Good morning GH.  In spite of the promise of superior weather today, it is 50 degrees at 9:25 AM and kind of gray looking outside.  Sugar and I will be walking from from the other side of Beacon back to home after we do a little shopping.  Mary will drop us on her way to the mall.  I think I had better dress for the weather instead of for a day at the beach.  No rain expected until later, but I don't think that the Michigan mode of dress for the locals works for me today.  We are currently using up some of our perishables in preparation for our travels.  Sugar is unaware that she will be boarded for 12 days, but that is just as well.  She handles it just fine, but I don't want her to anticipate her fate just yet.  Tomorrow is soon enough. Got our new Michigan sweatshirts/hoodies yesterday.  Mary chose green, I chose a charcoal gray.  Both are sized to fit.  I am still wondering what happened to my new shoes.  I was supposed to get them either last Friday or this past Monday.  Hasn't happened yet.  I was just looking out the window, and I think that the new roof may be sooner than later. We will have to get someone to check it.  Otherwise, I have had my breakfast and my tea, so I am fortified for the day.

A word to the wise, don't give your dog peanuts in the shell before you go to bed.  Otherwise, you will wake up to the sounds of a dog doing what you don't want to experience.  Otherwise, things are great this AM.  The sun is shining, the temperatures are expected to rise to the lower 50s today and the overall prognosis is, to say the least, super.  Having said that, Sugar and I will be walking today to enjoy the sun and generally warmer out of doors experience.   Mary has an index to finish and I need to check on a haircut today or tomorrow.  In other words, nothing much.  We must go to the post office today and get the mail stopped, but that is just a formality.  Maybe while there, we can get our passports renewed.  Anyway, I have already had tea time, so it is time to get outdoors.

Good morning GH.  I know that some might say that life in Michigan can be a bit slower paced, but I suspect that they have never taken the time to really smell the roses.  Sure, in the middle of winter, there aren't a lot of roses to smell, but the sheer anticipation of roses can in itself be the thrill.  Someone once said that the joy of the journey is half the fun and that the anticipation is the other fifty percent,  In the case of anticipating spring, it may be even more.  I don't know, either that is a Yogi Berra saying, or I am channeling him.  Either way, I like it.  Since tomorrow is predicted to be in the low to mid fifties temperature wise, I can't wait.  I always used to say that I can't wait for tomorrow, because I get better looking everyday.  In this case, that is mine, I think, and although I don't really know, I still like the idea of anticipation for everyday.  Today I am going to go the the Y and swim a bit, I haven't been able to get there the last few days and I really want to. Tomorrow, looks like a great day for walking, so I have that on tap.  Today is going to be cool and clear, so Sugar and I will probably not walk as far, but we will still enjoy the journey.  Part of the joy for Sugar is smelling all of the new messages left for her by other dogs, cats and the ubiquitous squirrels that inhabit GH.  Of course, she has to reply to them all.  It's a dog thing I guess.  For me, I am just the censor.  My job is to make sure that her messages get read without endangering us both.  Sugar is oblivious to the danger of running into the street, unless she hears a garbage truck anywhere in town and then she freezes in place.  If that happens to be in the middle of the street, I have to censor her activities.  Overall. life in GH is great.  Tea time.

Good Morning GH.  Unlike most mornings this winter, there is snow on the ground.  We didn't get dumped on, but you can tell it snowed.  I may have to deal with the effects later, but as of right now, I don't.  I got the Cuckoo hung back on the wall yesterday, and as promised by the clock doctor, it works perfectly and is keeping excellent time.  So Steph, the clock lives on.  All the more reason for you and Adam to visit this year. Often!  Mary and I went to the Community Center indoor garage sale yesterday.  Lots of interesting things, but now, since we don't need much, we didn't but anything.  Now that I have my message bleachers, I have to find something to put on the cards that sit in the bleachers.  I have a few small things, but as I have noted before, when you have nowhere to go and lots of time to get there, nothing is that urgent.  I still have to get Mary to help with my computer file saving, but like all things, I have time.  I started a new book yesterday and I am enjoying it immensely.  If anyone is interested, I'll tell you, but let me say that it has already spawned several epiphanies for me.  Otherwise, there is not much to say this morning.  So, I'll just say, Tea Time!

Good morning GH.  Like most people in town, I am saying a prayer for the people who live in my former state, Illinois, and for those in Indiana, Missouri,and Tennessee as well.  The storms that they experienced and the loss of lives and property are devastating.  Here in GH, the wind is still blowing strong, but the locals say that the worst thing that has ever occurred here, is a micro-burst kind of thing that did some minor damage, but nothing as devastating as that experienced by the folks in those other states.  Today, the highs will be in the thirties, and by next Tuesday, the expectation is for the mid 50s.  For people traveling in the coming months, it is always good to have a handle on what the weather is going to be like.  Mary and I plan to walk to town later, without Sugar, to check out some of the spring fashions being sold here in GH.  As such, we will walk past the local real estate offices, where Noel works.  : - ).  I am always surprised and pleased by the sheer joy of walking in this city.  Today, the community is having an indoor garage sale between 9 and 3.  We'll stop in and check that out as we go by.  Don't need anything that we can think of, but it is always nice to experience what the city has to offer. Otherwise, our plans call for watching a little television news, some reading and writing, and some general inactivity.  Oh, I have to rehang my cuckoo clock.  I have missed it  all these months.  Don't know if life offers more in Sycamore, but her in GH, life does offer more.  Now, I think it is tea time,

Well I've done it again.  Somehow I managed to press a key or keys on this keyboard that took away my ability to do anything other than keep opening new windows.. Once again my big hands got in the way.  I am going to have to ask Mary or Steph what I am doing that I don't know about.  Maybe I should ask Adam, because he is somewhat cursed with the same big hands as I.  Anyway, before I messed myself up with this keyboard thing, I was commenting about the sports guys debating whether the 100 point basketball game by Wilt Chamberlain, which happened on this date in history, or the perfect baseball game by Don Larsen in the World Series was the greater achievement.  Since I am only 60 years old, I don't remember either, so for me, things like the Red Sox winning the World Series game with a pitcher bleeding through his sock were more significant.  It just proves, I think, that perspective is everything.  Even records are just that, records that are likely to be broken.  But, that requires being given the same set of circumstances that the original player was faced with.  So, a modern athlete has advantages in training, nutrition, equipment, etc.  Thus, it is unlikely that the records were broken under the same conditions.  Just a thought.  Today, the prediction for the UP is for copious amounts of snow by tomorrow, and what is often called winter in Michigan.  By Tuesday, they are predicting temperatures in the 50s here.  Go figure.  Finally we can see the light at the end of this long, arduous winter.  LOL.  Got the garage door thingy installed yesterday, and it works as advertised by the door people.  $65.00 versus several hundred.  Truly, an answer to a problem that we haven't had yet, but done on the cheap.  Adam would be proud.  Anyway, as I always say, Tea Time.

Not too bad, I awoke this AM in what is becoming an earlier and earlier wake up pattern.  I think it may be related to going to bed by 11:00 PM each evening, but that is purely conjecture on my part.   That pattern doesn't always hold true, so who knows.  Yesterday felt good once the rain stopped.  I went to the Y in the afternoon and did some swimming.  I really am enjoying the time that I spend in the pool, and I believe that it is giving me health benefits too.  When I left at about 3:45, the temperature was in the low 50s.  I picked up my new glasses yesterday before the Y and they work great.  However, I need to have the nose piece adjusted slightly to keep them up where I like to wear them.  Got a call from the clock repair doctor, and my Cuckoo is ready to go.  Warning to Steph, don't go to the upper level when you are here.  Also got a call from the shoe man.  My new shoes are in transit, and I should have them by Friday or Monday.  All in all, a red letter day.  Today is slightly overcast, but the temperatures are expected to be around the 40 degree mark.  Not bad for March 1.  I guess that March really does come in like a lion.  I know that spring is drawing near, because I git an email from the local race track regarding upcoming events.  While I am not an active racer, I do love racing. I think that the suspension of a crew chief by the sanctioning body for an infraction before the race was run, is a bit overzealous.  What the hey, they are driving taxi cabs, not real race cars.  What can you do, they are all about protecting the "integrity" of the sport.  Otherwise, all is going smoothly here in GH.  Tea time.