Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 5:45 a.m. in The City."

We have a current outdoor temperature of 62° that feels more like 61° with a wind out of the east @ 10 mph. The overnight low is forecast to be 61°. Today's high temperature of 64° will be the last in the 60s for many more days. Plus, we have a 70% probability of scattered T-storms today. STWD will not be pleased. 

The NWS in GR is showing a current barometric pressure of 29.69" of Hg and falling, while my own DTWS is showing 29.15" of HG and rising. I'll go with the pressure here at the manse versus the presure in GR. But, and that's a big but, generally speaking, falling barometric pressures are a sign of stormy weather which is in the forecast from the NWS, so...

The sun will rise this morning @ 7:14 a.m. and set this evening @ 8:19 p.m.

We got a lot accomplished in the vast gardens yesterday. Mary planted the seeds for her herb gardens/pots and I spread lots of fertilizer. Oops, not that kind of fertilizer, but the odor of that other kind is reminiscent, was spread on the numerous roses in our gardens. Since the rain is supposed to fall today, we hope that that will allow the fertilizer to soak in and the herb seeds to ultimately sprout.

Since the temperature was in the upper 70s yesterday, we took the opportunity to give both of our fur-children a bath. The chance to get them outside to dry while we gardened was too good to pass up. Ginger is very curly now and STWD is clean but miffed, by being required to take a bath. They both got dental treats after their ordeals, so that made up for some of the indignities forced upon them. 

Before that, we were off to Spring Lake to pick up my new glasses and make a pick up @ Ace Hardware™. We had hoped for some photo-ops while out, but various factors, including a bad automobile accident, precluded that. Oh well, maybe on our next outing. In the category of odd feelings, it was a weird feeling to actually walk into a store for a pick up after more than one-year of forced segregation. 

Speaking of accidents, the 3 - 3 Cubs took an accident into the 10th inning yesterday against the now 3 - 3 Brewers and came away with a 2 - 4 loss. The Cubs' offense was buoyed by a home run from Joc Pederson in the bottom of the 8th inning to tie the game at two all. But the Brewers came back against the porous Cubs' bullpen and reliever Brandon Workman, who signed late in the offseason for a "paltry" one million dollars. The rest is history. The Cubs have a game today in Pittsburgh against the 1 - 5 Pirates when RHP Jake Arrieta, 1 - 0, takes the hill @ 1:35 p.m. EDT.

My beloved 3 - 3 Red Sox snapped out of their early season funk and defeated the 2 - 4 Tampa Bay Rays 9 - 2, as third-baseman Rafael Devers looked like he was finding his hitting groove. The Sox' pitching staff looked solid too, as starting RHP Nathan Eovaldi 1 - 1, got the win for the beloved. The Sox travel to Baltimore today for a 3:05 p.m. start, with 0 - 0 LHP Eduardo Rodriguez going for the beloved.

The 3 - 3 Tigers snatched defeat from the jaws of victory yesterday with a 2 - 3 loss to the 4 - 2 Twins. The loss went to starting RHP Matthew Boyd 1 - 1, as the Tigers got the slumber in the lumber again yesterday. They couldn't mount any real offensive threat to support what was a solid outing by Boyd. The Tigers are off today before they travel to Cleveland on Friday to meet the 1 - 5 Indians for a 7:10 p.m. start, as RHP Julio Teheran, 1 - 0, takes the ball for A. J. Hinch and the Tigers.

Which brings us to to today. With the rain in the forecast and the need for some downtime, why that is when you are retired I'm not sure, we plan to do as little as possible. Mary wants to spend the day reading and I want to get to the man-cave for some repairs to our outdoor equipment, do another crossword puzzle, and also do some reading myself. Another busy day, but one that is more sedentary in nature. Ciao.