Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 12:30 a.m. in "The City."

We had a great day at the ballet yesterday. The traffic got a little backed-up in GR due to the tail-end of a marathon of some sort, but once we worked our way around the closed streets, we arrived with time to spare.

What was supposed to have been five vignettes became four, due to an injury to one of the dancers. I can honestly say that Wild Sweet Love was a tour de force by the GR Ballet Company and their new Artistic Director, James Sofranko. There is not a bad seat in the Peter Martin Wege Theater, the home of the company. The dancing was wonderful and we came away delighted. We think that even Adam would have liked this ballet.

In another type of dance, the Chicago Bears fell to the New England Patriots, 31 - 38, to drop to 3 - 3 on the season. Mitch Trubisky, the Bears QB, tried to rally the team with a final Hail Mary pass, but while his receiver caught the ball, he was denied entry to the end-zone. Trubisky didn't sugar-coat the game, he said that he could have played better and it should not have come down to that Hail Mary pass. Oh well, the Bears host the Jets next week @ 1:00 p.m. EDT.

We have a current temperature of 50° under partly-cloudy skies. Today, the high is forecast to reach 53° under sunny skies. That is about eight degrees warmer than yesterday. I plan to do some yard work in the back-forty. Mary can't assist me because according to her allergist, she is allergic to nearly everything that grows in our back yard. Oh well, I can handle it as long as I take my time and don't overdo. The sun will rise this morning @ 8:06 a.m. and set later @ 6:50 p.m. In between, we'll walk with the fur-children to pick up a couple of books we have on hold at the library.

Otherwise, what I have planned to do today will actually be enough for two days, so I'll be busy. Mary plans to scour the house looking for a camera related item that went missing when the carpet was replaced. We do have to make a stop @ Ace Hardware™ in Spring Lake, but that shouldn't take too long. Ciao.