Good morning GH. It is just past 7:30 a.m. in "The City" where the current temperature is 65° as we head for today's high of 72° under sunny skies. As of right now, the chance of rain is 0% until 1:00 p.m. when it rises to only 10%. In other words, a  perfect day for walking with Sugar the Weather Dog and attending the annual Wheels of Grand Haven car show. What's not to like?

Saturday, we planted in the perennial gardens of the palatial estate and that should be enough for the foreseeable future. Best of all, I had my first green bean harvest of the season. There will be other crops to harvest in the future, and in fact we have already had several harvests of leaf lettuce. Looks like tomatoes will be next along with kale, peppers, cucumbers, and more beans. I have included a picture of the bean harvest below.

Otherwise, I spent some time reading the newspaper and my book. Mary and I edited the revisions into the last index we did in the early part of the afternoon. Mary got restless and we were off to the beach to see pole vaulting. Unfortunately that had ended by the time we got to the beach. But the act of sitting and watching the waves crash to the shore was in itself relaxing and rewarding. A long walk from home to the beach and back, about four miles, but my baking yak only gave me a few twinges along the way. Speaking of my baking yak, I have to proceed to my exercises as soon as I am done at the keyboard, then it will be time for breakfast, and a walk with the intrepid weather dog. She wouldn't go for a walk yesterday, as she was feeling a disturbance in the force. We were able to get her out on her tether, but that was as far as she would go. Anytime Mary or I suggested a walk or going out, she stared at us like we had two heads or she headed for the upstairs.

Today since the weather looks much more promising, we should not meet with resistance. It looks like the rain goddess smiled today. We'll head out, cover some mileage, and then go to the car show in town as I mentioned earlier. If I find any new or interesting cars to photograph, I'll include those pictures in a future blog. Then it will be time to come home and read more and hopefully play with the girls.

In sports, the boys in blue were embarrassed by the Braves, 6 - 11. Their last great free agent pitching acquisition is continuing to look bad. He should be embarrassed taking a paycheck for his poor efforts. There is a reason that other teams weren't interested in trading for him. My beloved Red Sox can't catch a break, losing to the Astros, 2 - 3. The Tigers continue on a roll, handily defeating the Royals, 5 - 1. The Caps also were triumphant over the Dayton Dragons, 2 - 0.

It is weird looking out the Weather Window and seeing the sun shine after it rose at 6:16 a.m. Usually I get to see darkness. Last evening, Mary encouraged me to go out in the rain and walk over to see the special lunar view. Unfortunately in the rain, we didn't see it. However, we did see the tips of the lights from the Musical Fountain over the tops of the condos on the waterfront. The sun will once again set, as always. That will happen at 9:23 p.m. Here comes that picture of the harvest as promised. Ciao.

Not many, but they started as seeds and ended as part of a great stir fry. More to come.