Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 4:30 a.m. in "The City."

Wow! I'm listening to CoasttoCoastAm on WOOD Radio with guest host Richard Syrett sitting in for regular host George Noory. Syrett's guest is Psychic Sloan Bella. Her specialty is being a conduit for otherworldly beings and deceased spirits. She was just asked to tell the listeners about John Lennon and his early demise and was asked about whether Lennon would have reunited with the Beatles. She said he would have, but that it would have been on a personal level, not as a band. In addition, she said that Lennon was taken early for a reason that we can't know, but that his work here was finished. Go figure and believe what you wish.

Yesterday, we took an early walk with the fur-children and then dropped off Ginger at doggie daycare for the afternoon. Since the weather was exceptionally pleasant, we did a few errands and then we were off to the Feast of the Strawberry Moon on Harbor Island. We can now take that activity off of our collective  "Bucket Lists."

While we were there, Mary got the chance to buy some handspun, hand dyed yarn from a vendor with a booth there. The vendor, Apple Cart Creations, http://applecartcreations.com, raises their own "Wool on the Hoof", as we like to call sheep.  While the proprietors of Apple Cart Creations do own a farm and raise sheep, they do not shear their own animals, preferring to leave that to professional shearers. However, they do spin the wool into yarn and dye it themselves. At any rate, Mary assures me that the cost for the yarn, $10.00 per skein, is great and may be a good enough reason to return again next year.

For those of us not color color-blind, the yarn is green in hue.

"Wool on the Hoof" miniatures.

Since this is an event staged by reenactors portraying people in the U.S. in the early part of our existence as a colony and a nation, there were many people who were dressed as people would have dressed during that period. including Native Americans.

Also worthy of note, was the presence of a Town Crier as he would have appeared in the colonies of that period.

Complete with bell and announcements to be read.

No period correct reenactment would have been complete without a village blacksmith plying his trade.

Also, in addition, no recreation of the time period would have been complete without a few canoes and cannons.

One of several.

Fortunately, the large cannons, when fired, had no projectiles.

Nor, did the small ones.

You can't have a festival of this type without Buskers entertaining the crowd. In this case, we watched a pair juggling and involving an audience member in their act.

With clubs in front and behind her, she survived.

You also can't have a festival without period-correct music.

I knew some of the players from other activities around "The City."

As I noted earlier, the weather was beautiful, albeit a tad on the windy side, as some of the vendors could attest.

Yesterday in sports was mostly good, except that he Cubs are finally experiencing their annual "June Swoon." Beginning June, 2, they won five in a row over the Cardinals and the Marlins before they began their swoon against the Marlins and now the Rockies. They have since lost four in a row including yesterday's 1 - 9 drubbing by the Rockies. The Cubs strong pitching of last year seems to have become much weaker this year. Along with sporadic hitting and run-scoring, the Cubs are floundering. They have a current sub .500 record in the NL Central of 30 - 31, still good enough for 2nd place. The Cubs hope to right the ship this afternoon against the Rockies @ 2:20 p.m.

The Tigers were drubbed by my beloved Red Sox yesterday by a score of 3 - 11. That leaves the Tigers still in 3rd place in the AL Central with a record of 29 - 31.

Conversely, my beloved Red Sox hammered the Tigers, 11 - 3 to move to an AL East record of 34 - 27, but they are still in 2nd place as the Yankees continue their winning ways and remain in 1st place in a strong division, by three games over the Sox.

The Caps defeated the Dayton Dragons last night by a score of 5 - 1. That gives the Caps an MWL East 1st place record of 40 - 21. The Caps and the Dragons play today @ 1:00 p.m. on "Kid's Day" at the Fifth/Third Ballpark.

We have a current temperature of 70° under clear skies with breezy/windy conditions. The winds in the backyard are not strong, but those in front of the manse are blowing @ 15 - 25 mph according to the NWS. Later today, we'll experience a high temperature of 82° under partly-cloudy skies. The sun will rise @ 6:05 a.m. and set @ 9:24 p.m

Today, Mary plans to knit more and do some other crafty type things after our morning safari with the fur-children. I plan to read more after I water the lawns and gardens of the PE. I had other things planned, but they can wait for another day. I read last evening on the front porch of the manse as Mary made dinner, another pizza in a cast iron pan. It was great and still a keeper.

I also plan to do some indoor chores and some baking today too. I am planning to try a recipe for hot dog buns that I recently downloaded. Ciao.