Never cared even the slightest little bit about Carrie Underwood before

But if the Wilson sisters are willing to share a stage and one of their greatest hits with her it must be OK.

Ann is really good though, don't you agree? The skinny blonde girl is good, very good, but she just can't quite hit the same notes in quite the same way that Ann is hitting them.

One morning one of us, having no black, used blue instead, and Impressionism was born.

Along with a bunch of detective novels I have been reading "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris" by David McCullough.

A couple of years ago I had an opportunity to spend as much time as I wanted standing without the interference of a crowd about a foot and a half in front of the painting "Jeunes filles au Piano" (Girls at the Piano) by Pierre Auguste Renoir during an exhibition of that famous work at "Paris au temps des Impressionistes, Les Chefs-d'oeuvre du musée d’Orsay à l'Hôtel de Ville", Paris in the time of the Impressionists, Masterpieces from the Orsay Museum at City Hall, in Paris.

In the McCullough book Renoir is quoted as explaining, "One morning one of us, having no black, used blue instead, and Impressionism was born."

No temperature at all

Monday's high temperature of -2F marked the first time in just over four years that the high temperature of the day was below zero. No particular problem for me though, a person coming off the flu doesn't really spend any time outdoors anyway. It has been around 70 pretty much all the time where I have been spending my time. But just for fun today I caught a glimpse of the indoor outdoor thermometer.

As you can plainly see, there is no outdoor temperature at all.

No last name necessary

Too many batting records to fit on his Hall of Fame plaque.

TWO statues in his honor outside his team's home stadium in Saint Louis. The original statue carries this inscription: "Here stands baseball's perfect warrior. Here stands baseball's perfect knight."

A major league career spanning 22 years and including 24 All Star games. Yup, 24 in 22 years.

3,630 hits, of which 1,815 came in games at home, 1,815 in games on the road.

Dodgers pitching great Preacher Roe on how he pitched to Stan the Man: "I throw him four wide ones and then I try to pick him off first base."

Died Saturday, at home, of natural causes at age 92.

Rest in peace.