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

The current temperature is 63° with foggy skies. Later today after the sun rises @ 8:01 p.m., the skies will be cloudy with a high temperature forecast to be 73° by the NWS. The sun will set, pardon the pun, like clockwork @ 6:57 p.m.

Sports news yesterday was only good if you are a Lions fan. In a game of NFL ping-pong, the Lions emerged victorious over the L. A, Rams by a score of 31 - 28. Overall the Lions are now a 3 - 3 team. They host the NFL team from Washington next wee @ 1:00 p.m.

The Bears once again were able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as they lost 16 - 17 to the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Bears are now a 1 - 5 team and they will travel to Green Bay to face the Packers for a game Thursday night @ 8:25 p.m. The Packers are a team that is underachieving @ 3 - 2. The Bears? Well, you decide.

Finally, the Cubs. Sigh. Their bats are experiencing slumber in the lumber once again. Their "Big Boppers" are not hitting the ball and the Dodgers Clayton  Kershaw dominated the Cubs in an 0 - 1 Cubs'loss. The Cubs and the Dodgers play again on Tuesday night in L.A. @ 8:00 p.m.

It was a weird day yesterday weatherwise. Kind of gray following some a.m. T-storms, somewhat rainy, and certainly not a good day for walking.

Mary stretched her walking endurance to the max as she walked Ginger all over GH in a vain attempt to get Ginger to give a clue to her bathroom habits. Hopefully soon. We both walked over to the local pet supplies purveyor, Chow Hound, with Ginger to get her a harness for. We looked at some raincoats, but they didn't have the correct size. That turned out to be a good thing, as Mary in her on-line research learned that raincoats on dogs produce submissive behavior due to the pressure on their backs. Who knew? Needless to say, Ginger will be getting wet, just as she would if she were in the wild.

I didn't get to a lot of my planned activities yesterday. Oh well, that's the beauty of being retired, there is always tomorrow.

Today, we will be walking each dog independently. Sugar and Ginger are learning to tolerate each other, but it will take time.

I have more highlighting to do, but unlike the last book, I am enjoying the topic of this tome. Actually, @ 140 pages, the word tome doesn't really describe this book.

Mary has to get to work on the index as I am highlighting. I hope to get to those planned activities, but one day one way or the other won't make a difference. I expect trains on the RSTL @ some point in the day.  Ciao.