Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 1:00 a.m. in "The City."

We have a current temperature of 39° that feels like 39° with a one mile per hour wind blowing and all of that under cloudy skies.

The sun will rise this morning @ 8:13 a.m. and set later @ 6:42 p.m.

I watched the 5 - 2 Bears embarrass themselves last night, as they lost to the 5 - 2 LA Rams, 10 - 24. Too many penalties, some deserved, some not, too many turnovers, and too little imagination on offense. Nuff said. The Bears welcome the New Orleans Saints to Soldier Field next Sunday @ 4:25 p.m. EST.

The way the Bears played last night, may turn me into a Detroit Lions fan yet, as the Lions came back in their game Sunday afternoon to defeat the Atlanta Falcons, 23 - 22. 

Yesterday afternoon, I went up to my studio to play some music, while Mary traveled to the local big-box nearly everything store to pick up some needed things. After her stop there, she took a ride by herself to the Lake Forest Cemetery to walk the trails of the adjacent Duncan Woods near the area we recently walked with the fur-children. She discovered some trails that would have been difficult for me to navigate with the leaves covering some roots that would likely have tripped me. 

She didn't take along her camera, but she did manage to use her Smart Phone to snap a couple of nifty pix of the trails she was traversing.

I don't think she was in Kansas.

But the ravines look very inviting, especially in warm and dry weather. 

We watched another episode of Lark Rise to Candleford before dinner. We can't wait for the elections to be over so that we no longer have to see an endless stream of political ads on network TV, many of them filled with innuendos, half-truths, outright lies and very little that was true.

I was up early yesterday morning and earlier this morning to watch the southbound run of the trains on the RSTL that passes just to the east of the manse. 

Yesterday, I observed MMRR locomotives 2019 and 2025 passing by at a high rate of speed towing six CHCs, all loaded, @ 12:20 a.m.

This morning, I watched as those same locomotives reversed their order and passed by heading once again heading south, towing four CHCs, and 15 CGCs. The cars seemed partially loaded.

Once again, I was awake enough to not the passage of the train heading north @ 5:03 a.m., but I was too lazy to get up and look. I only know that it was much longer than the southbound run earlier this morning. 

Today, the only plans we have are for me to visit my orthopedist this afternoon for my final set of knee injections. Otherwise, I want to read more from a book I am thoroughly enjoying written by Lucian K. Truscott, IV written in 1998, entitled Full Dress Gray. I wanted to try this book before I checked out Mr. Truscott's newer works. Plus, more music beckons me.

We do have some indoor chores to accomplish, but they can wait for another day. Ciao.