Good morning or good evening, wherever ou may be. It is just passing 12:00 a.m. in "The City."

This should be a short blog, as I don't have much to report about what happened in GH yesterday.

We took a long morning safari with STWD and then returned home so that I could assist in the kitchen and Mary could prepare our lunch of veggie hot dogs and I could prepare my latest version of Coleslaw. We enjoyed both. Somewhere in there, Mary put her vegan ham roasts into the Crockpot™ and then went upstairs to do some indexing. I watched just enough of the Lions/Bears game to satisfy my need for NFL football, and then I repaired to the man-cave for those aforementioned planned activities.

I revised my paper cutting jig for our desktop notepads and put the first coat of paint on the lid for the cold frame. It felt great to use a large number of tools while listening to WGVU, the Real Oldies station out of GR.

Mary informed me through the open outer doors of the man-cave that she was off to the medium-box grocery store for some desired/needed items. That was fine with me because I was happily working in the man-cave.

I returned upstairs to find that she was just arriving home and then she returned to her office to sort out a problem with the latest index. Our CA based IT guru assisted Mary by phone and in short order, the problem was solved. I'm not sure of the chronology, but it is close enough.

I spent some time reading in the afternoon along with the reading I did late last night, I am up to page 315 out of 473. This being a large-print edition, I should finish later today or Tuesday, just in time for our book club meeting on Wednesday.

Later in the afternoon, Mary came down to prepare a side dish of scalloped potatoes that was based on a recipe that we recently got from the internet. They turned out wonderful as did the vegan ham roast. The potatoes are a keeper and of course, the ham always was. Mary allowed the hams to cook in the Crockpot™ for the time specified in the recipe and so they were also great.

Sports news is rather brief. The Cubs defeated the Reds 7 - 4 and await the winner of the NL Wild Card contest on Friday. The Cubs ended the regular season with a record of 103 - 58,

The Tigers crashed and burned in their final game, losing 0 - 1 to the cellar-dwelling Braves. That loss ensures that the Tigers will be watching the playoffs from their couches @ home. What will become of Tigers' manager Brad Ausmus? Did the players save his job for another year? We should know soon.

My beloved Red Sox fell to the Blue Jays @ Fenway Park by a score of 1 - 2. The Sox await the winning Indians for a game on Thursday, time to be announced.

In pro-football, the Lions fell to the Bears by a score of 14 - 17. Both teams are now 1 - 3 in the NFL Central.

Today, I need to call the Four Pointes Center for Successful Aging, if we don't get there in person, in order to make an appointment for a hearing check  later this month. Neither Mary nor I can hear as well as we would like, so it is time to get checked and make whatever accommodations are deemed appropriate.

Otherwise, Mary has to work on the index and I have to read. I never got to play with the girls yesterday, so I'd also like to get to that activity.

We show a current temperature of 58° under fair skies. There is no rain in the forecast from the NWS and so I may get to that lawn repair that I'd like to do. I need a few days of no rain to allow the weed killer to take effect. I can plant grass seed after two additional weeks have elapsed. Today's high is expected to be 69° under partly cloudy skies. If the forecast from the meteorologists @ WOOD TV/Radio is accurate, we are in for a warm up later this week.

The sun will rise @ 7:45 a.m. and set @ 7:01 p.m. Ciao.