Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 4:30 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is a relatively warm, 49° under mostly-cloudy skies. Today's high is forecast to reach  51°. No rain is likely to develop until late this evening, starting around 11:00 p.m. @ 25% and growing to 65% by about 7:00 a.m. Tuesday. The sun will rise today @ 8:14 a.m. and set later @ 6:42 p.m.

We had a good day of doing nothing yesterday. We watched some TV news and then did some reading. I am about 1/2 way through a book I heard about at the Harbor Springs Festival of the Book that we recently attended. The author, Chanelle Benz, was one of the panelists at the festival and this is her debut novel entitled, The Cone Dead. Ms. Benz has written numerous short-stories and received many awards for her work. She currently lives in Memphis and teaches college there. This book is about life in a small Mississippi town. It has become a real page-turner for moi.

Yesterday, we saved all kinds of time by paying scant attention to the Bears loss, 16 - 17, to the visiting Chargers. We also avoided watching the Lions, but they were more successful, defeating the 31 - 26 win over the visiting NY Giants. OH, in limited baseball news, the visiting Astros defeated the National, 7 - 1, to go up 3 - 1 in the 2019 World Series.

I didn't get to any of the cooking things that I had planned. Instead, I used my time to work on a pair of socks for Mary that required coloring with fabric markers. It took me abut one-hour to color her Unicorn socks as seen below.

One more craft project down, many more to go.

I also found time to decide on a name for my newest ukulele. I hereby present, Lorelei, a name that originated in Germany and which while not Hawaiian, is a girls name that means alluring or temptress. That seems apropos to me. Here she is.

She is tuned like a guitar, so she is much easier for a player with my skill-set.

Otherwise, we walked the fur-children to the library to return some books and went to our favorite watering hole later, once the Lions' fans had headed for home.

Today, I may get to to that apple bread I had planned for yesterday. Or not. Mary is still reading The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

In keeping with Adam's advice, John will be by today to do some painting in the foyer, turning our mattress, and "assisting" me in removing and storing my window A/C unit for the winter. That means that I'll mostly watch as he does the bulk of the work.

Time now for some early-morning TV. Ciao.