Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation, and perhaps, across the world. It is just past 4:30 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 51º under clear skies. Winds of 7 mph make it feel like 48°. Today's high-temperature forecast calls for 58º under skies with a 0% possibility for additional precipitation. under partly cloudy skies. The barometric pressure is 29.45 Mg and rising. Generally, rising barometric pressure indicates fair weather.

We had what has often termed a gully-washer Thursday night. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a Gully Washer as an extremely heavy fall of rain usually of short duration: a cloudburst.

I found this image of a Gully Washer @ the Google Images™ website.

However, that fair weather will be short-lived, as there is a 100% possibility of rain tomorrow with one to two inches expected. That means that we can expect another Gully Washer tomorrow, which will be accompanied by a high-temperature of 59º.

The sun will rise today @ 6:19 a.m. and set later @ 9:03 p.m. Mary informed me that our sunsets will all be after 9:00 p.m. each night until August 3, 2020.  

We got out yesterday and made those aforementioned stops here in the Tri-Cities area. We also took a short trip over the bridge to one of the other Tri-Cities, Ferrysburg. I took some pix while we were out and about.

This pic is from Ferrysburg, one of my favorite subjects, an unused playground.

As we traveled through Ferrysburg, I took some shots of the overpass for the US 31 overpass that spans the Grand River and the local street below in Ferrysburg. I also took a pic of the truck traffic that was headed for the local dock in Ferrysburg that stores slag, gravel, sand, and cement after it is delivered by ship to GH. 

I liked the way this truck looked like in what was almost a silhouette.

In the foreground, one of those gravel piles. In the background, a storage tank for the fuel terminal that serves the area.

The nearly 100-year-old Pratt through truss bridge that is always open after the passage of a CSX freight train on the RSTL. The exact age of the bridge is unknown, but the riveted construction suggests that it was built in the early 1900s.

Speaking of that train passage, @ 9:22 a.m., I heard the southbound run pass by the manse. Later, I was in my studio and actually observed the northbound passage of locomotive #2025 as it towed 20 CHCs, two DBTCs, and five DWTCs, all empty. I believe that the morning run was that same locomotive, cars in tow unknown.

We spent some time on the deck with the fur-children, which included giving them both a pawdicure. If we keep at it, we'll get them done. Each of our girls got a dental treat bone as a reward for good behavior.

It got chilly, so we came in and May took the time to make a terrific pasta salad that utilized shell macaroni, her homemade vinegar and oil dressing, some leftover chickpeas, some leftover black olives, some parsley, and some of my vegan Pepperoni. 

Only a small amount of yet another leftover remains.

Today, we hope to ger to that transplantation and some direct seeding of flowers in the various beds and pots. We won't be putting my seedlings into the garden, yet, as it is still too cold overnight.

Otherwise, I plan to make some vegan burgers for a diner or lunch meal. 

Mary finished reading her latest novel last night, while I am still working on mine. I am also editing my own work too.

By the by, there is a protest of the MI governor's stay at home/social distancing order planned for the Grand Haven State Park today. The parking lots at the State Park have been closed at the state park since those recent huge crowds which have apparently upset people without a clue. Some of those protestors may be armed with semi-automatic assault weapons, as they were at the state capitol in Lansing a couple of weeks ago. We'll stay in our own back-forty which should be outside the range of those assault weapons. Ciao.