Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 3:30 a.m. in "The City."

When the local/national cable company decides to allow the internet to work, I am listening to CoasttoCoastAM with Jimmy Church sitting in for regular host, George Noory, this morning. Church's guest was Lorcan O'Toole, the son of the legendary and late British/Irish actor, Peter O'Toole. Peter O'Toole may be best known for his iconic role as T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, in 1962, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. He was nominated seven times but never won. He was given an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 2002.

Lorcan has played Padraic Telford on Sons of Anarchy along with numerous other roles. He and Jimmy Church were talking about the Life of an O'Toole. ie, growing up the son of a famous father. But, they were also talking about Bigfoot and other paranormal occurrences which are part and parcel to the regular fare on CoasttoCoastAM when George Noory is the host. The calls that were coming into the show from listeners were, as usual, an assortment of the odd and eerie, to say the least.

Here in GH, the current temperature is 61° under clear skies. Later today, the NWS has forecast a high temperature of 82° under sunny skies. If anyone has a wedding scheduled for Central Park, they should have a beautiful day after the sun rises @ 6:32 a.m. and before it sets tonight @ 9:09 p.m. There is no significant rain in the forecast until Thursday, so you know what that means for yours truly. Sigh.

The baseball news yesterday was mostly bad.

The Cubs fell to the Brewers by a score of 1 - 2 despite what was a good pitching performance by Jose Quintano. The Brewers starting pitcher, Brent Suter, was better. The right fielder, Jason Heyward, made another highlight reel catch and Javier Baez nailed a prodigious home run on a night when former American League pitcher, Quintana, got his first Major League hit.

The Cubs are still in 1st place in the NL Central, 1/2 game ahead of the Brewers, but as usual, they struggled against a team that had been having a tough time winning. The Cubs and the Brewers play in Milwaukee tonight @ 7:10 p.m.

The Tigers once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory as they lost on a three run home run given up by the relief pitcher, Bruce Rondon, 5 - 6 to the visiting Astros. Rondon was inserted into the game in place of Tigers' starter Jordan Zimmerman with the Tigers leading 5 - 3 and then well... At any rate, the 4th place in the AL Central Tigers have a record of 45 - 56 and face the Astros again tonight at an odd starting time of 6:10 p.m.

My beloved Red Sox fell to the Royals 2 - 4 and also fell out of 1st place in the AL East to 2nd place, 1/2 game behind the Yankees, who won. The Sox and the Royals play tonight in Fenway Park @ 7:05 p.m.

Elsewhere in the local news, we completed our errands after Mary dropped off Ginger @ daycare and after we walked downtown to visit the newest store that has begun to open in GH. This store purveys cooking utensils and is a welcome addition to our local merchants. We purchased some things that we didn't even know we had gone to buy.

Before we set out to Holland, there was a huge response from five of the area's local fire departments to the dunes south of GH. According to the story in the Gand Haven Tribune, five fire departments fought a fire that consumed five acres of hilly dunes. I know you are wondering, how can sand dunes burn? Well, these dunes have dune grass and other vegetation growing on them that can and did catch fire. Here is a link to that story and the pictures taken by the Tribunes Becky Vargo @ the scene.

http://www.grandhaventribune.com/gallery/Lakeshore-Drive-dune-fire?ci=stream&lp=7&p=1

We had a good trip to Holland and got everything we meant to get and some things that we didn't plan to buy. I like it when a plan comes together as George Peppard used to intone in The A-Team,

We plan to stay in today and do some cooking and some reading and some watering. I have to harvest the kale and utilize my latest kitchen gadget to prepare the kale for my world famous kale and squash soup that I was going to get to yesterday but didn't.

I started my latest book, The Case of the Fabulous Fiancee, by West Michigan author, Diane Burton. I love detective novels and Burton hooked me with a previous novel that featured her female protagonist/heroine, private investigator Alexandra "Alex" O'Hara. I'll have to ask Mary how to add the diacritic over the "e" in Fiancee.

Mary was in the La-Z-Boy downstairs when Ginger and I got up around 1:00 a.m. and Ginger flew down the stairs and jumped into Mary's lap and woke her up. I took Ginger and STWD out at that time. The fur-children are now back in their respective sleeping positions and I am here blogging. Ciao.