Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 4:45 a.m. in "The City." Outside the WW, it is a dark and stormy night. Well not really, but I wanted to use that line so that I could sound more like a hack writer than I usually do.

Yesterday morning, we had just enough rain to make no discernible difference. I awoke to the sound of raindrops hitting the side of the PE. However, by the time I got around to being fully aware, the rain was over. I think we got an accumulation of about 0.00000001 inches. Suffice it to say, that after the morning safari with STWD t pick up the newspaper and get a treat for Sugar from her most favorite person,, I had to water the gardens on the PE.

That activity required a subsequent trip to the big-box home center to get a repair part for the watering hose. I had planned to just tighten the coupling at the spigot, but the hose snapped off in my hand right where the coupling attached to the spigot. I like to use the word spigot instead of faucet. All told, the problem was fixed in about 30 minutes. start to finish.

Then Mary made lunch. Her plans were nearly thwarted by her lack of a viable onion, a lack of viable buns for the "burgers" that she had previously formed, and a tomato that wasn't up to her standards. All in all she persevered, and lunch was fine. Sadly, she had gone to the farmer's market earlier to get a few veggies, She didn't know that the onion she had counted on was going to be bad, so she didn't buy one while at the market.

I spent the afternoon reading, listening to the oldies, and doing the crossword from the Grand Haven Tribune. Did I mention that I also got in some time with the girls?

Mary left me on my own for dinner. It was tough, but I survived. I used one of the hamburger buns she waved off at lunch, to make a sandwich and then reheated some of the asparagus soup she had previously made.

Following dinner, I repaired to the front porch with my radio and my book. Mary encouraged me to replace my radio with the speaker that we inherited from Steph and Adam. She visiting from her work station upstairs. I did fetch the speaker and then I changed over to the station that was playing the baseball game. The speaker sounded great.

I finally came inside to watch the boys in blue thoroughly atone for their poor showing against the Tigers the night before. The boys won the game, 12 - 3. What is it the ephemeral they say about payback? Naturally, the Tigers lost that same game, 3 - 12. My beloved Red Sox didn't fare so well, losing to the Orioles, 2 - 5. Sigh. The Caps beat Peoria 5 - 2. The B'Hawks found a way to even the Stanley Cup Finals at 2 - 2, following a 2 - 1 victory over Tampa Bay in a  hard fought game. Next game in two days.

The weather was mentioned previously, but I wanted to close by saying that the forecast once again calls for rain/T-storms, both later this afternoon and evening. That's a 50% chance. Friday's forecast also calls for T-storms with an 80% chance. We'll see. Right now we have hit our low temperature of 61°, before we rise to the predicted high for today of 81°, that's our highest temperature this YTD.

Today I really have no plans. More interplay with the girls, finish my current reading, after a walk with the intrepid one to pick up the newspaper, and then, nothing.

The sun will rise at 6:05 a.m. and set at 9:24 p.m. Ciao.