Good early morning GH. It is just past 3:00 a.m. in "The City." Our current temperature is a chilly 47° outside the Weather Window. Inside the weather office/music room, it is a very comfortable 70°. Today we should reach a high of between 63 and 70 degrees, and the skies will not be cloudy all day. That should be the balance of our week until Sunday, when a 30% chance of rain is predicted with a high of 64°.It will be warmer inland, say Detroit for example, albeit with a 40% chance of T-storms.

Wednesday, I got the dusting done that I had planned. Now all that remains is to vacuum, and steam clean the floors after I clean the bathrooms. I also have to mow the lawn, something that was happily delayed by the light rain that fell most of the day. At least I didn't have to water. I got in a few pages of reading too along with playing Blue. Since I was in need of getting my few hairs cut, I had walked over to the barber shop after breakfast. Fortunately, Joe the Barber was relaxing in his own chair and I got right in. I generally don't take long, so the men who came in after me didn't have long to wait.

Mary took Sugar the Weather Dog for her abbreviated morning constitutional. When I got back, Mary told me that Sugar had done her regular burnout after one of her morning offerings. Mary didn't know to watch for the fallout, so she had to clean her sandals and Sugar too when they got home. Dogs like to cover any evidence of other dogs, so Sugar was doing what dogs do. That's why I keep my eyes on Sugar as we walk, experienced dog walker that I am.

Later, we stopped in at our favorite watering hole on the other side of the bridge. I think that Mary wanted me to pump gas into the car. Lunch was a special for $2.00. Two sandwiches and a bag of chips. We split the sandwiches and I ate the chips. What's not to like? Then we journeyed back across the bridge and stopped to see Sally at the Post. Turns out that the day before, things were so slow, that when we had walked past at about 7:00 p.m., Sally had closed up shop and gone home. She is after all, an unpaid volunteer, so she found better use for her time. In other words, she's fine.

I have to go to the orthopedist for a checkup on my shoulder today and to have the first of the treatments on my knees. My knees have been feeling mostly good. My shoulder too. Right now it is my baking yak that is the problem. I hope to get clearance to play golf once again, but with my baking yak, I doubt that I could swing a club. I'll be sure to ask and see if physical therapy is warranted for that, or if rest is the best course of action. I'm tired of going to the therapist and to doctors etc.

I heard the southbound train go by at 12:15 a.m. If things are on "track" so to speak, I'll be back in bed when the northbound train goes by sometime after 3:00 a.m.

In sports, the boys in blue beat the Mets 2 - 1. The Tigers lost big time, 2 - 8, to the Blue Jays. They are starting to look like my beloved Red Sox who also lost, in their case to the Indians, 4 - 7. It was a long 12 inning game that was delayed for two hours by rain. The Caps were victorious over the Great Lakes Loons, out of Midland, MI, 4 - 1. The Caps are a Tigers farm team, while the Loons are a farm team for the L.A. Dodgers.

So that looks like enough for today. The sun will inevitably rise today at 6:05 a.m. Then later this evening, it will set in the west over the Big Lake at 9:18 p.m. By then, I hope to be snug in my bed. Ciao.