Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 3:00 a.m. in "The City", where our current temperature is today's low of 45°. I know that we have reached mid-September, but I am not ready for these low temperatures yet. Our high today should reach 63° under sunny skies. Same for tomorrow. Friday the temperature goes up still more. Saturday the National Weather Service is predicting a high of 71° with a 60% chance of severe T-storms. Just in time for my afternoon Irish Jam session. I suppose I can drive, but I'd rather not, since it is a long block. But carrying an umbrella with all of the other things that I need to carry would be a bit tough.

In other news, Mary finally gave me my highlighting assignment. I now have three colors of highlighter ink on my hands. But the book is interesting and I am generating numerous comments. However, as the day progressed, Mary's computer needed to be defragged, so she had to stop working. That caused an impromptu trip to the Post. When we arrived there after a quick stop at the bread store, it was just us, Wendy, and John, the club manager and Wendy's husband. Since we arrived, he decided it was time to go home and do some things. Our arrival caused still others to come in and that was all good. We had an official Post hot dog, and that was dinner.

In sports, the boys in blue dispatched the Reds, 7 - 0. My beloved Red Sox fell to the Pirates, 0 - 4. The Tigers also lost, to the Twins in their case, 3 - 4. However, the Tigers still maintained a 1.5 game lead over the Royals in their division of the A.L. That's all I have to say about that.

The southbound train run already happened. I didn't hear it. The northbound run has yet to occur.

Today I have to get the lawn mowed in our newly sunny back forty. Since the tree was removed, Mary's garden plans have changed for next year. Lots more sunlight means lots more tomatoes, peppers, and my personal favorite, green beans. I think Mary has plans for several types of tomatoes, but mostly regular green peppers. Plus, the flowers that we plant in the back of the yard will have to be more sun than shade tolerant next year. Our shade garden next to the garage is still very shady, so nothing changes there. It should be fun.

I am not looking forward to leaf raking. But like Marshall, I'll do it a little at a time and spread it out over many days. I just have to target the weekly recycling pick up.

That looks like enough for today and the future. The sun will rise at 7:24 a.m., and set at 7:49 p.m. Ciao.