Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 4:30 a.m. in "The City."

Well, here we go again. I was just starting to enjoy the respite from the wintry weather and then the NWS issued a Winter Weather Advisory that is in effect from 10:00 a.m. today until 4:00 a.m. Thursday. Blowing winds that will cause drifting snow, hazardous driving conditions and wind chills in the lower single digits are in that forecast. The current temperature is 22° but it feels like 8° with the over 20 mph winds under cloudy skies. The snow is expected to begin in earnest around 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. Time to get that snowblower and those shovels ready, again.

Yesterday, I took the fur-children for a walk to the cleared space in the backyard. I could tell that they wanted more, but I just didn't share their desire. Mary was hard at work on the current index, which we finished up after 7:00 p.m. last evening, while I was busy in the kitchen. I started another loaf of bread, this one from that book that I mentioned, Kneadlessly Simple, by Nancy Baggett.

I started the dough in the kitchen and then moved it to the mud room for its initial resting period in the refrigerator-like conditions present there. Last evening, Mary gave me an assist by moving the dough back into the kitchen and giving it a vigorous stirring in preparation for its second rise that takes from 12 to 18 hours. The next step will be later today when I fold the dough and then place it into the baking pan. If all goes well, and I follow the instructions, the bread will go into the oven around two hours later and then bake in two steps. I know why bakers have to get up early and get the bread dough ready. I may go back to my English muffin loaf or beer bread, which are both excellent and much easier to prepare.

Somewhere in there, I took everything out of the refrigerator and gave it a thorough cleaning. We always mean to get to that, but during the spring, summer, and fall here in GH, the outdoors beckoned more than the refrigerator.

I took some pictures yesterday to memorialize the all too infrequent appearance of sunshine and blue skies. One picture was looking west from Mary's office window over the public safety building just west of the PE, while the others show the blue skies and clear streets outside the WW Weather Window to the north.

You take your sunshine when you can get it.

Same here.

The clouds are a nice touch in this photo.

Yes, clear streets and not many cars.

Too bad it won't last. We need to get out to the grocery store, the post office, and one or two other stops this morning before the weather goes bad. We should have a window until about 3:00 p.m. today. The wind chills and icy sidewalks will preclude an extended walk with the fur-children. Sorry girls, but that's winter in Michigan.

Mary has to get an invoice ready for one of her clients and that may be a stiff learning curve as I believe she has to use a specific system required by the client. I have some indoor chores today that involve the aforementioned bread baking and some laundry in the very cold mud room.

It was three years ago that the washing machine wouldn't drain because its drain tube had frozen solid. A repairman showed us how to add some heat from a portable space heater, which I brought up from the man-cave on Monday while I was down there, to solve that problem. Thanks to Adam and Steph for the inherited space heater that we got when they dissolved their getaway place.

The sun will rise into cloudy and threatening skies @ 8:09 a.m. and set @ 5!0 p.m. Ciao.