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

A quick weather report seems in order. I was just perusing my email and I discovered two things worthy of note. One, there is a pollen alert for the next two days in GH. Today and tomorrow, the pollen in the air will be quite high. Not to worry, because there is also a winter storm watch that has been issued by the NWS in GR for Wednesday afternoon into Thursday for the greater Ottawa County area. Rain will change to sleet and then snow as a heavy wet snow will fall and cause hazardous driving conditions. The NWS is urging precaution when driving. Ya think? Where's the good news? The pollen levels will be low for those two days. So if you have allergies, the pollen won't be your problem. I sure am glad I got in that tilling in the gardens of the Palatial Estate.

Elsewhere on the weather front, pun intended, the current temperature is 30° but it feels like 24°. Later today, we are supposed to see a high of 41° under sunny skies. In fact as of right now, the NWS is also predicting a high of 53° on Tuesday. Good thing it is spring and the snow won't last.

Yesterday, STWD and I took the morning safari after we watched CBS Sunday Morning. Mary stayed back and found the bottom of her kitchen so that she could also get on with her day of indexing, I did some reading and played with the girls. Before that, we managed to collaborate on hanging some of those pictures. Four more to go.

Ellen, we too noticed that the commercials are indeed getting louder. Mary and I used to think that it was just us. In fact the most insidious thing may be that the commercials for nearly every station's own promos are louder too. We'd like to think that the networks are adjusting for our declining hearing abilities, but that does not explain the fact that the millennials don't have that problem. Or, are they facing the same hearing loss as the Baby Boomers due to loud music?

Mary made her own interpretation of Beefaroni™ for dinner last night. Even she has to admit that this particular comfort food from my childhood tasted good. Still, as is often the case, she plans some changes to my carefully crafted/recorded recipe. That's fine, as long as she doesn't alter the basic formula too much. The sheer simplicity of the recipe is what makes it such a great comfort food. Now all I have to do is to get her to like Tater Tots™.

Today, a little housework and then more reading. STWD will still be needing her morning walk, but I don't know if Mary can join us. That index due date is looming. Other than the previously mentioned items, not much is in the plans for today.

I had planned to get maudlin, but I've decided that it will wait for another blog. The sun will rise at 7:46 a.m. and set at 7:59 p.m. Ciao.