Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 2:30 a.m. in "The City." I got up around one and one-half hours ago to do some work on my music folders, and the next thing I knew, it was 2:30 a.m. Oh well, there is no better time to work undisturbed than this.

I was working yesterday afternoon, when Mary came in and said we had to go to the store. I realized that that was just a reason for me to go along and get the cans returned. But that's okay, I find the experience cathartic in a way. I like getting money for a few moments of my time. However, I think I'd rather that people just recycled the aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles in their recycling bins. Even better would be having returnables that get refilled, but that's never coming back.

At any rate, the current temperature is 25°, the lowest it will get this morning. Later today, after the sun rises at 7:41 a.m., we'll get to 45° under partly cloudy skies. Wednesday, the temperature is supposed to rise to 46°, but with rain. That means that Sugar the Weather Dog and I need to get out for a nice long walk this morning.

Yesterday, we didn't get out of bed until noon. Being retired, I didn't mind. Sometimes though, I just have to get up, Even retired, I feel as though I've wasted the day when I look at the clock and it is after noon. We got a call from Adam before rising, and that made staying in bed easier. I spent some time reading after lunch and a short walk with the intrepid one. I never got to the man-cave. Maybe today.

We did get to the store, we donated some of Sugar's old beds to the resale shop next door, rather than throw them away, and then I returned those cans. Mary did her shopping, before we traveled to our favorite watering hole for a bean burrito.

I never heard an early train, and I doubt that there will be one now, so in this case, I guess that I slept through them. I was wrong. Shortly after this blog went to the ether, I heard the sound of a train horn, What to my wondering eyes did appear, but two shiny engines and some cars not so dear. Engines 2019 and 2057 were heading north, towing 20 covered hopper cars, one of those dreaded black tank cars, and one lone box car. I surmise that the horn happy engineer was at the throttles, because the horns never let up as the train passed through town at 3:00 a.m.

Later today, I plan to do some additional reading and then I may get to the man-cave to finish those saw horses. The balance of my work will have to wait until I get the wood to replace what I used to make the saw horse. That will probably be Thursday afternoon after my appointment at the orthopedist.

That looks like enough for one day. I don't have a set schedule and Mary is between indexes, so that means that nothing needs to be done right now. However, I seem to recall that there are some changes to a previous index that need to be done. Or, I might be imagining that.

At any rate, the sun will set at 8:01 p.m. later today. Ciao.