Good morning or good evening,wherever you may be. It is just past 3:00 a.m. in "This City." The current temperature is 42°, the lowest it is supposed to get this morning, before we rebound to today's high of 66 sunny degrees. In GH, it is 29° as they drop towards the overnight low of 23°, before they rebound to their high of 32° with a 60% chance of snow showers. That's enough said about the weather from this reporter.

Yesterday, we took Sugar the Weather Dog to a local groomer to be washed, brushed, have her ears cleaned, and her nails clipped. It took only about one hour, and she looks marvelous. Her Shed No More™ tablets appear to be working. Since Mary and I had plans for later in the day, Mary took the intrepid weather dog for her morning walk. They weren't gone long, and I barely had enough time to look up some addresses that we needed to place into our GPS unit.

We returned from Sugar's grooming appointment and ate lunch on on the upstairs deck, in our shirtsleeves. Sugar was exhausted, so she just laid around, except for the time she had to growl at the three dachshunds next door. Since the plans that Mary and I made included a trip to Pensacola to see the Museum of Naval Aviation at the Naval Air Station there, and Fort Barrancas, which is nearby, were interrupted by Sugar's appointment, we opted to go to a closer fort nearer to where we are staying.

Like the fort we'll be visiting later today, Fort Barrancas, nearby Fort Pickens was built to protect the naval base and the shipyards from attack during the War of Northern Aggression, aka, the American Civil War. I took many pictures, as did Mary, but I am going to include my pictures in a future blog. Mary will probably include her pictures in her blog at: http://marygoeswalking.blogspot.com/. Mary also got a stamp for her National Parks Passport along with a sticker that commemorates our visit.

We had a great time and since it was the MLK holiday, there were lots of people at the fort and admission was free. On the way "home", we stopped at what has become our favorite local watering hole, and then we came "home" to watch some TV. Naturally, I got sleepy and retired early. I am going to pace myself more today and attempt to stay awake longer. At least that's my plan as of now.

Otherwise, not much is on tap for today. Probably some music making, some Scrabble™ playing, along with some TV viewing. The sun will be rising today at 6:44 a.m., and setting at 5 :15 p.m. That's all I have to say about that. Ciao.