Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 5:15 p.m. in "The City."

We've just returned from a library pick up, a photo safari, and a reconnoitering of the location where I will be getting my first Covid-19 vaccination on Wednesday. Yes, my friends, the chance to actually make an appointment arose yesterday morning in an email and I jumped on it. Later that same afternoon, Mary jumped on a chance to make an appointment at an entirely different location next Friday. My chance was due to a local medical group, while hers was courtesy of a chain pharmacy with a location in Spring Lake. All good. 

But back to the local news. 

We have a current temperature of 34° under mostly cloudy skies. The 18 mph wind out of the east makes it feel like 23°. My DTWS is showing a barometric pressure reading of 29.54" of Hg and rising, while the NWS is reporting 30.12" and falling.

Our overnight low is forecast to be 30°, but that is accompanied by two Advisories, the first for a Winter Weather Advisory that goes into effect @ 8:00 p.m. tonight for portions of central, southwest, and west central MI. The forecast calls for two to four inches of heavy wet snow, with the heaviest snow fall occurring between 9:00 p.m. tonight and 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. That's accompanied by the usual hazardous driving conditions. Once again, thanks for our snow service.

In addition, there will be a  Small Craft Advisory in effect until 10:00 p.m. Tuesday from St. Joseph to Manistee. 15 to 30 knot winds will cause five to eight foot waves on the "Big Lake."

The sun will rise tomorrow @ 7:32 a.m. and set later @ 6:24 p.m.

Now I can get to the video of the SIMs II power plant and Smoke Stack  that fell last Friday. We heard and felt the rumble from the demolition just after 8:00 a.m. The plant is about one mile from the manse as the crow flies, so to speak. 

https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/lakeshore/ottawa/grand-haven-smokestack-scheduled-for-demolition-friday-feb-19

As you may recall, I took some pre-demolition pix late last week and some post-demolition pix today.

Late last week.

The same.

And today.

Also today, just a pile of rubble.

Of course, since we were out, Mary drove us through Spring Lake for some additional pix of things we had nor seen for a while.

Even the birds were resting.

I actually managed to capture the colors in the wintry sky.

The entirety of Spring Lake is a frozen tableau. 

Another sky show with the lake in the picture. 

Lest you think we weren't busy today, we gave Ginger a bath after yesterday's grooming session. She was very cooperative both yesterday and today.

I also finished the Friday crossword puzzle and that was about the extent of my ambitions for today. 

Tomorrow, Mary plans to go to that big-box nearly everything store for a pick up. Since it will be later in the day, the roads should be clear. 

Otherwise, I hope to get to play more music, read more, and just be retired. Mary has several projects in the works right now, so she has no need to add to her schedule. Ciao.