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

I started out with good intentions last night. I went to bed just before the T-storms began to listen to the Cubs' game against the Mets. I awoke a few hours later to hear that the game had been suspended in the top of the 10th because of a rain delay that showed no signs of being short. So, that game will resume again today @ 1:00 p.m. EDT, 45 before the start of today's regularly scheduled game @ 2:20 p.m. EDT. If you had tickets to last night's game, oops, you won't have a ticket for the resumption of that game. Such are the vagaries of climate change in the baseball world.

At any rate, the Cubs still have a NL best record of 77 - 53 as they try to win the suspended game and get seven wins in a row while increasing their NL Central 1st place lead of four games over the 2nd place Cardinals.

My beloved, 1st place Red Sox eked out a win over the feisty Miami Marlins, 8 - 7 last night. Things seemed desperate for a while, but a walk-off throwing error by the Marlins, allowed J.D. Martinez to score the winning run in the 9th to secure the win and avoid their first four-game losing streak, something no other team in baseball has avoided. Whew! At any rate, the Sox' bullpen imploded and nearly cost the Sox the game. The Sox and the Marlins play again tonight @ 6:35 p.m.

The Tigers, as usual, lost another game to the even more inept, Royals, 2 - 6. With 30 games left in their season, things do not look bright for the Tigers this year. They once again play the Royals this afternoon @ 2:15 p.m. EDT to attempt to salvage something of this lost season.

The Caps were off yesterday and they are in Dayton tonight to play the Dragons @ 7:00 p.m.

We had another set of T-storms last night that drove STWD to her hide-e-hole. They are over now, but the NWS has forecast a new round of storms for this morning, beginning anytime now. I have the blinds open on the WW to see what develops. This is the third day in a row of the storms that we needed all summer. Oh well, that's climate change for you. The sun will rise into stormy skies @ 7:06 a.m. and set later @ 8:24 p.m. In between, the skies will remain cloudy. We should remain dry for a few days.

It took two days, but the southbound train run that tool place on Monday with locomotive #2025 towing two DWTCs, one GTC, and six extra-long DBTCs, concluded with yesterday's northbound run @ 10:06 a.m., with that same locomotive towing six CHCs, nine DBTCs, and four DWTCs, one with a green anti-corrosive stripe around its mid-section. The way the manse shook with the passage, I could tell that the cars were fully loaded.

Today, I have another P/T appointment. My shoulder is feeling better, so next week's appointment, my last, should give me the relief that I sought. Like Mary oft opines, I have issues in most of my joints due to the stress and strains of my many careers and my own height.

We have an appointment to get the fur-children groomed today. STWD doesn't like it at all, and Ginger would avoid it if she could. However, Sugar is dingy and needs a pawdicure, while Ginger needs the same on her paws and also a trim, because as a terrier, she doesn't shed, so she is looking shaggy.

 Otherwise, we'll run some small errands and then settle in. Ciao.