Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. Ir is just past 4:00 a.m. in "The City."

Once again, Ginger would not be put off around 3:00 a.m., so I went downstairs to let her and STWD out. Then, I cleaned up the kitchen following an excellent vegan pizza that Mary made for dinner. around 7:00 p.m. Since we didn't get up until 12:30 p.m. yesterday, lunch wasn't until about 1:30 p.m.

Previously, Mary kicked me out of the kitchen so that she could work on a very tasty lunch of vegan mushroom Stroganoff served over my only contribution to the meal, rice. I pronounce this one a keeper too.

Yesterday was a great day in baseball, as my beloved Red Sox toppled the Astros, 8 - 2, to take a 2 - 1 lead over the 1 - 2 Astros in their ALCS series. The Sox' Steve Pearce clobbered a solo home-run in the top of the 6th to give the lead to the Sox, and they never looked back. The game was put away by Jackie Bradley Jr.'s grand-slam in the top of the 8th following two hit batsmen, Mitch Moreland and Brock Holt, who were hit by the Astros' closer, Roberto Osuna.

Starting and winning pitcher, Nathan Eovaldi, was on cruise control. His fastball had plenty of giddy-up on it as he threw pitches that topped out @ 101 mph! Next game is tonight in TX as the Sox meet the Asros @ 8:39 p.m.

Maybe the Brewers aren't for real, as they were unable to capitalize on several opportunities in their 13 inning loss to the Dodgers, 1 - 2. Their NLCS series is tied @ 2 - 2. The next game is today @ 4:05 p.m.

Ginger and I spotted two train runs on the RSTL yesterday. At 9:03 a.m., we espied MMRR locomotive #2019 heading south towing one DBTC, one DWTC, and one tank car that was so rusty that I couldn't identify its original paint scheme. Later @ 2:08 p.m., that same locomotive was seen heading north towing 14 CHCs, one DBTC, and six DWTCs.

We did get a major amount of indoor chores done before we both collapsed due to the lingering effects of our flu shots late last week. With a little will-power, we'll be getting up a bit earlier this morning and I might be able to make that pie and applesauce that I've been meaning to get to for two days. That's very dependent on my energy reserves.

We have a current temperature of 47° under partly-cloudy skies. Today's high is our current temperature of 47°. We do have another Small Craft Advisory in effect following yesterday's Gale Warnings. In addition, the NWS in GR has issued a Freeze Warning for parts of our area from 10:00 p.m. tonight until 10:00 a.m. Thursday. There is a good chance that areas along the shores of the "Big Lake" won't fall that low. The sun will rise today @ 8:00 a.m. and set later @ 6:58 p.m.

Otherwise, not much is planned for today other than walking the fur-children. Ciao.