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

Well my loyal readers, I was outside with the fur-children on a cool, dark morning @ about 2:00 a.m., and in spite of the date, spring is not yet here and winter refuses to let go. We have a current temperature of 40° that will drop to an overnight low of 39°. Oddly, the NWS has revised their forecast to include temperatures downward, as today's high will only reach 50° with light rain in the forecast @ 90%. Wednesday, the high temperature improves to 58°, but the NWS has added T-storms with a 100% certainty. Snow one day, rain the next, but spring-like temperatures are still elusive, as the highs are in the 40s for a couple of days and then maybe, just maybe, we'll get to the 50s and 60s consistently.

At any rate, as you have probably noticed, I like to take pictures of my surroundings and yesterday morning was no different. I was downstairs yesterday morning waiting on the fur-children to finish their business, and I noticed that our back-forty was still snow-covered as was the motor scooter of our neighbor. Much like empty playgrounds, there is something about a motor scooter that cannot be used that is photographically appealing to me. So, I took some pix of that forlorn sight.

Since I had the camera in my hands, I took some pix of our deck, the back-forty, and our parkway garden too.

I put the snow shovels away and had to retrieve one from the garage to move this heavy-wet snow.

Somewhere out there are our daffodils, our tulips, and our spring.

The city cleared the street, but the snow was now in our parkway garden.

Oh, the sidewalk Zamboni came by too, and made a contribution to our front sidewalk.

Moving right along, as did the snow by early afternoon, we finally made it out for our errands, We traveled to the vacuum store, the paint store, the grocery store and the art/crafts store. We actually came away with something that I we hadn't set out to get, a cordless vacuum when the plan was to get bags for the corded model we had, but which has since been retired.

But I digress. We had a list for all the other things we desired and didn't deviate from that. Thus, we saved some money. 😊

Before we left, I watched some of the game between my beloved, now 6 - 10, 5th place in the AL East Red Sox and the 7 - 10, 2nd place in the AL East Orioles. The Sox fell to the Orioles, 1 - 8. Sigh. Fortunately, there is always another day and the Sox will rise again as they play the 6 - 9, 3rd place in the AL East Yankees, @ 6:35 p.m. when LHP Chris Sale takes the mound.

The idle, and now 8 - 7, 3rd place in the AL Central Tigers, welcome the 8- 6, 2nd place in the NL Central Pirates to Comerica Park @ 6:40 p.m. tonight, when LHP Matthew Boyd goes for the win.

The 6 - 9, 4th place in the NL Central Cubs had a great game yesterday as they defeated the 4 - 13 in the NL East Marlins, 7 - 2. Yu Darvish had a good game, getting his first win with 5 2/3 innings pitched, as his fastball hit 99 mph! However, that fastball also hit the Marlins' batter, Lewis Brinson, ricocheted off him, then off of Cubs' catcher Willson Contreras, and finally hit home-plate umpire, Brian O'Nora. Darvish walked four batters and when asked how he did that yesterday, but walked no one his last time out, he reportedly quipped, "I'm Yu Darvish." The Cubs and the Marlins go again tonight @ 6:10 p.m. when LHP Jose Quintana gets the ball.

The 5 - 6 in the MWL East Caps took 10 innings to fall to the Lansing Lugnuts, 2 - 6 to fall into a 5th place tie with the Great Lakes Loons and the Lansing Lugnuts. The Caps and the Lugnuts try again tonight @ 6:35 p.m.

Otherwise not much is happening. I have my now now weekly P/T appointment this afternoon and that's about it. Mary has kitchen plans and I have additional plans to play a little, draw a little, read a little and retire a lot, to paraphrase Robert Fulghum. Ciao.