Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. Grand Haven, I'm back

It is just past 4:45 a.m. in "The City", where the current temperature is 44° under mostly cloudy skies, with a strong wind out of the east @ 15mph making it feel more like 37°. The NWS is reporting the Barometric Pressure as 29.95" of Hg and falling, while my DTWS is displaying 29.30" of Hg and steady. 

We had T-storms last night and the NWS is predicting more of the same for this afternoon and evening.

Today's high temperature of 69° will be an anomaly, as we will only be seeing high temperatures in the upper 40s and lower 50s for many more days, well into May. Let's not talk about the effects of Climate Change.

The sun will rise this morning @ 6:55 a.m. and set tonight @ 8:33 p.m.

Good news! After exactly four months living downstairs in the manse, we have officially moved back upstairs, and it feels great! I no longer need my walker and I don't need to use my cane, so now P/T is all about making me stronger and more mobile. In fact, I have another P/T appointment later today and three more next week and I should be done! I am happy, but Mary is over the moon, as she has been my caregiver for those many months, with some respite for her between the surgery on both of my knees. I couldn't have done it without her. 

I too often argued with her about my needs, but fortunately, she saw through my bluster and overrode my cantankerousness, and forced me to get up and get moving. I guess that nearly 50 years of my obstreperous nature can be ignored if and when you try. Fortunately, she did.

Otherwise, not much is happening around here. P/T seems to fill my weeks, as does reading, listening to books, working crossword puzzles, solving most of the crypto quotes, and bemoaning my fate. Mary has been listening to her books, cross-stitching, and preparing meals along with challenging me to get up and get at it.

So, before my knees tell me to get up and go find a more comfortable place to sit, I'll say it. Baseball has been very, very good to me! Baseball is life! The Cubs took five out of six games on their just concluded west coast road trip, but their record of 11 - 6 still finds them in second place in the NL Central behind the 14 - 5 Milwaukee Brewers. Sigh. 

Is this just more of the same old same old? Nope, this year the Cubs could win it all, to borrow from the late Jack Brickhouse.

So, Hey Hey and Holy Mackerel, the W flag flew over the Friendly Confines again yesterday, after the Cubs' stomping of the Oakland As, 12 - 2. The Cubs welcome the 9 - 10 Dodgers to Wrigley Field for a game tonight @ 7: 40 EDT, weather permitting. Ciao.