Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 12:30 a.m. in "The City."

Mary made pizza for our dinner last night. I had requested that my half be only cheese and sauce. She decided that her half would have portabello mushroom slices, without cheese. We both liked the final result, as this one was made with a new vegan mozzarella that melted well along with some oregano and nutritional yeast that gave this pizza a terrific flavor. Here is the pizza just before it was served.

Definitely a keeper!

Mary's brother, Ed called last night while she was making more vegetable broth, so we couldn't talk for long. My part in the preparation was finishing the onion peeling, as Mary was overwhelmed by the strength of this bag of onions.

Yesterday in baseball was a great day, if you are a Cubs fan. The now 3 - 7 in the NL Central Cubs, demolished the 5 - 4 in the NL Central Pirates, 10 - 0. Sadly, LHP Jon Lester started strong, but a left hamstring injury forced manager Joe Maddon to pull Lester from the game after three innings, and so RHO Brad Brach got the win. Since Lester didn't make it out of the 3rd inning, he didn't qualify for the win.

As of last night, the injury to Lester seemed minor, but the results of an MRI exam later today will give a clearer picture. The Cubs are off until Wednesday, when RHP Yu Darvish takes the mound against the Pirates @ 7:05 p.m.

Both the Tigers and my beloved Red Sox were off yesterday, but they return to the field today.

The 2 - 3 in the MWL East, Caps, fell to the Lansing Lugnuts, 0 - 1. That loss puts the Caps into 7th place. The Caps and the Lugnuts play again tonight @ 6:05 p.m.

P/T went well yesterday. Ben pushed my shoulder to the max and it feels like it now. However, in order to gain strength, I must do more exercises at home and continue P/T for a few more weeks.

After P/T, I drove to Spring Lake to drop off some grocery items at The People Center. We try to donate food items several times per year, as the need is always great. There is no season and we don't need a reason to donate.

We took a walk with the fur-children to the library and back before my P/T appointment yesterday. STWD is starting to struggle with any walk that would be of a longer distance. I guess like for all of us of a certain age, concessions must be made.

Otherwise, yesterday's high temperature reached 57°, which was shirt-sleeve weather for me. The current temperature is only 52° under partly-cloudy skies. Today's high is forecast by the NWS to reach 51°, also under partly-cloudy skies. The sun will rise today @ 7:15 a.m. and set later @ 8:18 p.m. There is a slight chance for snow on Wednesday in spite of the high temperature of 48°. It is more likely that we'll see rain and windy conditions both Wednesday and Thursday. We'll have to wait until next Monday, April 15, tax day, to once again see 50 degrees.

So that looks like a wrap for one day. Not much on tap for today. That's fine with me. Ciao.