Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 3:45 a.m. in "The City."

This blog shouldn't take too long. No new pictures and not much in the way of news.

We have a current temperature of 28° that feels more like 18° with a wind out of the north @ 12 mph. That may be due in part to the fact that the NWS has continued the Small Craft Advisory until Friday @ 1:00 a.m. The forecast calls for winds of 15 - 25 knots and waves from four to seven feet from St. Joseph to Manistee. I know it is getting to be repetitive, but that's the way the weather is on the shores of the "Big Lake."

We have a current barometric pressure reading supplied by the NWS in GR of 30.36" of Hg and rising, while my own DTWS is showing 29.71" of Hg and falling. The distance between the shores of Lake Michigan and GR, which is further inland, is large enough to account for that discrepancy. 

 

The overnight low tonight/this morning will be 25°. Today, we'll rebound to a high of 38° before another overnight low in the mid twenties of 24°. Although there's a light at the end of the tunnel. The NWS is forecasting daytime highs in the 50s and above starting with Saturday's 55°. It looks like I'll be getting out my summer uniform very soon.

The sun will be rising in a few hours @ 7:26 a.m. and setting this evening @ 8:11 p.m.

While Mary and Ginger went to Home Depot™ and then on to The Bookman, I stayed behind with STWD and made some vegan seitan steaks. I had help from Mary before she left to properly cook the required lentils, but after that, I was on my own. Of course, we had two of the four steaks for dinner which had been marinated in my own secret marinade. Well no secret really, I just followed the suggested recipe. Mary assisted with the marinating and then the cooking later. 

I did some reading of a new novel today and finished a crossword puzzle. We also started a new TV program, having finished our last one, Timeless. We are also listening to a digital book, The Sum of Us, read by the author, Heather McGhee. It is fascinating.

The sewer service came by yesterday afternoon and we should be good to go for another 18 months or so. 

Otherwise, not much was happening and that will be the case today too, with the exception of a run to the Goodwill Store for a donation. Ciao.