Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and the world. It is just past 6:30 a.m. in "The City."

We have a current temperature of 63º under partly-cloudy skies. Today's high temperature is forecast to reach 79º under mostly sunny skies. That's a few degrees cooler than yesterday's high temperature! Right now, the Relative Humidity Index is a sultry 90%, due in large measure to the small amount of rain that fell around midnight last night or early this morning, your decision.  Our RHI for today will be a less sultry 63%. All in all, it should be a much better day than we've had over the past week.

There is now only a 10% chance of rain in today's forecast. It still looks as though the best chance for additional precipitation is now August 27, over one-week away and then only @ 50%!. I'll be watering tomorrow and for many more days to come.

According to the NWS, the barometric pressure is 29.94" and falling.

The sun will rise this morning @ 6:53 a.m. EDT and it will set later this evening @ 8:43 p.m. EDT.

Once again, I'll dispense with the baseball news except to say that my teams went 0 - 3 again yesterday, and once again I'll reference the slate/schedule for today's games.

Today's/tonight's games have the 13 - 6 Cubs @ 5:15 p.m. EDT versus the 4 - 4 Cardinals in game one of a doubleheader, followed by another game against those same Cardinals at a time to be determined by the end of the first game. RHP Kyle Hendricks, 3 - 1, will go for the Cubs in game one.

The Red Sox play tonight @ 7:05 p.m. EDT, once again versus those damn Yankees, as LHP Martin Perez, 2 - 2, pitches for the beloved.

The 9 - 10 Tigers play against that 11 - 11 other team from Chicago @ 8:10 p.m. EDT tonight. The Tigers have hopes that the visit to Chicago will yield better results than the last several games in Detroit versus the Indians, as LHP 0 - 2, Matthew Boyd hurls for the Tigers.

We enjoyed those nachos I strongly alluded to in yesterday's blog for lunch, while dinner was a nice chickpea salad with garden-fresh tomatoes topped by Mary's homemade French dressing. In between, we made a short visit to Lakeforest Cemetery with the fur-children for a walkabout. The temperature and humidity are now low enough to make that possible once again. Here's hoping for many more such visits.

Naturally, a visit to the cemetery and dinner necessitated some pix courtesy of our Senior Staff Photographer.

Julia lived to be 100 years of age!

Sadly, this child lived a very short time.

These two were sisters. Mary thought it interesting that of the two headstones, the one the right for Lena, was leaning.

Winnifred was also just a baby who died in infancy, with only this maker to commemorate her life.

At home, we had a visitor to our deck. With a lot of consternation, we took this pic of him/her. The consternation stemmed from the fact that we couldn't get the blind on the back door to go up. That's because we forgot that we had asked to have it secured at the bottom when it was installed. In this case, we were not even collectively a wit, much less a half-wit.

Our very tasty dinner with a side of cucumber salad.

Hard to read, but an interesting marker.

Today, we have nothing on the agenda. A few packages to open, some newspapers to read, more puzzles to solve, more Downton Abbey and The Man in the High Castle to watch and. Ciao