Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 4:00 a.m. in "The City."

It is nice to look out the WW and not see any precipitation falling, not rain, not snow, not sleet, nada. However, by later tonight, the NWS is forecasting a 70% chance for showers. That should melt away a lot of the snow that is clogging our lives of late. Thursday and Friday, the forecast is for highs in the upper 40s and the skies should be sunny. Right now, we have a current temperature of 33° under dark skies. Later today, after the sun rises @ 6:58 a.m. and long before it sets on a cloudy/rainy evening @ 8:30 p.m., the high is forecast to reach 46°.

Sports news yesterday was interesting. The 7 - 8 Cubs lost to the 10 - 7 Cardinals in windy, chilly, and wintry Wrigley Field. Javier Baez had a hot bat, but the Cubs still lost, 3 - 5. The Cubs and the Cardinals play today @ 2:20 p.m. EDT.

The 5 - 9 Tigers dropped the 5 - 12 Orioles 4 - 2 last night. Neither team looked good. Still, there is hope for the future of the Tigers, isn't there? Those two teams play again today @ 1:10 p.m. EDT

My beloved 14 - 2 Red Sox dispatched the 13 - 4 LA Angels last night, 10 - 1, on the strength of great pitching by David Price over Shohei Otana, who has been the talk of this young season. Jackie Bradley Jr, Brock Holt, and Rafael Devers each hit a home run to go with three, count em, three, home runs by Mookie Betts upon his return to the lineup. The Sox and the Angels play again tonight on the West Coast @ 10:07 p.m.

The Caps were once again postponed by inclement rain here in West, MI. Will they ever play again?

I spotted the afternoon train yesterday as locomotive # 2019 was heading north @ 3:00 p.m.towing 22 CHCs, 12 DBTCs, one DWTC, and one GTC. All the cars were loaded based upon the shaking of the manse. I spied the end of the train heading south @ 10:47 a.m., when I was out for my orthopedist appointment. However, that's all I have to say about that.

Later in the afternoon, I found my way to the new podiatrist and the experience was terrific. Great care and an attentive doctor and staff. I get to go back every nine weeks. In between appointments, I finally managed to change the strings on Abigael and Blue.

I was downstairs earlier to empty the dishwasher, rewash some of the dishes that didn't get clean, and also make some Coleslaw for future meals. Since I went to bed @ 9:00 p.m. last night, I was ready to get up and blog and do more highlighting.

Mary is still working on the chunking, I think, of the current index. I am planning to read more of my latest novel, The Room on Rue Amelie, by Kristin Harmel, whom I thought was the same author who wrote a great book that Mary and I read for ouir book club, The Nightingale. However that book was written by Kristin Hannah. Very similar names, very similar styles and subject matter. Amazing in both cases. I recommend either to readers of this genre of fiction.

Today, not much on tap. More highlighting, more indexing, more retirement. Ciao.