Good evening GH. It is getting dark, too dark to see...oh yeah, that's a song lyric from Bob Dylan I think. Anyway, the current temperature is 71 degrees as we head for an overnight low of 62. I usually get it the other way around, but when you don't get to blogging until later in the day, that's what happens.

Today Mary worked and I made vegetable broth. That's about it for my day; except that I did manage to play my tin whistle on a song entitled  The Parting Glass, a traditional Irish song. That made me feel good. Since I have had my whistle eight days now, I was certain that I would be a virtuoso by now, not. Otherwise, it was such a nice day that Sugar the Weather Dog and I took two nice long walks. I don't know which of us enjoyed the walks more. I guess that it really doesn't matter.

Mary finished her work quota for the day and then we journeyed to the big box office supply store so that I could get a new chair for my office. My old one gave up the ghost and spilled its guts all over my chair mat. Fortunately I got that mat about a week ago and the oily substance that spewed forth was easily cleaned up. We found one that was on sale and Mary had a $25.00 dollar discount good on an online purchase over $60.00. The chair was on sale for $69.99 at the store and they honored the $25.00 off card. That made the chair only $45.00 plus tax. Now all I have to do is drag the new chair up to my office tomorrow and assemble it. With a little luck, that should only take a few hours.

Before I do that though, we need to journey north to the big box home store to pick up our new front porch rockers.They took a bit longer to be available because they had to get them from another location.  They have a bit of a problem with communication to customers.

I have to water as usual and of course, play some music. I'd like to get to the library too, but if I don't, there's always Tuesday.

In sports, the boys in blue fell to the Brewers in front of numerous fans disguised as empty seats, 2 - 3. The Tigers fell to the Royals 2 - 5, but they still have a 5.5 game lead over the Tribe. My beloved Red Sox took it on the chin from the Yankees 3 - 4, but have maintained a lead over the Rays of 7.5 games and 10 games over the Yankees. There is joy in Bean Town. The Caps in their final game of the A level season lost to the Lug Nuts, 4 - 9.

In football, the MSU Spartans shut down the South Florida Bulls, 21 - 6. The Wolverines handily downed the Fighting Irish, 41 - 30 last night as Devin Gardner wore his newly given # 98 jersey, in honor of Tom Harmon, the 1940 Heisman Trophy winner. That number has been on the shelf for many years. Mark Harmon, his son of and the star of the hit show NCIS was there to do the honors. The Northwestern Wildcats clawed Syracuse, 48 - 27 in their home opener. The Huskies of NIU had a week off after their win over Iowa.

In the NFL, the Lions dropped the Vikings 34 - 24. The Bears pulled out a win over the Bengals 24 - 21. The day was a trifecta as the Packers lost to the 49ers 28 - 34.

So that's enough for today and yesterday. Ciao.