Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 2:30 a.m. in "The City."

Like last night, I went to bed to listen to the 30 - 20 Cubs' game versus the 26- 23 Indians. Also like last night, the Cubs won the game, this time in 10 innings, 3 - 2. SS Javier Baez drove a ball into left-field in the bottom of the 10th that pushed Ian Happ across the plate for the winning run.While the Cubs kept me on the edge of the bed, so to speak, this time, like last night, they came away with the win for another reliever, RHP Jason Adam, 2 - 1. Starting pitcher, LHP Jon Lester, 2 - 2, left the game early for reasons as yet unknown. Perhaps he was in a funk thinking that he had started his last game in Wrigley Field. He was quoted as saying, "Six yearrs went by so fast."

The Cubs welcome the 31 - 20 Twins to the "Friendly Confines" Friday night @ 8:15 p.m. EDT, when RHP Kyle Hendricks, 5 - 4, goes for the Cub's fifth win in a row.

My beloved 18 - 32 Red Sox fell to the 25 - 22 Marlins in Miami last night, losing the game, 4 - 8. The Red Sox get no rest, as they have a game today @ 1:10 p.m against the Marlins, when RHP Nathan Eovaldi, 2 - 2, tries for his next win in this disappointing season. 

The 21 - 27 Tigers lost to the 21- 29 Royals last night 4 - 8, in spite of rookie LHP Tarik Skubal's "dazzling" performance. He did strike out eight batters, but the Tigers were their own worst enemies. The Tigers host the 26 - 22 Indians, fresh off their own loss to the Cubs tonight @ 7:10 p.m. EDT, when rookie RHP and former #1 draft pick, RHP Casey Mize, 0 - 1, takes the mound.

I was ineffective at keeping my physical activity to a minimum yesterday.  After lunch, in spite of my plans, I decided to do a small amount of yard work along with more watering. That was after I started and left the indoor chores to Mary. 

When I came in, I was just going to do some spot-cleaning of the carpeting, but that morphed into washing the tile floors, spot cleaning the upstairs carpet and then cleaning a good portion of the living and dining room carpets. I finished with a cleaning of the area rug in the mud-room. By then, I should have been done, but we decided that the fur-children needed to go walkabout in the cemetery. 

I read something yesterday. The best camera you have is the one that you have with you. That being said, I took along my Olympus DSLR and took some pix at the cemetery while the fur-children enjoyed some new smells. I snapped some markers, some flora, and a lone crow atop one of the markers.

"The truth is out there!" Nevermore?

An angel in mourning.

I've taken this marker from a distance, so a close-up seemed in order.

Same here.

And here.

Our Senior Staff Photographer encouraged me to take this pic. I like the contrast of sunshine and shadows.

A similar effect.

We came home finished a movie that had been rudely interrupted by the TV app we were viewing the day before, as we munched some jalapeno flavored potato chips. When it came time for dinner, Mary carefully prepared some leftovers. It was after dinner when I moved upstairs for the baseball game.

Today we will do as little as possible. Mary plans a trip to the Fast Lane™ grocery pick up service, but that is the extent of her plans. I hope to read more, work another crossword puzzle, and play some music. Ciao.