Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 9:00 p.m. in "The City."

We have a Small Craft Advisory set to go into effect @ 10:00 p.m. tonight, from St. Joseph to Manistee. 15 to 25 knot winds are forecast to produce waves of four to six feet in height.

Our current temperature is 44°. However, winds out of the west @ 16 mph make it feel like 37°. Our overnight low is forecast to drop to 41°, which coincidentally, is tomorrow's high temperature forecast under partly-cloudy skies.. 

As usual, the NWS in GR is showing a different barometric pressure than what my DTWS is showing. The NWS has 30.20" and falling, while my DTWS is showing 29.59" and rising.

The sun will rise tomorrow @ 7:58 a.m. and set later @ 5:10 p.m.

I just finished making the earmuffs for my log snowperson, which when coupled with Mary's inspired idea for the band between the two pompoms that I made, should look great. 

Mary took on the task of draping our garland on the front porch railings to complete our outdoor Christmas decorations.

I was inside setting up our indoor decorations, which included our tree and some items on the front vestibule table. I have yet to take any pix, but look for them in a future blog.

As always, we have ornaments made from souvenirs acquired on trips we've taken, along with some ticket stubs from plays ands concerts we have attended. This year, we have added an ornament that Mary purchased that depicts some of what 2020 has been like.

In addition, I set up the market building and the trolley on its tracks that our children bequeathed to us many years ago, All in all, everything looks great. 

We tried to watch season two, episode five of Victoria, but there is some glitch in the program that activates the hearing assist function on our TV. It was so annoying, that we moved on to season three.

Mary whipped up our dinner tonight using the vegan pepperoni that I'd made the other day. She shredded the vegan pepperoni in our food processor and added it to her secret recipe pasta sauce, which she then poured over some whole wheat spaghetti noodles, Ginger's favorite. 

Tomorrow, we go back in the dog grooming business. Ginger needs a good winter cut and a bath. We collectively do the hair cutting, but I get the honor of the bath. 

Otherwise, not much is happening. More reading, more crossword solving, more music etc. Ciao.