Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 4:15 a.m. in "The City."

I did a lot of work in and on the lawns and gardens of the vast PE yesterday. I pulled the fading crops and raked some leaves. I ended with two bags full to paraphrase the old nursery rhyme. All of that was following the morning safari with both fur babies. STWD is being her usual self, while Ginger needs some serious housebreaking, I also found time to put the final coat of paint on the lid for the cold frame.

A busy day to say the least. Oops, I believe that one of my professors from long ago might have equated stating that with the need to not say something is obvious if it is actually obvious. Oh well. Oops, is that obvious too?

At any rate, yesterday we had a terrific/delicious lunch of roast beest with garlic smashed cauliflower and the remaining garden grown potatoes all covered with Mary's mushroom gravy. I'll risk being redundant when I note that anything with gravy is okay by me.

We traveled to the big-box home center later in the afternoon to buy some needed items and to take advantage of their 11% rebate program. We got most everything we sought with the exception of the desired grass seed as was recommended by our neighbor and various websites. It was not available there. We'll try to get some @ the Ace Hardware™ in Spring Lake later this week.

A nice segue to the stop we made @ Stan's Bar and Grill in Spring Lake after the stop at the big-box home center. As always, the regular cast of characters, us included I guess, had assembled @ about 4:00 p.m. Some adult libations and we were off to home.

In lieu of a formal dinner, Mary prepared a nice snack tray for STWD and I as we watched the Cubs fail.

Sadly, the Cubs fell to the Dodgers in LA by a score of 0 - 6 last night. The Cubs are now down in the NLCS 1 - 2. The Cubs big boppers, ie those in the batting order who got them to the post-season, still have too much slumber in the lumber. The Dodgers had a journeyman pitcher on the mound to face Jake Arrieta so the big RBI guys were expected to break out. Clearly, they didn't. Oops, I'm stating the obvious again. The Cubs and the Dodgers play again tonight @ 8:00 p.m.

The Blue Jays staved off elimination from the post-season as they defeated the Indians 5 - 1. The Blue Jays now have an ALCS record of 1 - 3. The Blue Jays would not be the first team to come back after being down  0 - 3, but it is an uphill climb. They will play the Indians again today @ 4:00 p.m.

Today I'll finish the highlighting as Mary continues to work on the index. Collectively, we'll work on Ginger's housebreaking. We are spoiled as Sugar has been perfect for so long. I believe that the pundits say that housebreaking is more about the pet parents than the pet. We'll see. Ginger is too cute to give up now.

Otherwise, I'd best get busy as the plumber is due here in about four hours to fix the kitchen sink drain.

The current temperature is 51° under partly cloudy skies. Today's high has been forecast to be 66° under sunny skies. According to the local meteorologists in GR, the temperatures will be dropping by Thursday. There is no rain in the forecast for several more days. The sun will rise @ 8:03 a,m, and set @ 6:54 p.m. Ciao.