Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 5:30 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 66° under cloudy skies. Our overnight low will be 63°. The sun will rise today @ 7:33 a.m. and set later @ 7:41 p.m. The NWS is not forecasting any T-storms or showers today, however they have put a 60% chance for T-storms in their forecast for Tuesday evening. The NWS forecast for yesterday was somewhat accurate, but the T-storms never materialized. STWD proved to be more accurate.  She will probably be more accurate again today too as compared to the NWS.

There are several NWS advisories and watches in effect until 8:00 p.m. tonight, a Small Craft  Advisory, a Beach Hazard Statement, and a Lakeshore Flood Advisory, are in effect for that time period.

Yesterday was probably the swan song for the Cubs 2019 season, in spite of a 12 K effort by Yu Darvish. Like most things for Darvish this season, too little, too late. The 3rd place Cubs lost to the 1st place Cardinals, 2 - 3, and the Cubs ae now seven games in back of the Cardinals. The Cubs are off today before a stop in Pittsburgh Tuesday night @ 7:05 p.m. EDT.

My beloved 3rd place Red Sox, defeated the 2nd place Rays, yesterday, 7 - 4. Sadly, the Sox are eliminated from post-season play. Once again, too little too late. The Sox close out their series with the Rays tonight @ 7:10 p.m.

The last place Tigers took a game in a meaningless series from that other team from Chicago yesterday, 6 - 3. Wait til next year is now the catch-phrase in Detroit too. The Tigers welcome the1st place Twins to Comerica Park for a game on Tuesday @ 6:40 p.m.

The Lions lost a couple of players to injury yesterday. Hopefully, the injuries are not season ending, as one is an ankle sprain and the other a hamstring injury. The Lions hung on to defeat the Eagles, 27 - 24.

Tonight, the 1 - 1 Bears play the 0 - 2 Redskins @ 8:15 p.m. EDT on Monday Night Football. The Bears should be the favorites, but this year's team is still an enigma wrapped in a conundrum.

In spite of that dire forecast from the NWS yesterday afternoon, we made it to the 1st Presbyterian Church for that concert by the bluegrass band, Schlitz Creek. As promised, they were very entertaining and Mary believes she has found her new favorite music genre, bluegrass. The band took the audience through bluegrass music from its inception by the late Bill Monroe to more modern times, with the band's bluegrass interpretation of an Elton John song, Honky Cat. Our senior staff photographer tried for some photos, but her camera is designed for closeup macro photography, not long-distance. So, her pix turned out blurry.

I painted three out of four sides of my fall decorations yesterday. I have to finish those today. Drying time is such sweet sorrow.

Before we traveled to the concert, I made another vegan pepperoni and Mary made some dough for last night's dinner of cast-iron pan pizza that incorporated some of that pepperoni and some leftover tomato paste. We also read more of our shared read, The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story, by Joy Reid.

Today, I have a regular checkup at the podiatrist and that's about it for me. Mary will continue to get us ready for our trip to Harbor Springs later this week. The fur-children, with no foul-weather in the forecast, should be okay for at least today. Ciao.