Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 12:00 a.m. in "The City."

I hadn't intended to be up now, and in fact, I was in bed by 9:00 p.m. awaiting the arrival of the Jolly Old Elf when GTWD jumped down from the bed. So I took her out and shoveled some snow. What's that you say? If I went to bed @ 9:00 p.m. last night, then I was one day too early for Santa Claus' arrival. Oops, my bad. I guess that I was just too eager or that GTWD was too early. Either way, I'll be ready for the arrival of Old St. Nick later tonight.

Speaking of snow, the snow that fell was about three inches of heavy, wet snow, and I do mean heavy. Just moving it from the deck was a real chore. But, when you take your time, anything is possible. At any rate, the snow will be over soon. The NWS forecast indicates that the 100% chance of precipitation will fall to 5% by 4:00 a.m.

With today's high temperature of 37°, all of that snow will soon be just a memory, especially if the 36° predicted for Sunday, Christmas Day and the 49° predicted for Monday, Boxing Day, come to pass. However, the forecast for Boxing Day also includes an 80% chance for rain/wind. We have a current temperature of 33°.

Yesterday I finally got to spend some time with one of the girls, Susannah, my ganjo, as Mary likes to think of her, or my banjitar. By either designation, we sounded good. I also spent some time revising some music that I had previously typed out for my books. I like to type out the lyrics and add the chord notations in the appropriate places since it is rare that I actually play the music from the actual sheet music. However, I did play some jigs and reels from actual sheet music that we use @ our Irish Jam session too.

No trains to spot yesterday. I worked some crosswords and did some indoor chores. Mary did some invoicing for previous indexes and then did some reading in addition to talking to Adam on the phone. Mary prepared lunch which consisted of extraordinary beest on toasted bread with mustard and a side of my soon to be famous Coleslaw. When I have tart apples and carrots in addition to the cabbage for my Coleslaw to grate into the mix, it turns out great with just the addition of vegan mayo and rice vinegar.

We made it to our chiropractic appointment on time and then to JWs for adult libations. Finally home for a dinner of extraordinary beest sandwiches with sweet potatoes on the side.

Otherwise, not much was happening yesterday. That's all good as far as I am concerned. The sun will rise later this morning @ 8:14 a.m. and set @ 5:14 p.m as we put the winter solstice in the rearview mirror. Ciao.