Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 4:30 a.m. in "The City", where the current temperature under clear skies is a very comfortable 62°, which should be our overnight low temperature and which is also the "Real Feel" temperature with only a slight wind out of the east @ six mph.

Today's high will be about seven degrees warmer than yesterday @ 83°, with an overnight low temperature of 60°. The skies will be sunny this morning turning to partly sunny this afternoon. We are loving the lows, but we sure don't miss the highs. LOL.

The sun will rise this morning @ 6:51 a.m. and set later @ 8:45 p.m.'

Yesterday saw a return to normal here at the manse, as we can now use our freshly refurbished deck and the fur children can now exit and enter through the back door.

Our vast gardens are proving to be very prolific, as the tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers are coming in hot and heavy. All of the rain we had this past weekend has been good for all that grows out there.

Otherwise, we did more ear-reading and print reading, I worked on the crossword puzzle from the Thursday edition of USA Today, and Mary continued to work on her needlepoint. I had planned to get to other things, but like that old saying, "The best-laid plans of mice and men, gang aft gang agley." So be it, as there is always another day.'

We did finish the indoor chores, so that gives us another day to accomplish what we should have done yesterday, such as a trip to that big-box everything store for Mary and her wing gal, Ginger.

Baseball news yesterday was not good if you are a 47 - 67 Cubs fan, as they fell to the 38 - 78 Nationals last night, 4 - 5, in spite of two home runs off the bat of Ian Happ. The Cubs take the field in D.C. again tonight @ 7:05 p.m. with LHP Justin Steele, 4 - 7, on the mound for the northsiders.

My beloved 57 - 59 Red Sox had the day off yesterday, following their series win over those damn Yankees, with a 3 - 0 win on Sunday. Sadly, the Yankees are probably going to the World Series™, while the Red Sox will be going home at the end of the regular season. 

The Sox are in Pittsburgh tonight to play the 45 - 76 Pirates @ 7:05 p.m. with RHP Nick Piveta, 8 - 9, on the mound for the Sox.

The 44 - 74 Tigers split a doubleheader with the 62 - 54 Guardians yesterday afternoon and evening, losing the first game, 1 - 4, but winning the second game, 7 - 5, largely on the strength of rookie OF Kerry Carpenter's 3 - 4 night that included a double and a home run, his first in the major leagues. 

The Tigers are still in Cleveland tonight for a 7:10 game against those same Guardians, with RHP Garrett Hill, 2 - 3, on the bump for the Tigers. 

The 57 - 51 Caps fell from first place in the MWL East last weekend with those losses to the Snappers. The Caps return home for a game tonight against the 61 - 45 Lake County, OH Captains, @ 6:35 p.m.

That looks like enough for one day's blog. Ciao.