TO CATCH A SUNSET OVER LAKE HURON

Rain came in the night and stayed for most of the morning.  Too wet and damp to do anything outside this afternoon so I stayed inside and worked away at cleaning out a kitchen closet. Kelly and I sure accumulated a lot of stuff over our years together.

 HERE'S WOODSY TRYING TO GET A PICTURE OF A SQUIRREL GETTING A COB OF CORN ON A TWIRLYGIG THING THAT STEVE AT PORTERS HILL WILD BIRDSEED COMPANY GAVE ME

With a case of the munchies and needing a break from cooking, Lorraine and I headed out to the south end of Bayfield to the Woodland Drive-In.  Poutine for Woodsy and a hamburger with the works and a small fries for me.  Good stuff.  Following that it was over to Pioneer Park to catch a sunset over Lake Huron.

 THERE WERE ALREADY PEOPLE THERE TAKING PICTURES

Al's Music Box:)) Ramblin Man is a song by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band, released in August 1973 as the lead single from the group's fourth studio album, Brothers and Sisters (1973). Written and sung by the band's guitarist, Dickey Betts, it was inspired by a 1951 song of the same name by Hank Williams. It is much more grounded in country music than other Allman Brothers Band compositions, which made the group reluctant to record it. Guitarist Les Dudek provides guitar harmonies, and it was one of bassist Berry Oakley's last contributions to the band.  The song became the Allman Brothers Band's first and only top 10 single, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 12 on the Easy Listening chart.  "Ramblin' Man" was first created during songwriting sessions for Eat a Peach. An embryonic version, referring to a "ramblin' country man," can be heard on the bootleg The Gatlinburg Tapes, featuring the band jamming on an off-day in April 1971 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.  Betts continued to work on the song for a year, but the lyrics came together in as little as twenty minutes. "I wrote "Ramblin' Man" in Berry Oakely's kitchen [at the Big House] at about four in the morning. Everyone had gone to bed but I was sitting up," said Betts in 2014.  Drummer Butch Trucks noted that the band acknowledged it was a good song but were reluctant to record it, as it sounded too country for them.  New member and keyboardist Churck Leavell enjoyed the song, noting, "It's definitely in the direction of country but that didn't bother me in the least.  I think our attitude was, 'Let's take this thing and make it as great as we can.'"   The band went to the studio to record a demo of the song to send to a friend, which is where the long guitar jam near the finale of the song was created. ^] Having not considered it an Allman Brothers song before, they felt the solos fitted the band well and decided to put it on the album.  Guitarist Les Dudek, who was contributing to Brothers and Sisters, was sitting in the control room when the song was being recorded. He and Betts had worked out the harmony parts together.  Betts continued to approach him for his thoughts on the recordings. Eventually, he asked him to come record the song with him. "We played it all live. I was standing where Duane would have stood with Berry just staring a hole through me and that was very intense and very heavy," said Dudek.  When the song was completed, the management team and road crew gathered to listen to it. According to Dudek, the room was silent after it ended and roadie Red Dog remarked, "That's the best I heard since Duane". (Duane Allman had previously died in a motorcycle accident and the same fate was about to befall Berry Oakley as well)  

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A serious drunk walked into a bar and, after staring for some time at the only woman seated at the bar, walked over to her and kissed her. She jumped up and slapped him silly. He immediately apologized and explained, "I'm sorry. I thought you were my wife. You look exactly like her."  "Why you worthless, insufferable, wretched, no good drunk!" she screamed.  "Funny," he muttered, "you even sound exactly like her."

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I phoned my wife earlier and asked her if she wanted me to pick up Fish and Chips on my way home from work but she just grunted at me...I think she still regrets letting me name the twins!

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I walked into a bakery and asked the lady at the register if I could buy a bagel with cream cheese. "Sorry" she replied. "We only accept cash"

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A fly with a bug on its back said
Hey is that a mite? The mite replied "I mite be".  The fly replied that's the worst joke I've ever heard!  The mite said, well I came up with it on the fly!

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Kelly's Corner

 SIGNING A TRAIL LOG 

 CHATTING IT UP WITH RV BLOGGING FRIENDS RENEE AND jIM FROM LIVE-WORK-DREAM

Al's Art Gallery

A WALK IN THE BANNOCKBURN CONSERVATION AREA TODAY

 SPRINGTIME ON A FOREST FLOOR 

With sunshine and slowly rising temperatures I wasn't long in getting myself outside and on the end of my lawn rake and pitchfork.  Spent another couple of enjoyable hours on my Spring clean-up project.  More broken pine branches picked up, and more pine needles and leaves raked up.  Because of the severe winter storms this season, the annual Spring clean-up is bigger than usual.

HEADING OUT ON OUR AFTERNOON WALK 

 CREEKS IN THE AREA WERE FAST FLOWING AND OVER THEIR BANKS

 WOODSY TAKING PICS WITH HER PHONE

Early this afternoon with Pheebs in the front seat and Woodsy in the back seat we headed off to the Bannockburn Conservation Area for an early Spring walk on the boardwalk.  Pheebs did well, although she did not race around all over the place smelling things like she once did.

 LOTS OF FOREST SMELLS FOR PHEEBS

 UNABLE TO JUMP BACK UP ONTO THE BOARDWALK I HAD TO SLIP DOWN AND LIFT HER BACK UP

 THIS OLD STAIRWAY LEADS UP TO A  BEAUTIFUL OLD HARDWOOD FOREST WITH A MEANDERING SCENIC LOOP TRAIL 

WOODSY HEADS UP THE STEPS TO HAVE A LOOK AT THE HARDWOOD FOREST

 PHEEBS WANTED TO FOLLOW BUT I STAYED BACK WITH HER FIGURING CLIMB  WOULD BE TOO HARD ON HER

From Bannockburn, we headed over to Hensall Ontario and stopped at a well-known place called, Metzger Meats.  From there with a few packages of sausage in hand it was back home we went.  I was in need of a good sit down and a rest.  Happens to me every Spring when I reactivate muscles I haven't used for the past 5 months.  It's a good feeling, I welcome it, and I'm not complaining:))   

 FAST WATER FLOWING UNDERNEATH THE BOARDWALK

 MOTHER NATURE'S LOOP

 WHILE TAKING A PICTURE OF THE FAST-FLOWING WATER FROM THE BOARDWALK, A RARE HURON COUNTY RIVER SHARK SUDDENLY APPEARED OUT OF THE WATER 

 WITH A HANDFUL OF CORN,  LORRAINE (WOODSY) GETS VERY CLOSE TO ONE OF OUR FRONT-YARD BUNNIES LATER THIS AFTERNOON

Al's Music Box:))  A Fool Such As I is a popular song written by Bill Trader and published in 1952. The recording by Elvis Presley was a platinum record. Initially released as B-side to "I Need Your Love tonight ", it reached number one in the UK as an A-side single. Presley's recording reached number two in the United States (stalled behind the Fleetwoods' "Come Softly to Me.The song  was recorded on June 10, 1958, at RCA's Studio B, Nashville, while Presley was on leave from the Army. The recording featured guitar by Hank Garland, Chet Atkins, bass by Bob Moore, drums by D.J. Fontana and Buddy Harman and piano by Floyd Cramer and backing vocal by the Jordanaires, with the bass voice provided by, Ray Walker.  It reached number sixteen on the R&B charts.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Did You Ever Wonder About The Following::

- Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
- Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?
- Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
- Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
- Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?
- Why is it that to stop Microsoft Windows, you have to click on "Start"?
- Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
- Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
-Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
-Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
-When dog food has new and improved taste, who tests it?
- Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes!!!!!!!?
-Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
- You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
-Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
-Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
-If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
-If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

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- You know what really makes me throw up?  A dartboard on a ceiling.

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Doctor: "I've got some bad news and some really bad news. The bad news is you only have a week to live."  

Patient: "What could be worse news than that?"

Doctor: "I've been trying to contact you for the last 6 days."

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 KELLY TALKING TO OUR GOOD BAYFIELD FRIENDS GORD AND CATHY WEST OF YUMA ARIZONA WHILE PHEEBS HAS HERSELF A GOOD ROLL IN THE DESERT DUST

Al's Art Gallery