Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 1:00 a.m. in "The City."

The NWS is reporting that our current temperature is 46° with rain falling. Surprisingly, they are right for a change. In addition, the temperature feels more like 43° due to a 5 mph wind. 

Today's high is forecast to reach 60° with a 100% chance for rain all day. Tonight's low will only drop two degrees to 58° before Friday's forecast high of 63°. Unfortunately, while that temperature looks like one more opportunity to don my summer uniform, that 63° is accompanied by a rain forecast of 90%. Sigh.

The sun will rise this morning 8:07 a.m. and set this evening @ 6:50 p.m., a scant 10 hours and 43 minutes later.

I was hard at work in the vast gardens of the PE yesterday afternoon while Mary traveled to pick up our groceries, with Ginger riding shotgun. 

As an aside, I wonder when that phrase, "Riding Shotgun" will no longer have any meaning? That phrase refers to the practice from the "Olden Days" that stage coach  lines had a driver with a person carrying a shotgun sitting beside him. That person's function was to carry a shotgun and thus guard the valuables often carried by a stagecoach, from thieves. Like today, the safety of the passengers was of secondary importance. 

At any rate, Mary and Ginger decided to detour to the mostly-deserted City Beach here in GH, so that Ginger could enjoy one of her favorite activities and Mary could have a reason to walk on the sandy shores of the "Big Lake.". Mary only had her Smartphone camera along, but she took some excellent pictures without being able to see the results until later. 

One direction, looking south towards Holland I believe.

The opposite direction, looking north.

Once again, the trains are still on a weird schedule. Early yesterday morning, the trains passed by at first heading southbound @ 12:26 a.m. with locomotives 2025 and 2019 towing seven CHCs, and 18 CGCs. About 3:45 a.m., I heard those same locomotives pass by heading north, by themselves. While I didn't actually observe their passage, I sensed no cars in tow. 

Last evening @ 10:43 p.m., my journeyman assistant trainspotter, Mary, and Ginger, our trainspotting dog, witnessed the passage of that same tandem heading south. While I have no car count to report, I was given to understand that the few cars in tow were heavily loaded. I anticipate that the train will pass by heading north about 2:00 a.m. this morning, when I hope to be in bed. 

Today. with all the rain in the forecast, we'll have time to do some additional reading and TV viewing. 

Last evening before dinner, we watched the first episode from season two of Lark Rise to Candleford and the episode was a real tear-jerker. Our dinner was an excellent homemade pizza.

Since today will be an indoor kind of day, we'll also do some of those things that we should get to on a regular basis. Or not. 

I may get into the kitchen to make more vegan Italian meatballs and Mary has plans to use up some of our leftovers as taco filling. When you make vegan dishes, you often need about one cup of beans from a can that contains more like one and one-half cups of beans. So, you end up with leftover beans of various types. Hence, the taco filling. 

Otherwise, nothing is planned. Ciao.