Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 12:30 a.m. in "The City."

Let's get it out of the way. The Cubs' bats didn't come to life in the first game of the 2016 World Series. John Lester and the relief corps struggled as the Indians put six runs on the board and cruised past the Cubs to a 6 - 0 victory. Game two is tonight and the starting time has been moved up by one hour to try to escape the expected precipitation.

Speaking of precipitation, the NWS has forecast a chance of rain for later today starting @ about 2:00 a.m. with 15% and continuing throughout the day with percentages ranging from 75% - 95%. In short, this will be a rainy stay indoors kind of day. The fur-children will have to accept that the morning safari and subsequent outings will be short and f or Ginger, farther apart. We have a current temperature of 42° under mostly cloudy skies as we await the rain. Today's high is forecast to be 45°.

We had a great day yesterday when we visited Newaygo to see the changing leaves. Unfortunately, this is not a good year for color and so the memories Mary and I have of falls gone by will have to suffice. We did stop in several shops in Newaygo, including The New Ewe Yarn and Quilt Shop. Mary bought some way cool yarn that she plans to turn into a shawl following a pattern that she also purchased. She claims that I enabled her as she was ready to leave without a purchase. Perhaps she is right, but the yarn is way cool and the shawl will look great when she is done. So I'm okay with the purchases.

We stopped at a place named Jimmy's Roadhouse for lunch where we had a terrific veggie burrito with an onion ring appetizer. The food was excellent and we put Newaygo and Jimmy's on our return list. We took a different route home and stopped in Spring Lake to have some adult beverages 2 Stans. Then home to let the fur-children out and feed them their dinners. STWD was more than willing to go out and come right in to eat, but ginger is still proving to be a difficult nut to crack. We'll get there soon, we hope.

I repaired to the media room to watch the Cubs fall to the Indians. Once again, Mary provided room service for my viewing pleasure. The intrepid one was there to assist with any leftovers. I shouldn't be spoiling her, but I am, so I know why I am her favorite human. Worthy of note is that Mary made another of her spicy tomato loaves and I think this one was the best so far. Some of that loaf was part of the room service delivery. Sugar can't have any loaf because one of its ingredients is onions. She had to make do with vegan cheese, crackers, pickles, potato chips, and crackers. She didn't get all that much, though.

Today I plan to read more, play with the girls more, and stay out of Mary's way as she puts in some serious time on the index that is due on Thursday. She assures me that the index will be ready for editing by Thursday afternoon and then we have Friday to do with as we will.

The sun will rise but remain unseen @ 8:12 a.m. and set @ 6:44 p.m. Ciao.