Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just after 6:00 a.m. in "The City."

We have a current temperature of 75º under partly-cloudy skies. With wind-speeds of 8 mph, it feels like 76º. Today's high-temperature forecast from the NWS calls for a sultry high of 79º under sunny skies. We had a 45% chance for some T-storms beginning around 8:00 p.m last night. As usual, the rain events missed us and so it was a good thing that I watered yesterday. I'll be watering again tomorrow.

The high-temperatures for the next several days calls for temperatures in the low 80º range. We anticipate an overnight low tonight of 69º.

The current barometric pressure is 29.85" and falling according to the NWS, while a separate reading of 29.27" on my DTWS shows steady pressure.

The sun will rise later this morning @ 6:30 a.m. and it will set later @ 9:11 p.m.

Brunch yesterday was chickpea linguine topped by a homemade down and dirty sauce, as Mary likes to call it. I was outside watering, so who am I to complain? Later, she took the time to make a marinade for some of the tempeh that we had in the refrigerator and when coupled with her homemade thousand island dressing and sauerkraut, the Reuben sandwiches were delicious as we watched another two episodes of Downton Abbey. Previously, we watched The Man in the High Castle again and it is eerily prescient. Or perhaps, it is a warning of things yet to come.

I was privy to the final scores of the MLB™ games of my choice through the magic of radio, TV, and the internet.

My beloved Red Sox fell to the visiting Orioles. 4 - 7, as the Sox thin bullpen once again proved their downfall for the second straight game, as the beloved lost to the Orioles and lost their first series of the season. The now 1 - 2 Sox welcome the also 1 - 2 Mets to Fenway Park for a game tonight @ 7:35 p.m. EDT as LHP Josh Osich pitches for the Sox against former Cardinal RHP Michael Wacha.

The Tigers are now 2 - 1 on the young season, as they once again topped the 1 - 2 Reds, 3 - 2, with RHP  José Cisneros getting the win in relief following a dinger by 1st baseman C. J. Cron in the top of the ninth that the Reds could not answer. Tonight, the Tigers are home for the first time to face the K. C. royals and former Cubs RHP Mike Montgomery, with the Tigers' own RHP, Michael Fulmer, set to go @ 7:10 p.m. tonight in Comerica Park. Fulmer had a rough, injury-plagued season last year, but he looks to be healthy once again versus Montgomery.

The boys in blue, AKA the Cubs, took their game 9 - 1 over the visiting Brewers with RHP Tyler Chatwood recording eight strikeouts as he got the convincing win. If Chatwood has turned the corner, he can be a part of what was a suspect Cubs' pitching staff. Catcher Willson Contreras got his first homer of the season, a 451' shot to the empty centerfield bleachers. 3rd baseman Kris Bryant got his first hit of the season as he dropped one into centerfield in the 6th, which brought cheers from his teammates. The Cubs are now 2 - 1 on the season. Tonight's game features the Cubs LHP Jon Lester against the Reds own LHP, Wade Miley in Cincinnati @ 6:40 p.m. EDT.

Today, I plan to do more reading, more playtime with the girls, and perhaps take a walk in Lakeforest Cemetery with the fur-children, which yesterday's heat and humidity precluded.

Mary will return to her latest read, In Search of Mary, no pun intended, by Bee Rowlatt. This is the story of Rowlatt's search for the true-life legacy of Rowlatt's heroine, the first celebrity feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, an 18th-century feminist, philosopher, and writer. I have my genre's, detective, and adventure fiction, while Mary has hers, which tend to encompass her own avenues of interest, like feminism and dystopias. Otherwise, that's enough for one day. Ciao.