Good morning or good evening, wherever you might be. It is just past 1:30 a.m. in "This City." A current temperature of 42° that feels like 37° with the prevailing winds, makes for a three dog night here in the panhandle of  Florida. Later today, after the sunrise at 6:34 a.m., the temperature will rise to 53° under sunny skies. Thursday, we are expecting those same sunny skies, but a high temperature of 67°. The NWS is predicting a similar day on Friday.

I mostly sat around yesterday. We got up on the late side of the morning, so STWD and I had to take the morning walk without Mary, because she was busy in the kitchen making her latest modification to the vegan roast prior to her chat session. I like this recipe variation the best. What is most important, is that she wrote down what she did so that it can be repeated. Her mother used to make things in that fashion too, but when she hit on something good, she never repeated it. Go figure.

I got my chores done, did some crossword solving, and read the paper that the intrepid one and I picked up when we were out. It was so windy, that it was an abbreviated walk. While Mary was chatting, I assisted in the making of the pasta sauce that she started before she went upstairs. I like to think that it was my invaluable assistance that made it a success. For lunch, we had some leftover baguette that Mary nuked. She sliced it, placed it in a baking dish with some olive oil, and then served it with some of the pasta sauce on top. I liked it.

As the day wore on, Mary realized that her latest knitting project had become too cumbersome to carry with. So, we traveled to Pensacola to a big-box craft store where she found another more portable project. While we were in the strip mall, we stopped into a hobby store that specializes in R/C cars and planes. In the mix, they had a small collection of model cars. For Adam, there was a later model of the General Lee from the Dukes of Hazzard, that did not have the regular markings. So sad?

We made it home after a stop at Shaggys, where the winds were once again so strong that they nearly took the door out of my hands, again. The door knob fell off soon after we entered, and so the services of a locksmith were required to repair the door handle. We had some of the latest incarnation of the beast for dinner when we got home.

Today not much on tap, thankfully. We'll walk with STWD, do some reading, and otherwise just do as little as possible. Mary started her latest knitting project while we were at Shaggys, but soon "ripped it out" because she decided that it needed to be twice the size.

We need to answer some emails later today and buy tickets for the ballet matinee performance of Swan Lake on Sunday. It is being staged in the same theater where we saw Quilters, and since we like the venue and it will be Valentine's Day, we will be going. Yeah, I know I should take the usual male attitude towards ballet, but I like it.

In sports news, we are just eight days away from the start of spring, As you may know, that's the day when pitchers and catchers report to their various training camps for the opening of spring training. The pundits are still predicting that the boys in blue, AKA the Cubs, will win it all this year. As a die hard fan, I'm hoping that they are right. I'm also hoping that those same pundits haven't jinxed the boys.

The sun will be setting today at 5:33 p.m. Ciao.