Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 10:15 p.m in "The City", where the current temperature is 35° with a slight wind out of the east at 5 mph, cooling the actual temperature to 31° under partly cloudy skies. We have no alerts, watches, or warnings in effect at this time. The current barometric pressure per the NWS is 29.89" of Hg and rising, while my own DTWS is displaying 29.30" of Hg and falling. Ah, life on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Our actual overnight low temperature is forecast to drop to 32° before we rebound dramatically to tomorrow's high temperature of 56°, which will be about 17° warmer than today's high. The low tomorrow night will only fall to 46°. The sun will rise @ 7:13 a.m. and set later @  8:20 p.m.

I learned a couple of things this morning while listening to The Flowerland Show, a local program on WOOD radio, that features personnel from the local Flowerland shops. I learned that our soil temperature is only 44° this year versus 60° last year. I also learned that if you observe the blooming of a forsythia bush before planting seedlings, everything should do well.. 

Here in Michigan, as elsewhere in the colder parts of the US, the "Rule of Thumb" is to not plant anything before Mother's Day, which is May 8, 2022. However, as Rick and Doug, the program's hosts pointed out, the cooler temperatures and the gradual warmup this Sprinter are great for the plants even though we humans are not liking the slow warm-up this year. By the by, Mary and I heard the term Sprinter, a combination of winter and spring, for the first time this morning. 

That being said, I  was surprised when I went downstairs this morning to let our fur children out.  I saw that our porch, our parkway gardens, and our deck were covered with snow. Needless to say, that was a surprise I did not want to see. However, since I had my camera near at hand, I took some pix of the snow before it melted soon thereafter as the temperature rose.

I so want winter to be over.

Ginger didn't seem to mind. 

The concrete driveway had no snow cover.

Neither did the concrete sidewalk. But, the parkway garden was totally covered.

I spent much of my day reading the newspapers, doing the crosswords, and finishing my latest novel. I also watched the Tigers go 1 - 1 on this young season as they and starting RHP Casey Mize, fell to that other team from Chicago today, 2 - 5. The only solace is that the Tigers and that other team are tied in the AL Central at 1 - 1. Tomorrow's game will begin @ 1:10 p.m. EDT as LHP Tarik Skubal takes the mound.

I also kept track of the Chicago Cubs, as they moved to 2 - 0, defeating the Milwaukee Brewers for the second time this season, this time by a lopsided score of 9 - 0, with LHP Justin Steele getting the victory. Included in that game was a bench-clearing brawl over batters being hit by pitches and a scare as hot-hitting outfielder Ian Happ was hit in the knee by a Brewers pitcher. X-rays proved negative. Tomorrow's game begins @ 2:20 p.m. EDT as RHP Marcus Stroman throws for the cubs.

Sadly, my beloved Boston Red Sox fell for the second time this season to the Yankees, today going down 2 - 4, as RHP Nick Pivetta struggled and fell to 0 - 1. The beloved fell to 0 - 2 as the Yankees went up to 2 - 0 in the AL East. Tomorrow's game will be played at night beginning @ 7:10 p.m. when RHP Tanner Houck throws the first pitch for the Sox.

We did a bit of spring cleaning today too, and we have numerous items in the car waiting for a trip to the Goodwill store. We also placed our unneeded gardening table at the curb and it was quickly snatched up by someone and moved on to its new home.

Tomorrow, we are going to continue to cross-stitch, read, play music, go for some walks, and enjoy the spring-like 55° temperature. Ciao.