Good late morning GH. It is just past 10:30 AM in "The City," and our current temperature is 23° as we head for a high of 25°. Good news, we are expecting the temperatures to rise into the lower thirties early next week, and we may see a high of 42° on Thursday, albeit with heavy rain. I don't have to shovel rain, nor do I need to have someone shovel it or me. Instead, I"ll have to get out that wet/dry vacuum to stay ahead of the melting snow that has no place to soak into the frozen ground.

Yesterday we had a train go by heading south at about 10:30 AM. Then late last night, I heard one go by heading north. I think that they have lost track of their own trains. As usual, several black tank cars, a few white tank cars, and a couple of covered hopper cars. All being towed by a pair of EMD GP 38 locomotives, with the older liveried  C. F. & E. locomotive in the lead, and the  newer liveried Mid-Michigan Railroad locomotive behind. I suspect that the one I didn't see had a reverse locomotive layout.

Today, I canceled my P/T appointment. I don't feel much like going out into the cold, and I didn't think it wise to spread my cold germs in the hospital and P/T areas. There is an Irish Jam session tomorrow, but I don't have the energy nor the strength for that either, not to mention the germ factor. Oh well, there's always March. If I had the strength I'd be playing here.

Otherwise, I finished my non-fiction book yesterday. Ill have to share the salient parts with Mary and then it can go back to depress other people. I came away with the following ideas and thoughts. Nearly everyone is just one uninsured medical crisis away from a bankruptcy. We need to educate all children to be the best that they can be if we are to have a future. Money will not shield the wealthy from the realities of what poverty brings to an advanced society. Our leaders need to stop worrying about where their campaign contributions come from and do what is right for all the citizens of this country. Good medical care is a right, not a privilege. There, enough proselytizing.

Time for more television watching, more napping, and that's about it. Ciao.

Keep on keeping on Barb.  I can't share your pain, but I can share your triumphs. I've had some of both.