Good early morning GH. It is just past 3:00 AM in "The City," and the current temperature is being reported as 28° and cloudy. That coincides with the prediction for a coating of ice that caused a weather warning. However, the low for Thursday is showing 20°. So in order to get down to our predicted high for today of 22°, we'll have to fall by many degrees. Afternoon snow showers are also being forecast for today. Oh well, it wouldn't be winter in Michigan if the weather was predictable.

While surfing the internet, like I often do in the early morning hours, I came across an ABC News story about a man who found some long lost love letters in an attic he was preparing for new insulation. Naturally, the fact that the story occurred in Michigan, and the fact that it involved historical letters, like the type of thing that Mary likes, piqued my interest. But as I read on, I discovered some additional facts about how the letters got into the attic of a house, a house that the granddaughter of the letter's writer didn't associate with her family. The house had originally been part of a World War II housing project, not unlike one that my own parents had lived in in Chicago following the war about 60 years ago; the same type of project that had been built for returning veterans.

A little digging by the current owner, indicated that the house had indeed belonged to the woman's grandparents and had originally been located in Muskegon, Michigan. Sometime in the past, many of the homes had been separated from the larger project and this one was moved to Casnovia, MI, from Muskegon. Muskegon is about five miles from here, while the other community is about 35 miles from our current home. I'll include a link to the story if you are interested in more facts.
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/stranger-discovers-long-lost-love-letters-attic-story-203227690--abc-news-lifestyle.html?vp=1.

In other news, the early morning train went by about 2:30 AM heading north. I didn't hear the southbound run that must have happened about 12:00 midnight. This train was pulled by twin EMD GP38 engines of different livery, towing covered hopper cars and both white and black tank cars.

My doctor's visit went fine on Thursday. I have a visit to P/T this afternoon. I got my therapy system installed yesterday. It works fine, but the initial pain was a bit intense. I guess I am not as far along in my rehab as I wanted to believe. Of course, it could be that the guitar playing I did earlier in the day contributed to the pain. I'll lay off of that today. I hate to, but sometimes a man's got to do what a man's go to do.

Otherwise, not much on tap for today. That previously mentioned laundry I skipped yesterday, reading, no guitar, and that P/T visit in the afternoon. Sunrise will occur at 8:01 AM, quite a bit before...Tea time and what promises to be a late breakfast or early lunch.

I took some additional pictures of our increasingly snowbound state which appear below. Ciao.

A view out the front door

A view out the back door

I think Adam would have made a sled run out of this snow pile in days of yore 

Ragus' model

The entrance to the shared driveway, post efforts by our neighbor's father

Ragus on the front porch