Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 10:30 p.m. in "The City", where my DTWS is displaying a current temperature of 36° with a barometric pressure of 29.74" of Hg and rising. The NWS agrees on the current temperature, but they show the barometric pressure as 30.37" of Hg and falling. I will hazard a guess and suggest that the NWS is using stats from GR.

The NWS has continued that Small Craft Advisory from St. Joseph to Manistee until midnight tomorrow night, with an expectation of 10 to 20 knot winds and possible gusts up to 25 knots propelling waves up to seven feet in height. That Small Craft Advisory  will be superseded by a Gale Watch scheduled to go into effect Sunday afternoon into Monday afternoon. Windspeeds of 20 to 30 knots with possible gusts up to 40 knots are forecast to propel waves as high as 12 feet!! The surf will most definitely be up!!!

The sun will rise tomorrow @ 7:42 a.m. and set tomorrow evening @ 5:17 p.m.

We didn't go to the annual Light Night tonight because we are not much into crowds these days and surprise, we aren't getting any younger. 

However, I did spend some time today working a crossword puzzle, making vegan Italian burgers and meatballs, and reading. Speaking of which, I had several more books on hold at the library, which Mary and Ginger picked up on their walkabout. Since I try to get my books in my preferred large-print format, three books proved to be quite a load, as one of the books is large and heavy. That cut down on the time that Mary and Ginger spent walking as Mary had to carry my books home in a sack.

Mary is still downstairs hard at work on her cross-stitch project. She loves it. 

The 8 - 3 NIU Huskies defeated the 4 - 7 Bulls of Buffalo U last Wednesday, 33 - 27, with former Spartans QB, Rocky Lombardi at the controls of the Huskies offense. The Huskies meet the 6 - 5 Broncos of W. MI next Tuesday night @ 7:00 p.m.

The 9 - 1 Spartans of MSU travel to Columbus, OH to meet the also 9 - 1 Buckeyes of OSU tomorrow @ 12:00 p.m. OSU's only loss was to the 9 - 1 Ducks of Oregon early in the 2021 season. The Spartans lone loss this season came at the hands of the 6 - 4 Boilermakers of Purdue. 

The 9 - 1 Wolverines of MI travel to Maryland to meet the 5 -5 Terrapins. The Wolverines only loss this season was to the Spartans.

Tomorrow I plan to watch as the Spartans try to upend the Buckeyes and also do some indoor chores. More reading, more puzzle solving are also on the itinerary. Mary will probably join me for part of the MSU game, but it is likely that she will repair to the upstairs where the sunlight should be conducive to cross-stitching. Ciao.