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

The sun will rise this morning @ 6:21 a.m. and set later @ 9:20 p.m.
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The NWS is forecasting today's high to be 80º under mostly sunny skies. The overnight low tonight will be 71º. We have only a 10% chance for showers this morning,. We also have a 20% chance of T-storms this evening.

According to the NWS, the current outdoor temperature is 64° and it feels like 64º with a wind speed of 2 mph.

My DTWS shows 66º on both the deck and the front porch.

The barometric pressure is 30.06" and rising, while my DTWS is showing 29.48" and steady. We'll take a wait and see position on those T-storms.

I did make it into the kitchen yesterday and did my voodoo. I made two vegan main dishes, Italian sausages and Italian meatballs, pictured in the accompanying photo below as taken by our Senior Staff Photographer.

I think that my version of meatless balls is as good as it gets!

Mary made her usual slow-simmered pasta sauce using her own secret recipe of multiple herbs and spices into which she added some of my Italian meatless balls. Ginger was excited because she could smell the sauce simmering and she knows that when that smell is in the manse, she often gets some pasta noodles as a treat. In this case, Mary had Ginger's favorite, whole wheat spaghetti versus chickpea-based spaghetti, which Ginger will not eat. Who says that dogs have no sense about what they like and don't? While Ginger is like most dogs, food-driven, she is also discriminating.

Otherwise, things have settled into a routine around the palatial estate and the manse. Mary set up a grocery pick up for this afternoon and I plan to color something from a coloring book that Adam sent to me entitled Famous Trains by Bruce LaFontaine. This book contains many pix of famous trains that plied the rails over the years. I just have to decide which one to start with.

With luck, I hope to replace the drawing on our chalkboard for our mudroom. I've erased the old artwork that has been in place for many weeks, so now I have to think of what I want to depict. I have some ideas, but I'm still ruminating. I have so many things to do and seemingly so little time.LOL.

Mary has plans to continue her reading and also to color the cucumber that she has been working on. We will probably watch another episode of Poldark too. We are nearing the end of the series and so we will have to decide on our next series.

We have also been watching episodes of The Bob Newhart Show from the 1970s with our meals and episodes of 11/23/63 which is based in the book of the same title by Stephen King.

I'd like to say that I am enjoying my novel, but it is getting tedious. Maybe I'll change my mind, but right now, I am thinking about abandoning my reading efforts. Novels should not require effort, they should engender enjoyment. Nonfiction is often tedious as the information is generally of the informational nature that necessitates effort.

Ciao.