Good morning GH. It is already 71 humid degrees and it is just past 7:00 AM. Sugar the Weather Dog and I were going to walk over to the veterinarian and get her a pawdicure and renew her various medications, but that may wait until Thursday. I'll know more when I stick my head out the door later this morning.

Speaking of morning, the days are opening darker now that September is here and the days are getting shorter. I suppose that it is better than my getting up in the middle of the night to blog, but this kind of early morning darkness keeps Mary in bed longer. Even Sugar the Weather Dog sleeps in. Unfortunately, Mary has work to do and Sugar doesn't. I have work to do to, but that's just highlighting.

Yesterday, lots of new things combined with the old. We picked up the chairs and tables from the big box home center. I spent several hours on the hot and humid front porch doing the assembly. I got it done after the early problems that go with any assembly. Once you have done one, the process becomes mechanical. Then I came inside to my office to assemble my new chair. In spite of the directions that state, "These are the easy directions to keep it simple for you." Mostly it was, until I had to put the back on the chair. Getting the bolts to line up and then tighten was a challenge. But I did it, and here I sit.

I also did two things that I never thought I would do. I had an egg salad sandwich for lunch and for dinner, a Portabella mushroom sandwich for dinner. I was originally going to grill the mushrooms, but I had to tell Mary that my batteries were out of charge and I didn't have the strength. Thankfully, she still had some energy, and she cooked the mushrooms in the kitchen. I think she likes the kitchen activities as a diversion from the mind numbing work she is currently doing. Both sandwiches were excellent. Mary also improved on the coleslaw that I made the previous day. I tend to keep it simple, she adds the spices that I don't.

In sports, while I was able to report the scores of Sunday's NFL foot ball games, I found that like I once discovered, that you get an extra three hours on a Sunday afternoon by turning off the TV. Shhh, don't tell the NFL or the networks. I guess that it is like daylight savings time.

I have very limited plans for today as I noted earlier. More music, a trip to the library and maybe the veterinarian, and that's about it. Oh, I have to to that highlighting too.

Speaking of sports, my apologies to the late Howard Cosell, the boys in blue shutout the Reds, 2 - 0. The Tigers went down to defeat to that other Chicago team, 1 - 5. My beloved Red Sox had the day off. As for the NFL, I know that they played last night, but I didn't really care.

So that looks like it for today and yesterday. Time to get to work. Ciao.