Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 3:00 a.m. in "The City." We have a current outdoor temperature of 34°, before we hit our predawn low of 30° just before the sun rises at 7:33 a.m. Right now, we have a waning gibbous moon showing outside the Weather Window. Here in the indoor
Weather Office, not to be confused with the local television station that has an outdoor Weather Deck, it is 66 digitally reported degrees. Later today, we are anticipating a high temperature of 34° with a 70% chance of snow. Thursday, the chance of snow decreases to 60%, albeit with a possible accumulation of one to three inches.

Mary got her lettuce covered last night. She also wouldn't let me bring the snow shovel up from the man-cave. I guess that it is her belief in karma or kismet when it comes to keeping the snow at bay. I still have to get it out of storage, no karma or kismet for me. The snow will probably be short lived, but I'm not ready on November 12.

Elsewhere in our fair city, Mary, Sugar the Weather Dog, and I took the morning constitutional yesterday in the face of a hurricane west wind. Thanks to Gordon Lightfoot for that line. Sugar, in true dog fashion, needed to stop at every tree, bush, and pole to check her messages. She replied to the important ones.

I heard the southbound train earlier, about 12:15 a.m. The northbound train just passed at 2:57 a.m. Two locomotives sporting the new livery, #s 2057 and 2019 respectively, were towing nine covered hopper cars, one white tank car, then two additional covered hopper cars, as a white tank car brought up the rear. I could tell from the speed and the lack of the ground shaking that comes with many trains, that it was unladen.

Mary made pumpkin lasagna for dinner last night. She must have thought it could be better, judging by her comments, but I liked it. Plus, more pumpkin was being used up. I also had a piece of the pumpkin pie for dessert. I'll have to ask in the morning if she stored some of the apple sauce in the freezer. While I like homemade apple sauce, I asked to skip it as the side with yesterday's lunch sandwiches. I know it will be back. Sugar will continue to get pumpkin as part of her breakfast. She likes it and it's good for her delicate Corgi system.

I got in some time with the girls yesterday, and I plan more today. Saturday is the monthly Irish Jam session, and that means I need to be ready, thus the playtime.

I was listening to the national news at the top of the hour. One item caught my ear. Two GM plants here in Michigan will be laying off about 500 workers, due to the slowing demand for small cars. That slowing is due to falling gasoline prices. People are way too fickle. If you own a large car already, fine. But to buy one based on current gasoline prices seems like a bad idea.

Today, I'd like to get out with the intrepid weather dog. Mary will probably accompany us for that shortened sojourn. I'd also like to get out for a trip to a local store for some things that we'd like to get from the local inexpensive supply store. But that can wait. I do have to do the laundry.

The sun will set  at 5:24 p.m. and then we'll have a cold evening. Ciao.