Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 4:00 a.m. in "The City." A current temperature of 43° that feels like 37° will ultimately lead to today's expected high of 58 cloudy degrees. The clouds will turn to showers later this evening. Tomorrow the NWS has forecast a similar high temperature, albeit with rainy and windy conditions prevailing. Like I often say, that's springtime in West, MI.

In sports, the Tigers made a big trade yesterday as they attempt to get down to their opening day roster limit of 25 players. I used to wonder why any team had a 25 player limit, but I now realize that teams like the Yankees, with what has often seemed to be unlimited funds, would buy up all the players that were good, and leave nothing for the other teams. Maybe that's what they have done with free agency, although that hasn't produced the results of the days when the Yankees had their "Murderer's Row" in the 1920s. They had a good run during the days of free agency too. It finally gets down to the farm system. However, when a team has a player of a certain age and he is still a "prospect" then you have to question the management of that system too. Witness the Cubs all too often.

The Tigers like all the MLB teams are trying to decide which players to keep. Money and other considerations change thinking, but the comments from the fans indicate that they don't like this trade move very much. If the team followed the advice of their fans, the general manager would trade the field manager and then fire himself.  The Tigers were once again rained out, this time in a game with the Blue Jays. The Cubs defeated the As, 9 - 5 yesterday behind a strong performance by opening day starter, Jake Arrieta. Like the Tigers, they optioned several players to the minor leagues to get their opening day roster down to 25. My beloved Red Sox fell to the Twins 2 - 6 as they too try to decide on which players go north.

After the morning safari with STWD and Mary's chat, we did make it to the big-box hardware and home center yesterday. All in all, we've had worse experiences, That was after stops at the USPS and the UPS offices downtown, along with a stop at the accountant. We finished up our day at Sportys.

We never got those pictures hung and now the latest indexing project has come in, That will mean that more things go on the back burner, including my pleasure reading. Speaking of that reading, I was laughing uproariously while reading The Last Open Road yesterday. Like I'm sure I've said, it is garage humor that many people who aren't car people wouldn't find funny.

So today, it is back to normal, whatever that is. A morning walk with the intrepid one, reading the newspaper, playing with the girls on a limited basis due to my aching thumb, which I will be having repaired in June, and of course, highlighting in my support role to Mary's indexing enterprise. Will we ever get those pictures hung? Check back for further news. It should be a trainspotting day too.

The sun will rise at 7:30 a.m. and set at 8:10 p.m. Ciao.