Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 3:00 a.m. in "The City."

I've just returned from a trip to the back forty with GTWD and STWD @ around 2:15 a.m.and I can confirm that it is cold outside. That being said, the current temperature according to the NWS is 32°. Anyone who is a student of science knows that you can have both water and ice @ 32° due to having the requisite number of BTUs, British Thermal Units, present in one gallon of water, 1,200 BTUs. As of right now, we have removed the requisite number of BTUs required for ice.

I am preparing to do some additional highlighting for Mary's indexing project. I'm currently on page 135/395, so that means I am 34% complete.  I had to order more pink highlighters, which arrived yesterday so that I can finish this and future highlighting. I believe that the next book requires highlighting in two colors. Every time I do that, I end up with more highlighter ink on me than the pages. I should mention that the book I am working on now is a fascinating description of the various massacres/atrocities and the resultant trials that generally followed. Sadly, the trials like most law-enforcement activities came after the acts that produced the atrocities.

I got some reading and playing with the girls in yesterday. That'as all good. I had to stop playing with the girls when Mary couldn't concentrate. I was playing and singing songs that she knows so that she found herself listening to me and not concentrating on her work. Sigh.

I was able to finish assembling out Gazelle™ with the parts that arrived on Thursday along with some bolts that I picked up at Ace Hardware™. I also hung the newly painted towel bar in the mud room. Looking good.

Today I plan to do as little as possible. I can do some quiet activities, but that's fine with me as I want to finish the book I am reading. It is an older mystery written by Reed Farrel Coleman entitled Walking The Perfect Square: A Moe Prager Mystery. The protagonist is an NYPD police officer who was forced to retire due to an injury. Although h is not a private investigator, he has been tasked with finding a person who is missing but who may only have decided to disappear. It too is an interesting read.

The current temperature as I previously noted is 32° per the NWS, but my DTWS is now displaying nearly 36°. I never changed the batteries on the FPMS, so it must have been knocked out by the wind the other night. We anticipate a high later today of 39° with rain/showers in the morning and then not much is happening after that. However, the winds will stay strong @ about 15 - 20 mph.

The sun will rise today @ 8:16 a.m. and set later @ 5:19 p.m. Ciao.