we knew it was not for us. Way too many RV's clustered in a tiny area just off the highway but just a mile back from there we had spotted a smattering of RV's scattered about in a larger area of desert floor. We ended up staying there for 2 or 3 weeks before heading off again letting the wind blow us to wherever it felt we should go.SLOT CANYON HIKE NEAR BOREGGO SPRINGS CALIFORNIA...BUTCH, KELLY, & AL.

Hope to be at our 3 week ranch sitting job near Douglas Arizona by November this year & if we can get an early start in October I would like to head down into the southwest corner of Colorado to an area known as the 4 Corners. The Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, & Colorado State Lines all meet there & we hear the area is second to none for awesome & spectacular scenery.

Well, that's some of the very early thoughts in my head & maybe with a little help & a nudge from that old westerly wind we just might end up somewhere in the mountains again this winter without ever knowing how or why we got there. For us...........it's the only way to go..........................now that's what I call exciting:))

TO-DAY'S HUMOR: What do you call a cow with no legs?...........................Ground Beef

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PUTTING ON WOOD TRIM WITH RAILWAY SPIKES!!!!

A WILDFLOWER ALONG THE TRAIL

My Monday morning weigh-in was a good example of the old saying, "is the glass half full or half empty?" I have to be optimistic & say the glass is half full as I weighed in the same as last week.....209 pounds. Although I didn't lose any weight.....I didn't gain any either!! IN OUR FRONT YARD BUT DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS

For the first 3 or 4 years we lived here at the 5 Seasons Estates I did a lot of gardening & landscaping around our place. Our unit hadn't been lived in for 3 years & the outside grounds were pretty barren & shabby looking. Quite a change from then to now as I have basically created a jungle like monster all around us. It's a never ending job of maintenance but I'm not complaining. I made my big green monster & now I must keep it's voracious appetite for gobbling up space under control. This morning I headed over to a neighbor's house & spent over 3 hours wrestling her front yard back from Mother Nature's wild & weedy side into something resembling a suggestion of order & control. The first 3 or 4 years we lived here I used to do a bit of gardening & landscaping for the park & some of the residents,but the last few years I have scaled all that back to mainly dealing with our own jolly green jungle monster. STELLADORO LILY WITH HEAVY DEW

Noticed a post in RV NET this morning that caught my attention. In one of the forums the topic was, Inconsiderate RV'ers, & that reminded me of a time back in January of 2008 when we were boondocked in Quartzite, Arizona. In the space of a few hours we were forced to move not only once..........but TWICE!! GETTING MY WALLPAPER MEASUREMENTS RIGHT

Did a little more painting in the motorhome last week around the stove area. Tried my hand at putting on some vinyl wallpaper plus wood trim. I amazed myself by not screwing it up too bad. Didn't even make any measuring mistakes for a change & I actually got the wallpaper right side up. But.......not to be outdone by my perfection I went ahead & nailed the wood trim on with the wrong kind of nails. Should have been small finishing nails but I used something akin to railway spikes. What was I thinking!!!!!! THE AREA TO BE PAINTED

I scrambled out of the park last night pretty quick when a fast moving tropical downpour like storm blew in across the lake complete with thunder & lightning. I'm always on the hunt for storm photos but only managed a few last night & they were not anything spectacular. I remember one enjoyable night years ago just northeast of Stratford when I set up my cameras during a very nasty night storm & got some great lightning photos. Unfortunately that was the old pre-digital era & those photos were on slide film. LAST NIGHT'S DARK STORM CLOUDS

To-morrow I'm off to London with the mobility van so at least that will get me out of the park again, dust me off, & give me something to look forward to. I always enjoy the ever changing rural scenery....................................
PAINTED & PAPERED........BEFORE I PUT THE RAILWAY SPIKES IN:((

TO-DAY'S HUMOR: Why do cows wear bells? They wear bells because their horns don't work.

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SNOOPY RIDES THE SCHOOL BUS:))

LITTLE SNOOPY WAS ALWAYS MY FIRST PICK UP IN THE MORNING

Occasionally while browsing around on the RV NET FORUM I'll come across a post about the size & intimidation of driving a large Class A motorhome. People are worried about the sheer bulk of the monster but motorhomes are actually easier to drive than they look. In an earlier blog I had talked about how I was suddenly dropped into the world of large blonky vehicles by having to take over the reins of a large cab-over Ford stake truck one time out in Vernon, British Columbia. That was all ok for me but by the time we bought a motorhome 35 years later Kelly had never driven anything bigger than a full size van up till then.
I'M NOT IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT BECAUSE IT WAS A BIG FIRST STEP & I ALWAYS HAD TO GET OUT & HELP HIM UP

That all changed when we moved to the old farmhouse back in the summer of 1995. Kelly had quit her job in Cambridge so was on the hunt for new employment in our new area around Stratford & St. Marys, Ontario. School bus companies always seem to be looking for drivers so it was one of the first places Kelly applied & of course landed herself a job driving school bus. And a big long yellow one at that!! SNOOP DOUBLE CHECKS THE SIDEVIEW MIRROR TO MAKE SURE WE DIDN'T LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND

The bus company provided excellent training & in no time Kelly had her school bus license & lots of real on the road experience. Between cleaning jobs she drove school bus right up to 2001 when......I started driving school bus as well. I had been driving full size vans for an Airports transportation company based in Stratford for the best part of 13 years taking people to & from Pearson International Airport in Toronto. By the summer of 2000 my patience levels were stretched thin, stress levels were up, heavy traffic seemed to be getting worse by the day, & I knew it was time for a change. On August 25th of that year I made my last trip into the Toronto Airport & that was that. SNOOPY TAKES HIS SEAT & WAS ALWAYS THE BEST LITTLE PASSENGER I EVER HAD

Kelly quickly talked me in to trying my hand at school bus driving so without further ado I obtained my school bus training & license from the same company in St. Marys that Kelly was driving for & away I went. Well, let me tell you.....driving school bus was not something I enjoyed. The driving part was OK but the #!!%^**&!!! teen-agers!!!! I'll maybe write about some of those episodes another time. EARLY SUNRISE ON A FROSTY ONTARIO MORNING

In 2001 the bus company teamed Kelly & I to-gether on a small cube like mobility bus complete with wheelchair lift. We carried an average of 5 mentally & physically challenged kids each day around the ages of 10. Most of the children lived in the country so I did like the rural driving part of the job. Kelly was the aide on the bus & looked after the children's needs. So basically speaking, she rode shotgun on the bus & on several occasions her services were quickly needed. One particular day we had just dropped a young wheel chair boy at a farm near St. Marys. Right behind me sat another boy (non wheelchair) who was fairly big for his age. He was a quiet fellow & liked to watch me drive the bus. I had just pulled out of the farm driveway & was accelerating down the highway when all of a sudden he jumped up, swung round beside me & grabbed onto the steering wheel. He just figured it was his turn to drive I guess. I hung onto to the wheel with my left hand & tried to push him back with my right but he was too big & too determined to be the head honcho bus driver that day. Kelly swiftly came to my rescue & managed to get him pulled back down into his seat & a potentially nasty situation was averted. The young fellow sat quietly the rest of the way home & we never did have that problem again. He never did sit right behind me again either because we moved him back a few seats after that. It was just one of many little incidents that await unsuspecting school bus drivers:((
A SNOW COVERED RURAL ROAD

You may wonder about the school bus photos I have included in the blog. No doubt they need some explanation!! I took those photos back in the winter of 2003 after we had moved to Bayfield & transferred our bus driving jobs from St. Marys to Clinton. Both Kelly & I were back to driving big buses again then. I have an Aunt in Sarasota Florida & we have been sending emails back & forth for about 11 years now. My Aunt has always liked Snoopy from the Charlie Brown days & would sometimes include little Snoopies in her emails. I spotted a Snoopy dog in a local Thrift shop one day so bought it & brought him home. Early one very incredibly cold winter morning I stuffed Snoopy in my driver's bag & stopped on a rural road before my first pick-up. Quickly posed the Snoop dog in a few places around the bus just like a student, took some photos, & later that day emailed them to my Aunt to show her my first student of the day boarding the school bus...........and you know what, I think she believed me:)) IT WAS SOOOOOO COLD THE ICE CRYSTALS WERE HANGING IN THE AIR

Another time I will tell you about a snow ball fight in the bus, teen-agers mooning a police cruiser out the back window, & a public school principal giving me a talking too about letting my bus load of small children have too much fun on the bus...........Yep, that's what happened alright:)) THAT'S A CHRISTMAS CARD FROM MY AUNT JEAN IN FLORIDA THAT SNOOPY'S HOLDING UP. KELLY'S PUTTING LIGHTS ON A TREE TO THE LEFT

TO-DAY'S HUMOR: Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says, 'Dam!!'
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HAPPY JULY 4TH NEIGHBOR:))

HELPING CELEBRATE JULY 4TH WITH OUR GOOD NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH

Shafts of welcome sunlight sifting through the pine trees this morning told me our gloomy weather had finally departed the area & we were in for a good day. Lucky break for the all the Corvette enthusiasts because it was Vette-Fest in Bayfield. Each year proud Corvette owners gather for a meet in Clan-Gregor Square. Over 200 cars to-day & I have uploaded about 60 Corvette photos into our web album which can be seen here....,, CORVETTES Next month the Ford Thunderbirds are coming. If I had a choice of hobby cars it would be a cigar shaped T-Bird from the early 60's. I always had a thing for them. Our old southwest blogging buddy WANDERING WILLY from British Columbia has come out of summer hibernation for a few days to do a little road trip through the mountains with his new set of towing wheels.

I'm a little short of time to-night so I'm going to re-blog a blog I wrote about a really dumb thing I did while we were staying at the Hickiwan Trails RV Park near Why Arizona a couple years back. We had our truck & fifth wheel at the time................
Boy oh boy oh boy, did I ever do something dumb last night. I had been re-organizing my wallet in the afternoon & laid it on a table outside. Max must have bumped the table & knocked my wallet off into his water dish. Don't know how long it was in there but by the time I saw it & fished the wallet out all the stuff inside was pretty soggy. Laid all the contents on the tonneau cover of our pick-up truck where I figured the warm sun would quickly dry everything out. Credit cards, driver's license, paper money, club cards, CAA membership, etc. all nicely in a row. That turned out to be a big mistake & you probably can guess what happened. Yep, a short time later just after supper I decided to head down the road to update our computer website at another park's Wifi site so out I went, jumped in the truck, & took off out of the park & down the highway. When I reached the wi-fi site I stopped, got out of the truck, walked around to the passenger side to move the computer, glanced at the back of the truck & "OH OH!!" I remembered my wallet & cards and..........they were all gone. Raced back to the trailer at the speed of light, rushed in & frantically told Kelly what had happened. I knew the only hope I had of ever finding anything lying on the ground along half a mile of desert highway was to get an expert ground scanning rockhound person involved. She quickly headed out the driveway to the highway in full scan mode. I took the truck & started driving the highway shoulder & immediately found my Scotia debit card lying in the middle of the road. Continued up a ways & turned around. By the time I got back to the area where I found the debit card I saw Hawkeye busily scooping things off the highway & alongside the road. Oblivious to traffic, she was on the job!! By the time I got the truck stopped she had already retrieved my wallet which had been lying open upside down in the westbound lane. She had also found what was left of my driver's license. It was the only thing damaged. I found one more card on the southbound shoulder & that completed everything. We were only moments away from the complete darkness of nightfall but that eagle eyed ground radar hugging wife of mine had saved the day once again. Everything was present & accounted for including both American & Canadian money. It sure would have put an unfavorable dent in our vacation plans if everything had been lost. Phewwwwww, close call & I had to faithfully promise that I would try to be more careful in the future. My intentions were good but you know how honest intentions can fall by the wayside especially if your a man!! And you know what........ I did basically the same dam thing a week later when I..........................but that's a another story for another blog:)) TO-DAY'S HUMOR: "Doc, I can't stop singing 'The Green, Green Grass of Home."
"That sounds like Tom Jones Syndrome."
"Is it common?" "Well, It's Not Unusual."

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WHERE CAN I GET A BIG TANK OF STINK BUG JUICE!!!!

QUIET PLEASE..........ARTIST AT WORK:))

Our weather has sure gone into the dumpster. It's the time of year for air conditioners, not furnaces, but as I type this it is the sound of our furnace I am listening to in the background & not our air conditioner. I even cracked on a bit of heat in the van this morning on my driving Goderich.

Kelly rolled out her bicycle yesterday, dusted it off & set about with some colorful acryllic paints jazzing it up & giving the bike a cool new 60's look complete with painted-on flowers, designs, & a stick on hippy peace logo. Her artistic abilities know no bounds. She had Gratefull Dead stickers on her little Mazda 323 years ago too. Quite a cool ret-ro Chick I'd say:))

Followed one of those

inconsiderate cheapskate car drivers this morning. You know the ones.....they save themselves a few hundred dollars when buying a new car by having the dealership take out the turn signals because they say they don't use them anyway. These cheap-o's obviously know what turns they are going to make but couldn't care less if anyone else knows. And one of these days I'm going to install a big tank of stink bug juice on the rear bumper of my van complete with a spray nozzle & trigger on the dash for dealing with.........tailgaters!!!! I see tailgating as one of the absolute & totally dumbest things a lot of drivers do. You can have 2 cars completely alone going down the highway in the same direction with not another single vehicle anywhere in sight & chances are the second car will be sucked up right behind that first car & it will sit there mile after mile after mile. I'm not a slow driver so when I get one of these air heads ramming up behind me I get very upset with their stupidity & would like nothing better than to let him/her have it with a big wonkin blast of good old foul smelling slimy stink bug juice. And the closer he/she is............the bigger the dose. 10-4!!!!

TO-DAY'S HUMOR: Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were a bit cold, so they lit a fire in the craft. It sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

I uploaded some of June's photos to our Picasa web album site to-day & titled the album.....June 2009.

OOOPS, USED ONE OF THE PICTURES TWICE.....TOO HARD TO GO BACK & FIX NOW

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IT'S ABOUT TIME I GOT MY HEAD BACK UP INTO THE STARS

THIS MORNING'S BUTTERFLY

I have always had an interest in the night sky & it was nearly 15 years ago when I first subscribed to a Canadian Astronomy magazine by the name of Skynews.
An excellent magazine for both amateur & professional astronomers. I like it's easy to understand monthly centerfold night sky chart. Editor & Astronomer Terence Dickinson had an Astronomy book out at the time called Nightwatch which I bought. Armed with that book & monthly issues of Skynews I set about under the cover of darkness learning the night sky. Fortunately at that time we lived in an old farmhouse way out in the country far from city lights & I was able to sit outside many nights with my eyes & thoughts wandering among the stars. STELLARVUE 80mm AT1010 NIGHTHAWK REFLECTOR TELESCOPE

In the summer of 1999 my Aunt in Sarasota Florida drove up to Canada for summer visit. We had been emailing back & forth for about a year & she knew of my keen interest in Astronomy. I didn't suspect a thing until Aunt Jean drove into our driveway, parked, & opened her trunk. There, all carefully wrapped up in a blanket was a white & very professional large looking Meade 4'5" Reflecting telescope. She had bought it as a gift for me & brought it all the way from Florida. What a great surprise that was & I spent many night's that summer under the stars with that scope. However, the following summer the scope met with a premature demise. I had left it on it's tri-pod & set up on the covered cement porch for the night with a blanket over it. In the morning when I came out, the scope was lying flat on the hard cement & broken. Only thing I can figure that happened is the barn cats while running around in the night must have scrambled up the blanket & pulled the whole telescope over. I never had another telescope after that until the summer of 2005 when I bought a new 8" Celestron Dobsonian reflector. Don't know what I was thinking because this scope was way beyond my learning curve & patience. Plus it was heavy & had to be carried around in two pieces everywhere. It was a year later when we bought our truck & fifth wheel that I realized this scope would not be suitable for traveling anywhere so headed over to London & traded it in on a smaller more portable Stellarvue 80mm Nighthawk Refractor telescope. Didn't have a proper tri-pod for this scope & by the end of the summer I had lost interest in it, put it in it's case & stuffed it under my bed. That was 3 years ago I did that & to-day I hauled out that Nighthawk telescope, dusted if off, & set it up in our driveway this morning. I was actually planning on selling it & had put an ad on the Kijiji site in London last week. Had one reply from a fellow by the name of John & as we emailed back & forth he suggested I should keep the scope because it had good reviews in one of the Astronomy magazines. With a few helpful telescope tips & accessory suggestions from John I began to re-think my selling plans. If I can adapt my Nikon cameras to this scope & get myself another eyepiece plus something called an erecting prism I might just be on my way happily back to the starry night sky & some new photo opportunities. I have been missing my nightly wanderings in the heavens for too long now & it's about time I get myself back up into the awesome reaches of our wondrous Galaxy.............:))

Awwwww yes, I like this thing called................... "excitement!!"

My spellchecker seems to on the fritz to-night so please excuse any mistakes. I must remember to feed it in the morning!!

TO-DAY'S HUMOR: What is the difference between Bird Flu and Swine Flu? For bird flu you need tweetment and for swine flu you need oinkment.

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BETWEEN A DRAGGY TUESDAY & A SLUMPY THURSDAY

OUR RESIDENT HOCKEY WHISTLE FROG AIRING UP TO BLAST HIS HOCKEY WHISTLE

If yesterday was a productively busy day then to-day was the total opposite. Aside from doing some painting in the motorhome it was just simply a dull gray morning followed by a duller gray afternoon.

It's Canada's Birthday to-day but just doesn't feel quite right when the day falls in the middle of the week. July 1rst generally means a lively long week-end, not a dull gray Wednesday buried somewhere between a draggy Tuesday & slumpy Thursday. Well, Happy Birthday anyway Canada!!

COPPER COLORED SPOOL OF THREAD CENTER FOREGROUND IS THE THREAD THAT WENT INTO OUR CAPS & VEST YESTERDAY

Not as many frogs in our little pond this year as others. Sounded pretty lively back in the early spring but then they kind of faded away. Right now we have a mating pair of hockey whistle frogs making quite a racket every night. They are a kind of very camoflauged tree frog that come to ground for a couple of weeks in late spring or early summer. I call them hockey whistle frogs because they sound just like a hockey referee blowing on his hockey whistle full tilt in an acoustically noisy sports arena. WAITING FOR THE SUNSET IN BAYFIELD'S PIONEER PARK

Thanks to everyone again for the constructive & positive feed back on the Bayfield Bunch logo. By the sounds of things we may be seeing some more creative logo efforts popping up in some fellow RV'ers blogs soon. The Paint program is in everyone's Windows operating system & it's free. Press, Start-All Programs-Accessories-Paint. Head on in there, take your patience with you, trot out your creative side, & have some fun:)) Oh, & take some old rags with you in case you get paint all over you & the keyboard. I did!!SOME GREENERY ALONG THE TRAIL

On our RV card logo (don't like to use the words "business cards" because we're not a business) we put, TheBayfieldBunch.com & on the back of the photo vest we put, BayfieldBunch.com because we found that either one typed into Google brings up the same result except one asks...Did you mean the Bayfield Bunch but it's the same result. The word "The" on the card looks better there but we figured just Bayfield Bunch was better on the vest without the word "The." At least it all sounds good in theory.............................sorta:))

TO-DAY'S HUMOR: A six year old goes to the hospital with her grandmother to visit her Grandpa. When they get to the hospital, she runs ahead of her Grandma and bursts into her Grandpa's room... "Grandpa, Grandpa," she says excitedly, "as soon as Grandma comes into the room, make a noise like a frog!" "What?" said her Grandpa. "Make a noise like a frog because Grandma said that as soon as you croak, we're all going to Disney Land!!!"

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