Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just before 5:00 a.m. in "The City."

I'm going to begin with a partial trainspotting report, We still have trains passing by the manse at odd time. For instance, last night @ 11:10 p.m., MMRR locomotives 2019 and 2025 passed by heading south towing 12 CHCs, 10 DBTCs, and three DWTCs. Mary thinks they are hiding something and I tend to agree. Is that a conspiracy theory? Probably not, but it still is odd.

We have a current temperature of 41° that feels like 34° with a 14 mph wind blowing. That wind is part of the Small Craft Advisory that will be in effect until 8:00 p.m. tonight from St. Joseph to Whitehall. Wind speeds will reach as high as 10 - 25 knots today, diminishing to 10 - 20 knots and waves will be 4 - 7 feet until they diminish to 3 - 5 feet later today too.

Today's high will reach 50° under sunny skies after the sun rises @ 8:15 a.m., with 17 mph winds here in Southwest MI. Tonight's low will drop to 39° once we pass sunset @ 6:41 p.m.

Mary put her baking skills on display over the last two days and nights and produced another fine loaf of artisan bread. To paraphrase the movie Airplane! I had the green tomato pie. Well, that was my overnight snack. We tried the bread yesterday afternoon and it is terrific!

This was the best looking and best tasting bread since Mary's last loaf of bread!

I am finished with my knee injections until next spring/summer. 

Before dinner, we watched another episode of  Lark Rise to Candleford and we are still loving the program. 

Today, indoor chores, more music, more reading, and more raking. Like Marshall, our old neighbor, I do a little raking each week and sooner or later, all of the leaves will have fallen and been raked.

In baseball news, the LA Dodgers took last night's game from the Tampa Bay Rays, 3 - 1, to win the World Series, four games to two. One of my favorite players, former Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts, was a huge part of the Dodgers success.

Otherwise, that's enough for one day. Ciao.