Good morning or good evening,wherever you may be. It is just past 3:30 a.m. in The City."

It seems as though Ellen got it right when she added the Dr. Seuss cartoon  to my timeline. Here in W, MI and specifically in "The City", the weather can often be different than the forecast from the NWS. Yesterday, they were mostly inaccurate, as the the rains that came were part of a forecast that had called for a wintry mix of rain, sleet, snow and .... Well, you get the idea.

Right now, the NWS and my indoor weather station, with its front porch sensor, agree that the outdoor temperature is 28°. That 28° feels like 18°. Later today, we may, or may not get to the high of 40° that has been forecast by the NWS. As an example, yesterday south of here by about 40 - 50 miles and a bit east, the high temperature rose to the mid fifties, well over the forecast high temperature. We had rain and cold winds all day here in GH, and when it was time for STWD to have her final out at about 8:30 p.m., it was snowing. Even our local, that's GR for us, weather forecasters, were flummoxed by the vast difference and the lack of snow here in GH.

Very often, the "Big Lake", Michigan, makes the weather here in GH different than that in GR or the balance of the state. We don't generally get the lake effect snow that is inflicted on IN unless something odd happens and then we get dumped on. 10 or so miles to the north in Muskegon or a little farther north in Whitehall, the snow may fall very heavily, while here in GH, we get little or nothing, or vice versa. Like I've been known to say, "Go figure."

But I digress, which I often do. We did stay in bed until noon yesterday. It was raining and it felt good to just stay snugly in bed. The intrepid one was OK with that. When we finally got up, we had a good lunch of sandwiches and cottage tofu along with broccoli. Sugar finally went out. By then, Mary decided that she wanted to get out to buy the newspaper.

Since the rain had eased a bit at that point, Sugar and I decided, well I decided, that the intrepid one should go for a short walk. She wanted to avoid going out in the rain, but I coaxed her and off we went. We hadn't motored very far when the call of duty made Sugar sure that it was time to go home. We did and that was the extent of our walking for the day.

Otherwise, not much was happening. Mary spent some time in her kitchen making what she felt was not her best mushroom gravy that she served over nuked red potatoes and the balance of her roast beast. I liked it. Like Adam, if you put gravy on something, I think that it tastes great.

We watched some news, and then I traveled to the media room to watch some car shows and the Cubs on TV. Then it was time for bed. Mary stayed downstairs and, I believe, did some knitting,

Speaking of the boys in blue, the much ballyhooed matchup between Jake Arrieta of the Cubs, last season's Cy Young award winner in the NL and Madison Bumgarner of the Giants became a slugfest that ended with a win by the boys in blue over the Giants, 16 - 14. Arrieta left the game with a blister and was not the eventual winner. Bumgarner, the Giants ace, was equally ineffective. With the season openers fast approaching, the players that finished the game for both teams were guys mostly wishing and hoping for a shot in "The Show." The Tigers fell to the Blue Jays 4 - 6, while my beloved Red Sox were victorious over the hated Mets, 4 - 1.

Otherwise, not much was happening. I read the paper, Mary read it before me and did the word search that is in the comics section. Then I read the paper and did an unusually tough crossword. I also spent some time reading further in The Last Open Road, and laughing out loud. I know that Mary doesn't get the garage humor, but Adam does. I have Montezuma's Ferrari by the same author, Burt S. Levy, waiting on my shelf. There may also be some trainspotting too, or not.

We never got to the picture hanging, but there is always today, before or after Mary's regular Friday chat session. Saturday, we will be going to an afternoon presentation regarding Edible Spots and Pots at Flowerland™ in Comstock Park, a suburb of GR and home to the Caps. Last year we received some free vegetable plants at a similar presentation, so maybe this time too.

The sun will rise at 7:39 a.m. and set at 8:04 p.m. Ciao.
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