Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 2:00 a.m. in "The City."

The NWS is reporting a temperature of 59° F, while the DTWS is displaying 61.3° F. The NWS is forecasting a 40% chance of T-storms this morning and a 60% chance of T- storms tomorrow, Saturday.

That leads me to an explanation of our activities yesterday. We took the morning safari with STWD before we traveled to the hospital for those aforementioned X-rays and my final knee treatment. I have another appointment in four weeks for my thumb, but before that, I have some P/T appointments. Mostly, the therapy will be done by me at home following the doctor's advice and that of the P/T therapist. The X-rays looked fine according to the doctor, as did the various incision sites. I still have four weeks in the removable cast.

Once we returned from lunch at the hospital cafeteria, we got down to work in the gardens and lawns of the PE. Mary spent some of her time watering, carrying my tools back and forth to the garage and actually using the leaf blower that we inherited from Adam and Steph. She still prefers a broom, but allows as how the quiet leaf blower is acceptable. I used both the smaller and the larger of the two blowers we had inherited. I had started by one hand raking the soil in the front parkway in preparation for the new grass seed. Mary dragged the hose to the front so that I could water the newly placed seeds after I had raked them into the soil, also one handed.

Since the car was out of the garage, Mary rightfully decided the garage needed a thorough cleaning. I tried to convince her that this was, in fact, organized dirt, but she wasn't buying, That led me to recall one of my favorite phrases from a long ago M & Ms™ TV commercial. It is the phrase that goes, "What a chocolate mess", that refers to the mess that happens on your face and hands when you eat a regular chocolate bar instead of candy coated M & Ms™. I use the phrase when anything needs to be cleaned up, like the garage, or when anything doesn't go as planned. Mary was right, as there were things in the garage for which I didn't even know the purpose, along with dirt that had accumulated over the years. At any rate, the garage is all clean and organized now.

As an aside, I didn't know that the word Fizzies™, a brand name from long ago, can be used to refer to any noisy social gathering, as in "This place has the Fizzies™."

But I digress. I also moved a bean and a tomato plant to better locations and then strung two strings for the bean plants to climb as they grow. Here's hoping. I actually found the edge of the bricks that form the edge of our patio that leads to the vast back lawn and gardens of the PE. I had to chop my way through the trees and vines that have overtaken the gardens in the back. Mary was sweeping, adding beach sand to my shell collection, and creating a shell garden for indoors, along with organizing the garage while I was using the leaf blowers. I finished up weeding as she watered the gardens. Once again, all of this one handed.

We still have to amend the soil and plant the new plants, but we are almost there. As usual, Mary had to make me stop so that I didn't overdo. That's something I did while she was at her recent weaving activity in Muskegon a few weeks ago, before my thumb surgery.

After that we walked to the library to turn in my first book and get my card signed for credit towards my beach bag. We also picked up some books that we both want to read. Mary also accepted a job for a new indexing task. The topic looks interesting, but Mary is fairly certain that the book has end notes, the bane of her existence. We'll know when it comes in to the indexing office and we print it out.

Most of my teams were off yesterday, but they resume action tonight, still in the same relative positions that they enjoyed yesterday. Worthy of note, is that that other team from Chicago has dropped to 30 - 30 in the A. L. Central, three full games in back of the division leading Indians, and one-half game behind the 2nd place Tigers and the Kansas City Royals. Isn't life grand?

We'll take today's morning safari with the intrepid one if it isn't raining. Sugar was in her hide -e-hole yesterday afternoon, so I guess that she felt a disturbance in the force. She won't go out if she feels a disturbance later this morning. Right now, she is sleeping next to the bed. Then we'll finish the amendment to the soil, plant the plants, and then water the new grass seed and those plants. Did I mention that I'll be doing these activities one handed once again?

Mary has a chat session this afternoon, but that is the extent of our level of ambition for today. We may also walk downtown to get some things laminated, but that will be a game time decision. That walk can depend on the level of post-treatment pain in my knees, which sometimes occurs on the day following treatment.

The sun will rise at 6:05 a.m. and set at 9:24 p.m. Ciao.