Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 2:00 a.m. The current temperature is 56° as we drop to the overnight low of 50. The National Weather Service is predicting scattered T-storms today, with most of the heavy storms closer to the border between Michigan and Indiana. That forecast includes a 60% chance with a  high of 66°. Tuesday the high will be 64° and the chance of T-storms rises to 90%. It looks like the prediction for most of the week will be rain off and on. Or is it on and off?

Which leads me to mention that Mary and I got into the back forty to do some fall clean-up. Leaves were raked, the compost pile was turned, and the contents of the hanging baskets found their way into the yard waste bags, as their pots were consigned to the trash. Sugar the Weather Dog didn't get to the "Bone Zone", but did get to lay in the weeds and attract insects to bite her later.

Then it was time for a trip to the Post for Bloody Mary Sunday and conversation. Finally home, where Mary had prepared the ingredients for Pad Thai, sans sesame, earlier, and it was great. I made the same recipe the last time, but her interpretation of the recipe was better. Years of experience that I don't have, I guess.

Later, Mary watched the Hallmark Channel and I retired to the media room and bed shortly thereafter.

In sports, the Lions defeated the Vikings, 17 - 3. The Bears defeated the Falcons, 27 - 13. For the fans to our west and north, the Packers pulled out a last second win over the Dolphins, 22 - 24. A dramatic finish that we watched at the Post after seeing the Lions victory.

Today, we may get that trip in to the big-box everything store that was deferred due to weather yesterday. It was walking, gardening, motorcycle riding and convertible weather for this area. It was not big-box indoor store weather. We do have to get to the accountant and the big-box home center. Both are close to home, but the trip to the big-box home center will require a car as will the trip to the big-box everything store. Too much to carry and a car is necessary.

Speaking of the car, I used the bicycle pump to add air to the tires yesterday. We tried on Saturday's trip to Holland, but all of the air stations we tried either didn't work or had no gauge. So a little sweat later and the tires are now correctly inflated. That should turn off the warning light on the dashboard after a few miles. We didn't drive the car yesterday, so they didn't have a chance to reset.

A quick update at 3:52 a.m. The northbound tun of the rain just went through. The usual twin EMD GP 38 locomotives in mismatched livery, towing 37 covered hopper cars in various stages of paint, from nearly new to rusty and decrepit. Two new looking gray tank cars, one of the dreaded black tank cars, and two barn red box cars.

That will complete the day after the sun rises at 7:52 a.m. and before it sets at 7:06 p.m. Ciao.