SO HERE WAS MY JERRY RADER HAUL FOR THE DAY

After posting Monday night's blog, I again grabbed my camera and tripod, hopped into Subie, and headed off for Bayfield again.  Since the new Bayfield bridge was completed a couple of years ago I have never been down around or under it.  I had heard there was a walkway under the bridge so last night I headed that way for a looky see and yes indeed, there is a nice wide walkway leading down under the bridge from the west side around to the east side. 

 A NICE WIDE CRUSHED STONE PATHWAY LEADS DOWN AND UNDER THE BRIDGE FROM THE WEST SIDE TO THE EAST SIDE

A LOT OF CONCRETE WORK AND IT WAS KIND OF EERIE DOWN HERE AT NIGHT

 LIGHTS ACROSS THE RIVER AROUND THE MARINA AREA

 UNDER THE BRIDGE LOOKING NORTHWEST

 ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE BRIDGE 

 ONE OF BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET EATERIES

 I THINK HIS NAME MIGHT BE 'CAPTAIN JACK'

With gray skies, a spitting drizzle, and a cold wind blowing, Pheebs and I didn't head out for a car ride this morning.  Figured it would be a good morning to be out of the wind working in the carport storage area.  So, that is what I did.  It still felt cold and damp but with persistence, I made lot of headway this morning and my dumpster is full.

 I HAVE A WAYS TO GO YET BUT I THINK I AM OVER THE HUMP

 SUBIE'S DOOR AND HATCH ARE OPEN TO LET THE MUSIC OUT

Not especially wanting to sit around this afternoon and needing something different to do, Pheebs and hopped into the Subaru, gassed it up in Bayfield, grabbed a decaf coffee to go at Hortons, and headed south down the Bluewater Highway in the direction of Grand Bend.  They have a Home Hardware store there that carries the #1 Melita coffee filters I use in my one cup coffee maker.  My food supplies were getting a little low so from Grand Bend we headed to Jerry Raders Homestyle in Zurich, Ontario to stock up.  I am still using the two Jerry Rader gift cards I received late last December following Kelly's passing.  I don't know if I mentioned this before but the one gift card by an anonymous donor from Stratford Ontario turned out to be Lorraine. (Woodsy)  The other gift card was given to me by our good neighbor Monica's children.  So here was my haul for today.... 3 Cream of Turkey soups, 1 Cream of Potato Soup, 1 Beef pot pie, 2 Turkey pot pies, 1 Apple Blossom pastry, and a Turkey Salad sandwich for Pheebs and I to share on the way home. A good haul I'd say.  Thanks, folks:))

 PHEEBS SAT UP FOR THE FIRST THIRD OF OUR DRIVE THIS MORNING

Al's Music Box:)) Teen Angel is a teenage tragedy song written by Jean Dinning and her husband, Red Surrey. Recorded at Bradley Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, the song was performed by Jean's brother, Mark Dinning, and released in October 1959.  The record was not an instant success, with some radio stations in the U.S. banning the song, considering it too sad. Nevertheless, despite the reluctance of radio stations, the song continued to climb the charts. In the last week of 1959, the single jumped from #100 to #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.  It went on to reach #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (February 1960 and #37 in the UK Singles Chart (even though it was banned from being played by BBC)the.  Billboard ranked it as the #5 song of 1960.  The song is about a girl and her boyfriend (the song's narrator) who go out for a ride together. He pulls her to safety when their car is stalled on a railroad track in the path of an oncoming train. But then she runs back to the car, and is killed in the collision. When her body is recovered, the narrator's high school class ring is in her hand, which was apparently the reason she ran back. The last verse ends with the lyrics: "I'll never kiss your lips again/They buried you today." The final line in the coda asks the Teen Angel to: "Answer me, please." "Teen Angel" and its two predecessors at the Hot 100's top spot, "El Paso" by Mary Robbins and "Running Bear" by Johnny Preston, continued a string of tunes in which someone dies tragically.

A VIEW OF THE BAYFIELD BRIDGE FROM THE WEST SIDE LOOKING NORTH EAST

GROANER'S CORNER:(( “I’ve just had the most awful time”, said a boy to his friends. “First, I got angina pectoris, then arteriosclerosis. Just as I was recovering, I got psoriasis. They gave me hypodermics, and to top it all, tonsillitis was followed by appendectomy”.“Wow! How did you pull through?”, sympathized his friends.“I don’t know”, the boy replied, “toughest spelling test I ever had”.

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Q. Why were Adam and Eve the happiest couple that's ever lived?
A. Because they didn't have in-laws!

- A teacher asked a particularly dull, lazy, and objectionable pupil if he was ignorant or apathetic.  The pupil replied: “I don’t know, and I don’t care!”

- Two translators on a ship are talking.
“Can you swim?”, asks one.  “No”, says the other, “but I can shout for help in nine languages”.

- What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary?  A thesaurus!

- What is the longest word in the English language?  “Smiles”, because there is a mile between its first and last letters.

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A bum asks a man for $2.  The man asked: 'Will you buy booze?'  The bum said: 'No'
The man asked 'Will you gamble it away?'
The bum said: 'No.'  Then the man asked: 'Will you come home with me, so my wife can see what happens to a man who doesn't drink or gamble?'
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Kelly's Corner

 IN PORTAL ARIZONA

IN OUR FIFTH WHEEL SOMEWHERE IN THE GREAT AMERICAN SOUTWEST IN 2006 OR 2007

 KELLY STEPPED ON SOME 'OUCHY' GOATS HEAD STICKERS SOMEWHERE IN TEXAS I THINK

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I WAS SO TIRED THAT MY SHOES EVEN FELL ASLEEP

 I REALLY LIKED ALL THE LIGHTS AND COLORS I SAW ON THIS HOUSE ACROSS THE RIVER...PHOTO TAKEN FROM BAYFIELD'S SOUTH PIER

After posting the blog last night and with decent temperatures outside I decided to saddle up Subie and take a drive out into the countryside to see if I could catch any glimpses of the Moon through the gathering cloud cover.  It was not to be, so with the sky completely obscured by clouds I made a U-turn and headed into Bayfield for a nice slow drive around town looking at the cozy lights and stuff.  Stopping first at Bayfield's beach, and because I had my camera tripod with me, I decided to walk out on the south pier and take a few pics across the river of a really nice lit-up home.  Following that, I made my way into town taking a few pics along the way and a couple on Bayfield's main street.  I drove slowly through a few neighborhoods wrapped in that cozy Sunday night peaceful warmth.  No people or vehicles out and about.  With soft ambient music on my Sirius Satellite Radio, I again had the whole sleepy little fishing village all to myself.  I just love doing this at night and I hope to get myself out taking more nighttime photos.

 TAKING A WALK OUT ON THE PIER...SO NICE TO HEAR GENTLE WAVES SLOSHING THROUGH THE ROCKS ALONG THE EDGE OF THE PIER

 BAYFIELD'S BRIDGE TAKEN FROM A DISTANCE

BAYFIELD'S VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL ON MAIN STREET

A fiery sunrise this morning but it didn't last long before it climbed up behind a cloud bank.  Pheebs and I didn't go for a car ride because she was sleeping so soundly I thought at first I might have lost her.  I slipped outside to top up a couple bird feeders and when I came back in she was up and her tail was wagging.  Time is winding down for her now and I know at any time she might not wake up from one of her increasingly long sleeps.   She is eating less as well but has not exhibited any signs of stress or discomfort.  There is an occasional weakness in her legs now as well.  

 MY PATHWAY ACROSS THE ROAD LEADING TO THE PARK'S POND

I puttered about in the carport today and made a little headway. (very little)  Also finished up clearing my little path through the pine trees leading to the Park's pond.  Although out of energy and preferring a snooze in my recliner, I hooked Subie to the utility trailer, picked up a few roadside piles of pine needles and branches, and hauled them off to the Park's recycling area. By the time I got back home I was totally ker-pooped.  In fact, I was so tired that my shoes even fell asleep.  Not feeling like being in the kitchen jousting with any of my many fine culinary skills, I made myself a peanut butter sandwich and headed for my living room recliner with my legs growling at me all the way.  Deciding the peanut butter sandwich wasn't cutting it I hopped into Subie and drove to Bayfield's Subway Shop and got a 12 inch Combo sub to split with Pheebs.  Home again, we weren't long in demolishing the whole thing.  After publishing this post I think I'll head out again with my camera and tripod and see if I can find me a few more night photos.

 MY FIRST OF TWO LOADS TO THE PARK'S RECYCLE AREA

Al's Music Box:)) Black Water is a song recorded by the American music group the Doobie Brothers from their 1974 album What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits. The track features its composer Patrick Simmons on lead vocals and, in mid-March 1975, became the first of the Doobie Brothers' two No. 1 hit singles. "Well, I built me a raft and she's ready for floatin'. Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name. Catfish are jumpin', that paddle wheel thumpin' Black water keep rollin' on past just the same"........opening lyrics to "Black Water", written by P. Simmons.  Patrick Simmons recalled that he chanced on the basic guitar lick for "Black Water" while at Warner Bros. Recording Studio for the recording sessions for the Doobie Brothers' 1973 album The Captain and Me: "I was sitting out in the studio waiting between takes and I played that part. All of a sudden I heard the talk-back go on and [producer] Ted Templeman says: 'What is that?' I said: 'It’s just a little riff that I came up with that I’ve been tweaking with.' He goes: 'I love that. You really should write a song using that riff.'"  Simmons completed "Black Water" during a subsequent Doobie Brothers' sojourn in New Orleans; a lifelong aficionado of Delta Blues, Simmons had first visited New Orleans for a 1971 Doobie Brothers gig: "When I got down there it was everything I had hoped it would be...The way of life and vibe really connected with me and the roots of my music." Simmons cites the song's opening section as "my childhood imaginings of the South from reading Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer". The lyrics subsequent to the first chorus draw on his experience of New Orleans: "going down to the French Quarter as often as possible and going into the clubs and listening to Dixieland".

The lyric Well if it rains, I don't care/ Don't make no difference to me/ Just take that street car that's goin' uptown was jotted down by Simmons while riding through the University District on the St. Charles Streetcar Line. en route to the Garden District in Uptown New Orleans to do laundry. He recalled that "the sun was shining while it was pouring rain the way it does down there sometimes. And the lyrics just came to me there [on the streetcar]."

GROANER'S CORNER:(( You might be a Redneck if...

- You've ever given a set of Tupperware ice tea glasses as a wedding present.

- Your dungarees expose more than half of your rear end in the back because the weight of your pocket knife.

- Your idea of heaven involves two shotguns and a keg of beer.

-You picket your horses on your lawn so you won't have to mow it.

- You're wearing a camouflage jacket in your driver's license pic.
- You stop to flirt with the person running the drive-through at McDonalds.
- You save old kitchen appliances for target practice.
- You save old kitchen appliances for children's Christmas presents.
- You get up EARLY on Saturday to go to garage sales for entertainment.
- Your gun cabinet takes up half your living room.

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- My wife and I are a temperamental couple...I’ve got a temper and she’s mental.

- The pretty lady at the DMV recommended to me that I sign up to be an organ donor....
That's when I realized she was a girl after my own heart!

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Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student aide, Sam found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn't need Sam's help to leave the hospital. After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let Sam wheel him to the elevator. On the way down Sam asked him if his wife was meeting him. I don't know, he said. She is still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.

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 WALKING THROUGH OLD BUILDINGS AT THE CASTLE DOME MUSEUM IN ARIZONA I SPOTTED KELLY IN ANOTHER ROOM BENDING DOWN WRITING SOMETHING ON A WALL ( CASTLE DOME MUSEUM)

 THW WALLS WERE COVERED IN NOTES FROM VETERANS

 KELLY WAS WRITING HER DAD'S NAME ON THE WALL REGARDING HIS TIME SPENT ON IWO JIMA AS A UNITED STATES MARINE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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 IT'S TIME TO SPRING INTO SPRING