TOO HOT TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX TODAY

It was too hot & humid to think outside the box today so we concentrated our efforts inside the box where we could at least stay cool in our A/C.  If we go ahead with our renovations a lot of old clutter has to be thrown out, moved, & re-organized.  Similar to full time folks having to clear things out in preparation to selling their house.  We’re not selling our house though so it’s easier for us because we only have two rooms to deal with.  We have done a lot of renovations in the last 10 years but the bedrooms have basically remained the same as the day we moved in.  It is in these two rooms our renovations may or may not occur.  It was just a good day for cleaning things out anyway.

Over the years ‘stuff’ gets filed away in drawers, piled on shelves, & tossed into corners.  Imagine my delight today when sifting through a pile of dusty old CD’s & came across the long lost instruction book for our Delorme P-40 GPS unit we bought new 3 or 4 years ago.  Now if we can just remember where the heck we put that Delorme P40 & match it up with the newly found instruction book.

Have to get myself busy working on a special page for Max, Checkers, & Cora.  Noticed one of our readers was missing the side bar photos.  I had also removed  a few other pics as well & plan to include them when I re-do our ‘About The Bayfield Bunch’ pages.  Hopefully soon.  Been quite awhile since I have updated them & they definitely do need a re-write.  I have basically made zero progress in my photo project.  Had hoped to arrange all the thousands of photos I have into some kind of logical on-line photo albums on my SMUG MUG site this summer but the task has proved to be too daunting & I have not been able to kick start my interest or enthusiasm into gear for doing that.  And to add even more photo chaos to my already confused photomash I am now considering digitalizing all my slides from the old 35mm days.  I have about 25 Kodak Carousels loaded with 140 slides in each one.   And then there are all the slide pages in binders.  But is it all really worth the effort.  Haven’t looked at any of those slides for well over 15 years.  We have dusty photo albums as well that also sit quietly on a shelf somewhere.   Time marches on.  For sure I should have done all this photo organizing years ago when my photo interests & memory cells were at their peak.  Good example I guess of not putting off till tomorrow what could have been done yesterday……………………………..  

Gaelyn over at GEOGYPSY has done a fine post on capsulizing the timeline events of the tragic Yarnell fire a week ago.  Questions are asked.  Could this situation have been handled better.  Did 19 Firefighters have to die.  And what now for Gaelyn’s home town of Yarnell where she has spent her winters.  The spot she parked her 5th wheel is the very area that was so severely burned……………

MISTY MORNING AT THE GOOSE POND

Early start for Kelly Tuesday morning as she heads off to the Goderich Hospital for another Echocardiogram & an Abdominal Ultra-sound.  She has to do the ‘fasting’ stuff tonight after 6 p.m. as well.  Some readers have sent  a few links about ‘VALLEY FEVER’ which have been very interesting reading.  We are still so totally in the dark about the results of Kelly’s Valley Fever test.

FRONT YARD DAY LILIES

Turned out to be a no photo day. Not one so had to use a few from my files tonight. Not even a bug or a flower. Some days are like that but for me it's rare. Too humid to be out today & no photo op walk after supper due to rains & thunderstorms rolling through the area. Last week I spent some time moving photo files from our desktop computer to a new Toshiba external back-up hard drive. 58,863 photos to be exact. You can see my dilemma when it comes to deciding what goes on Smug Mug & where.

And a new Blog Follower today.  Thanks to PAT DEVLIN for dropping by.  With the growing popularity of Google Circles our old Blog Followers list has become kind of antiquated.  Still nice to see a few folks drop in now & again.    

IT WAS A CORVETTE WEEK-END IN BAYFIELD

I don’t mind the silence of the outdoors.  It’s the silence of the indoors that drives me bonkers.  A fast moving thunderstorm rolled through around the supper hour tonight knocking our electricity out again.  Happens a lot here & doesn’t take much to land our immediate area in darkness.  What I do not like most about that is the silence in the house.  In other words, the music stops & for me, I cannot sit in a building in silence.  Outside is fine, but not inside.  Didn’t take Pheebs & I long to hop in the Jeep, crank on our ambient music & take ourselves for a little cruise around Bayfield to put in some time.  I could see electricity on in the little shops & homes we drove by but they are on a different line than we are out in the country a couple miles.  Not much happening in the harbor with all the sailboats hunkered down at their moorings.  Rains lightened up & we headed home.  Happy to see street lights on as I pulled into our little community in the woods.  Ahhhh yes, back to normal.  Music in the house again:)))))

 

SUNSET AT THE BAYFIELD HARBOR   

GROANER’S CORNER:((  Hospital rules state that patients checking out must have a wheelchair. One day a newly graduated nurse assistant came into the room to find an elderly man fully dressed, sitting on the bedside chair, with a piece of packed luggage at his side, all ready to go. When he was shown the wheelchair, he was adamant that he was fully capable of walking himself to the parking lot. But the assistant told him rules were rules, so he relented and let her wheel him out.
In the elevator, the assistant asked the elderly man if his wife was coming to meet him.
“I don’t think so,” he replied. “It takes her awhile to change her clothes, so she’s probably still upstairs in the bathroom taking off of her hospital gown and getting dressed.”

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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.

LITTLE KID COWBOY & HIS COWBOY HATS

THIS IS MY ‘HIGH LONESOME FEED STORE HAT’ & FOR MY POST ABOUT THE BOOK I HAVE IN MY HAND JUST CLICK JENNY & SCROLL ABOUT TWO THIRDS THE WAY DOWN

Under dark drizzly skies we had a bit of foreboding forest to walk through this morning. Slight mist in the still air even kept the birds quietly to themselves. At any moment I expected a grizzled old Ogre to come rumbling out of the nearby underbrush & chase us all the way home.

Yabba-dabba-do any excuse will do & with that thought foremost in mind me & the little Sweets Jeeped ourselves off to Goderich for a few early Sunday morning groceries. No point in me going through my grocery list because I was smart enough to take the Jeep this time & not the motorcycle.  Okay, two jars of peanut butter for sure.

 

 

TOM way up there in that Alaska place wondered if it could be a KUDZU type vine growing up & around that old derelict windmill tower in Saturday’s post.  I’m thinking it could be & we have really been noticing a lot of stuff looking like that this year.  Rapid plant growth in these parts the last few months has been rather surprising. 

Some talk the last couple days of a few interior renovations at our house here but until that becomes an absolute reality I will stifle my blabbering fingers if I know what's good for me!!

AN OVERALL VIEW OF OUR BACKYARD PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS PLANT

  

‘CROPPED’ & ‘UN-CROPPED’

I've never quite understood why some folks don't like Air Conditioning. I can stand outside on our deck on a hot heavy humid & totally uncomfortable day with my shirt sweatingly stuck to me or I can step inside the house & be in cool comfortable temps 20 degrees cooler & feel totally invigorated & re-energized. Guess I’m not quite understanding what is not to like about A/C.

 

A FEW FOCUSING PROBLEMS IN THESE HASTY BEE PHOTOS TODAY BUT DECIDED TO INCLUDE THEM ANYWAY

Although I will never be, I will always be........a wannabe……Cowboy. I was a real Cowboy once when I was a kid. I thought I was Hopalong Cassidy for awhile. But that idea kind of hopped along after a bit when I never could seem to find a white horse anywhere.  Had me a Cowboy hat & shootin iron though. My imagination was pretty darn good with that shootin iron too. Always kinda figured I was born on the wrong side of the country & too darn far north for me to be the kinda Cowboy I wanted to be. Never thought I'd ever like being one of them there cold weather Cowboys. All my favorite Cowpokes roamed the great American South-West with it’s tumblin Tumbleweeds, rattlin Rattlersnakes, & big 4 armed Saguaro Cactamooses reaching all the way up into that tall deep blue & endless Arizona sky. Lots of mountains, deserts, & old western towns.  Little could I imagine as a kid that one day I would be living, traveling, & owning a little ranch style house right in that very sun drenched & dusty land I had once dreamed about oh those so many years ago.

CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO DECEMBER 2006, MY HAT WAS ABOUT ONE HOUR OLD & ALREADY OUR LITTLE MOTORMOUSE WAS WORRIED ABOUT THAT FUNNY LOOKING THING ON DAD’S HEAD (ROCKWOOD 5TH WHEEL)

Took nearly 50 years for that little Kid Cowboy to make his way to the wild & gun smoked lands of his yesteryear childhood though. And he sure wasn't, & he sure hasn't ever been disappointed. He still doesn't have a horse or a shootin iron but by golly he's got 3 Cowboy hats now. First one was black & came out of an Indian trading post near Carlsbad New Mexico back in 06. Second one was big & white & I picked me that one up in the tumbledown dusty little town of Elfrida Arizona about 3 years ago. Came right out of the High Lonesome Trading Company feed store there. Might have even had some High Lonesome feed stuck on it too. Bought my current 210 gallon Cowboy hat in another old store a couple winters ago on one of the most infamous streets in America's western history. Allen Street, Tombstone Arizona. The very street Wyatt Earp & his brothers along with Doc Holliday shot it out with the Clanton & McLaury boys near the OK Corral back on October 26th 1881.  Fittingly enough my brown cowboy hat is actually known as, the Tombstone style hat.

MY BIG BROWN TOMBSTONE COWBOY HAT IN CONGRESS ARIZONA THIS PAST DECEMBER

I love my big old brown Cowboy hat but I only wear it in the West while we are there during the winter. In a few months from now somewhere west of the Mississippi I will que up my iPod to the Winnie Wagons stereo & quietly yodel myself along to a host of western harmonies by ‘The Sons Of The Pioneers’. (ok, so how do ya yodel quietly) I will snug down my big brown Cowboy hat over my growing gray mop of mangy hair & let my little Kid Cowboy mind once again ride it's galloping imagination over sweeping plains, across arid cactus filled deserts, & through towering mountain canyons . Giddyup you bunch a mangy cusses........................

ON OUR JEEP TOURS THIS IS OFTEN OUR LAST PIT STOP PLACE FOR THE DAY BEFORE DRIVING THE FINAL 15 MINUTES HOME…IT’S A FAVORITE STOP FOR PHEEBS & I

When someone asks about what time the ice cream store closes you know they are really saying. ‘I wanna go to the ice cream store’!! And so it was off to the ice cream parlour in downtown Bayfield after supper tonight we went. Kelly had a hankering for ice cream. It was a Chocolate Sundae she was needing & it was a small Pralines cone I wasn’t needing. And of course she made me eat half her Chocolate Sundae too:(( It is not often I am into Bayfield but thought tonight maybe it’s about time I took my camera for a walk around town again. Last time I did that was in August of 2008. Bayfield is a really unique little village & is a favorite destination for road travelers & mariners alike.  Yep, gonna go get me some more downtown Bayfield pics soon.

 

 

NO, THAT IS NOT MY ICE CREAM CONE SITTING ON THE COUNTER!!

Okay Ed, found another spot for that Blog Followers list. But it might move around again over the next few days darn it.........:))  

<<< SPIDERWORT PLANT IN OUR FRONT YARD

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Ten Things My Parents Taught Me.........

1. My Parents taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE ..
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside… I just finished cleaning."
2. My Parents taught me RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."
3. My Parents taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"
4. My Parents taught me LOGIC.
"Because I said so, that's why."
5. My Parents taught me MORE LOGIC .
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."
6. My Parents taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."
7. My Parents taught me IRONY.
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."
8. My Parents taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper"
9. My Parents taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"
10. My Parents taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

And always remember.......Some day when they discover the center of the Universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

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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.

SOME SUBTLE CHANGES TO MY BLOGGING HABITS THESE PAST MONTHS

GREAT BLUE HERON THIS AFTERNOON

With Jeep windows full down Pheebs & I were out the door & on the road by 9 this morning.  Had a slight destination in mind at first but after a dozen miles or so I kinda talked myself out of it.  Swung ourselves a little further East than North this time & picked up few new gravel roads we hadn’t been on before.  Nice morning but on the humid & slightly hazy side.  Couldn’t really seem to get myself into active photo mode for some reason so for the most part we just enjoyed the scenery, soft ambient music, & relaxing thoughts.  Well at least some of my thoughts were relaxing.  A few pit stops along the way for water & stretches.  We were back home around 1 & our little Jeep jaunt had soaked up a nice 4 hours out of the day.

Kelly put in a few hours at Deer Park Lodge this afternoon.  Thank heavens she gave her ‘full time’ notice last year or she would be over there every day now trying to do everything as usual & knocking herself out.  Sick or not.  Kelly & Donna over at 5TH WHEEL VAGABONDS are like two peas in a pod when it comes to work.  Neither one of them seem like they can get themselves slowed down to the speed of light sometimes.

 

I THINK THIS OLD WINDMILL HAS SEEN BETTER DAYS MIKE

OOOOOPS

I am really having to sit on my hands tonight & not respond to that comment in our Shout Box.  I will follow Kermit’s advice & stick to the high road again & that’s all I have to say about that:))

I've never cared much for exercising just for the sake of exercising.  Not something that ever really interested me. Oh I've gone through a few YMCA memberships over the years, joined a few exercise related clubs for short periods of time here & there & tried following some exercise programs at home. Anybody remember that old 5BX military fitness plan. Yep, had that booklet too. Back in the early 90's I once paid some ridiculous amount of money for an absolute piece of plastic junk to work on my abs. Only thing it worked on was my guilt for buying the dumb thing in the first place. Besides, what the heck are abs anyway. I remember the exercise room at the YMCA & trying to figure out how to program one of those treadmill thingys to make my legs run 300 miles per hour. Tried those iron train engine wheel weights a few times & that was enough of that. Not being a big water guy I spent most of my time sitting at the bottom of the pool wondering what I was doing there. Fast walked a bunch of miles around the gymnasium's jogging track but never seemed to get very far before I was back to the very place I had started out from a minute before. Now how boring is that. Jogging never made much sense to me either. Just got me tired & made my legs feel like they were falling off. Bounced my brains around & gave me a headache anyway. I don't mind the natural exercise that comes with working. That somehow seems OK to me. Comes with a sense of accomplishment & purpose. But here I am in my late 60's, overweight & at a point where I know some kind of exercise program for me would probably be one of the best things I could do for myself, especially my lower back & legs.  But to exercise just for the pure agony of exercising……NUTS!!

RECENT RAINS CAN MAKE FOR MUDDY DOGGY PAWS IN THE JEEP

Had been thinking of making some changes to my blogs side bar for quite awhile & a few days ago I began moving things around & eliminating some gadgets. Removed Max, Checkers, & Cora's photos because I hope to do a single tribute 'page' for them. Removed any Google+ stuff because I had not done anything with Google+ since first downloading it back in 2011. Just couldn't get my head around the program & wasn't really interested in another social site anyway.  It sat on my desktop for a couple years. I received a lot of notices from people saying they were in my Circles or had added me to theirs or something but I never followed up on any of that. Thought I might get back to it again some time & figure it out, but I never did. I didn't uninstall the program I just took it off my desk top & out of my side bar a few days ago.  Thanks to all the Google+ Circle people for dropping by the last couple years, whoever you were.  Temporarily moved our Blog Followers list & our Bayfield Bunch photo to the bottom while I moved some other gadgets around.  I use the ‘Search Bar’ a lot so moved that to the top.  We really do need a new Bayfield Bunch photo too but might leave it at the bottom for now until we get a new one. The Blog Follower's list hasn't grown much the last few years compared to years ago but Kelly's always convinced me to leave it on the bar anyway.  But it may go too.  I just haven’t decided.  Also have a few more changes coming up over the next few days as my ever evolving  blog & I  reach a milestone. I am again going to switch direction slightly. 

Long time readers may have already noticed a subtle change in my blogging habits these past 3 months.  I have not been keeping up with my fellow Bloggers like I once did & I have not been commenting on nearly as many blogs as I once did either.  Nothing personal, it’s just a slow change that has been taking place within me, not you.  Lotsa fine blogs out there written by lotsa fine people.   My enthusiasm has slipped a few notches.  Priorities have & are changing.  The exuberance & excitement I once felt as a struggling new Blogger have dimmed.  Basically speaking, some of the challenge has gone out of it for me this past year or so.  I have not reached the point yet where I do not enjoy writing a post every day.  I like the writing & photography end of it too much to give it up so again thanks to all my readers for making this blog possible in the first place…………………………..10-4:))

 

OUR STELLA DORA DAYLILIES…STELLA DORA MEANS ‘STAR OF GOLD’    

GROANER’S CORNER:((  In order to help jump-start the U.S. economy, the INS has announced that this year they will stop focusing on illegal aliens, and begin the deportation of retired people. It's predicted that this will not only help lower health care entitlement costs, but it turns out that retirees are much easier to catch. Plus, they rarely can remember how to get back home.

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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.

THANKS TO A SHARP EYED READER……:))

TONIGHT’S PHOTOS ARE FROM THURSDAY NIGHT’S JEEP JAUNT

Figured it was about time to shake up my usual evening routine again so published my post early Thursday night, loaded up the little Poopsicle, & off we went in search of some sunset photos. Clouds didn't exactly co-operate & the pale sun disappeared early behind a gray cloud bank. No matter, we had ourselves a relaxing gravel road drive to Grand Bend south of Bayfield. Slipped through Tim Horton's Drive-Thru for a carrot muffin & small coffee. A cruise down around the beach area where I was surprised at how many people were in town. Kept on rolling because I knew there was a quiet spot north of Grand Bend overlooking the lake where Pheebs could get out for a run. A spot few know about & a spot I have been occasionally stopping at for nearly 50 years now. It was one of the first places I took Kelly after we first met nearly 20 years ago:))

WAITING FOR SUNSET ON GRAND BEND’S BEACH
Readers have had some questions about the new header photo. I took that photo on one of our gravely back road Jeep jaunts a couple week ago using my Nikon D90 & wide angle zoom lens. I took 2 pics & chose the best one for my post that day. A guest in the Shout Box this morning said he/she saw some dotted lines in the photo running from the top left corner down to the right. Figured this person must have very good eyesight because I couldn’t see those dotted lines. Doesn't mean they were not there because it's the same problem I have with reading, can't always see the print clearly. And it's the same reason I may not always do the best job whenever I have to re-touch some of my photos.  In a future post I will relate a story that connects to this & why I had to begin wearing glasses back in the mid to late 80’s.

A QUIET PASTORAL EVENING

Yes, there was a bundle of telephone & electrical lines running through the top of my header photo which were very distracting to the scene. I used my Picasa 'Retouch tool to remove those lines but obviously missed some. (turned out to be a lot) It was these tiny pieces of telephone & electric wires our sharp eyed reader spotted.  A big thanks to the person for seeing & mentioning that.  With the help of a stronger pair of glasses I spent time this morning re-retouching that photo again & I think I have all the lines out now.

 

RURAL SOUTH-WESTERN ONTARIO CANADA

Another question asked if I used my Picasa photo editing program with this photo.  It is important for me to have my photos look as natural as possible so yes I did have to use my Picasa photo program to give me a closely accurate rendition of what my eyes actually saw.   Cameras, regardless of make or model are not as good as the human eye & it is basically impossible for them to record the scene in front of you exactly as your eye is seeing it. Especially when it comes to colors & lighting. Using my PICASA 3.9 photo editing program I cropped a wee bit of country road off the bottom & a small bit of sky at the top to keep the photo in a rectangular format. Used Picasa’s 'Retouch' tool to removes some telephone & power lines. Added some 'Graduated Tint' to the sky to bring out the skies true blue color. Added a pinch of 'Highlight' popping the clouds a tad. Added some 'Sharpen' to bring out overall detail & I think that was about it. I know I sound like a broken record here again but I urge people to take the time to learn this simple (& free) Picasa photo editing program & have their photos looking as naturally close as to what their eyes actually saw. Unless of course you want to put an artsy fruit loops spin on them & there is nothing wrong with that depending on how an individual wants their photo viewed & perceived.  Remember, no matter how good your camera is, it is just a machine & it is a teamwork combination of you & your photo editing program in conjunction with your camera which will return to you the best possible photo results you can have.

  

GETTING A CAMPFIRE GOING ON THE BEACH

For the technical minds out there here is the gooble-poop stats on the photo…….Nikon D90 camera in ‘Aperture’ mode & programed for ‘Vivid’ color & tweaked to underexpose the photo by one full stop.  Lens used was an AFS DX-Zoom-NIKKOR 18-55mm f-3.5-5.6. Matrix metering, ISO 400, 1/125 of a second at f22.  There is a whole bunch of other techno info on the photo that I’m sure you are not interested in & neither am I.  But here is something that is kind of interesting.  If you have Picasa 3.9 you can right click any of your photos & a menu drops down.  At the bottom of that menu is the word Properties.  Click that & another menu drops down on the right side with all the technical data on the particular photo you are looking at.  Includes times & dates photos were taken, etc.  It also told me this was photo number 24,007 taken with my Nikon D90 camera.

 

ADDED A BIT OF PICASA’S ‘WARMTH’ TO PHOTO ON LEFT

Someone compared Pecan Pie to maybe being like butter tarts & that is a fair comparison.  The butter tart I had Thursday did have some raisins in it & many butter tarts do contain Pecan bits.  Guess they could kinda be called Butter Pecan Raisin tarts & that would probably be pretty close to hitting the nail on the head.  Not that there are nails in the tarts of course but you do need to use your head to eat the tart.  And I just noticed someone in the Shout Box requested a picture of a Butter Tart.  Dang, now I’m gonna have to drive myself over to the Mennonite Bakeshop shortly & buy me another Butter Tart.  For photographic purposes that is.   Don’t ya just love it when things happen like that………………….

 

ALWAYS EASY TO TELL A MENNONITE CHURCH…ALL VEHICLES ARE EITHER BLACK OR A DARK COLOR

You don’t really want to hear anything about my day simply because there is not a whole lot really to hear.  Let’s just say the height of my rainy morning & sunny afternoon was doing a load of laundry.  I will leave it at that………………..

GROANER’S CORNER:((

 

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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.

LET’S HELP OUR FELLOW TRAVELERS, NOT HINDER THEM

OUR PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS IS IN FULL BLOOM

A humid drizzly morning rain made for a slightly damp walk around the trail this morning. Whispers of maybe a 2 or 3 day Winnie Wagon adventure soon. But only whispers.

NICE TO SEE BROWN EYED SUSANS OUT AGAIN FOR ANOTHER SEASON

Regarding my waving paragraph in Wednesday night's post commenter Phil wondered if I wave at other Motorcycles first & the answer is 'yes'. Fact is I touched upon Motorcycle waves in a post a couple years ago.  MY BIG HOWDY DOODY WAVE.  Len/Pat from down there near that Sierra Vista place in Arizona mentioned 'Jeep Waves'. Yes, Jeepsters have a habit of waving at each other as well. But here again I revert back to my 'watching for the other Jeepster's wave first'.

OUR FRONT YARD DAY LILIES ARE COMING OUT

I don't understand why butter tarts have to taste sooooooo good. Kelly & Pheebs slipped out to pick up some fresh sausage & strawberries at the Mennonite Market store this afternoon just south of Bayfield. Kelly brought me home a butter tart & it was the best butter tart of ever.  Not fair that pastries made by those ladies have to be so great & so irresistible.  I am going to hire myself out as a counter-weight to a local crane company.

 

NICE TO SEE OUR WHITE LILIES BACK FOR ANOTHER YEAR

We may all be on the same road of life but each one of us travels our own path. We don't always travel together & we are not always at the same place on that road at the same time. Hard for some to understand where others are & hard for others to understand where they themselves are. Let’s help our fellow travelers with patience & understanding, not hinder them with hurtful & demeaning criticism.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( The big bang happened because somebody told a great joke when God had a mouthful of milk.

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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.