Good morning GH. It is just past 3:30 AM in "The City" and the current temperature is 48 degrees as we head for a high of 50 under clear skies. No significant precipitation is expected until Wednesday and Thursday. That means that any raking of leaves will have to be done on Tuesday or early Wednesday.

Sunday was a better day for all things GH. Sugar was on the needy side, but after two walks and a bit of impromptu "Bone Zone" in the mud room, she finally calmed down a bit. She and I spent some chair time in the afternoon, and that seemed to help too. Mary and I have work to do today, so Sugar will have to be more restive. Mary finished up her workday around 6:30 PM on Sunday, and then we set out for a late dinner.

I think her breakfast efforts left both she and I unrequited. Her hopes to make the bananas less banana like didn't go as planned and so I had cereal. Mary ate some of her efforts, but I don't think that even she liked it very much. Sugar didn't seem to mind and ate the leftovers for breakfast. Mary redeemed herself at lunch with an egg salad sandwich which I supplemented with carrots for a side dish. Mary had sauerkraut for her side. Sugar was wondering why her breakfast carrots were being eaten by humans. That girl has a sweet tooth, which is why she was happy to get the bananas that were left over. Adam discovered that Sugar loves bananas when he stayed at our house one week while we were in San Francisco.

I found that extra time again on Sunday afternoon. I didn't watch pro football and I heard later that the Lions won in a final drive 31 - 30 over the team from Washington, D.C. Later I watched part of the Red Sox and Cardinals game which I finished on the radio. Although the Cardinals took an early lead, the Sox won 4 - 2 on a pick-off ending in the ninth which had followed a dramatic three run home run earlier in the game. The series is now knotted at two games apiece with the next game scheduled for St.Louis tonight at 8:07 PM.

One side note. I grow weary of the excessive use of "records" information/announcements by the television organization covering the World Series. I don't need to know that player X is the youngest in baseball history to hit a triple or whatever in the World Series. It may just be me, but just because you can, doesn't mean that you must.

Today is just a couple of walks with Sugar, a possible visit to the big box grocery store in the AM for some essentials and perhaps a stop at our nearby big box hardware store for some temporary caulk to seal the leaky old windows on our 110 year old house. I have heard that the seal is good and that the caulk can be removed in the spring. Since windows don't actually lose as much heat as the window sellers would have you believe, it is just a matter of sealing any gaps through which heat can leave the building. An old house has plenty of those.

Otherwise I have editing to do for Mary this afternoon and that's about it. I figure that we will be getting up early so that Mary can finish up her work before I have to edit, so I should have time for the extra activities in the AM. I should also stop at the local grocers for some Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and yogurt, things you can't get at the big box grocery, at least not the type that we like.

So that's about it. Ciao.