Good morning GH. Well I made it until 4:00 AM and the current temperature is 63 cloudy degrees. Those T-storms that were on the map for yesterday never materialized. Turns out I was right on that one. Oh well, it has been cool enough that I won't have to water today. The clouds are irrelevant.

Sugar the Weather Dog is finally sleeping soundly, so there are no storms in her personal forecast nor in that of the National Weather Service. Mary said again yesterday that here in GH we are in a "sweet spot" when it comes to the weather. Big snow storms mostly miss us, large amounts of rain and other rough weather too. What's not to like?

On Friday, Sugar and I took a morning walk and then Mary and I went to the library. In the afternoon, Mary worked some and I played some. Sugar slept some and then we went for an afternoon walk. A regular day.

I should mention that before the morning walk, I managed to break another toe. I have broken them before in other locations, but it seems to be happening more here. I think it is my own clumsiness, a thought with which Mary would probably agree.

If you get a chance, stop in and view Mary's blog at http://marygoeswalking.blogspot.com/. The pictures are great, and in them you can see some of the things that I mentioned and many of the things that I didn't. In fact, she got a picture of the Bowden Spacelander bicycle that was made here in GH. I was perplexed as to why of the 522 Spacelanders that were ultimately produced, two were in a museum in Muskegon. Now I know that they were produced in both cities for a few short months in the early 1960s. If you want to know more, follow this link to the Grand Haven Tribune. I strongly urge you to do so.

http://www.grandhaventribune.com/article/mailbag/612236

Otherwise, not much was happening yesterday. I played and listened to some music, did some highlighting for Mary and enjoyed...Tea time on the GH channel. That was Mary's suggestion, and it turned out to be a good one. Sugar was probably wondering why she came outside with us as she didn't get to go for her first walk until after noon.Mary and I did walk to the Post later in the day and met several of the regular people who frequent there. Sally was Sally as were the others, no change and that's good. That's one of the reasons that Mary often says, "I love this ....town"

Today, we start out with a trip to Grand Rapids and then maybe a stop at the Farmer's Market there. That market is expanding every week. Then it's home for the afternoon Irish Jam Session at the library. I'm not ready to try out my whistle in public yet, but maybe in a few months. Otherwise I anticipate that now that fall is here, the attendance at the jams will pick up. With the summer camping season and other factors in play, fewer musicians are able to come to the sessions.

In sports, the boys in blue fell to the Braves 5 - 9. I hope I wasn't wrong predicting that they wouldn't lose 100 games this year. The Tigers beat that other team from Chicago,12 - 5.They still haven't clinched a spot in the playoffs, but Max Scherzer got his 20th win. It will take a win by the Tigers and a win by the Astros over the Tribe to make it all come together. My beloved Red Sox did manage to clinch, beating the Blue Jays 6 - 3.

So that's about it for now. I hope that you get a chance to look at Mary's blog and to check out that web site for the Grand Haven Tribune. When I was young, we had a local newspaper in Arlington Heights, IL, The Arlington Heights Herald, whichI think became the Daily Herald. In fact, that newspaper was so successful, that a competitive paper came into circulation for a few years, The Arlington Day. That paper was independent for a while, but was ultimately absorbed by the Chicago Tribune I believe. The Chicago area had a great newspaper tradition, giving us such great writers as Mike Royko. Ciao.