Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 5:00 a.m. in "The City."

I got up to let the fur-children out around 3:45 a.m., and do some kitchen duties that needed doing following Mary's latest dinner effort. Her culinary efforts produced what I'll describe as spicy blackened tofu over cous-cous. I liked it!

Today's weather forecast from the NWS calls for a Gale Warning on the "Big Lake." That means that waves may be 7 - 10 feet in height and the winds driving those waves may be as strong as 34 - 47 knots. If you'll remember, a knot is the equivalent of multiplying 1.150 mph X the number of knots. So, that means that the wind speeds would be from 39 - 54 mph!

We have a current temperature of 46°. The sun will rise later this morning @ 7:59 a.m. and set later tonight @ 7:00 p.m. In between, the NWS is forecasting that the high temperature will reach 55°. However, much like yesterday, the gale-force winds will make that high temperature feel much colder due to the effects of Wind-Chill Factor, which results from the passage of cooler air passing over exposed flesh.

There is a a fancy formula to calculate the Wind-Chill Factor effect, but suffice it to say that it will feel chilly. The net effect of any form of cooling, whether from air-conditioning, refrigeration, or being outdoors in cool weather, is to move warm to cold. So, that means that your body-heat will be moving from you to the cooler outside air.

Last night in baseball, the Brewers proved that they are for real, as they defeated the Dodgers, 4 - 0. That gives the Brewers a 2 - 1 lead in their NLCS series versus the Dodgers 1 - 2. Game four is tonight @ 8:09 p.m. Two more wins for the Brewers and they go on to the World Series™, while the Dodgers go home for the winter.

My beloved Red Sox are tied with the Astros in their best of seven ALCS series, 1 - 1. Game three is tonight @ 5:09 p.m. I guess that the powers that be in baseball have scheduled the games to generate the maximum interest.

We didn't do too much yesterday. We got up late, walked the fur-children, independently, and then didn't do much else. I am feeling better now, as the apparent side-effects of the over 65 flu shot gave me some light symptoms of the flu. Apparently, the over 65 vaccine has some live virus in it to make it more effective for us oldsters.

Today, it will be another get up late kind of day. Then we'll walk the fur-children, do some indoor chores, and I'll get to making that apple pie and applesauce. Mary will get around to some e-mails that need to be sent and hopefully also read some more of my work. I hope to be a famous novelist someday.

I mentioned in my last blog that Mary had purchased some interesting pumpkins and paired them with some gourds and a red mum. I asked if she had taken any pix, so she did that yesterday. I'll share one here along with some pix of the fur-children that she took candidly.

I didn't arrange the pumpkins, gourds nor the mum. Probably a good thing, because I work better with pillows than pumpkins.

What's a blog without STWD?

Or Ginger, ever on the alert.

In the media room, the fur-children had given me their full attention in hopes that I'd share my potato chips. I did!

As Warner Brothers cartoon character, Porky the Pig used to say, "That's all folks", so I'll give you a short clip from YouTube™ of him doing just that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBzJGckMYO4

 Ciao.