IT HAS BEEN WELL OVER A YEAR SINCE WE LAST WENT SOMEWHERE

Rainy morning but no matter, at least it was finally comfortably cooler.  Pheebs and I splashed our way around the countryside for a while grabbing a coffee to head home with at Seaforth's Tim Hortons.  Incoming dark skies out over the lake told me we were in for some stormy weather and as it turns out tornado warnings had already been issued.  On the 6 o'clock news tonight they said a mild tornado touched down north of Mitchell Ontario, just a few miles east of Seaforth.

LOOKS LIKE A FEW CORN STALKS MAY HAVE SNUCK UNDER THE FENCE

I LIKE THIS BARN

I DON'T KNOW, JUST A NICE LOOKING WOOD BENCH SITTING BESIDE A CORNFIELD I GUESS

YES WE HAVE LOCAL YOKELS IN THE AREA AND MANY MOONS AGO I TOO WAS ONE OF THOSE  YOKEL TYPES

Kelly headed off to Goderich for breakfast with her daughter Sabra and two boys.  I puttered around in the RV running a Sirius Satellite Radio antennae wire from the dash to an out of the way spot up in the overhang atop the cab.  Rearranged a couple things in the rig and figured out a few traveling and stationery set-ups.  At some point, we will add a second coach battery to the rig but it's not likely we will do another solar install.  It all depends of course on how our RV future turns out.  No way of knowing at this point.  Not just for us, but for the majority of other Canadian RV'ers this side of the border hoping to go south this winter as well.  However, we do plan on hitting the road as soon as this miserably hot weather ends.  Our travels will likely take us northwards into Bruce, Grey, and Simcoe Counties.

MOVED THE RECLINER MORE IN-LINE WITH THE WALL AND THIS BASICALLY WILL BE OUR 'TRAVELING DOWN THE ROAD' SET-UP...WE WON'T BE TOWING THE JEEP ON ANY OF THESE VENTURES

I HAD HELP THIS AFTERNOON

DESPITE BEST EFFORTS OF KELLY, FRIENDS, ME, BLOG COMMENTERS, YOUNG TEENAGERS, GOOGLE,  AND YOUTUBE, ETC. ETC. WE STILL HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO SET THE CLOCK

Although we haven't gone anywhere yet we sure are enjoying having our little Winnebago sitting in our driveway's RV parking spot.  By our enthusiasm, you would think it was our first RV.  It's our ninth.  Kelly busied herself this afternoon putting shelf paper in the cupboards.  Test fired the propane stove and water heater with both working perfectly.  I like it when things work.   I'm still sorting stuff and slowly adding RV related things to the rig.  It's all coming together very nicely and we are happy campers even though it has been well over a year since we last went anywhere.  By the way, the last time we did go somewhere was to New Mexico, Arizona, California and back with a whole bunch of stops along the way:))

GROANER'S CORNER:(( An Irishman Declares War::

Vladimir Putin is sitting at home when the phone rings. He picks it up and says "Hello". The voice at the end of the phone says "Hello Mr. Putin, it's Paddy here. I'm just ringing to let you know that we've declared war on your country." Putin smiles to himself, "Come on Paddy", he says, "there's no point you declaring war on us, you wouldn't stand a chance." Paddy replies, "No, no, we've had ourselves a meeting, and we've decided to declare war on you."

So Putin says, "OK Paddy, now listen, I've got an air force of over ten thousand planes, what kind of air force have you got to match that? It'd be over in no time." So Paddy says, "Well my lad's got himself a hot-air balloon, and my brother used to work at an airport." Putin laughs, "Oh come on, you've not got a hope". "Hold on a sec, Mr. Putin, ", Paddy says, "we'll just have a quick meeting." So off he goes and has a quick meeting. "Are you still there Mr. Putin?  So Vladimir Putin says, "Right then Paddy, well you know, as well as the air force, we've also got about ten thousand tanks. How are you going to match that." "Well," Paddy says, "I've got an old Austin, and my cousin down the road has got a tractor." "Get real, " says Putin, "that's no match at all."   So Paddy says, "Hold on, I'll just go and have another meeting." "Are you still there Mr. Putin? Yes, well we've had our meeting, and we've decided that we're still going to declare war."  Vladimir Putin thinks this is just amazing, "Well how many soldiers have you got Paddy?". "Well," says Paddy, "there's me, my kid, me 4 cousins, and they all had sons, and there's Bill down the road.... I reckon I could get together about 30." Laughing openly now Putin replies, "Come on Paddy, I've got a hundred thousand highly trained fighting men at my disposal. I think you'd better go and have another meeting." "I will", says Paddy, "I will."
"Are you still there Mr. Putin? Yes, well we've had our meeting, and we've decided that we're not going to declare war on you after all." "At last, " replies Vladimir Putin, "What made you change your mind?" "Well, it's those hundred thousand soldiers you see. We can't declare war on you because we've not got the facilities to keep all those prisoners!"

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Little Henry sits at the dinner table. He reaches for his plate, picks up a chicken leg, and starts to eat. His mother says, "Henry did you wash your hands?"  Henry replies, "No! I don’t want my chicken to taste like soap, mom!"

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RAINY DAY, COOLER TEMPS, AND SOME COMPANY DROPS IN

LAKE HURON SHOWS OFF HER BEAUTIFUL AQUA COLORS

Sometimes the best-laid plans of mice and good friends go astray due to raindrops falling from the sky.  This morning was one of those times.  My good buddy Jim, (from over there in that Stratford Ontario place) and I had planned to meet up in Seaforth for a 9 o'clock this morning.  With limited Covid seating at Tim Horton's coffee shop, we had figured on doing an outside get together at a nearby Park.  Rains began Saturday evening and continued through the night into Sunday morning and early afternoon.  We literally had to take a 'rain check' on our coffee outing and reschedule for next weekend.

THIS PRETTY MUCH SUMS UP OUR WEATHER FOR THE DAY

A POLICE PRESENCE AT THE GODERICH BEACH TO KEEP AN EYE ON LARGE CROWDS WHICH LATER MATERIALIZED INTO A MASS ETHNIC GATHERING OVERWHELMING THE ROTARY COVE AREA....I HAVE A FEELING THERE IS GOING TO BE TROUBLE HERE SOON

Knowing country roads would be muddy Pheebs and I stayed on pavement this morning and wandered back up to Goderich through a drizzly rain.  A stop at the Canadian Tire store netted us some grass seed, double AAA batteries, and a couple small bubble levelers for Winnie's cab.  With a swing down around the harbor, I was happy to see the entire road to Rotary Cove now open.  A section of it near the Beach Street Station had remained closed since late last Fall when restoration on the shoreline began.

DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE BEACH STREET STATION RESTAURANT  WE HAD A CLOSE-UP LOOK AT THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED BOARDWALK 

HEADING SOUTH TOWARDS ROTARY COVE

I LIKE HOW THEY HAVE INTEGRATED THE WOOD ON THIS SLIGHT TURN 

Despite the rain, we stopped at the doggy walking area and stepped out for a few photos.  Pheebs doesn't like water so she decided it was soon time to get back into the Jeep and away we went making tracks through heavy rain showers.   No point in hanging around anywhere so we headed for home splashing through water puddles along the way.

DARK STORMY SKIES OUT OVER THE LAKE

A FEW RAINY DAY BEACH GOERS DOING A BIT OF PRIMPING AND PREENING

BECAUSE ITS WET 'THE ROCK' SHOWS OFF ITS MARBLED TEXTURE

'THE ROCK' IS VISIBLE TO THE RIGHT OF THE JEEP'S HEADLIGHT

Kelly's oldest daughter, Sabra brought her two teenage boys, Keenan and Langdon up to the beach Saturday staying at a lodge in Goderich.  Her husband Derek is at a Golf Tournament this week-end and last we heard he was on the leader board.  Sabra and the boys popped in around noon and Kelly took them for a tour of the Winnie.  The boys tried to figure out how to change the Sony clock settings in the rig's dash radio but the radio remained undefeated.  Kelly, her daughter, and the boys later headed downtown Bayfield to browse around the shops.  Pheebs and I were quite happy to stay home.

KEENAN TRYS HIS LUCK WITH THE RADIO

LANGDON TRIES HIS LUCK

KELLY AND HER DAUGHTER SABRA

KELLY'S PHOTO OF LANGDON AND KEENAN BEHIND BAYFIELD'S LIBRARY PLAYING A GAME OF STONE CHECKERS

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A guy walked into a doctor's office and the receptionist asked him what he had. He said, "shingles." So she took down his name, address, and medical insurance number and told him to have a seat.  Fifteen minutes later a nurse's aide came out and asked him what he had. He said, "shingles." So she took down his height, weight, a complete medical history and told him to wait in the examining room.  A half-hour later, a nurse came in and asked him what he had. He said, "shingles." She gave him a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, told him to take off all his clothes and wait for the doctor.  An hour later the doctor came in and asked him what he had. He said, "shingles." The doctor said, "Where?" He said, "Outside in the truck. Where do you want them?"

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A teacher asked her class to write on, "What's the bravest thing your dad has done?"  A student wrote... "My dad married my mom."

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A man enters a barber shop for a shave. While the barber is foaming him up, he mentions the problems he has getting a close shave around the cheeks.
"I have just the thing," says the barber taking a small wooden ball from a nearby drawer. "Just place this between your cheek and gum."  The client places the ball in his mouth and the barber proceeds with the closest shave the man has ever experienced. After a few strokes, the client asks in garbled speech.  "And what if I swallow it?"  "No problem," says the barber. "Just bring it back tomorrow like everyone else does."

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THIS SEEMINGLY ENDLESS LONG HOT SUMMER

TURNS OUT THIS WAS THE ONLY PHOTO I TOOK TODAY....THE OTHER THREE PHOTOS ARE FROM A COUPLE DAYS AGO

Living here less than a mile from the Eastern shores of Lake Huron on the outskirts of Bayfield Ontario for nearly 18 years now we have learned a few things.  And I was reminded of one of those things this morning.  Stay off the main highways and away from the beach areas.  Avoid the towns and stay out of the grocery stores.  It's tourist time here in our area and although not nearly as bad this year as other years we are in the habit of staying home anyway away from the jumble of people and traffic that generally accompanies long holiday weekends in the summer.  Well, any summer weekend usually.  With that wiseness in mind Booger Buns and I headed for Walmart and the Canadian Tire Store in Goderich.  Luckily we were in and out of both places before all the shoppers rolled in.

PHEEBS AND I CRUISING ALONG IN THE WINNIE ON OUR WAY TO RICHARD'S WEDNESDAY MORNING

Thought we'd slip down around to the Rotary Cove beach area but it was not to be.  Only 9 o'clock and they had already closed the beach.  I'm guessing too many out of town beachgoers had swarmed in early and overwhelmed the available space.  No point in hanging around so with a leg stretch stop along the way Pheebs and I headed home.  It was beginning to get way too hot anyway.

Some puttering around in the carport this afternoon and that was about the height of any physical activity.  Just another miserably humid day in this seemingly endless long hot summer. 

GROANER'S CORNER:((  "Give me a sentence about a public servant," said the teacher.  The small boy wrote: "The fireman came down the ladder pregnant."  The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. "Don't you know what pregnant means?" she asked.  "Sure," said the young boy, confidently. "Means carrying a child."

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Teacher: “What is the difference between ‘Tea’ and ‘Tee’?  Student: "The first one is a drink and the second is an incorrect spelling."

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A Job Advertisement:: Man wanted to work in dynamite factory. Must be willing to travel.

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WNNIE'S BACK-UP CAMERA IS INSTALLED AND THE RIG'S PREVIOUS OWNERS DROP IN FOR A LOOK SEE

A nice refreshingly cool morning but it didn't last.  Short drive into and around Bayfield for Pheebs and I then home again.  Twenty minutes later we were all in the Jeep heading over to Richard's place to pick up our Motorhome.  Back-up camera was successfully installed and working fine but it had not been the easy 'few minutes' installation as advertised with most of those back-up cameras.  Richard had quite a time with the wiring but in the end he figured it all out and we had us a professionally installed camera . Looks and works great and we are very pleased.

When we bought our current RV it had a dinette and tub chair in it which we of course removed.  The previous owner, Marvin had asked us if we took the chair out could he have it back.  He liked that chair better than the one which came with his current RV so we gave him a call and sure enough Marvin and his wife Betty drove over from Guelph this afternoon to pick up the tub chair.  They were also very interested to see our renovations.  Well, to say they were very impressed would be putting it mildly.  They wished they had done what we did when they had it and just couldn't get over how much it changed the look and feeling of the Winnebago's small interior space.  It made us happy to see them so happy at the great job Richard had done with the renovations.

CHATTING WITH BETTY AND MARVIN

The weather had turned hot and sticky again so the rest of our time of course was spent inside wrapped in our comfortably cool air conditioning.  An afternoon snooze was also in order:))

CANADA GEESE ON LAKE HURON AT BAYFIELD'S BEACH THIS MORNING

PORSCHE

MORNING COFFEE ALONG BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET

MORNING WALK IN THE LOCAL CEMETERY

BACK HOME IN OUR FRONT YARD

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A couple had been debating the purchase of a new auto for weeks. He wanted a new truck. She wanted a fast little sports-like car so she could zip through traffic around town.  He would probably have settled on any beat up old truck, but everything she seemed to like was way out of their price range. "Look!" she said. I want something that goes from 0 to 200 in 4 seconds or less.  "And my birthday is coming up. You could surprise me."  So he thought and thought then...  For her birthday, he bought her a brand new bathroom scale.

Services will be at Downing funeral home on Monday, due to the condition of the body, this will be a closed casket service. Please send your donations to the 'Think before you say things to your wife foundation', Dallas, Texas.