Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just after 4:30 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 34° under clear-skies with winds of 2 mph that make it feel like, wait for it, 34°. Today's high is forecast to be 45°, under mostly-sunny-skies. It looks like we'll see a slightly cooler than previously forecast 54° on Friday. As before, we'll bounce around and be in the 40s or lower 50s for many more days.

The sun will rise today @ 7:24 a.m. and set later @ 8:12 p.m. Now if there was just baseball. Sigh.....

Yesterday, we divided and conquered. After we ate lunch, we got the fur-children to accept that having their nails ground wasn't as bad as they or we thought. Plus, since it was time for their monthly chewable meds, they recognized that there was a reward for good behavior. We'll see if they can remember that as well as they remember when it is time for a treat or dinner.

But back to dividing and conquering. I have no problem with raking the leaves in the various gardens of the PE. Once I was out of my teens, allergies have not been a problem for me. However, Mary has to contend with her allergies to grasses and mold. So, while she individually walked the fur-children, I took the broom, the rake, the yard-waste bags, the "Swordfish" for trimming the bushes, and the leaf blower and set to work.

Mary took along her trusty Olympus TG-6 camera and took some pix in her role as our Senior Staff Photographer. One of those pix was of yours truly hard at work in the parkway garden area.

With my yak-brace on, I was able to accomplish much with little to no pain in my yak.

It wasn't that long ago, when the parkway gardens looked like this pic.

This was late last month.

Still, there were a lot of leaves to be raked and bagged and numerous grasses and other plantings in need of trimming yesterday.

While I was doing my outdoor chores, I witnessed the afternoon, northbound run of the train on the RSTL. Mary was on those aforementioned walkabouts with the fur-children and she used her camera to capture some interesting shots along the way, including that train as it passed by the manse

This was a long one,, but apparently empty. I slept through the morning southbound run of a heavily laden passage.

Plus, she captured some shots of the nearly-deserted streets of GH.

Visible in this shot are the now dormant stack at the BLP Sims plant, the parking area for the shuttered Loutit Library, and Central Park.

Crews had begun work on renovating and updating the Community Center, but the statewide Covid-19 shutdown stopped them in their tracks.

However, once she was back at the manse, she took this terrific close-up shot of one of the flowers we planted last fall in the parkway garden.

If you click on this photo, the detail is amazing.

Same here, for one of the flowers that is blooming next to our deck in the back-forty.

Today, we have plans to unleash the "Coloring Monster", read more, work the crossword from the Wednesday edition of the Grand Haven Tribune and perhaps take a collective walk with the fur-children. Ciao.