Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 2:00 a.m. in "The City." I'm going to keep this short.

Trainspotting yesterday was fantastic. At 10:36 a.m., the southbound run rolled by. EMD GP 38 locomotives 2057 and 2019 were freshly washed and towing a single box car, 10 CHCs six DBTCs, and two gray or dirty white tank cars. The gray or white cars are generally filled with anhydrous ammonia fertilizer. At 3:00 p.m., the same locomotives rolled back north, towing only three CHCs, four DBTCs, and one gray tank car. In witness of their passage were myself and several of the neighborhood children.

In sports, the boys in blue were never in the game. The Dodgers outscored them 5 - 2. The Tigers were overwhelmed by the Indians, 2 - 8. My beloved Red Sox slipped past the Orioles, 5 - 1. A solid score, but given their overall record, the Sox are not having a good season. The Caps are still enjoying a break for the All Star game. They'll get back to work, if you can call playing baseball work, later today.

Mary and I took the day off and took a nice long walk to the local salad bar purveyor, North Ottawas Community Hospital. Round trip that's about two miles. We returned to finish the gardening on the PE for another day, as STWD chewed happily on a bone in the zone. We then set out to get some things from the local resale stores to make a few wind chimes to hang in our gardens. Mary found some great plans on the internet that I have to transfer into physical reality. I still have to get some fishing line to hang everything.

Later today, I have to put my highlighting hat on, again. A short effort, but another of those books that is probably not of great interest to yours truly, but we'll see. That will consume most of my day.

The weather forecast from the National Weather Service calls for a 25% chance of showers at midday, and a high of 78° under partly to fully cloudy skies. No great threat, but I'll await the forecast from STWD, as always.

The sun will rise at 6:06 a.m. and set at 9:28 p.m. Ciao.