Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 9:30 p.m. in "The City."

This is the perfect opportunity to place a picture of my latest kitchen creation, my annual vegan Halloween Pumpkin Pie. I haven't yet tasted it because it is our monthly contribution to the book club session. However, since everything went well during the cooking/baking process, I anticipate that it will be a success. More on that soon.

The crust is perfect, and the filling solidified as expected.

Mary made dinner tonight and it turned out to be a variation on her regular recipe for Spaghetti Roll Casserole. It seems that she forgot to add TVP, or the vegan sausage that I made yesterday, or the meatballs that I also made yesterday. However, the end result was great.

Speaking of the vegan meatballs that I made, since the portobello mushrooms that are normally part of the ingredients were spoiled, I substituted the left-over pinto beans that I used to make the sausages. Unfortunately, it seems that the portobello mushrooms add both some needed texture and some earthiness to the vegan meatballs. They still taste great, but their texture is not what I was hoping to achieve. Better luck next time/

Ginger and I spotted trains today, the southbound run of locomotive # 2019 @ 8:48 a.m. was towing three DBTCs, and one DWTC. Later, @ 1:05 p.m. we spotted that same locomotive heading north, towing 10 CHCs, two DBTCs, and one DWTC moving at a relatively high rate of speed.

We had only one set of visitors for Halloween tonight. That means that the Smarties™ that we bought for the occasion are all mine for the year. Oh well, their loss is my gain.

I just finished watching NCIS and the writers have redeemed themselves. I will be off shortly to watch NCIS New Orleans.

Tomorrow, our reupholstered chairs will be coming into the Flower Room. If they turned out as we hope, they will look great.

Later in the afternoon we will be going to the book club and sampling my pumpkin pie as we discuss the book we read.

We have a current temperature of 40° that feels like 37° under mostly cloudy skies. Any precipitation of significance will hold off until the early evening hours. The sun will rise @ 8:19 a.m. and set @ 6:36 p.m. Our high-temperature forecast from the NWS calls for 47° under partly cloudy skies. Ciao.