Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 4:00 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 32° under partly-cloudy skies. Today's high is forecast to reach 34° with cloudy/windy conditions. The sun will rise today @ 8:09 a.m. and set later @ 5:43 p.m.

There is a River Flood Advisory in effect until 7:00 p.m.

There is also a Small Craft Advisory from St. Joseph to Manistee in effect until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow.

Not much happened yesterday. I safely made it to my barber's appointment where I got nicely tuned up. I look more and more like the picture on my driver's license everyday. LOL.

Afterwards, I enjoyed a lunch that I had helped start before I left and that Mary completed while I was out. This was a chickpea stew that had terrific flavor and which is definitely a keeper. Once the lunch had been cleared away, I made another of my soon to be famous vegan pepperonis. Part of that became our dinner which was a dish called pizza pasta, which combined the tastes of pizza and pasta. Mary crafted this one all on her own, and it too is a keeper.

Collectively we finished the indoor chores.

My new 3-ring binder came yesterday. This one is large enough to accommodate all of my Irish Jam Session music in one binder and it also can be zipped closed and carried by an attached handle or strap. I was concerned that it would not fit on my traveling music stand, but it fits just fine. Plus, I reorganized some of the music that I have been meaning to get to for a long time.

Mary did make a suggestion regarding what I call the index to the book, but which she reminds me is actually a table of contents. I currently have two "indexes" separated in the binder, one for the main book and one for the auxiliary book. She suggested that I should also include the second index/table of contents up front along with it's current location, thus allowing me to more quickly access all of the tunes in the binder. I'll get to that at some point too.

Today, Mary has another "Tad" session at the library. While she is there, she is going to check into why the library's online catalog won't allow me to locate and checkout a book that the library has in their non-fiction handout. The book was published in 2018, so it is not due to the book being unavailable.

The fur-children are growing more antsy as the days pass, desperately wanting a walk. With today's moderating temperatures, we might be able to go for a short one.

We never got to that cabinet reorganization yesterday. But today, I can do what needs to be done. I plan to place seldom-used items on the top shelf, items that are shorter in stature on the middle shelf, and the just-slightly too tall items on the lower shelf. It sounds easy, but like many tasks, what should take minutes can turn into hours.

Otherwise, I have no plans. The fur-children and I will enjoy our down time as we await Mary's return from her volunteer shift. Ciao.