Good morning, good evening, wherever you may be. Here in "The City" it is just past 12:30 a.m. and all is well. Later today the forecast calls for scattered T-storms with a 50% chance. I'll await Sugar the Weather Dog's forecast, as well as personal observations out the Weather Window, as I gaze at the Weather Roof. I'm betting that I'll have to water today.

After a long walk to keep Sugar away from the carpet cleaners, I returned home and began to read a pulp novel on the deck. I am now about 3/5 of the way through. I had just finished that long non-fiction tome about the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and so I felt entitled to more pulp. I have plenty of non-fiction on hand for future reading.

Sugar is sleeping by the bed now as her beds are not down and "Her Couch" is not available at this time, as it was also cleaned earlier. We spent some time in the "Bone Zone" yesterday, but with the truck mounted carpet cleaner running in the driveway, she was too distracted until they left. She did get back to it in the late afternoon.

Mary and I set out to get me a new camera Saturday afternoon. My old one was just too bulky and although state of the art when purchased several years ago, by today's standards, it is a dinosaur. All I have to do now is get used to handling a smaller camera with my over-sized hands. We tried a camera store near Holland, but ended up at the big-box electronics store to make the purchase. Now all I have to do is to learn the various functions. I did manage to attach the strap, insert the battery and the memory card, and charge it. All things considered, that's enough for now. I'll do more in the morning. I want to take it to the car show to try it out.

Which leads me back to the weather forecast. If there is even a hint of a possibility of a chance of rain, the car guys won't bring their cars out for the annual Coast Guard Festival™ car show. The usually four block long car show will shrink to two or less. I guess cars are like the bad witch in Oz, who melted if she get wet. Or maybe they are like the Mogwai in the movie Gremlins where one of the rules of ownership is to never, ever, get them wet or they'll turn into Gremlins.

So I am going to learn on the fly with my new camera after reading the quick start guide that comes with the camera. Mary has a similar camera, so I am certain that she can help. This camera has a 20 megapixel capability, whereas my old camera had a three megapixel capability. My next pictures should be more clear and more candid, as I won't have to wait for the camera to get ready.

Otherwise, not much happened on Saturday. One of the reasons that we went out in the afternoon was that the carpets were still wet from steam cleaning. They are dry now. We did stop in at the favorite watering hole and then headed home for more reading and more "Bone Zone." I did get in some play withe girls on Friday, but they had to be out away on Saturday. They can come out to play again today.

In sports, the boys in blue fell to the Cardinals™ 3 - 6. My beloved Red Sox™ also went down, again, to the Rays™, 0 - 3. The Tigers™ must be tired as they lost their second game in a row to the Angels™, 0 - 4. Good news, the Caps™ were victorious over the Kane County Cougars™, the "A" level farm team for the boys. However, as a long suffering Cubs™ fan, a farm team of theirs losing is not necessarily a good thing.

The sun will set on something other than another loss for one of my favorite teams tonight at 9:12 p.m. EST, after rising at 6:27 a.m. EST. That's enough for now. Ciao