Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 3:00 a.m. in "The City."

We have a current temperature of 55° under partly-cloudy skies. Today's high will be about seven degrees cooler that yesterday as we reach a sunny high of 65°. The sun will rise today, the first official day of Mary's favorite season, fall, @ 7:32 a.m. and set later @ 7:42 p.m. No precipitation is in the forecast from the NWS until Tuesday.

Ginger and I saw 1/2 of of a train run yesterday, as we espied MMRR locomotives 2025 and 2019 heading south @ 10:15 a.m. towing 18 CHCs. We did not see a northbound run, so we anticipate that that will occur sometime Monday.

Sports news yesterday was fascinating, as my beloved Red Sox tied a team record with 105 wins in their 7 - 5 defeat of the Indians. The Sox and the Indians take the field in Cleveland tonight @ 7:10 p.m .

The Cubs are still struggling to score runs, as they lost to that other team from Chicago, 4 - 10. That other team all too often has the Cubs' number. The Cubs take the field behind Jon Lester  tonight @ 7:10 p.m.

The Tigers still look bad, as the fell to the Royals 3 - 4. The Tigers and the Royals play again tonight, also @ 7:10p.m.

The Spartans of MSU play against the Hoosiers of Indiana tonight @ 7:30 p.m.

The Wolverines of Michigan play at noon today in "The Big House" against the Cornhuskers of Nebraska.

The Huskies of NIU play this afternoon in Florida against the Seminoles @ 3:30 p.m.

I was asleep in my La-Z-Boy while Mary was out yesterday afternoon, when I awoke and decided to come up here to my office. I had been hearing popping sounds from outside and when I looked out the WW, I saw one of the trucks from the GHDPS parked across the street along with a patrol car, also from the GHDPS. The fireman and the police officer were speaking to my neighbor about the house next-door to hers.

 
Turns out from my observations, that the high winds of yesterday were causing a tree branch to come in contact with a power line behind the houses, which produced that popping sound. Linemen from the GHBLP arrived and cut away the offending tree branch, solving the problem.

Also in this pic, is the banner from our front porch that I had to retrieve after the high-winds dislodged it from our pole.

Here are the lineman as they venture into the backyard of the house with the problem.

Since I was out on the front porch of the manse, I decided it was a great time to take additional pix of various subjects. No particular order, rhyme, nor reason.

The lone rose on one of our front bushes, taken with our regular 14 - 42 mm lens.

Same rose, different angle

I think I captured thar rose in a whimsical way.

Once I espied this bane of Mary's existence, a Brown Recluse Spider, that had spun its web nest to that rose bush, well, I had to do a very non vegan-like thing and kill it dead. The choice came down to the spider or Mary's health. Sorry.

Speaking of health, I am still not 100%. My latest illness turned out to be a virus, not a bacterial infection. So no antibiotics can fix me, only time can do that. Mary wants to go to Hemlock Crossing for a presentation entitled Equinox Expedition! from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. I wanted to go, but at this point in time, I don't have the necessary stamina. Soon, I hope. In lieu of that expedition, I'll stay home and read my book for our History Book Club. All of that will occur later in the day due to our ability to sleep in. Ciao.