Good morning GH.  Who would have thought that after the warm weekend that we just experienced, that the desktop temperature would show 47 degrees.  A quick look out the Weather Window currently shows sunny skies and no precipitation.  Sugar the Weather Dog isn't reacting to any impending storms, so I'm going with her predictive skills today, in spite of the radio forecast for rain in most of Western Michigan this AM.  We got the downstairs toilet repaired yesterday.  It turns out that there is a small device in the valve that is intended to slow the water flow and keep the noise down.  Apparently, it doesn't do all that well in the face of chlorine and it swells up, causing more, not less, noise.  The plumber removed it, the noise level is only slightly elevated, and the toilet works well.  A win-win.  I was thinking overnight about why the letter Y is sometimes a vowel. So. I consulted the internet, only to find that there is no general agreement as to why Y is sometimes a vowel.  Lots of theories, but few real solid explanations.  Here's mine.  I think anytime that a word doesn't have another vowel present, for example, the word by, then the letter Y is used as a vowel. So, if you have words like lynch, or myth, or for that matter, the word why, the letter Y is used to take the place of the vowel and make the vowel sound.  That's the English language for you.  Otherwise, I have to go to the grocery store today, return about a gazillion cans from the weekend and repair the light in the kitchen.  Once again, a pretty full day.  Mary has to work on an indexing project, so I will be left to my own devices.  Not all bad.  Sugar the Weather Dog will still need a walk and I have to get her some additional feed stuffs at the grocery store, so I have to be sure to add that to my list.  Otherwise, not much is happening.  Therefore, it is...Tea time.