Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 2:00 a.m. in "The City."

I had a great day on Friday. I am starting to feel better, so STWD, Mary and I took the morning walk downtown to pick up the Grand Haven Tribune at the box in front of their office. The crossword was interesting to say the least, but that came later. Since I was already dressed for the outdoors, I decided it was time for some work in the vast gardens of the palatial estate. Mary's newest plant is now in the ground. However, I don't think she has given him a name yet. I say him, because this plant will definitely be taller than it is wide as it climbs the trellis that we "inherited" from Steph and Adam..

I also took time to move some plants around in the shade garden to new locations. They were getting crowded and they were also in the way of her newest addition. While I was out there, I discovered that when our neighbor took down his wall, he had "donated" some plants to our right field area. We don't know what they are, but it will be fun to find out. and they are green.

Naturally, while I was out, I had to dig up some dandelions. Mary says that I get a perverse joy from that activity. She's right, I do.

Finally, since I had decided to go down to the man-cave and do some cleaning, I took time to change the filter on the furnace. By the time I was done, I had a loaded vacuum and a clogged filter in the vacuum. All good though, because none of that pesky dust was able to return to the air in the man-cave. Mary gets a laugh each time she visualizes me the last time I used the vacuum down there. I put more dust into the air than should have been possible. Oh well, live and learn.

While I was out in the back forty of the estate, Mary was hard at work in her office on her latest project on this latest edition of foraging Friday. I found some things in the refrigerator that were tasty to me and I was more than happy to do my own thing.

Since I was tired of working by early afternoon, I sat down to do that crossword that I mentioned earlier, and then read more of my latest non-fiction book about the life and times of Robert E. Lee. This one is 600 plus pages, but I am enjoying it. Since it seemed nice when I was out in the gardens, I thought it would be great to go out to the "Bone Zone" with the intrepid weather dog. I read more of the book and listened to the oldies station out of GR, and Sugar chewed away happily. It was all good.

However it was colder out there than I had anticipated. So when Sugar was dome with her chewing, I came in to get warm.

Speaking of STWD, as we were returning from our morning sojourn, we met the substitute letter carrier. STWD is always suspicious of any letter carrier who isn't Dave, our regular carrier, so she was eyeing him with wary eyes. However, since he had a large sized dog treat in his bag, he quickly became her friend. She can be so cheap sometimes.

Sports was a mixed bag. The boys in blue triumphed over the Brewers, 1 - 0. They remain two games back of the Cardinals. The Tigers fell to the Royals, 1 - 4 and also fell into second place. My beloved Red Sox fell to those darn Yankees, 2 - 3 and into third place. The Caps, fell to the Lake County Captains 5 - 6. They are till mired in the nether regions.

Later today, the 141st running of the KY Derby takes place. For me, it is an anniversary of sorts, as three years ago, I found out that I was allergic to sesame seeds. Life has never been the same since. For those are into the sweet science, the much hyped "Fight of the Century", between Floyd Mayweather Jr.and Manny Pacquiao takes place tonight. I guess that Earnest Hemingway would have liked it, since to him, sports required the risk of death.

Lots more happened, but I am going back to bed.

As for that warm weather, today we anticipate a high of 65° under sunny skies. A warmer version of Friday. The sun will rise at 6:37 a.m. and set at 8:46 p.m. Ciao.