Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 4:00 a.m. in "This City."

Given my extended blog yesterday, I'm going to keep this one short and sweet. It is worthy of note, that the internet connection here is so slow, that uploading and saving take a long time. That assumes that the connection stays connected. It is probably my computer, as Mary seems to have no problem. Still, it is a pain.

Yesterday's walk with STWD was relatively uneventful, unless you count her shaking in fear that seems to come with a change in the weather. But that being the case, we hurried home and then Mary and I set out to see Mother Ocean in all her splendor. The winds were blowing strongly, so the waves were a sight to see.

The saying here on "The Beach" is "Leave only your footprints", so along with many others, we did.

Mary likes to say that Mother Ocean is angry on these windy days.

The T-storme that we had expected all day finally made themselves known about 6:00 p.m. yesterday, as a storm front moved through much of the Gulf Coast. Tornadoes and heavy rains pelted parts of AL, MS, and FL. We were out at Shaggys at the time, but when we decided to head for home, even though the winds were still blowing strongly, the rains had stopped.

As of now the temperature is 52°, but it feels like 47°. Today, mostly cloudy skies will prevail after the sun rises at 6:29 a.m. A high temperature of 62° is expected. I think I'd rather stay in today after the morning walk with the intrepid weather dog. I know that Mary wants to walk down to one of the T-shirt stores, so If I am feeling up to it, I'll join her. That would be after lunch and Mary's chat session.

I'm nearly finished with my latest pulp fiction novel, and the author has thrown me a curve. I like it. I guess in literature, this is the climax. Otherwise, I don't have much ambition today. The sun will set at 5:38 and then I plan to settle in to watch NCIS. Ciao.