Good early morning GH. It is just past 1:00 a.m. in "The City," and this is indeed a special time for me to be blogging. That's what happens when you fall asleep in your chair in the media room and then wake up to find that the baseball game was in the bottom of the 13th inning. I hope that the Cubs will not disappoint me and pull it out sometime soon. It is getting late in Pittsburgh. They got to the bottom of the 16th, and the Pirates pushed a run across and the boys in blue are now 0 - 2 on the young season. Wait til nest year?

Fortunately, the Tigers are 2 - 0 on the strength of two walk off runs in the bottom of the ninth in their first two games. My beloved Red Sox beat the Orioles 6 - 2 to move to a record of 1 - 1 and into second place in the AL East.

Currently, our indoor digital weather instruments are showing a temperature of 71°. According to the analog package in the Weather Window, the temperature outdoors is 41° as we head down to our low of 32°. If the forecast from the National Weather Service is to be believed, there is no precipitation for the next several hours. However before the sun rises at 7:24 a.m. showers are expected to begin and stay with us for much of the day and into the early evening. Our high will peak out at 38° today, and we won't see any temperatures out of the 40s until next week Thursday, when 50° is the anticipated high.

As I observe Mary's living room garden, the peppers are starting to form buds, and if they don't get outdoors into real pots soon, she really will be harvesting in the living room. We still have a large amount of snow in the back forty, and that isn't conducive to vegetable gardening, especially when coupled with the cold nighttime temperatures. Here's hoping that the snow melts and the vegetable plants can get to their summer home.

Here in Michigan, the garden centers don't open until the 15th of April as a concession to the normally colder temperatures in the north country. Since the National Weather Service is predicting a cooler than usual spring, this might be an interesting year for vegetable gardening.

Speaking of Mary, the other day I was standing in her office as she was getting up, and I got to see the girl I married over 40 years ago. The light may have been just right, my eyes aren't quite as good as they used to be, but I swear that the girl I married was standing there. It was as though the ensuing 40 years had never passed. She still has the blond hair, and that makes her look the same to me. Maybe even better. Just saying.

Yesterday afternoon I did go to my P/T appointment and my therapist says that my progress is excellent. I followed that visit with a trip to the grocery store and then a stop at the barber shop. I finally made it home, and since Sugar the Weather Dog was happily chewing on a fresh bone in Mary's office, I didn't have to take her for a walk. Walks are a distraction when a bone is in the picture.

Today I will take time to walk with Sugar and both of us will benefit. Yesterday, Sugar and I did get in a morning walk. We stopped at the library to drop off some books and then we went to the bank so that both of us could make a withdrawal. I got cash, Sugar got a large dog biscuit.

I will get to that dusting today. I have to do that along with some editing for Mary. Since I have already highlighted the book she is working on, I know how it turned out. I just don't know what the index will look like. I am hoping that it will be less intense than the last one.

There is an advantage to being up at this hour. I got the chance to not only hear a train a'comin, I got to actually see it. Twin EMD GP 38 locomotives, the usual pair, and then a long string of covered hopper cars followed by those dreaded black tank cars, contents unknown, headed south. If I happen to be awake in about three hours or so, highly unlikely, I will get to see a similar configuration heading north.

The sun will set at 8:10 p.m. this evening. Ciao.