Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 2:30 a.m. in "The City."

Well I made it, I'm officially 64 years old today. No big deal sure, but when I was a mere lad of 59 or so, I thought I might not make it to 60. But I did, and so I plan to enjoy my day and do just what I want to do., well mostly. I'll take the morning walk with STWD, which is always a pleasure. She will love me for it and I'll enjoy being out and about.

Mary will be working on my valances in her craft room, and I'll be reading the newspaper while sitting in my La-Z-Boy. To once again borrow from that old beer commercial, "It doesn't get any better than this."

In sports, the boys in blue are definitely back, as they dropped another one to the Dodgers, 2 - 5. Their West Coast road trip is becoming their worst nightmare. Is Jon Lester for real? Sadly, he is all too real. I grant that teams that score a total of four runs over three games, versus teams that score 18 runs over that same span, are going to have a hard time pulling the proverbial rabbit out of the hat. But, that's what good teams have to do.

Speaking of an inability to score runs and an inability to hold the other team under 15, I offer the Tigers recent score. On Saturday, they lost to the Blue Jays 1 - 15. Baseballs were flying out of the park like there would be no tomorrow. We were watching at the Post, and every time Mary looked away, the Blue Jays were scoring runs in droves. Someone called for a new manager in Detroit to replace Brad Ausmus. Without a bullpen, not even Joe Torre, Tony La Russa or Tommy Lasorda could make this team a winner. That's because they have no starting pitching either.

Now we know why Dave Dombrowski's contract was not renewed as Detroit GM.  His fatal flaw in Detroit was trading away or losing good pitchers and decimating the farm system to win now. Unfortunately it will take years for the new GM to rebuild the Detroit farm system. However, Dombrowski was hired by my beloved Red Sox.

On a positive note, those same Red Sox are still on a roll, once again defeating the Mets 3 - 1. The Caps, lost by only one run, but the pitchers that one man at the Post said the Tigers could call up from the Caps in September, gave up 15 hits, as the Caps lost 6 - 7 to the Lug Nuts. Oops. Oh, the Bears found another way to lose, 10 - 21, in their case to the Bengals.

In the weather department, Saturday was mostly rainy with a side of more rain. We needed it, so that's okay. I won't have to water any time soon, I hope. Today, will be partly cloudy with a high temperature of 76 humid degrees.

Yesterday, we traveled to that aforementioned garden center, where we got some mums, some additional perennials, some minor bulbs to scatter, and two pumpkins for the front porch. Now I have to plant the perennials and the mums. Oh well, that's the life of a semi-retired farmer/gardener. The bulbs will wait until later this fall. Oh, I forgot to mention that the flower I called yellow cone flowers in a previous blog, are actually called Black Eyed Susan. They have a scientific name too, Rudbeckia hirta. I'll stick with Black Eyed Susan. Here's their picture again, with their garden mate, the pink hibiscus, or is it pink hibiscuses?. Why? Because I like to look at them, again.

Looking good, again.

Otherwise, the day will be pretty uneventful. The sun will rise at 7:08 a.m., and set at 8:23 p.m. Ciao.