AWWWWW NUTS…….NOW I’M FEELING LIKE AN OLD BAG OF DIRT MYSELF:((

We may have to back Saturday's departure up to Sunday or next week now. The cold like symptoms of Kelly's bacterial infection are trying their best to get a hold of me but so far, aside from a scratchy throat along with some nasal congestion my body is desperately trying to fight off the invasion of cold germs. Kelly is not out of the woods yet either & we're thinking maybe holding off for one or more days would be a good idea to see how we're feeling. What a piece of rotten timing this all is & I think I may have been a bit premature in Wednesday’s post about Kelly feeling better…………It was not a good day for her:((

Pheebs & I drove the Motorhome over to Clinton this morning to have the tire pressures checked at our tire dealer. All 6 tires were right on target. I am still having trouble with my right leg & bending over or getting down on the ground to air the tires is not something I was wanting to get into. We definitely have a much heavier than normal load in the rig this year & I am beginning to second guess our Rochester to Knoxville route through the Appalachian Mountains.

NEVER KNOW WHEN THAT DEER PARK LODGE PHONE WILL RING

For about 6 months of the year while in the south-west I park myself rather comfortably under my cowboy hat. Blends me right in quite nicely with the locals. When we return to Ontario in the Spring I set my cowboy had aside & re-blend myself in with the local folks here in Bayfield again by wearing a baseball cap. Decided to put my cowboy hat on Wednesday night when I took Pheebs for a walk. Felt like I had a great big pumpkin sitting on my head. Reckon it's gonna take me a few days to get myself all westernized again. Imagine I'll end up knocking my hat off half a dozen times getting in & out of the Jeep. Takes me awhile to remember the wide brim & high top!!

In a few days (hopefully) we will embark on our 8th trip to the great American Southwest. In 04/05 we made a quick journey in our Gulf Stream Class C to Big Bend, Texas. Next trip was in 06/07 in our GMC truck & Rockwood fifth wheel to New Mexico & Arizona. Every year since, we have traveled in our Damon Motorhome to New Mexico, Arizona, & California. We happen to like the American west so much we have no interest in going anywhere else. After my kidney stone problem last December in Tucson we briefly talked ourselves into the idea of spending winters closer to home, in Florida. Even looked at a lot of Real Estate with Google Earth in the Gainesville area. That line of thinking lasted about 3 weeks before we finally realized how much our hearts were truly in the south-west & we just wouldn’t be happy anywhere else. I have blogged countless times over the years about why we like the southwest so much so won't get into all that again. To sum up why we love the southwest with two simple words, I'd simply say.........scenery & lifestyle:))

 

On our first major RV trip in 06/07 we came to 2 very quick conclusions within a couple months of leaving home. If we were going to continue RVing we were going to have to make a couple major changes or else we were going to end up sitting at home for the winters. First, we knew we were going to have to change the type of RV we had. Traveling with 3 dogs at the time just didn't work well with our truck & fifth wheel set up. That, combined with other reasons saw us quickly trade the truck & fifth wheel in on a Motorhome as soon as we returned home in the Spring. We have never regretted that change. Second major change we had to make was to our traveling lifestyle. We knew we would never be happy traveling from RV Park to RV Park. . We just don't fit into that kind of lifestyle at all. I won't bother with all the reasons why, but just let me say that we knew if we didn't figure out a way to avoid that kind of RVing, chances were good that we would not be RVing at all. Neither one of us wanted to end up bouncing between RV Parks or having to sit in one spot for 6 months of the year.

MEMORIES FROM A YEAR AGO…………PHEEBS & MOTOR WERE ALWAYS THE BEST OF PALS

Decisions were made & in 07 with our new to us Motorhome, we headed for Slab City California to have a solar system installed by Solar Mike at SUN WORKS. That set us up for boondocking, which in turn has basically kept us out of RV Parks ever since.   And, that has turned out to be another decision we have never regretted. Keep in mind......'different strokes for different folks,' and no one way is right for everybody:))

Don Pat has come aboard as our latest Blog Follower. Hope you have some anti-cold & bacteria medicine with ya Don because we're kinda like a hospital ship adrift in a cold sea right now. Welcome aboard & bring some Kleenex will ya:))

 

CAN YOU FIND THE HORIZON’S RAINBOW OVER LAKE HURON
GROANER'S CORNER:(( There once was a boy called Matty who didn't have a body, he only had a head.Then it came to his 18th birthday, so his dad who felt sorry for him took for a pint down the local pub, Matty was very excited about having his 1st drink of alcohol , so the proud father came in and placed Matty down on the bar and ordered 2 pints. Then the father poured the beer into Mattys mouth, and once he'd finished, a body had grown onto Mattys head, so he kept drinking and by the end of the night he was a normal man, with arms, legs, toes and fingers, but Matty kept on drinking & got falling down drunk & obnoxious. The lesson you should learn from this is to always........ 'Quit while your a head.'   …………….(ya, I know it’s a bad one)

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SCURRYING ABOUT LIKE A COUPLE OF LITTLE SQUIRRELS TODAY

Went to bed with a clear star filled sky & woke up to clouds, rain, & colder temperatures again. Friends JEAN & SKIP just rolled into the Sedona area of Arizona & are basking in warm 88 degree temperatures. Nice. We are anxious to get out of this cold & wet & get ourselves into the warm & sunny south-west:))

Kelly had a better night & did not wake up with the hacking lumber jack cough she had experienced all day Tuesday.  Congestion is still audible but better than the day before.  Unfortunately, the anti-bacteria pills have side effects & Kelly felt sick for half the day before rallying back in the afternoon. Overall, her cold like symptoms are clearing up & I think she is through the worst of it.

KELLY FOUND A LITTLE PATCH OF HEALING SUNSHINE & SOAKED UP SOME VITAMIN D LATE THIS AFTERNOON
Scurried around all morning like a couple busy little Squirrels, darting about loading more things into the rig. We're down to the final couple days so lots of last minute stuff to do. Transferred our Sirius Satellite Radio from the Jeep to the Motorhome & am happy to say our recently installed tin can lid antennae on the roof works fine. A quick trip to Goderich netted me a couple good weatherproof locks for doubly securing our Jeep to the rig's tow bar. Rained in the night but by late morning the sun burst through the heavy overcast & totally turned our afternoon into one fine fantabulous Autumn day. Again, the word 'perfect' comes to mind:))  Tomorrow? Oh Oh, not so perfect:(( 

We are soooooo anxious to get out of here & get this long journey started.  So anxious to put ‘same old’ behind us & ‘WOWIE KAZOWIE’ ahead of us:))  And Janna….ssshhhh, it was October 7th.

Nina, from WHEELING IT has another in a series of well written posts whereupon she shares her thoughts in a post entitled, 'The Darker Side of Full timing'. I always enjoy posts by folks who write from the heart & are able to take a realistic & honest approach to not only themselves, but to their lifestyle as well. I believe it is important to write about the negatives as well as the positives. That way, everyone can identify & learn.
 
FROM THIS POINT WE ARE LESS THAN A MINUTE FROM OUR HOUSE IN THE FOREST ON THE LEFT

These days it sometimes seems the more further ahead I goes, the more behinder I gets. Somewhere awhile back I fell off the technology wagon. Not that I was ever really on it of course, but I fell off anyway. And I think it ran over me too. I'm at a point where I no longer know which area of the brain to blame. Is it the short term memory department? Could it be I left a window open somewhere west of my left ear & all my patience up & flew away?  Where did all my concentration & interest go?  Definitely something going on somewhere. When I look back a short 10 years ago I may still have been a bit short of patience but I was up for the challenge of learning new & exciting things. For a guy with very little education & no experience in the techno field whatsoever, I kinda felt I did OK there for awhile getting onto all this computer stuff. No whizbang by any means, but I was able to acquire & retain enough knowledge to get me by.  And, I even enjoyed teaching others some of the simpler fundamental basics.  But somewhere I must have blinked & the modern techno age rocketed off out of sight.  Tonight I thought I would go have a look at all this new Google & Facebook stuff again & get myself back up on the learning wagon. Nope, couldn't get to first base with Facebook & totally struck out again at trying to understand all the newer Google technology. Worse yet, when I wasn't looking, the damn wagon ran over me again…………..twice:((

No, nothing to do with feeling sorry for one's self, or any of that positive/negative stuff.  It has everything to do with having to accept the fact some things have changed & are changing in my old noodle. It is simply the natural progression of age making itself known & I have to make changes on the go, adjusting to the ways I think & do things differently from a few years ago. Just as the body weakens physically, it weakens mentally as well, & the journey gets a little harder. No going back of course, so one just has to keep an eye on the horizon, keep a stiff upper lip & keep moving forward as best one can.....................without complaining about it too much.

  
AUTUMN AT OUR HOUSE IS ALWAYS THE PRETTIEST TIME
With only a couple days to go, TRICIAANDPHIL made it aboard today just in time.  We welcome our latest Blog Followers & say thanks for traveling along with our Blog:))

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A woman walks into a shop that sells expensive Persian Rugs.  Looking around, she spots the perfect rug, walks over and inspects it.  As she bends to feel the texture of the rug she rather loudly passes some gas.  Very embarrassed she looks around nervously to see if anyone has noticed her 'little accident' and hopes a sales person does not pop up right now.  Of course as she turns back, there standing next to her is a salesman. "Good day Ma'am, how may we help you today?"  Very uncomfortably she asks, "How much does this rug cost?"  He answers, "Lady if you passed gas just touching it, you're gonna crap your pants when you hear what the price is."
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- Home is where your pet is:))
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love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals
are better off than a lot of humans."
(James Herriot)
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- The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now...AL.
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KELLY HEADED OFF TO SEE THE DOCTOR TODAY

ALL OF TONIGHT’S PHOTOS WERE TAKEN ON AN AFTERNOON WALK WITH THE PHEEBS

Kelly woke up this morning feeling like an old bag of dirt. Her cough had worsened & she was sick. She isn't one to complain much or seek out medical help so when she mentioned about calling her Doctor, I knew she was seriously having a rough time of it. The concern was pneumonia. Early this afternoon Kelly was diagnosed with a bacterial infection & the Doctor said it was good she came in when she did or it could have turned into pneumonia. Said her chest sounded really rough & prescribed anti-bacteria pills for her. We'll see how things are tomorrow.

OUR PATH TO THE FOREST FOLLOWS ALONG THE TOP OF THE POND BANK ON THE LEFT

Rotten piece of luck for Tom over at TOM_KATHY_RETIRED when he severely twisted a knee while touring some naval vessels. Ended up being taken to hospital while Kathy had to begin re-arranging some upcoming short range travel plans.  Recovery could take a spell.

COME ON DAD, LET’S HURRY HOME & GET OURSELVES A SNACK BEFORE MOM GETS BACK FROM THE DOCTOR

 

EVEN OUR PARK’S YARD WASTE RECYCLING AREA (RIGHT) LOOKS GREAT THIS TIME OF YEAR
Won a 'Twist' contest one time back in the Chubby Checker days but that was about the extent of my dancing career way back when. Did manage to slip under a few 'Limbo' bars along the way & I do recall flopping around on a dance floor somewhere doing the 'Watusi' one time. Oh ya, & then there was the 'Bunny Hop'. Bop, bop, bop. Dancing was just never my thing. But, not so Cheryl at DESERT DIVA. I think we have a fancy footer in our midst so you might want to glide on over & check out some smooth moves:))

For not being a phone person I've been doing very well remembering to carry a cell phone with me every day for the past month or so now. Of course I have no reason to turn it on because I’m not in any kind of social or family circle so I'm not expecting any one to phone me, or me them. But, I do think it a good idea to carry a phone in case of emergency.  Either mine or someone else’s.  And, how do I remember to carry a cell phone every day?  Easy, I have the phone in a small pouch on my pant's belt right next to my camera. My belt loops through the phone & camera pouches so they are always there when I put my pants on every morning. Only way for me to forget them now is to head out the door without my pants on. At my age that is not likely to happen so 'presto', a winning solution:))

When I finally knuckled under last April & went to the Doctor about the pains in my legs I was told it could possibly be a pinched nerve in my lower back. With a record of painful back problems I am not surprised. X-rays didn't reveal any areas of mass destruction in my bones & joints so figure that is what could be going on with my leg at the moment. Took it easy again today avoiding any bending, kneeling or unusual twisting. No up & down the steps of our Motorhome & I stayed away from the Jeep. As any Jeep Wrangler owner knows, ya gotta lift that right leg a fair few feet up in the air at an awkward angle either entering or exiting the high clearance Jeep. I was able to take Pheebs for an afternoon walk & I am noticing a slight improvement in my right leg tonight.

And, I think 'acheapguy' has solved the mystery to my rant a couple blogs ago about the illogical placement of the on/off switch on my Garrity flashlight. Over in the Shout Box, 'acheapguy' very wisely deduces, "I think the flashlight design mystery is solved. The Garrity website says they sold out to Proctor and Gamble in 2006. New guys with laptops sitting in Starbucks are now in charge of design!........ Aha, now why didn't I think of that.  And, thanks to Mr. Ed for being a good sport about the cell phone in the Hosta photos:))

ANOTHER SECTION OF OUR MORNING TRAIL

Took Pheebs for a third walk just before sunset tonight.  Had I been walking with my eyes closed I would have thought it was early Spring in the forest.  Trees were alive with the chirping chatter of Robins gathering together discussing flight plans & routes for their upcoming south bound departure.  True Snow Birds in every way & I wished them all well.

 

GROANER'S CORNER:(( I was walking home last night when I noticed an old drunk staggering along the road. He passed a woman who was walking a young child. "Lady", said the drunk, "that's the ugliest kid I've ever seen. Damn, that is one ugly child!." As the drunk wandered off, the lady burst into tears. Just then, a mailman came to her rescue. "What's the matter, madam?" he asked. "I've just been horribly insulted" she sobbed. "There there," said the mailman, reaching into his pocket. "Dry your eyes with this tissue, and here's a banana for the chimp"

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- Tourists see the world, travelers experience it.
- Home is where your pet is:))
- "If having a soul means being able to feel
love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals
are better off than a lot of humans."
(James Herriot)
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails -William Arthur Ward
- The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now...AL.
- It is not so much having nothing to do as it is not having the interest to do something....AL.
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OH OH, DEPARTURE DATE OFFICIALLY DELAYED……………

We have moved our departure date back from this Wednesday to this coming Saturday. We are kind of like the walking wounded here at the moment. Kelly with her bad cold & me with a painfully troublesome right leg that isn't easing up. Also, we don't want to take any of Kelly's cold germs with us when we go to visit Uncle Harry this week & we do not want Kelly's Mom catching anything when we get there either. Hopefully by the end of the week Kelly will be out of the woods & it really doesn't matter how my leg feels. I'll just throw it in the rig & bring it with me anyway.
 
OUR MORNING WALKS HAVE BEEN A BIT ON THE SOGGY SIDE THE PAST COUPLE MORNINGS
Kelly spent quite awhile on the phone this morning with companies like Verizon, Hughes Net, the 3G Store, & several other internet type carriers & equipment places. Our house in Congress is in a Verizon fringe zone & we have been going around in circles trying to come up with a best solution for internet when we get there. There is a Verizon signal but it was weak so we were thinking of alternatives. Verizon assured Kelly today, changes to the towers have been made & we will see a change in signal strength when we return to Congress.  If need be, we will upgrade our older 3G Verizon Mifi to a new 4G Mifi. The more powerful 4G network will be in the Congress area very shortly, but in the meantime the newer 4G Mifi is still able to function with the older 3G system. We have our fingers crossed that this is all accurate information coming from Verizon. We're fine for TV with our Shaw satellite dish so the only problem left to solve is the very weak & poor cell phone coverage. And, it is the Canadian Bell Telephone plan cell phone connection Kelly needs because it is the Deer Park Lodge phone we carry. May have to push Deer Park a little harder for a necessary phone upgrade. The Samsung work phone Kelly now carries is about 5 years old.  We think a new more powerful techno-age phone could very well solve the weak cell phone connection we have in Congress, Arizona.

KELLY WORKS THE PHONES THIS MORNING
Spent most of the day in my recliner in hopes of totally resting my right leg. I have obviously pulled, strained, or screwed something up in my hip & thigh area sometime in the last few weeks. Had been doing a lot of landscape gardening & was up & down off the ground quite a few times so obviously something has been irritatingly wrenched out of whack. Not impressed with this rotten aging process!!

TIS THE SEASON TO RAKE PINE NEEDLES
Mr. Ed from the FLIP FLOP RESORT INN cleared up the mystery of the cell phone in the Hosta leaves with a follow-up comment today.  In it he said, “Look at the photo, the one on your blog site.  From left to right 3/4 to right.  Now top to bottom look down 1/4
In the opening of the leaves looks like chrome trim of an outline of a black phone laying sideways.  Looks like 3 sides”.
 
LEFT PHOTO WAS ON THE BLOG SITE & AREA OF CELL CONFUSION IS ENLARGED ON THE RIGHT

A FEW QUICK CLICKS OF THE MOUSE WITH PICASA’S ‘RETOUCH’ TOOL TOOK CARE OF THE REFLECTED FILL-IN CAMERA FLASH ON A STEM THAT LOOKED LIKE THE CHROME SIDE OF A CELL PHONE:))
Sometimes I hear the word ‘cheating’ when it comes to retouching a photo.  There is definitely two schools of thought when it comes this subject & no broad sweep of a paint brush can fill in a general answer.  Personally, I do not see it as cheating, but we are getting close to another age old question……what is art?  If I wake up in the morning & my hair is a mess, is it cheating if I comb it before going out in public?  A teen-ager puts a dab of Clearasil on a pimple to cover it up, is that cheating?  When I did that in high school I didn’t think I was cheating anyone, I just didn’t want to look like a Doink.  How about ladies putting on make-up in the morning before heading out….is that cheating?  Not in my books it isn’t.  If a photo contest specifies in it’s rules that photos must not be retouched, & a competitor does some retouching anyway, is that cheating?  Darn right it is!!  The rules specifically stated, no retouching.  Had I been on the ball with that Hosta photo above, I would have removed that distracting ‘hot spot’ that Ed thought might have been a cell phone, therefore eliminating any confusion.  Oh, & why was I in the doghouse on Sunday nights post? (photo)  Good question Donna…………..I can’t remember.   Well, that’s my excuse today & I’m sticking to it:)) 

THE MISTAKE I MADE IN THIS PHOTO WAS HAVING THE WRONG LENS HOOD ON WHILE USING A WIDE ANGLE LENS WHICH CAUSED THE DARKNESS IN THE CORNERS
Know that when you see those super great photos of perfection in magazines or in those many emails & Power Point presentations traveling around the internet, most of them only look like that because of the many great photo editing programs available to everyone today.  And, you do not have to be a photographer to effectively learn & skilfully use any of these program.  But, ya do gotta have a mess of good smarts to understand them there mind twistin Photoshop programs all right!!  That’s why I don’t use them & stick with Picasa instead……………….10-4:))      

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A 6-year-old and a 4-year-old are upstairs in their bedroom. "You know what?" says the 6-year-old. "I think it's about time we start cussing." The 4-year-old nods his head in approval. The 6-year-old continues. "When we go downstairs for breakfast I'm going to say hell and you say ass." "OK!" The 4 year old agrees with enthusiasm.
Their mother walks into the kitchen and asks the 6-year-old what he wants for breakfast. "Aw hell, Mom, I guess I'll have some Cheerios."
WHACK! He flies out of his chair, tumbles across the kitchen floor, gets up, and runs upstairs crying his eyes out, with his mother in hot pursuit, slapping his rear every step. The mom locks him in his room and shouts "You can just stay there till I let you out!"
She then comes back downstairs, looks at the 4-year-old, and asks with a stern voice, "And what do YOU want for breakfast young man?
"I don't know," he blubbers, "But you can bet your ass it won't be Cheerios!"
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- Tourists see the world, travelers experience it.
- Home is where your pet is:))
- "If having a soul means being able to feel
love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals
are better off than a lot of humans."
(James Herriot)
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails -William Arthur Ward
- The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now...AL.
- It is not so much having nothing to do as it is not having the interest to do something....AL.
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ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF, ‘JUST BECAUSE IT’S NEW DOES NOT MEAN IT’S BETTER’!!

THE RAINY ROAD LEADING TO OUR PLACE THIS MORNING
Surprised this morning when I stepped outside fully expecting to be met by some freezing 32F air. Instead, we were up to a balmy 60F & later in the day hit 70F. Nice, nice, nice:)) Despite the constant rain, it was kinda groovy walking the trail in the seemingly warm drizzle. Good thing all this rain we been having isn't snow or I'd be outside in panic mode shovelling like crazy to make sure the Motorhome had a clear path to get out in a few days. When we reach Spencerport next week we will be parked beside Kelly's Mom's house on the grass so I'm hoping we don't get a lot of rain while there or we might need us a tow out of the mud:((

Actually, we may delay our departure by a few days. Kelly is currently under the weather with a bad cold & we are not under any pressure to be any specific place at any specific time. We'll see how she feels in a few days & play it by ear from there.  Today was her last unofficial day at DEER PARK LODGE as Deer Park begins it’s close down for the Season.  She will however, have the Deer Park phone all winter again while we are in the Southwest & will be doing all next summer’s reservations.  Also in the Spring she will return to Deer Park to help train someone for her managerial & ‘Jack of all trades’ position.  So, she is not officially leaving or staying exactly.  She is just winding it all down slowly & helping Deer Park’s Lady owner make the necessary changes & adjustments.  They have been good friends for nearly 10 years now.  

Quick rainy morning trip to Goderich for a few groceries & then over to Wal-Mart's Pharmacy to pick up a couple prescriptions to carry me through the winter. Six month supply of Arthrotec for my arthritis & 6 months worth of my Cholesterol controlling drug, Crestor. No charge:)) Two things come into play on that 'no charge' thing. I'm Canadian & I am over 65.

I really have to scratch my head in befuddlement sometimes when I come across things that just don't make any logical sense to me. (and there's a lot of em) Needed a new flashlight so picked up a Garrity in Canadian Tire awhile back. Of course it was sealed in some kind of plastic death grip packaging that needed nothing less than a nuclear explosion to get it out, but that's another story. The basic flashlight design over the years has worked well & has been easy to operate. Pick it up & your hand & fingers naturally grip it with one's thumb on the 'on' switch. Slide it forward, flashlight turns on, slide the switch back & it turns off. Now, how easy is that, perfect design & works like a charm. But......it's the new techno age of change now so some Wisenheimer engineering designer type obviously woke up one morning & had an 'aha' moment & decided for the advancement of mankind it was time to move into the modern era by re-locating the perfectly placed & logically thought out 'on/off' switch on the flashlight’s handle, to the inconvenient butt end.  No more holding the flashlight in one hand & sending of rapid light bursts of Morse Code to your best Buddy in the house across the street.  It’s a two handed operation now.  But, getting back to the Wisenheimer…………"Hmmmm, let me see now" he must have thought as he sat down at his high paying workbench, "it's the age of new, where everything new is better than old, so how be I move the on/off switch to a totally illogical place on the flashlight & bring the old flashlight design into the modern age of newness". Yes, that's it, I'll put the switch in the bottom of the flashlight where it will be difficult to see or find. And, better yet, even harder to operate". For sure that will confuse the older folks...........ha-ha-ha.

How long can it be before some whiz kid decides the wheel has been around too long & should be replaced with something new. Say, how about advancing that round wheel design into something perfectly square. Ya, now we're talking some serious new-age advancement, right?? Don't get me wrong, I'm not against new & better technology, but I refuse to fall into the trap of believing that just because something is new, it has to better. Hogwash!!!! Oh, & when I looked at the flashlight to see where it was made.......Taiwan. Now that really burns me up because the GARRITY Company with it’s American history, is headquartered in Madison CT.  By the way, other than the ridiculous placement of the on/off switch, I do like the solid firm heavy duty grip feeling of the flashlight itself. 
I DO MANAGE TO GET MYSELF IN THE DOGHOUSE FROM TIME TO TIME
Well, I must admit, commenter Mr Ed over at the FLIP FLOP RESORT INN had me scratching my head last night looking for a phone in my previous night's Hosta photo. I knew there could not be a phone there but my interest was peaked & I went looking anyway. Even enlarged the darn photo. After all, he did say, "Ok what's the phone doing in the hostas bed".  ??

REFLECTION IN OUR PARK’S POND
Kelly's daughter Rebecca & husband Ricardo left about 4 this afternoon heading back to Cambridge Ontario to begin working on their new life in Ontario. What a fine young couple they are & what a fine start they will have with all the stuff Kelly sent them home with them. Or, maybe I should re-phrase that & say, what a fine start they will have with all the stuff we were lucky enough to get rid of.......:))

WHAT!!!!  YOU MEAN WE HAVE TO TAKE ALL THAT STUFF TOO………
 
RICARDO (COMPUTER GURU) TOOK THE TIME TO FINE TUNE MY LAPTOP TODAY:))
GROANER'S CORNER:)) And, how about a few 'Call Center' conversations.......
Customer: 'I've been calling 700-1000 for two days and can't get through;
can you help?'
Operator: 'Where did you get that number, sir?'
Customer: 'It's on the door of your business.'
Operator: 'Sir, those are the hours that we are open.'
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Samsung Electronics
Caller: 'Can you give me the telephone number for Jack?'
Operator: 'I'm sorry, sir, I don't understand who you are talking about.'
Caller: 'On page 1, section 5, of the user guide it clearly states that
I need to unplug the fax machine from the AC wall socket and
telephone Jack before cleaning. Now, can you give me the
number for Jack?'
Operator: 'I think it means the telephone plug on the wall.'
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Then there was the caller who asked for a knitwear company in Woven.
Operator: 'Woven? Are you sure?'
Caller: 'Yes -- That's what it says on the label -- Woven in Scotland.
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- Tourists see the world, travelers experience it.
- Home is where your pet is:))
- "If having a soul means being able to feel
love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals
are better off than a lot of humans."
(James Herriot)
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails -William Arthur Ward
- The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now...AL.
- It is not so much having nothing to do as it is not having the interest to do something....AL.
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