Good morning GH. It has just passed 5:30 AM in "The City" and the current temperature is a slightly warmer 56 dark degrees as we head for our high of 78 sunny degrees. Thursday we expect a high of 83 with a 30% chance of T-storms and Friday the chance increases to 80% with a high of 78. I can pretty much guess where Sugar the Weather Dog may be on those days.

On Tuesday we journeyed to Holland to pick up a poster we had framed. It looks great on the wall in the media room. While in Holland we stopped for gas and used our discount coupons to get an additional twenty cents off per gallon. When you have a gas guzzler like we do, you have to watch your pennies. We saved nearly $2.00 to fill our nearly empty tank. Afterwards, we came back and had dinner at one of the local places. Then home for relaxing with a crossword for me and knitting for Mary. We also spent some time on the GH channel in our new rockers watching the world go by with Sugar.

Today I may get to that vacuuming that I was going to do yesterday. More music of course, and then some reading. Sugar will need to get in some walks too, since Thursday is iffy and Friday is probably out of the question. Otherwise, not much on tap.

In sports, the boys in blue once again fell to their nemesis to the north, the Brewers. Jeff Samardzja pitched a great game, only to give way to an ineffective reliever, 3 - 4. The Tigers neatly handled the Mariners 6 - 2, on the strength of a still hitting Miguel Cabrera. My beloved Red Sox fell to the Orioles 2 - 3, but their magic number is three. The Blackhawks had an exhibition game against the Red Wings and won 2 - 0 in Chicago.

As an aside, I was listening to the radio station that Mary likes, and they were discussing the Kennedy assassination. When they did a commercial for the Peace Corp, they used the phrase, "What if?" What if President Kennedy didn't go to Dallas? What if he had taken a trip to another city? It set me to thinking about taking the road less traveled. Life is a series of choices and those you make, and some you don't, can have a transformative  effect on your life. Changes often come with uncertain outcomes, but once they are in motion, sometimes you either have to put on the brakes or ride the tiger. I'm certain that I did a bit of both. Moving to our adopted state was a choice we made and it has worked out great.

So that's enough reflecting for now. Too much can make you crazy. So time to get back to bed and sleep in until it is...Tea time. Ciao.