Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 6:00 a.m. in "The City."

For most people, this is probably a regular time to get up on a weekday, and way too early for a weekend. For me, this is rather late, considering my regular schedule and the fact that I am retired. Mary has been thinking about retirement too, but every time she does, another interesting book crosses her path and she is drawn back into the world of professional indexing.

Speaking of indexing, Mary has more to go on the current index, so I have been doing some of my regular chores here on the PE as well as walking the fur-children and doing some of the cooking too. I just have to remind myself that standing on my feet for too long is not, repeat not, good for my yak.

Yesterday, I started my day with watering, as I just never know if the forecast from the NWS will actually mean what they say. Naturally, it rained later in the afternoon and into the evening. It was a good thing that I took the fur-children out when I did.

I walked with STWD to The Bookman for the Friday edition of the  Grand Haven Tribune and then Miss Ginger and I walked downtown to the bank so that we could both make a withdrawal. Ginger waited patiently to receive hers until it was time to leave and then she wanted immediate access. Overall, she was a good walking companion.

I came home and started lunch. Once again, I made another of my kitchen "Bests". a large bowl of rice and a stir-fry of soy curls, julienned carrots, sliced celery, sliced portobello mushrooms, re-hydrated garlic and onions, and bean sprouts, mixed with with my "Secret Sauce." It tasted great and with the able assistance of my newly promoted Sous-Dog first-class, Miss Ginger, I had a great time.

Mary arrived for lunch and she enjoyed my efforts and "suggested" that since I was in the kitchen, I should consider making my famous vegan Italian meatballs. So after lunch, I did that too. All of that is a roundabout way of saying, I have no plans to do more in the kitchen today. I will have to walk the fur-children, but that keeps me in motion so that's a good thing.

We have a current temperature of 67° under cloudy skies. In fact, the NWS is forecasting a 60% chance of scattered T-storms this morning, followed by showers until about 3:00 p.m. EDT. The NWS has also forecast that today's high will reach 76° under cloudy-skies once the sun rises @ 7:01 a.m. and well before it sets @ 8:31  p.m.

Oddly enough, when I was walking the intrepid weather dog yesterday, the northbound run of the train came by on the RSTL. I think it was the second-half of the run that occurred the day before. On Thursday, MMRR locomotive #2025 rolled past heading south towing nine CHCs @ 12:50 p.m. EDT. Yesterday @ 11:15 a.m., that same locomotive rolled slowly past STWD and I heading north, towing four CHCs, seven DBTCs, and two GTCs.

In light of my interest in the passage of the trains and our shared interest in photography, Mary once suggested that I should call the railroad and ask them their schedule for the trains. Somehow, with the cargoes that they carry in those dreaded tank cars, I don't think that is information that they will share with a random caller.

We had our tickets for that Sunset Photo Walk  in Muskegon yesterday, but with the forecast from the NWS calling for cloudy/rainy skies along the lakefront, we opted not to go. No sun, so no sunset. We may have to go to the Pere Marquette Park in Muskegon and do our own Sunset Photo Walk in the future. Unfortunately, as neophyte camera enthusiasts, we won't have the expertise of the Olympus camera rep nor Justin from The Camera Shop to guide us. However, we still plan to go to the Hemlock Crossing County Park on Sunday for the Prairie Wildflower Walk scheduled for the afternoon, weather permitting.

We should be able to get the index into the ether today and then we can relax and enjoy the balance of our weekend. I will be editing after Mary finishes her efforts before a final edit by both of us.

I'm getting long-winded, so I'll just mention that the words that I wrote in my previous blog were prophetic. My beloved 1st place Red Sox lost to the 3rd place Rays yesterday, 3 - 10. The 1st place Cubs eked out a win over the last place Reds, 3 -2, on the strength of a home-run by David Bote and a walk-off, 10th inning home-run, from Daniel Murphy. The 3rd place Tigers fell to that 4th place other team from Chicago, 3 - 6. The 4th place Caps lost to the 3rd place Loons, 0 - 8. To use a very trite phrase, "That's the way the ball bounces."

Today, walks with the fur-children, indexing and editing, and more crossword solving from the weekend edition of the Grand Haven Tribune, which publishes the Sunday puzzle from the Los Angeles Times. I like Monday's easy puzzle the most.

By the by, I mentioned earlier that the NWS had forecast scattered T-storms for GH this morning. Well, the not far-off sound of thunder and the current view out the WW confirmed that forecast. By the by, this storm is another gully-washer and STWD is in her hide-e-hole. Ciao.