Good early morning GH. It is just past 2:00 AM here in "The City." That's one of the things about being a late night blogger. You get to blogging and the next thing you know an hour or more has passed. Not that it takes that long to actually write the blog itself, it is just that I get to doing several things at once and then the time gets away. But I digress.

The digital thermometer here in the Weather Center is flashing 75 degrees for the room. Outdoors the temperature is either 60 or 63 depending on the source. In either case, there is no precipitation on the horizon until Thursday or Friday of the week ahead. That's fine with Sugar the Weather Dog, I'm sure.

As I sat listening to the late night internet radio service, the song "Cherish" came on. That was one of the songs that Mary and I chose for our wedding day nearly forty years ago. On September 1, we will be celebrating our fortieth anniversary. To borrow liberally from the Grateful Dead, "What a long strange trip it's been."

As the next couple of weeks pass, I'll add to the facts and fiction about our last forty years. There are some things that I would repeat, and some that I might avoid, but I doubt that my changes would have been any better than the reality. That's one of the great things about living, you get the good with the bad and each either strengthens or pleases you.

The song "Like to Get to Know You" by Spanky & Our Gang also played followed up by The Dave Clark Five and "Because." Both eerily prophetic and meaningful to my generation. If you remember the lyrics, then you know why. Oh, that station also aired Bread and their song Make It With You. That was another of our wedding day songs. Now we have the Beach Boys and "Wouldn't It Be Nice." Not a wedding song, but I like the theme. I could go on and on.

On Friday I spent some time doing chores and housework, sandwiched by a couple of walks with Sugar in the lead. We also went to the big box grocery/department store in the PM. We got some grocery items, but that was about all. They were out of the tomato juice that we like. Afterwards, we journeyed to the sidewalk sales downtown. Nothing we wanted there, so we stopped for dinner at our favorite watering hole.

Last night, we watched a special by Chris Hayes about global warming and it was like they were preaching to the choir. Nothing that we didn't already know, but the news seems to be of an accelerating disaster timeline. That prompted Mary to want to watch  The Day After Tomorrow, one of her favorite disaster movies. Me, I got tired and went to bed. That's probably why I am up now.

In sports, the boys in blue defeated the Cardinals 7 - 0. The Cardinals are a contending team that the boys have defeated several times in the past few weeks. On the other hand, they can't seem to beat the Brewers who trail them in the standings. Go figure. The Tigers fell 1 - 2 and 0 - 3 in a double header loss to the Royals. Ouch. However, the Tribe is still six games back. My beloved Red Sox fell hard to the Yankees 3 - 10 and now are clinging to a slim one game lead over the Rays. The Caps were hammered by the Lugnuts, 5 - 14. Way ouch.

Today, not much on tap. A little watering and a visit to the car show at the church for me and a visit to the rummage sale there by Mary while I am at the Irish jam session in the afternoon. In the evening, we will probably sit on the Grand Haven channel and listen to the band from that same church, which is only about two blocks away. We love this town. Ciao.