Good evening GH.  Well, as you can tell from the opening line, I got a real late start today/tonight.  I was so busy doing the housework this AM, that I didn't find time to blog until now, which is about 7:45 PM.  I did manage to dust, clean the bathrooms, and vacuum the entire estate, so I can tell you I was really tired when I was done.  Sugar the Weather Dog and I went for a walk this AM before I started the housework, but then she was traumatized by the vacuuming and dusting.  I probably wouldn't have to dust and vacuum so often if she didn't live here, but that's the price of having a companion pet in your home.  She, as Adam would tell you, has me totally wrapped around her little paw, and that's okay with me.  Anyway, the current view out the Weather Window is, surprise, Dark!  In addition,the desktop temperature is a brisk 31 degrees.  I had entertained the notion of sitting outside for awhile as Sugar chewed a bone, but I came t my senses.  Speaking of Sugar, she is still working on adjusting to the time change, and still expects dinner at the usual time.  Unfortunately for her, that is now one hour later by the household clocks versus her internal clock.  She will get the hang of it, but it will be a few days.  We tried to stall her yesterday, but she would have continued to bug us, so we fed her ahead of our schedule, not hers. Tonight, the people from the cable company are going to be doing some line work, so the cable will be down from about midnight until about 4:00 AM.  I hope that it is up and running when I wake at 4:00 AM, as I always do.  I touched up the walls in my office where I had nicked them and then I also got the salt out of the basement to make ready for winter.  I'd like to say that I was done then, but I had to go through another edit on the table that Mary is working on, so there went the balance of my afternoon.  So, until tomorrow morning, I'll just say Ciao, bye bye, later much, and adios to you all.