Good early morning GH. It is just past 3:30 a.m. in "The City."  Our current temperature is 68° following a day when the skies were partly cloudy and the trip that Mary and I took to GR/Kentwood was both uneventful and fruitful. The high today was a beautiful 74°. The forecast for later this early morning is a 60% chance of isolated T-storms/rain. But I have yet to see or her them. Today calls for a 40% chance of the same. I know that forecasts are just that, forecasts, but some accuracy would be nice. After the mostly inaccurate snowfall forecasts of last winter, no one knows how to make plans for outdoor work or play anymore. That forecast for today was the main reason that Mary and I decided to make our GR trip Monday to avoid the rain and the extra traffic that seems to be on the roads in that area on a regular weekday. Once we get past today, the forecast shows clear skies through at least Saturday.

Our trip to GR netted us some flag stones for one of the gardens on the palatial estate. Mary has a vision, so all I need to do is supply the labor. I did that earlier today too, as I mowed the lawns and pulled the weeds. Everything that was on my to do list got done before we left. I even found a nail to repair the molding in the upstairs hallway. All I had to do was straighten it. My dad would have been proud of me for re-purposing a perfectly good nail. He was a child of the depression, so unless a nail was actually broken or bent beyond repair, he made it work. He might even have used it in a shorter version if that were possible.

Mostly good news in sports. The boys in blue got the first win for their hard-luck pitcher Jeff Samardzija, over the Giants, 8 - 4. My beloved Red Sox ended their losing streak at 10 games with an 8 - 6 win over the Braves. The Tigers didn't fare so well, as they lost another game, this time to the Oakland Athletics, 0 - 10. The Caps were hammered by the Bowling Green Hot Rods, 0 - 15. Ouch!

I heard the southbound train this morning at about 12:30 a.m. I failed to hear the northbound train, or it hasn't been by yet. Actually, it didn't come by until 5:15 a.m. I didn't get up to look, but by the sound of it and the vibrations that passed through the earth, it was long and loaded.

Today I don't have plans to do anything, other than take a walk with Sugar the Weather dog. She enjoyed her trip to the "Bone Zone" yesterday afternoon. I do have to finish the trimming left over from the lawn mowing, but that should take about 10 minutes. If the weather permits, I may have to place those flag stones for Mary too. Speaking of the intrepid Weather Dog, our neighbor went out and came back while Sugar was chewing, and she didn't even raise her head. Mary says that I am all too often singularly focused like that, so I know what Sugar was feeling.

So that looks like enough for today and yesterday. The sun will rise at 6:10 a.m., and set at 9: 12 p.m. Ciao.