Big night last night! Went to see Elton John at Comerica Park… What a concert! Elton was in great voice and the band was incredible - although I’ll admit I did miss the Duck Suit Elton wore the first time I saw him at Olympia Stadium back in the early 70’s when my wife Gail and I took our two oldest daughters, Jennifer and Jackie who were 9 and 7 at the time to the show. (Then again, I think I wore a leisure suit to that concert which made me look more bizarre than the Duck onstage singing and playing the piano).

Last night, we had great seats courtesy of daughter #4 JoAnne who got them for us through her radio station 104.3 WOMC (Boy that rings a bell) where she does the morning show with JJ Johnson every morning from 6 to 11.

The show kicked off with “Benny & The Jett’s and included a ton of hits including one of my all time favorites, “Don’t Let the Son Go Down On Me”. The reason that song resonates with me is that I used to sign off with it at the end of my Salvation Army Radiothon every year.

It always reminds me of the late, great Gene Taylor and Doc Andrews and I thought of both of them last night as I listened to Elton sing it. But… in the interest of full disclosure… I’ll admit I listened in the walkway… as my wife Donna (Gail died in 2018 and I remarried 2 years ago) and I were trying to make it to the car in time to beat the traffic!!

And we did!! We got home by 11pm. So imagine my “delight” when the SMOKE DETECTOR WENT OFF at 1AM… FOR OVER AN HOUR.

There was no smoke… no fire that we could see… but we called the Firefighters, they came, checked everything out and determined that we had a bad battery in one of the detectors that was making them ALL go off.

Being the “Mr. Fix It” kind of guy that I am, I thanked them… put the faulty detector out on the front porch so if it set the other detectors off again WE WOULDN’T HEAR IT… and went back to sleep about 3am.

All in all… (except for the smoke detector part) it was a great night!

And hopefully, this afternoon… I’ll take a great nap!

And speaking of great… Have a great day and I’ll see you back here tomorrow!

-Dick