Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 3:45 a.m. in "The City."

I had an interesting day yesterday. Overnight last night, my wireless keyboard stopped working. Upon further review, to use a sports analogy, I discovered that one of the batteries had leaked and rendered the keyboard inoperable. Since the battery was a name brand, I emailed the manufacturer regarding a resolution. I received a prompt reply yesterday morning and I got money to replace the keyboard, and the batteries. A great resolution.

That necessitated traveling to one of the big-box office supply stores to purchase a new keyboard, which Mary and I did late yesterday. Since I had already decided to replace my old office chair, while we were there, we also purchased a new one of those too.

Also yesterday, I received a reply from the city's director of public works regarding my recent query regarding the sidewalk in front of our home. Apparently, GH has a program that will assist in the replacement of the concrete, that had been displaced by the roots of the big tree in the parkway. Unfortunately, that will require removal of the tree. I'll miss the tree, which was dying due to the restriction of its roots, I won't miss raking the leaves from that tree. The new concrete next spring will be a significant improvement.

On to the mundane things of life. Trainspotting yesterday was a bit different. The southbound run at 10:20 a.m. consisted of only locomotive #2019 moving very slowly through town, towing two BCs, and seven CHCs, one very long.

The return run of the same locomotive occurred while I was out with STWD, at 2:05 p.m. Sugar did not like the roaring of the locomotive as it passed. Once again, the train was moving very slowly, but the mix of cars had changed. Four CHCs, four DBTCs, one very new, one GTC, and one very rusty tank car of unknown contents, but which I suspect contained acid of some type based on the missing paint.

Today, I need to make a run to the big-box home center in Muskegon to make a return. While there, I'll pick up anything else that I may "need." In addition, I'll get to some of those indoor chores that I put off yesterday.

Mary has more indexing to do, while I have no assigned duties other than reading the newspapers from yesterday and today. Naturally, I'll also be doing the crosswords. I know I have to do more highlighting too.  I may try to place a few more pieces in my jigsaw puzzle. I'm making slow but steady progress.

The temperatures are heading down here in GH. Currently, we have an outdoor temperature of 42.3° under mostly clear skies. As the days pass, the temperatures will continue their downward trend. Saturday's high will be a more seasonal 33°. The precipitation that is forecast to fall on Wednesday will be in the form of rain, so I'm not complaining. Last year, the street looked like the photo below that I took out the window of the weather office.

Today's high is expected to reach 43° and tomorrow, 49°, with that aforementioned rain. I guess that that isn't a downward trend, yet.  The sun will be rising at 8:09 a.m. and setting at 5:10 p.m. today. Ciao.