Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 3:30 a.m. in The City", where the current temperature is 31° as we fall slowly towards the overnight/early morning low of 25°. Later today, we'll rebound to 40° under partly cloudy skies. Sunday promises to be a sunny day with a high temperature of 45°.

I'd like to get Mary to join me for a final chance this year to tour the Muskegon Museum of Art for their annual Festival of Trees that runs until Sunday. The actual festival runs from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. I've wanted to see this exhibit for all of the years we have lived in West Michigan. If we miss it, it's gone for another year. 

I also understand that there is a guided tour of the Hackley and Hume historic homes between 1:00 p.m. & 4:00 p.m. http://www.lakeshoremuseum.org/project/hackley-hume/ Sunday afternoon, Both of these homes were painstakingly restored to their 1890s appearance and feature decorations for Christmas. A lot depends on the progress that Mary makes on her current indexing projects, which seem to be piling up of late. Here's hoping.

Speaking of Mary, I've taken the liberty of including some photos below of her Thanksgiving Day dinner preparations from this past Thursday. Her blog shows the glamorous side of the dinner. We always laugh that when we were first married, when Mary made macaroni and cheese, generally a simple dish in those days, she seemed to use every dish and utensil in the kitchen. I think this year she may have actually done it with her dinner preparations. However, it was worth the mess, as the dinner itself was delicious. In fact, like with so many Thanksgiving dinners, the leftovers are still with us and may be for several more days. 

So far, Mary has been creative in her leftover usage. Yesterday's lunch was toasted "ham" and cheese sandwiches, and dinner was more gravy, dressing, biscuits, "ham" and for me, the jellied cranberry sauce returned to the table. Mary doesn't eat the cranberry sauce, so more for me. Yes!

Later today, the Michigan Wolverines face the Ohio State Buckeyes at 12:00 p.m. The Buckeyes are still stinging from their loss last week to the Spartans of MSU, so they will be a tough opponent for Jim Harbaugh's Wolverines. The Spartan take on the team that Michigan beat last week, the Penn State Nittany Lions, at 3:30 p.m. Looks like a full day of college football for me. I'll have plenty of snack food available while Mary works. I'm betting that my loyal sous dog will be there too.

Speaking of the intrepid one, she and I had a nice walk to the newspaper box on a brisk but pleasant morning in GH. I followed the advice of the canine psychologist and let Sugar sniff as much as she wanted both going and coming. It took extra time, but I wasn't in a hurry. My indoor chores were going to get done later than sooner, that's all. 

Mary walked to Health Hutt while Sugar and I were out,and then later Mary and I walked to the downtown and then to the Post to see Sally.

I did get in some time with Blue, my Ovation six string guitar, when I first arose yesterday. I like to think that play time with the girls keeps me young. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. While I'm watching football later today after the morning safari, I'll try to bake some pumpkin for Sugar's breakfast pleasure. I have two non-pie pumpkins that I have to either throw away or bake for Sugar's breakfasts. I am just not that big of a fan of cleaning out the seeds anymore, but it really isn't that hard to do.

Otherwise, not much will be happening here at the PE. Football, snack foods, more leftovers, and more snacking. Hmmm, I love it when a plan comes together. 

The sun will rise at 7:52 a.m. and set at 5:12 p.m. Ciao.