Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 5:00 a.m. in "The City."

Where did that came from? By that, I mean the snow that greeted yours truly and the fur-children when I went downstairs around 4:00 a.m. to let them both out. Ginger didn't seem to care that it had snowed and surprisingly, neither did STWD.

I was taken back to a snow covered area in Huntley, IL, the day we adopted Sugar from Animal House Shelter. As a way to test our compatibility with Sugar, shelter personnel had us take her outside into the snow, which she seemingly loved. Of course, by then, I was totally smitten and the intrepid Weather Dog was coming home with us, no matter what. First shelter, first dog. What can I say, when you know, you know. Mary always said the if I ever looked at another woman the way I looked at Sugar...

But once again, I digress. We have a current temperature of 31° under snowy-skies. That snow-is expected to taper off and be down to about a 15% chance by 7:00 a.m. from the current 55%. In addition, there is another Small Craft Advisory in effect from 10:00 a.m. this morning until 7:00 a.m. Friday. In between, the waves heights will build from 4' to 7'! The sun will rise today @ 8:00 a.m. and set later today @ 5:10 p.m.

I got that restraining fence installed yesterday, just in time, and it seems to be working. The fur-children have gone out and done their duty and no "mishaps" have occurred. However, they can both be very ingenious, so we'll await further developments.

I also made it to my Coffee and Coloring session at the library, but as noted, I had to leave early to get to my orthopedic appointment. That went well and I also stopped in the lab for some required tests before my surgery later this month. No problems there either.

We finally did it. We got all of the credit-card information changed at the various vendors. It was a challenge, to say the least. I wanted to use the word obviously, but then an image of a professor that both Mary and I had a long time ago popped into my head. I remember Dr. Jack Dodds saying, "If it is obvious, you don't have to tell us, and it it isn't, telling us won't make it so." Perhaps saying "To say the least" is no different, but I'm going with that phrase anyway.  We won two out of three falls. Like the curse of that evil Tylenol Killer from decades ago, we hate these mythical 400 lb. hackers in a Russian basement hacking into computer systems and stealing people's information while eating Cheetos™.

Today, I plan to stay in unless Mary wants company at the grocery store. She has an appointment to get a haircut later today, so she'll be going out earlier rather than later. I will have to clear the snow off the deck and also put down more salt. Hmmm. I wonder if I should have Mary get more while she is out?

I was listening to local radio out of GR a few moments ago and they were describing a closed major road due to the slide-off of several semi-trailer trucks that were unable to slow down enough to stay in control. I guess it is a crap-shoot. If you make it, you make better time. If you slide off the road, well...

No newspaper today out of respect for the declared federal memorial day for former president, George H. W. Bush. The USPS facilities are closed here in GH and across the country, so there is no mail delivery for the Grand Haven Tribune. Ciao.

Weather update. At 5:25 a.m., I watched one of the trucks from the GH Public Works Dept. go by in front of the manse, heading west. As you may recall, this part of our street is one-way, heading east. Oh well, another snow-event and another regular response.