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."

I was a baker today after solving a crossword puzzle and doing some reading. Oh, I sandwiched in some dusting of the manse earlier today too. I have more dusting to go, but I got the entire upstairs done today. Tomorrow, along with our indoor chores, I will finish the dusting downstairs, makes some vegan Italian burgers, and then retire.

At any rate, I made more of my famous Funfetti cookies today. Once again, I wouldn't change a thing. They turned our perfect, two dozen of the best cookies ever baked!

Mmmmm Good!

Of course, Mary had to out do me for dinner, with some leftovers and some fresh mushrooms. She took some rice I had made for my stir-fry the other day, combined it with her special recipe vegan mushroom gravy and added in my soon to famous vegan Italian meatballs and dinner was delicious.

A picture can't do her efforts justice, but rest assured, it was great!

But. as long as I am on a roll, let me reference a second roll, that of the train on the RSTL.

Last night @ 11:29 p.m., I watched MMRR locomotives 2170 and 2019 roll rapidly past, towing nine CHCs, three DBTCs, one DWTC, and 11 CGCs.

I thought I heard the return of those locomotives around 5:00 a.m. this morning, but they actually didn't appear outside my window until 6:19 a.m. Both locomotives were "Deadheading" as they returned to their northern terminus.

I did find time in between to do my regular rounds downstairs and also get started on that aforementioned dusting. This is the biggest house we have ever owned, and it takes a long time to do the cleaning well.

We have a current temperature of 21° that feels like 10° with a 10 mph wind out of the north. That wind is propelling a Small Craft Advisory until 3:00 a.m. tomorrow from St. Joseph to Manistee. Wind speeds of 20 to 20 knots and wave heights of six to 10 feet will make it very hazardous to be out on Lake Michigan in a small boat. But, I am relatively certain that the wave-boarders will be out anyway.

Tonight's overnight low will drop to an actual 23° before we rebound to tomorrow's high of 29° under partly-cloudy skies. The NWS is reporting a barometric pressure of 30.22" and rising, while my own DTWS is showing 29.63" and falling. The low-temperature tomorrow night will be 25°. The sun will rise tomorrow @ 8:09 a.m. and set later tomorrow evening @ 5:44 p.m.

So, I have my work cut out for me tomorrow. I have those indoor chores, the dusting, crafting more vegan Italian burgers, and working on my music. I now know for certain why my late mother-in-law, Eleanore, used to say she was so busy. You have more time, but work actually expands to fill up that time when you couple it with a desire to pursue hobbies.

Mary is hard at work on my artist's apron and other things, so she is facing some of the same types of time demands. Oh well.

I should mention that we are signed up to receive Covid-19 vaccinations, but here in our county and state, the vaccine is in short supply. We'll jut have to be patient. Ciao.