Tuesday, November 22, 2016

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

First, let me say that when it comes to transferring pictures from the Smart Phone to this computer, I am at a complete loss. The pictures are on the phone, I can see them, but this computer reports that there is nothing to import. I think it is a bad or incomplete connection between my brain and the two devices. That's too bad because there are some pictures of GTWD's new look and of both Mary and I holding our fur-children on our laps in the living room on that camera phone. Oh well, maybe someday I'll figure it out.

Right now, you'll have to take my word for how great Ginger looks following her visit to the local groomer, Sitting Pretty™. Believe it or not, Ginger has a face and she is much lighter in color than we knew. We plan to take her about once every four weeks so that she can always look her best. STWD goes there too, but she just comes back clean, no grooming required.

Mary walked the wonder dog over in the early afternoon while I stayed back to rake what I hope are the final bags of leaves from the lawns of the PE. Collectively, we walked over to Sitting Pretty™ later in the afternoon  to retrieve the wonder dog.

Speaking of the leaves, I created three more bags full. While that may not seem like much for people who have multiple bags @ every trash pickup, I have bagged about 10 total bags. Hopefully, these will be the last. When I went to my barber yesterday, I told her of my plans for yard work. She asked where all the leaves come from. I noted that while we lost our biggest contributor, the big maple tree in the parkway that was felled earlier in the spring, the leaves seem to blow down the street from nearby Central Park. They then end up on the lawns and gardens of the vast PE. My neighbor, Ron, agrees with me. We pay for bags and supply the labor so that "The City" can save my tax dollars for other activities.

Speaking of other activities, I replaced the light fixture in the upstairs bathroom yesterday. Mary and I selected a replacement fixture on Sunday @ the big-box home center in Norton Shores. This fixture uses LEDs instead of incandescent bulbs to produce daylight-like light. The lighting is brighter, uses much less energy, and brightened the room considerably. What a difference.

I finished another book yesterday. Now I have to get back to highlighting. I have some baking to do too, but I can do that during the day while Mary works on the indexing of the catalog that she had to put aside yesterday as she did some indoor chores of her own. However, she was able to multi-task and do some needlework as she waited for successive loads of laundry to be washed and dried. Plus, she made sandwiches for lunch and some tea for our mid-afternoon snack of my banana nut bread. Is this a new tradition? Maybe, but nonetheless, it was very tasty.

There were no trains to spot on the RSTL yesterday, only a lone work truck that rolled by in the early afternoon. Maybe the train crews are taking the week off for the Thanksgiving holiday. Maybe I'll know more as the week unfolds.

Today I'll get to the baking of the pumpkins for my pies along with some other indoor chores. Since Mary handled the laundry yesterday, I just have to dust the shelves and other furniture here in the manse of the PE. That's about two hours of work. I plan to do more highlighting and also some additional reading too. I want to get to playing with the girls and reorganizing my Irish Jam music folder too, but that is not a pressing concern.

I got a tentative spring training schedule from the Cubs in my email yesterday. The Cubs have not yet given a date for their pitchers and catchers to report, but the opening game of spring training against the As of Oakland is tentatively scheduled for February 25, 2017. As anyone who knows me can attest, I am born again each year when the pitchers and catchers report to AZ for spring training. The calendar has one date for the first day of spring, March 20, 2017, I have another.

The current temperature is 27° under cloudy skies. Later today after the sun rises @ 7:46 a.m., the high temperature is forecast by the NWS to reach a zenith of 41°, also under cloudy skies. The sun will set this afternoon @ 5:14 p.m. The NWS has forecast rain/freezing rain for early Wednesday with a high temperature of 39°. Ciao.


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