Good evening GH. How are you tonight? Personally, I'm great. I had a terrific day in "The City." The cold frame is nearly finished. I assembled it in the driveway, and it is installed in its new home in the back forty. I haven't installed the top yet, as the painting and glazing aren't done, but otherwise, it is complete. I'll be posting pictures as soon as it's done. Getting it level required moving more dirt than I had planned, but with a little help from Mary, the job was done. Once I get the top on, it's up to Mary to finish the plantings. She tells me that the real test will come next fall, when crops are added that need to be protected from the winter.

While I was working on assembly, Mary and S T W D took the morning walk to the library and the newspaper box. When they left, the cold frame was a pile of parts that looked strikingly like a pile of lumber. I had to resist the urge to say "Ta Da!" when they returned. Once the top is painted, glazed, and installed, I'm done. The installation of the top may take a few days, as the forecast is for rain over the next several days. I can paint in the man-cave, but the installation will have to wait.

It was such a nice day, that we walked over to the favorite watering hole to watch the end of the Tiger's game, which the Tigers won 4 - 0, behind a strong showing by starting pitcher David Price. We had hoped to see my beloved Red Sox beat the Phillies, which they did, 8 - 0, but the game was on some channel that was not available. The boys in blue play again tonight in the not so beautiful confines against the Cardinals. Here's hoping they can get even with the league.

I just watched the southbound train run. Two locomotives, one box car, four C H Cs, and four of those D B T Cs. I suspect that the northbound run will be more substantial, but I hope to be fast asleep by then.

Today is a day in which nothing needs to be done. We may go out to the big-box everything store for groceries, but, we may not. Naturally, S T W D, will want her morning walk, but if it is rainy, she may go out on her tether. I think we'll be okay,.

Speaking of S T W D and her tether, the other day Mary let her out and we noticed that she wasn't on the end of her tether. That's because her steel cable tether had snapped about two feet from the end. No, she isn't that strong, it must have developed a defect. Fortunately, S W T D hadn't gone anywhere except into what we call no man's land next to the deck. In addition, while Mary and I were working in the back forty yesterday, S T W D, while on her replacement tether, decided it was time to do something she had never done before, dig in Mary's flowers. That earned Sugar a scolding from Mary.

So, that's about it for life in "The City." We'll achieve a high temperature of 50° after the sun rises at 7:17 a.m. under those cloudy skies. By the time the sun sets exactly 13 hours later at 8:17 p.m., the rain should be arriving, and continuing off and on, over the next several days. Ciao.