Good early morning GH. It is just past 5:00 AM in 'The City," and the current temperature is 26° under contradictory skies. I say that, because the Weather Channel™ says we have snow showers in the forecast with anywhere from a 50% to a 90% chance of certainty. However, they also have a statement that says "Expect dry conditions over the net six hours." Which is accurate? Both? Neither? Are they even right about the high temperature being 24° with an inch of snow? I don't expect perfection, but when I can look out the downstairs Weather Window and see snow covered streets, I think my personal forecast is more accurate.

Speaking of weather forecasts, Sugar the Weather Dog must have felt a disturbance in the force earlier this morning. I got up to rearrange myself and to take an OTC pain pill, and she was outside the door. When I opened it, she came in and laid down. It might have just been her needy nature over the last two days; or it might have been the Thunder Snow that the Weather Channel™ predicted earlier in the day. In my probably more accurate opinion, it was her need for human contact.

When I got up to write this blog, she had returned to her usual post on the couch. However using my keen observational skills, I note that she had been sitting at my feet most of the evening before I went to bed. So, as the immortal Sherlock Holmes might have said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." I submit my personal observations about the weather as corroboration.

In witness thereto, regarding my forecasting skills, I just watched the city plow truck go by, further burying the end of the shared driveway of the palatial estate. That means that our snow removal service will be back later today to clear the path, again. Since I have a P/T appointment this afternoon, Mary has to get the car out, so we can't just leave it. In short, snow that blocks the driveway needs to be removed.

In other news, I started my homework exercises yesterday. Mary found the necessary dowel rod in the man-cave, so I was able to incorporate that routine in my regimen. That was the most painful. I can't get my arm past 90° without pain. However, the therapist told me that would be the case. All the other exercises went fine. One would think that five weeks of recovery time would be enough, but alas, I still have a long way to go.

But there is good news. While I was only able to play two short tunes on Ivy, my new to me 12 string guitar, she sounds great. Me, not so much, as my rusty singing pipes are just that, rusty. That too will improve with time. Another personal observation. My guitar chord work was also rusty, but I was able to hit most of them accurately.

I also highlighted some things for Mary. A little pain, but nothing that I can't work through. I do know one thing for sure, I have to do the highlighting at my desk upstairs. Down here, the highlighting is invisible to me. I know that I have done it, but I can't check it. It is nearly invisible under the light in the dining room. That may in part be due to my partial color-blindness.

In further news, the train went by heading north. The usual twin locomotives, probably EMD GP 38s, went by towing a long string of cars. One lone box car, about 36 covered hopper cars, 25 black tank cars, interspersed with the covered hopper cars, and two white tank cars. It is the black ones that worry me, given the recent derailments involving those in other parts of the continent. The white tank cars are never dangerous except for the cars themselves crushing something they land upon. I never heard a train going south. Perhaps there wasn't one.

While doing some research about the train, I discovered that a club exists about the railroad. They have a 1/8 scale layout in Marshall, MI, about 96 miles from here. They have a restaurant called Cornwell's Turkeyville that serves, not surprisingly, many things turkey based. However, they also serve some vegetarian things. Incorporated in the complex is a theater that does live performances, the musical Suds, looks like fun, and an antiques show occurs periodically. What's not to like?

Oh well, that's enough for one early morning blog. Sun-rise will occur before...Tea time at 8:12 AM. Sunset will happen at 5:38 PM. Ciao.