Good morning GH. I am going to start out a little different this early morning. I got up to see the train go by and lo and behold, I didn't have to wait long. With the lights off, I looked out the Weather Window, and watched the lights come on at the crossing. I watched the locomotive's headlamp light up the houses across the way, and then, "Bam" (sorry Emeril) there it was; a single locomotive and one, count it one, lone box car. I don't think the Mid-Michigan Railroad ever watched one of those CSX commercials where they claim to move one ton of freight 450 miles on a single gallon of fuel. Let's just say that this "freight train" wasn't terribly efficient.

Anyway, on to the local weather and other things. We currently have a temperature of 42 degrees, heading for high of 47 today. We'll have to wait for Friday for temperatures approaching 60. Mary plans to attend a seminar at the local library this afternoon, and if I read the forecast correctly, while the chance of showers is 70% at 7:00 AM, it drops to 10% by the time she will be walking to the library around two. Looks good for her, but not necessarily for Sugar the Weather Dog and me, earlier in the day.

In sports; the boys in blue saw their bats go back to sleep, as they lost behind a brilliant pitching performance, by Jeff Samardzija. He fanned 8, and was hit by a come backer to the mound that bloodied his finger. But the result was still a 1 - 0 loss. The Red Sox rebounded from their drubbing on Tuesday to defeat the As of Oakland, 6 - 5. The Tigers, also won over the Royals, 7 - 5, to go one game over 500. The Caps, hammered the gang from Lake County, IN  10 - 1. The White Sox, I still don't care.

Mary and I journeyed to Downtown Muskegon on Wednesday to check out what turned out to be a great gourmet cheese shop. We got some killer blue cheese, and some cheddar, both from Ireland. We then had lunch at a pub in a box, that also turned out to be very good. We also discovered as we left town, that there is a place in Muskegon that purports to sell "Chicago Style" deep dish pizza. We will be gong on a yarn shop tour tomorrow, and we will be trying out another "Chicago Style" place a bit east of here in Grandville. Then, we can make a future comparison between the two Michigan places and the real "Chicago Style" pizza made in Steph and Adam's home town. There, they have several places to choose from that know how to make pizza the Chicago way.

Oh well, it is hard sometimes to find food like that which you grew up with. Adam assures me that there is a place here in GH, that knows how to make a "Chicago Style" Italian beef sandwich, but they have to be asked to "gravy dip" it. It seems that when they first opened they did it the Chicago way, but the people here thought that it was weird. I've not tried it, but Adam knows about these things.

Oh well, time for a return to bed and to lie about in the early AM, hours listening to the radio and not having anything to do. That is unless you count...Tea time and a few things in the man cave; which may wait for Mary's trip to the library. No need to rush these things. Ciao