Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 12:30 a.m. in "The City."

Yesterday was mostly filled with doing as little as possible. STWD and I went on safari and Sugar received her biscuit de jour at The Bookman. She looks forward to that part of her day and who am I to deny her? Sometimes the staff @ The Bookman is too busy to give Sugar her treat, but on most visits, she gets the treat that she seeks.

I did pick up the Monday edition of the Grand Haven Tribune while we were there,  however, I got sidetracked by other activities in Mary's indexing world so I will have to read it later today. One of the best things about getting your news from a newspaper is that it may not be timely on the next day, but it is always waiting for you to read the local news. That's something that most of the social media sites are unable to offer.

Trainspotting yesterday was interesting. At 11:49 a.m., locomotives 2019 and 2057 rolled through GH on the Reality Scale Train Layout, (RSTL), heading south. They were towing 11 CHCs, all empty. Not very many for two locomotives. However, the afternoon run that occurred @ 3:30 p.m. heading north, was composed of the same tandem of locomotives, but this time there were only two DBTCs, Dreaded Black Tank Cars, and three DWTCs, Dreaded White Tank Cars.

Regular readers will recall, that I gave these tank cars the dreaded designation, whether black or white because the black ones carry various flammable liquids and the white ones carry either hydrochloric acid or anhydrous ammonia used in agriculture for fertilizer. In either case, those chemicals can produce noxious fumes, flames or an explosion if they were to derail and the cars ruptured. Just saying.

I worked on part of the index and so I didn't get a chance to do much else yesterday. Mary was hard at work on the index in her office too. Somewhere in there, we squeezed in a break for lunch and then later in the afternoon, we traveled north to the mall to purchase a new comforter for the bed. I'll just say that the old comforter, while due for replacement, suffered an ignoble end on Sunday night and I just didn't want to take it to the laundromat since our wash machine is too small to handle the king-size comforter. At any rate, the new one looks great and will hopefully not suffer a similar fate.

Today, I have to do some baking for our book club meeting on Wednesday and also assist Mary with the final edit of the current index. Much of the editing is done, but another pass is always necessary.

The current temperature is 32° but it feels like 25° with the eight mph winds under cloudy skies. Today's high will  reach a balmy 42° under partly sunny skies with winds forecast by the NWS to reach 12 mph. In addition, there is a 20% chance of precipitation in the forecast.

The sun will rise today @ 8:02 a.m. and set @ 5:09 p.m. Ciao.