Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just after 4:40 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 23° under partly-cloudy skies, with winds of 12 mph that make it feel more like 15°! Today's high is forecast to reach 26°. By tomorrow, we expect to see 46°, still under those pertly-cloudy skies. Those 30° temperatures won't be permanently in our rear-view mirror until Wednesday, when we'll once again see temperatures in the 40s, hopefully for the foreseeable future.

The Small Craft Advisory continues in effect until 11:00 a.m. today. Northwest winds 15 to 25 knots with gusts up to 30 knots and waves 4 to 7 feet.are expected from St Joseph to Manistee. Conditions will be hazardous to small craft. Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions. The sun will rise today @ 7:21 a.m. and set later @ 6:33 p.m.

All of my teams were in action yesterday.

The now 3 - 4 Cubs dropped another game, this time to the 5 - 1 Padres yesterday, 1 - 5. Is there a palindrome in there? New Cubs' manager, David Ross, stated that it is all in the details. Ross now plays a key role in deciding who will make the team out of Spring Training and he also needs to evaluate every player in all facets of the game, as the 26-man active roster will have moving pieces throughout the season. Players will go up and down between the Majors and Minors. That's a wholly different perspective than he got from his former job in the Cubs' front-office. The Cubs host the 4 - 2 Brewers today @ 2:05 p.m. EST.
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My beloved 3 - 4 Red Sox, also fell yesterday, in their case to the 4 - 1 Twins, 1 - 4. Sox' third-baseman, Rafael Devers, returned to the field yesterday. The 23 year-old Devers hopes to build on a successful 2019 season when he hit 32 home runs and drove in 115 RBIs. Will he make us forget that Mookie Betts was traded? I'm not certain but, he has all of the tools to  make that possible according to Red Sox slugger J. D. Martinez. Martinez says that Devers' joy for the game and seeemingly perpetual smile make anything possible. The Sox host the 4 - 2 Yankees today in a split-squad game @ 1:05 p.m. EST

The 3 - 3 Tigers lost to the 4 - 1 Rays yesterday, 4 - 5. Tigers owner and CEO, Chris Ilitch, said that rebuilding will not be an overnight process, but the team is in it for the long-run and that when success comes in the nest couple of years, which he assures fans it will, the Tigers will repeat that success over and over. I'll take a wait and see position on that prediction from Ilitch. Today's opponents for the Tigers are the other split-squad from the Yankees when the Yankees host the Tigers @ 1:05 p.m. EST.

Remember, the Cubs brass promised more World Series™ appearances when the Cubs won in 2016, but so far...

I spent a lot of time in the kitchen yesterday afternoon, chopping, sauteing, cooking, and cleaning up, as I prepared multiple jars of vegan Hungarian goulash. A lot of work that my able assistants, the fur-children in their roles as sous-chefs, helped with. They sampled the peppers and carrots that were part of my efforts to be sure that the taste was just right. I think that they approved. Mary came down from her office and employed her skills to assist me with putting the goulash into Mason Jars™ for storage in the refrigerator, nee Ice-Box, as my dad used to call it.

We ended up going out to dinner last evening so that the goulash had time to fully blend the various ingredients into a tasty dinner treat. Plus, I was too pooped to pop to do any more kitchen work last evening.

Today, I hope to work another crossword puzzle and read the weekend-edition of the Grand Haven Tribune. I am out of novels to read right now, so I'll see if I can spend some time with the girls in my studio. Whenever you don't play regularly, your skills diminish rapidly.

Mary will likely continue reading her Stephen King novel, 11-22-63, a fictionalized account about the assignation of President John F. Kennedy. Mary has continued her email correspondence with our friend, Ellen, about that fateful day that changed both of their lives as well as the future of America.

Otherwise, I have no plans. Ciao.