Good early morning GH. It is just past 2:30 a.m. in "The City," and our current temperature is 20° with a forecast high of 23°. It looks like we will see 25° on Monday with 90% chance of 2 - 4 inches of snow. I'm hoping that that prediction applies to GR, and not GH. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday look better, with partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the thirties and forties. The precipitation predicted for Thursday is in the form of rain at 60%.

Saturday found me reading after...Tea time and Mary working in her office. Later in the day, we sallied forth to our favorite local watering hole and enjoyed the sunshine that seemed to be motivating everyone to do the same. Judging by the number of cars parked all over town on our snow clogged streets and in our snow clogged parking lots, all Michiganders need is some sunshine to get them out of doors.

I spent my reading time getting to page 125 in my latest novel. Like I've said previously, fiction reading that is enjoyable goes much faster. I have slogged my way through some fiction novels that bored me and took forever to read. I know that some people take a look at the end of a book to see how it will end. I can't do that, but in some cases I have given up reading without getting to the end. I don't know which is better, but I feel as though the need to know the ending without doing the reading, is like fast forwarding through a movie. Just one man's opinion.

Today I plan to do more reading, and household chores, not necessarily in any particular order. There is a Jesse Stone marathon on today, starring Tom Selleck. Selleck is now starring in the CBS television series, Blue Bloods, and formerly starred in Magnum P.I. The Jesse Stone stories originated with Robert B. Parker, one of my favorite mystery authors who passed away about three years ago. He was famous for his books that featured Spenser, a tough as nails private detective, as well as for his stories about Jesse Stone, a sometimes recovering alcoholic police chief, who is on his last chance job in Paradise, MA. Parker also wrote some stories featuring a female protagonist, Sunny Randall, as a cop also turned detective. Robert B. Parker also wrote some westerns that I liked.

Like Robert Ludlum, author of the Jason Bourne novels who also died several years ago and Raymond Chandler of Perry Mason fame, I seem to enjoy authors whose lives are over. I think I should avoid some writers in order to ensure them a long life. There are a few others whom I enjoy, but I won't mention them and thereby jinx them.

Otherwise, sunrise today is at 7:39 a.m., and sunset at 6:15 p.m. No trains tonight and that's a good thing. I should be in bed right now, and I'll be there soon. Ciao