Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just before 5:00 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 34° under cloudy skies. Today's high is forecast to reach 37° with a 90% chance for additional precipitation in the form of rain/snow that was forecast to begin @ 4:45 a.m. and continues in earnest until 11:00 p.m. tonight! It is not snowing yet. The sun will rise today @ 8:08 a.m. and set later @ 5:46 p.m.

I was up early, just because that has become my current sleeping or is it my not sleeping time, and so I went downstairs to the kitchen and made a batch of my world -famous vegan Italian meatballs. I also cleaned up after myself so well, that I left the kitchen cleaner than when I arrived.

Not much was happening yesterday. I cleaned up the deck and the driveway and spread some salt to keep the ice at bay. I wish I could say that the fur-children got a walk, but alas, I can't. Today doesn't look much better for their chances either.

We made it to the chiropractor yesterday afternoon, but we took the car because we needed to go to the UPS Store™ downtown to drop off a package for return to that big-box e-tailer.

Now, I am going to head into the media room to watch another episode of that long ago TV show, Highway Patrol, starring the late Broderick Crawford. I especially like watching the old cars with what appeared to be no shock absorbers, very little in the way of performance, handling, or other things that we take for granted in today's automobiles. Oh, Crawford always gets his man and like Barnaby Jones of the TV private detective show starring the late Buddy Ebsen, Crawford always manages to out shoot his quarry.

Today looks like a good day to stay inside, do some reading and maybe some crafty things, Since I've already done some cooking, I will do some indoor chores that take very little minding. Ciao.