Tuesday, May 22, 2012

CLEARING UP A MISCONCEPTION

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A SET OF WOODEN STAIRS LEAD FROM BAYFIELD’S PIONEER PARK TO THE BEACH BELOW

Guess I had better quickly clear up a misconception I may have accidentally created in Monday's post when I said, "Kelly & I are off to the Clinton Hospital Tuesday morning to meet with Doc Robot to go over the results of my Kidney Stone ultra-sound last week.  I guess he will let us know just what all he has to do next Monday when he goes digging for those stones.  Two key words there were ‘next Monday’.  My surgery was not today, it's next week on Monday May 28th……………………….

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HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM THIS MORNING, & NO, I DO NOT HAVE AN INTEREST IN READING ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH POLITICS!!

OK, flash forward to this morning's meeting with Doc Robot.  Before he entered the room I saw Doc shake hands with someone in the hall & for sure I saw a smile on his face.  Seconds later, before I could recover from my mild shock he entered the room with a 'Hello.'  I immediately melted in my chair & dripped myself onto the floor.  Now, over the next few minutes he may not exactly have come across as Mary Poppins but I thought I did detect a hint of warmth & reassurance in his voice.  Just a touch mind you, but I think it was there.  Well, I’m going to tell myself it was there anyway.  Told me everything was looking good for Monday's Moon shot.  Well, maybe not quite a Moon shot, but the procedure is in the same vicinity of sky.  And, by the way, I have never questioned this fellow’s surgical skills.  I have only made gest of his less than warm medical bedside manner.  And yes, I well know that in the end, it is a Doctor’s surgical skill that really matters.  But, if in my unconscious fog during the procedure next week I hear Doc Robot utter the word, Ooooops……I’m a gonna really be ticked!!!!!!!!!!!!

IMG_2104 BEYOND THAT FAR DOOR LURKS DOC ROBOT >>> 

When I first opened the comment section of our blog this morning I had 12 comments, 7 of which were 'Anonymous' spams.  Our spam load has doubled, if not tripled in the past week so for sure something has happened.  Makes me wonder sometimes if it's possible for someone to purposely submit a person's URL directly to a Spammer’s list somehow!!  Anyway, I have several options available to me on how to deal with these scum bag Spammers.  Either re-instate Google's ridiculous double word verification or block all Anonymous comments.  I am leaning toward the latter.  However, by doing so this means that some of our legitimate 'Anonymous' readers may no longer be able to comment.  Now, I'm not sure exactly how this works but I'm wondering if the way around that for folks is to simply sign up for a Google account.  No harm in doing so & it does give you an extra few perks like Gmail which you may or may not decide to use.  Any suggestions would be helpful.  May also have to go back to 'comment moderation' to keep the crap & garbage out of the comment section as well.  Anyway, I did make one change in my Blogger Dashboard today so we’ll see what happens.  Also wondering if it's possible to block a specific email address from accessing a blog’s comment section........

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OUR BACKYARD ‘ARIZONA’ PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS GARDEN

After publishing Monday night’s blog on the early side I grabbed my cameras & headed over to the lake.  I had heard rumblings of thunder & figured we might have a storm rolling in.  The storm did not materialize but I did manage to get a few photos from Bayfield’s Pioneer Park atop the cliffs overlooking Lake Huron.

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OBSERVATION DECK AT PIONEER PARK

Late Wednesday afternoon I am off to the Goderich Hospital to see another Specialist but I will fill you in on the details of what comes out of that meeting tomorrow.  And, we haven't even got to the medical side of June yet.  But hey, if it wasn't for all this medical stuff going on, what other fun would I be having this summer eh.

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GROANER’S CORNER:((   A very zealous soul-winning young preacher recently came upon a farmer working in his field. Being concerned about the farmer's soul the preacher asked the man, "Are you laboring in the vineyard of the Lord my good man?"
Not even looking at the preacher and continuing his work the farmer replied, "Naw, these are soybeans."
"You don't understand," said the preacher. "Are you a Christian?"
With the same amount of interest as his previous answer the farmer said, "Nope my name is Jones. You must be lookin for Jim Christian. He lives a mile south of here."
The young determined preacher tried again asking the farmer, "Are you lost?"
"Naw! I've lived here all my life," answered the farmer.
"Are you prepared for the resurrection?" the frustrated preacher asked.
This caught the farmer's attention and he asked, "When's it gonna be?"
Thinking he had accomplished something the young preacher replied, "It could be today, tomorrow, or the next day." Taking a handkerchief from his back pocket and wiping his brow, the farmer remarked, "Well, don't mention it to my wife. She don't get out much and she'll wanna go all three days."

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Monday, May 21, 2012

MONDAY

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Kelly & I are off to Clinton Hospital in the morning to meet with Doc Robot to go over the results of my Kidney Stone ultra-sound last week.  I guess he will let us know just what all he has to do next Monday when he goes digging for those stones.  Was thinking of taking a bottle of water with me tomorrow just to see if it would turn to ice when he enters the room.

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GROANER'S CORNER:((  A bus load of tourists arrives at Runnymede. They gather around the guide who says, "This is the spot where the barons forced King John to sign the Magna Carta."A fellow at the front of the crowd asks, "When did that happen?"
"1215," answers the guide.
The man looks at his watch and says, "Damn! Just missed it by a half hour!"

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

SOME RVING THOUGHTS & TOO MANY GROCERIES FOR THE SADDLEBAGS

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A LITTLE COLOR CREATIVITY IN GOOGLE’S PICASA 3.9:))

Ever buy too many groceries to fit in your saddle bags?  Yep, did that one this morning.  Spent a couple fine Sunday morning hours tooling around our quiet countryside on the bike.  On the way back to Bayfield I stopped at a supermarket in Goderich for a few groceries.  Forgot I had all my rain gear in one of the saddlebags so when I returned to the parking lot with a bag of apples, 2 quarts of Soy Milk, a bunch of bananas, two large containers of Cranberry Juice, two tubs of Blueberry Yogurt & 3 quarts of skim milk I had myself quite a job stuffing into ,& tying stuff onto, the Motorcycle.  We all made it safely home albeit a few bruised bananas.  And nuts, I didn’t think to take a few pics of my precarious load.

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NORTHERN FLICKER

Had us one mighty hot & humid day going on so I cranked the A/C for the first time this year.  That now makes it official…………I can comfortably beginning complaining about another hot summer season again.  Yahouie Louie, let the griping begin:))

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OUR IRIS FLOWERS ARE FINALLY OUT

In Saturday’s post, JUDY suggested, in a comment, that I had a contradiction of terms in a statement I made. My statement was, “"But, knowing ourselves as well as I do, I also know, that by now our minds would be once again evolving towards towards ‘something different. Not being a creature of ‘same old, same old’ it’s just the way I am & it’s just the way we are”:)) Judy’s question was: ‘Is that not a contradiction to buying a house in AZ? Just curious about how you think you'll feel after a few winter trips there.’

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ANOTHER SPLASH DOWN FOR POPPA GOOSE…MOMMA GOOSE IS STILL ON THE NEST
First, let me define the word, ‘evolve’: To develop or achieve gradually: evolve a style of one's own.
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DEER PARK LODGE…..WE SURE LOVE THE COLOR GREEN IN OUR NECK OF THE WOODS

I think what Judy is getting at is this….if we have been getting a little tired of traveling to the same old places, won’t we get tired of going to our Congress house winter after winter too?? Yes, the excitement & newness of a house in the southwest will wear off after awhile for sure, but there is a difference here. First, at this stage of our RV lifestyle, our intentions are not to just go to our Congress house & sit there for the winter. How boring would that be!!  That eventually may happen but our traveling minds are just not there yet & we are still in basic traveling Snow Bird mode. Remember, this is an evolving process for us. I have used the term ‘home base’ to describe our place & for now & until things change we intend to use our Congress location as a base for future travels around the southwest.  We hope to work away at the house for awhile, take a few weeks to travel off somewhere, a few more weeks or month at the house, some more time on the road, etc.  I think that should make for a very interesting & adventurous winter for us between house & travels.  It will be something different, & for me, that is the key:)) 
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KELLY PICKED UP A FEW ITEMS AT A BAYFIELD YARD SALE TODAY….CAN YOU GUESS WHERE THEY ARE HEADED??  YEP, ARIZONA:))

If one thing is for sure, it is simply the fact that ‘nothing is for sure.’ If, in the future we tire completely of the Congress house & find out our home base plan is not turning out how we expected, we will simply stick the ‘For Sale’ sign back in the ground & move on to whatever & wherever our minds our heading next. I remember well about half a dozen years ago going round & round in circles trying to decide if we should sink some major money into an RV. What about going south for the winters? What about this, what about that, what if, what if?? Decisions were finally reached & we have been evolving ever since. Our Congress house is just another in a series of steps in the continuing process. I know where we were 5 years ago & I know where we are know. I do not have clue where we will be in 5 years from now but I do rest comfortably in the thought that it will probably not voluntarily be, ‘same old stuff, same old location’ day after day!!
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MOURNING DOVES

Ok, why Congress Arizona & not somewhere else?  First, right off the top, let me tell you that we landed in Congress last March by accident & not by design.  Had we not run into our little Saturday morning fiasco in Lake Havasu & re-routed ourselves a week later we probably never would have been in the Congress/Wickenburg area at all.  It was just kind of a fluke.  As mentioned in Saturday's post, Kelly always checks the Real Estate market in any area we travel to & sure enough, after a few days boondocked between Congress & Wickenburg a house of interest popped up. Already having decided we liked the area we decided to have a look & you know the rest of the story up till now.
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AZALEA FLOWER >>>

After checking my Atlas one day early on, I realized Congress was ideally situated just about right smack dab in the center of the whole southwest area we liked so much.  New Mexico, Arizona, & California.  Although north of Phoenix it was still in the warmer temperate desert climate for the winters.  And yet just a 15 minute drive north of our house & up atop the Weaver Mountains plateau was a completely different landscape with a completely different climate.  Wow, how great was that.  We could be in the totally dry Sonoran desert with Saguaro cactus in our front yard & yet just a short 15 minutes later we could be in a mountainous Pine forest with possible snow on the ground.  Reminded me so much of my 3 years living in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley back in the early 70's.

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<<< DEER PARK

RETIRED ROD, in his comment says, "Have you ever actually slept a night in the Congress House? I thought you were sleeping in the motorhome when you were there. So you can't sell it yet, until you spend a night in it"!!  Now, there is a scary point.  No, for the short duration we were at the house in March we stayed in our Motorhome, mainly because we had no beds in the house.  But, here's the scary part.  What if the house turns out to be haunted by the ghost of the old gold miner who originally built it.  Yikes!!  Our place is located on a two mile long dead end road.  We are about half way.  South end of Ghost Town Road starts in Congress & the north end stops at the rocky Congress Gold Mine.  That Gold Mine was the driving force behind the old dusty town of Congress years ago & the feller who built our house, worked in that Gold Mine just a mile up the road.  Guess we'll find out in the fall if anything goes 'creak' in the night.  Say, I wonder if maybe he might have stashed a few bags of gold nuggets under the floor.  And, just as soon as I can get myself back into 'reading mode' again I will certainly be reading up on all the old wild west history of the area.  And, from what I understand, there is lots to read about.  Maybe not the colorful cast of Tombstone characters or legendary historic names like Cochise & Geronimo, but I'm sure the area has had it's period of wild west desperados & nefarious characters.  After all, it is the great American west:))

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OUR BAYFIELD BACKYARD JUNGLE IS FILLING IN QUITE NICELY      
We welcome PAT BROOKS aboard today as our first Blog Follower to break our list’s 500 mark.  Nice to have you along Pat & congrats on getting through Google’s hoops & barrels to finally get yourself on board:)) 

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GROANER’S GROANER:(( Howard County Police officers still write their reports by hand, and the data is entered later by a computer tech into their database. One theft report stated that a farmer had lost 2,025 pigs. Thinking that to be an error, the tech called the farmer directly.
"Is it true Mr. (Smith) that you lost 2,025 pigs?" she asked.
"Yeth." lisped the farmer.
Being a Howard County girl herself, the tech entered: "Subject lost 2 sows and 25 pigs."
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Saturday, May 19, 2012

OUR RV LIFESTYLE CONTINUES TO EVOLVE

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WINTER MEMORIES NEAR DESERT CENTER, CALIFORNIA…FEB. 14TH 2012
It was a warm summer’s morn in May we had going for us today when Pheebs & I headed for Mitchell Ontario.  Kelly had to work all day & it was my Uncle Harry’s 96th Birthday.  Harry likes those solar light Butterflies that glow & change color in the night.  He had some outside his care facility window but they didn’t winter well so Pheebs & I took him some new ones today for his Birthday.  His voice sounded weaker but he had the biggest smile on  his face I have ever seen when he saw the Pheebs beside his chair.  In the last few years, Harry, with help from a friend, was able to make it up to our place for his Birthday but just not quite enough strength this year.  Maybe next year.
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<<< WAITING IN THE HALL FOR UNCLE HARRY TO BRUSH HIS TEETH THIS MORNING
It was Janna’s thoughts at TIN TEEPEE/LOG CABIN this morning that gave me the idea for today’s blog. As stated in her post, their priorities are changing & their RVing lifestyle is evolving. We have always kept track of Mike & Janna because we are kind of like minded folks in many ways.

We found the first 3 years or so of our RV travels to be the most exciting because everything was so new to us. Nothing seems to compare with that ‘first time’ excitement of seeing & doing something totally new & wonderfully different. We loved all the places we went & have enjoyed returning to many of those places in these following years. But, after awhile the newness & excitement wears off a bit & it’s not quite the same as those first few discovery times somewhere. We were both becoming aware of that in our last couple years of Snow Bird travel.
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OUR GREENING COUNTRYSIDE
Borrego Springs California is a perfect example of the change in our RVing lifestyle. One of our all time favorite places to go & hang out for awhile, we have been there every winter for the past 5 years. First 3 years were great but noticed the last couple of years the newness was wearing off & it didn’t quite hold the same charming excitement for us the first 3 years did. Borrego Springs wasn’t changing….we were.
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PHEEBS & HER PAL, BRONSON, TAKE A SHORT BREAK BETWEEN A RAMBUNCTIOUS FROLIC THIS MORNING
I think it was round about the time we came across the Lazy W Ranch near Elfrida Arizona two winters ago that we began to see a slightly different RVing future shaping up for ourselves. I well remember my excitement at the thoughts of all the creative work projects I could involve myself in on this picturesque little Ranch in the shadow of the Swiss Helm mountains tucked away in the southeast corner of the State. We also began to realize the advantages of having some kind of home base somewhere in the southwest. That little 40 acre Ranch that I loved so much was financially way over our heads, but it caused us to think ahead, & the seeds of change were planted.
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LAZY W RANCH NEAR ELFRIDA, ARIZONA FEB 17TH 2011
Whenever we traveled to a new area one of the first things Kelly always did was to get on the computer & check out the local Real Estate listings & prices for house’s & properties. In the last couple years we found ourselves talking more & more about our RVing priorities & found ourselves driving around looking at more & more listings for sale. With the current housing market in the States we couldn’t believe how cheaply Real Estate was selling for, and this of course had a big influence on our planning & decision making.  When we came across the deal in Congress, we knew we just couldn’t pass this one up.
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CLARK DRY LAKE BED NEAR BORREGO SPRINGS……..FEBRUARY 8/2012
Ideally, we had been looking for a small one story Ranch house style place, with some out buildings on about 5 acres of land with no signs of any visible neighbors. That is not quite what we ended up with but we had to be realistically practical & not get ourselves into a financial situation way over our heads. We had to make a few concessions.  In the end, we simply bought a little house on 1 acre of land that we could afford. We do have neighbors & as much as I don’t care for that, there are some common sense advantages to having people close by. But, that’s a topic for another post.
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OUR CONGRESS ARIZONA DIGS…..COMPLETE WITH 3 SAGUAROS:))  (photo compliments of Gerrit)
A few years ago I was gung-ho on selling our place in Bayfield & hitting the road full time. Had we done so I’m sure we would have adapted well & would still be out there somewhere thoroughly enjoying the lifestyle. But, knowing ourselves as well as I do, I also know, that by now our minds would be once again evolving towards ‘something different. Not being a creature of ‘same old, same old’ it’s just the way I am & it’s just the way we are:))
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OUR HOUSE BEFORE WE HAD THE ADOBE PUT ON JUST DAYS BEFORE OUR ARIZONA DEPARTURE IN MARCH 
Shortly, in a future post, I will talk about the logistic side of things & how we are now facing planning decisions on how we are going to best spend our winters mixing our south western sticks & bricks with our ongoing future travel plans.  Do we really need the large Motorhome?  Are some different vehicles & modes of travel in our future?  What about turning around & selling our ‘new to us’ Congress house & making a couple dollars?  (yes, that has come up in some conversations) Have we thought any more about selling our place here in Bayfield?  And, why did we chose Arizona & that area of Arizona to buy a house?  All food for thought & all questions I will be posting thoughts & opinions about soon.  Stay tuned:))
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WINTER SUNSET AT THE LAZY W RANCH, ARIZONA
GROANER'S CORNER:((   I know I'm pushing the envelope on this one a bit but I did think it was kinda cute.............
Already the father of two rambunctious boys, the husband was thrilled when the doctor announced they were going to have twins this time. He told his wife that she should start thinking of names.
"Well, let's see." she said. "We already have Adolph and Rudolph. How about Getoff and Stayoff!!"
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Friday, May 18, 2012

A SUCCESSFUL MISSION TO TOWN FOR ME & THE PHEEBS

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SUN UMBRELLAS AWAIT THE ARRIVAL OF GUESTS TODAY AT BAYFIELD’S DEER PARK LODGE

Weather is shaping up mighty fine for our long week-end.  A touch cool by beach standards but great for anyone working outside in their garden.  Not quite enough heat in the air to bring out all the flying insects & buggy-boos but warm enough to be in short sleeves.  Very low humidity, & that’s the best:))

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SURE DO HAVE SOME NICE CLEAR WATER FOR SWIMMERS ALONG THE SHORES OF LAKE HURON

Pheebs & I flew another successful Jeep mission into & out of Goderich this morning without being shot down by another greasy McDonald’s breakfast.  We got in, got our errands done & got out of town before anyone knew we were even there.  Stopped at DEER PARK LODGE on the way back because I had a few cottage interiors to photograph.  I’ll include a few of those in tonight’s blog plus Pheebs & I hit the beach for a few additional photos.

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WEEK-END GUESTS WILL SOON BE ARRIVING

Kelly brought a blog to my attention this morning that she knew I would definitely be interested in.  And, I was.   This fellow’s COCOONED post certainly did catch my attention.  It is not often I read a post by someone who so closely mirrors my own thoughts about our particular style of RVing.  I put this couple’s blog on our sidebar because I like their way of RV thinking.  You can find them at BOX CANYON BLOG.COM.

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CAMPFIRES ON THE BEACH ARE ALWAYS A BIG HIT AT DEER PARK

Neither Kelly or I have ever been big on anniversary or birthday stuff so it’s not something I usually mention in my posts.  But, I will make an exception because today we have been married 10 years.  No big number to fluff ourselves up about, but considering our very independently different pasts, it is a wonder our paths ever crossed in the first place. But, once those paths did finally cross, it was clear right from the beginning we were two people destined to be together.  Our thoughts were alike, our thinking the same.  We had both individually embarked on similar paths at different times, searching for the same ‘out of the box’ answers.   Didn’t take long after sharing our ideas, ideals, & dreams, that we knew we were in harmony with each other.  Kelly has been the one with patience, understanding, fortitude, courage & strength.  And, I have been the one with peanut butter sandwiches……………  Oh, & where did we meet?  A coffee shop of course:))

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I am getting an increased number of ‘Anonymous’ spam in my comments section & am wondering if other Bloggers are being plagued by this as well.  My filters are not blocking some of this latest stuff & the spam ends up appearing as a comment.  I have to keep checking my Blogger Dashboard in order to delete this garbage.  I certainly do not want to go back to those ridiculous Google anti-spam letters people are forced to figure out before leaving a comment.  Wondered if anybody had any ideas about this………………..

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DEER PARK HAS ONE OF THE LARGEST & BEST PRIVATE SANDY BEACHES ALONG THE LAKE

GROANER’S CORNER:((  Did you know a Man who runs in front of a car gets tired, while a man who runs behind a car gets exhausted.  And did you know the old Egyptian archaeologist was upset because his job was in ruins.  By the way, what do you call a Ghost with a broken leg??  A Hoblin Goblin of course.  And, I bet you didn’t know why the Indians were here first……they had reservations:))

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DARN HOSPITAL!!

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OUR MOTORHOME JUST SEEMS TO GROW BIGGER & BIGGER EVERY YEAR

I was up, out the door, & headed for Stratford by 7:15 this morning.  As expected, a beautiful early morning drive through our picturesque & pastoral countryside.  Our rural landscape has really greened up with acres & acres of ploughed farmland bordered by forests of Spring foliage.  Farmers were already up & on the land with tractors, seeders, fertilizers & manure spreaders.  A few pockets of air along the way were a little intense.
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A NEWLY SEEDED FIELD STILL BEARS TRACTOR TIRE MARKS
Not too much to tell you about my pre-admit appointment at the Hospital.  Registered, went over some paper work & instructions for the surgery day & headed up to the 5th floor Lab.  The usual little bottle sample, more blood work & an EKG.  Total time in the Hospital was about 1 hour & I was soon back out of the city into my comforting countryside.  Dawdled my way back to Bayfield stopping for a few photos along the way.
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STRATFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL MAIN ENTRANCE
Sunny day, but still on the cool side.  Been tossing around some ideas for a small decorative privacy piece for one end of our house so I may, or may not pick up a few pieces of lumber for the project.  I really do need some kind of creative project to get my mind focused on.  I well remember the great month of March I had at our Arizona house.  Cleaning inside, painting kitchen cabinets, cleaning up the yard, planting cactus & just generally being excited about having half a dozen little creative projects on the go.
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OUR LILACS ARE IN BLOOM

I like jobs I can do totally by myself.  Just as I am not good as a passenger in a car, I am not good at being a helper.  Either I drive the car or I do the project all by myself.  Same as riding a motorcycle or driving an ATV.  If I'm not in control of handling the machine....I'm not on it!!  By the same token, standing around handing someone a hammer or holding a board here & there doesn't work for me.  I've never been a 'team member' kind of guy.
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IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN IN OUR CARPORT

We are on the verge of our big May 24th week-end in Canada.  This is the biggy of the year & the one that officially kicks off the summer.  It's a big booze party week-end for a lot of kids so always a good week-end to stay off the highways & away from the beach party hot spots.  Grand Bend, just a few miles south of us has always been party central for teen-agers for as long as I can remember.  (According to Wikipedia, Grand Bend's year-round population of 2,000 people swells to about 50,000 in the summer months on holiday weekends.)  A rowdy place at times & I remember the days many years ago when I was a part of that rowdiness.  Never did get myself into any kind of serious trouble but did spend a night in the Grand Bend drunk tank & a couple days in the Sarnia County Jail one time for some kind of alcohol related offence. Can't remember what it was anymore.  Because of the number of teen-agers, the Police don't fool around in Grand Bend.  You break the law....you go to jail right quick.  They have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to alcohol, or at least they did 45 years ago.  Every May 24th I think about those bad old zany crazy days way back when.

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SAILBOATS AWAITING THEIR SUMMER IN THE WATER

I recall being asked by a commenter awhile back if I take photos for the DEER PARK LODGE website.  Answer to that is yes, I do take ‘some’ of them.  Most of the cottage interior shots are mine, as well as some of the outside ones.  A few of my photos are in the slideshow at the top of their home page.

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SUNDOWN AT DEER PARK LODGE

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Prosecutor: Did you kill the victim?
Defendant: No, I did not.
Prosecutor: Do you know what the penalties are for perjury?
Defendant: Yes, I do. And they're a hell of a lot better than the penalty for murder.
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