Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just passing 4:00 a.m. in "The City." This morning I wasn't so tired, so I got up to write this blog for my many fans.

We have a current temperature of 61°, the overnight low. Today, we'll see a high of 79° under partly cloudy skies. Tomorrow, it will be 80° with windy conditions prevailing. Friday and Saturday are showing a forecast for rainy conditions. Only time and STWD will tell.

In sports, the boys in blue lost the first game of their doubleheader, 4 - 5. Once again, the pitching let them down. The second game was a rare masterpiece from Jon Lester, which the boys won 2 - 1. Speaking of pitching, the Cubs Jake Arrieta has an agent who knows that Arrieta is the real ace of the staff, and free agency should be a big payday for him. Once again, only time will tell, but Arrieta's agent is known to be a tough negotiator. The boys have a record of 83 - 61, good for third place behind those Pirates and the division leading Cardinals.

The Tigers took it to the Twins by a score of 5 - 4. A win is a win when you are going nowhere. They are currently in fifth place, with a record of 65 - 78. My beloved Red Sox fell to the Orioles in 13 innings, 5 - 6. They too are in fifth place with an overall record of 68 - 76. The caps open their Midwest League Championship Series tonight against the Cedar Rapids Kernels.

Yesterday, I got my bulletin board finished. Here's a picture of the end product, sans bulletins.  I took several pictures, but I like this one the best.

It hangs adjacent to my Nickey Chevrolet picture, which is on the adjoining wall above my desk. 

Elsewhere on the PE, I made some repairs to the outer door area of the man-cave. The concrete in the area had deteriorated over the past few winters, so it needed doing. Now I just have to add some paint. 

Did I mention that I was going to purchase a wood plane to make the closure of our cold frame more winter tight? Turns out that a little ingenuity allowed me to use a straight edge made from an extra piece of lumber that I had in the man-cave to guide my circular saw as I cut the excess lumber at the appropriate angle. I added some weather stripping that we got free when we first came to the wilds of GH, and voila, the job is done. I didn't have to purchase anything. That is the ultimate in frugal, or re-purposing, or as Adam calls it, cheap.

Today, I have to do a final edit on the index that Mary has been working on. While I do that. she will be working on the next index. Then collectively, we'll make the final edits to the index that is going out today and slap it on it's bottom and give it a name, done. 

That's all I have in the hopper for today. My gimpy knees are acting up a bit, but that's because I am due for my twice yearly treatments. The insurance won't pay until six months have elapsed since the last series of five, so I have to wait until October. I sure hope that the the government doesn't get between me and my doctor. Knee replacement is much less expensive, much less intrusive, and requires hardly any physical therapy and recovery time. Much better than the treatments I am getting 

The sun will rise at 7:25 a.m., and set at 7:53 p.m. Ciao.