Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 6:00 a.m. in "The City."

I was just out with GTWD and the snow is trying to fall. So far just a dusting, but the forecast from the NWS as conveyed by  Chief Meteorologist, Bill Steffen, of WOOD-TV & Radio, is for only light snow throughout today, but three to five inches tomorrow. We shall see. Our current temperature is 26°, which is coincidentally the anticipated high for today. Since it is approaching sunrise @ 8:05 a.m., I'll add that here. Oh, I guess I can also add that the sun will set this evening @ 5:09 p.m.

I was busy yesterday. I made my first loaf of "Beer Bread" from a recipe I found on the internet. Since I have baked my world famous banana nut bread before, I thought I was up to the challenge. I was right and the bread was pronounced delicious by the chief cook and vegetable chopper herself.

I have to agree, the bread tastes delicious. From now on, we won't need to run out of bread, I can always make another loaf like this one. My next try is using yeast instead of beer. I had Mary take some pictures to memorialize my efforts

It looks great and tastes even better!

We each tried a piece of the end and of one inner slice with vegan margarine.

Elsewhere in the world, we traveled to the local big-box home center in search of a new hinge for one of the kitchen cabinets. While the store had some of a similar style by the same manufacturer, they didn't have the one I needed. A short journey to Rycenga Building Center and we were able to have the kitchen person order a replacement that should be in by next Thursday. The cabinets are about 20 years old, but they came from Rycenga originally, so they had no problem ordering a replacement.

There were no trains to spot yesterday.

Later today I have no specific plans, but Mary has to work on the current indexing project. I want to spend some time with the girls after the morning safari. I am finding that my days are filled in spite of having extra time. Perhaps it is just a matter of perspective, but when you are young, time seems to stretch out forever, while as you get older, time seems to be more fleeting and finite, so to speak. Just saying.

When we are on safari this morning, I need to get some additional postage stamps if there is not a crowd @ the post office. If there is, we can do it early next week. That is one thing that I do find as I get older, I am less inclined to want to spend time standing in lines. That applies to waiting on hold on the telephone for a person to come on the line.

That looks like enough for today. Ciao.