Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just passing 3:00 a.m. in "The City."

Not surprisingly outside the WW, the air is turning cool and the skies are not cloudy all night. Of course if they were cloudy, I couldn't see them anyway. In an ideal world, the high temperature today would be 80° and the skies would be partly cloudy with only a slight chance of a T-storm. Wait, surprisingly that's what the forecast from the NWS calls for the day to look like. Saturday's forecast shows a more profound chance of T-storms. However this being GH, I'll wait for the forecast from the intrepid weather dog

Yesterday in sports, was a mixed bag. I say that because the boys in blue split a rare double header with the Reds, losing the first game, 1- 9, and winning the second game, 6 - 5. In short, two games played, no change in the standings.  The Tigers in their usual maddening way, were defeated by the Mariners 9 - 4, after losing the day before, 9 - 11. My beloved Red Sox fell once more to the Astros, this time 2 - 4. I'd say they are fading fast, but that would be clinging to a hope that isn't there. They have faded from contention this season. The Caps dropped the Dayton Dragons, 5 - 4.

I did as little as possible yesterday. Mary worked while STWD and I enjoyed the morning walk to the newspaper office. For those of you who have followed this chronicle of life in our little corner of the world, on our way back, Sugar and I heard the sound of a dog barking in an approaching car. The barking increased in volume and faded as it passed us by, the Doppler effect in real time. Surprise, it was the same Great Dane that I believe destroyed our front porch railing last year and which tried to eat Sugar for lunch another day. Even inside of a moving car, that dog was not in the control of it's human. What's that old joke? "What kind of noise does a large dog in a car make? Any kind it wants to." That apparently was true in this case.

Trainspotting yesterday was another pleasure. The southbound train went past at 10:35 a.m., with locomotives 2019 and 2057 towing a mix of one lone box car, 10 CHCs, and 10 DBTCs, all apparently not loaded. At 4:42 p.m., the same locomotives went past, towing a more heavily laden mix of eight CHCs, and 17 DBTCs, this time more heavily laden.

As I noted earlier, Mary was hard at work all afternoon. She is now officially behind in her efforts. That's because she decided to stay in bed and listen to the radio all morning. I couldn't lie there that long, so I got up and played with the girls and rearranged some music. I guess that we both did what we wanted, but my efforts didn't cause me to fall behind anything.

She did get up in time to make our lunch while STWD and I took our walk. She used the balance of the zucchini that I had smoked the day before to make a great pasta dish of spaghetti noodles, garlic, and olive oil. For dinner later, she made her world famous sauerkraut and Swiss cheese sandwiches. I enjoyed both meals, but as I stated earlier, I'm not behind. However, we did walk down after dinner to see Sally at the Post and deliver some of the banana nut bread that I had baked on Monday.

Today, I should do some household chores, but I also want to go out and shop at the big-box home center in Muskegon. I may also stop and hit a bucket of golf balls at the driving range near there. I want to see what will happen with my yak when I try that activity. I would have done that yesterday, but by the time STWD and I took our morning safari and ate lunch, I wasn't inclined to stand out in the sunshine and swing a golf club. Being retired can be so trying when there are decisions to be made.

The sun will rise today at 6:25 am. and set at 9:16 p.m. Ciao.