Steve`s Country
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Coffee On Tuesday. #8
Hi everyone! It is such a beautiful morning here, the sun is shining so nicely, though I see that some clouds are moving in now, just like the forecast said would happen. It has also gotten very windy as well. But still, it is beautiful out there. Maybe I should change that just a teeny bit. That wind is very strong out there now and is really tossing those trees around.
It was windy like this yesterday too, except the wind was from a different direction. Yesterday was our warmest day so far too. It was about 82F (28C). Personally I consider it hot when the temperature goes about 86F (30C). That is how warm it was in my apartment by yesterday afternoon.
Looking across the lake from our picnic table.
Still not as bad as my last apartment. I always dream of being by a lake when it is warm and sunny. That’s where my last place was so nice, it was close to the river and I could walk down there any time. It was especially nice on hot, sunny days. Maybe not quite like being beside a lake, but still nice anyway.
As you may remember, my friend and I went to some nice lakes a couple of weeks ago. There is one lake that has a nice roadside picnic area and we stopped there and had some coffee. Several other people had also stopped at that location. There are picnic tables around the area, and washrooms.
Another look at the lake.
It really is a beautiful, small lake, a great place for a canoe since even on a windy day there are no big waves to worry about. There are many different varieties of trees in this small area, mostly Jack Pine, but some White Spruce, Aspen, Birch, Balsam and shrubs like Pincherry and Saskatoon. So, it is a wonderful spot to sit and relax for a while.
Usually there are loons on this lake, but I didn’t see any this year and that is the first time not seeing loons there. The lake is full of rainbow and brook trout, having been deliberately stocked with them back in the 1970s. Well, it has become completely cloudy now which makes it feel a bit cooler with that strong wind.
Along the shore.
There is also billows of smoke rising from just beyond that far hill, directly south of here. I hope that smoke is not from a forest fire. With such a strong wind, a forest fire would move along through those trees rather fast, even with all the rain we have had. Well, I hope you all have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2024 Steve McLeod.
Muffin’s Fun! #72
Hi hi to everyone on this Monday afternoon time!😺 I back once more with some fun funnies for all of you to read and chuckle about! I think that some of them are really quite funny. Me think so anyway. One is very long, so I not say much so you can enjoy funnies more…
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I asked my daughter to give me the phone book.
She laughed at me, called me a dinosaur, and lent me her iPhone.
So the spider is dead, the iPhone is broken, and my daughter is furious.
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Our crazy dogs has been barking way too much lately and I am not a fan of the electric zapping bark collars. I was at my wits end so I purchased one of those so-called humane citronella collars. It is designed so that when the dog barks, it would shoot out a blast of citronella under his nose.
This morning I was getting the collar ready and filled it with the stuff … and that’s where my morning should have ended. But NO! – it’s me, and I begin to become curious as to how said collar works.
I am standing on my porch “barking” at the collar. Nothing happens. I make sure it’s turned on, recheck the fill level, and go through the “getting started” checklist one more time. Again, I bark. Nothing happens.
Now I’m not quite sure *why* I had this next thought, but I did … I put on the collar. I extended the band, fit the growl box against my throat and barked. Apparently, the collar only works if it feels vibrations, because I immediately received a blast of citronella to the face. I began coughing, which only caused the collar to continue to squirt bug juice over and over into my nasal cavity. I am now on my hands and knees gasping for air, and to make matters worse, our dogs are now non-stop barking. So between coughing and yelling at the dogs to stop, I’ve emptied over a dozen blasts of citronella to my face.
During all of this ruckus, I’m trying to undo the clasp of the collar, which has somehow managed to weld shut during this whole fiasco. I finally get the collar off and threw that crazy (inhumane) devilish contraption across the yard! As I am laying on my porch, totally out of breath trying to suck in the cool morning air, I am thinking this is probably the dumbest thing I’ve done in a while.
Then I hear laughter. My neighbor had witness the whole thing. He was belly laughing and in between gasps, he tells me,
“I was going to come over and help, but every time I started toward your house, you’d set it off again and then I would start laughing so hard I couldn’t walk.” So here I am, not only are my eyes red, but my face and ears are too. I came inside to take a shower so I wouldn’t be smelling like ode de’ Tiki Torch, thinking over the lessons learned:
1) Don’t test dog collars on oneself.
2) My neighbor is not a good source of help in a comedic crisis situation.
3) I won’t have any bug problems for a few days.
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If you wanted people to eat something would you name it succotash?
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Why is it at class reunions, you always feel so much younger than everyone else looks?
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That all for today, have great Monday!
Muffin. 😽
©2024 Muffin McLeod.
