Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 1:30 a.m. in "This City."

The NWS was right on for their forecast yesterday. The rains came, the thunder boomed, and STWD actually took it all in stride for most of the morning and early afternoon. When things finally broke around 2:00 p.m., she and several of the neighboring dogs were able to get out. Sugar didn't want to be out for long, and she wanted to go back when a truck made a big noise. We were pulled back to the homestead and that was that.

Currently, the temperature is 56°, but it feels like 53°. We'll be feeling the mid 30s overnight and then returning to a high of, wait for it, 56° under cloudy skies. That same high temperature will be on tap for the next few days with mostly sunny skies prevailing by Friday.

We decided to stay in bed most of the morning yesterday with occasional breaks for my arthritic back. As long as I get up once in awhile, I'm fine. As my surgeon said at the time I had my yak rebuilt, he could fix the structural issues, but he couldn't fix arthritis. Fortunately, a couple of pain killers and I'm fine.

We did make it to Pensacola yesterday afternoon. A stop at the bread store and the art gallery, and we were on our way home. We stopped at Shaggy's for an adult beverage and Mary had a nice conversation with some people visiting "The Beach" from New Hampshire. Mary also got a Shaggy's T-shirt that she had been wanting. I have enough T-shirts to last a lifetime, so I didn't get one.

Today we will be staying home after the morning safari with the intrepid weather dog. I'll be restringing Winnie, and playing her along with actually trying to play my harmonica. Mary plans to do some cooking and I presume, some reading and knitting. I think I'll get to some reading too.

STWD will do what she does best, sleeping after her morning walk. She is definitely feeling better overall.

The sun will rise at 6:39 a.m. and setting at 5:28 p.m. Ciao.