Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 12:00 a.m. in "The City."

I watched another Hallmark Channel movie last night entitled Country at Heart, starring a former student, Jessy Schram, and Niall Mater It was nice to see a former student who has made good.

Yesterday, Mary and I once again dared the grooming goddess and groomed Ginger, who mostly cooperated. Afterwards, I heaped more indignity on Ginger when I bathed her. 

We think she looks adorable, one of the names to which Ginger responds.

Instead of our usual TV fare, we watched Pride and Prejudice on Amazon Prime™. This series was made in 1995, so it is old, but as Mary pointed out, the basis for the this movie was the novel of the same name, written in 1813 by Jane Austen. I like to think that this version is the best of the lot, but that's just one man's opinion.

We have a current temperature of 46º that feels like 44º due to the 5 mph winds.We are seeing rain showers off and on that will become steady later this morning. Those 5 mph winds are a precursor to the Small Craft Advisory that will go into effect @ 8:00 a.m. this morning and extend until 8:00 p.m. tonight. That Small Craft Advisory means that we will experience winds from 10 - 20 knots and gusts to 30 knots. We are also likely to see waves from two to six feet in height from St. Joseph to Manistee.

The sun will rise this morning @ 7:45 a.m. and set later @ 7:21 p.m. There is also good news on the weather horizon. While today's high will only reach a chilly 54°, starting Monday, we'll see high temperatures in the lower 60s. Then on Wednesday, the high will fall back to the upper 50s before we see highs in the upper 60s for Friday through Monday.

Our foray into dog grooming yesterday was in itself quite an accomplishment. But, we also managed to do the indoor chores and do some reading. I worked on my harmonica lessons too.

Today, the 3 - 0 Chicago Bears were scheduled to play the 2 - 1 Indianapolis Colts @ 1:00 p.m. However, the NFL has moved that game to 4:25 p.m. Bears head coach, Matt Nagy, has named Nick Foles the Bears starting QB in place of the ineffective Mitch Trubisky. It looks like Trubisky will join the ranks of high draft picks who never quite became the stars that they were projected to become.

The 1 - 2 Lions will play the 2 - 1 Saints today @ 1:00 p.m. Both teams will either come away 2 - 2 or the Saints will improve to 3 - 1. Odds anyone?

Elsewhere, Mary took the time to make a terrific vegan lasagna for dinner, that used one of my recently crafted vegan Italian sausages along with vegan ricotta cheese and her secret recipe sauce. I liked it!

The weather has not been conducive to walkabouts with the fur-children. We had no rain of significance all summer and now it seems to be raining steadily. Sigh.

I plan to change the artwork on our mudroom chalkboard sometime today. That's all I have in my playbook other than watching football. Mary will probably continue her reading and I am going to get rolling on my next library book along with more music. Ciao.