Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 5:00 p.m. on a partly-cloudy day here in "The City." The sun will set shortly @ 5:13 p.m. and rise tomorrow @ 7:51 a.m., before setting once again @ 5:12 p.m. tomorrow night.

We do have a Small Craft Advisory in effect from St. Joseph to Manistee until 7:00 p.m. tonight, with winds of five to ten knots and small waves from two to five feet in height. 

Our current temperature, per my DTWS, is 35°, while the NWS is posting the temperature @ 31°. They also point out that the wind out of the northwest @ nine mph, makes it feel more like 23°. 

Tomorrow, the high-temperature will rise to 36° before falling to an overnight low of 31°.

Another Thanksgiving has come and gone. Here at the manse, we had a terrific dinner. Mary worked for hours in a steamy kitchen chopping, stirring, and baking, as she created our dinner. We had a tofu based faux turkey, dressing using Mary's homemade bread and her vegetable broth, green-bean casserole, one of my favorites. that utilized water-chestnuts, mushrooms, and more of her homemade vegetable broth, and her famous muchrooms gravy, which also used more broth and freshly sliced mushrooms. In addition, the meal also featured my personal favorite among all Thanksgiving sides, Oceanspray™ jellied cranberry sauce. 

Many more years ago than I care to remember, I said I liked cranberry sauce. So, Mary slaved over the creation of homemade cranberry sauce that utilized fresh cranberries and other things. Don't get me wrong, it was good, but I am very happy with her opening a can of Oceanspray™ and putting that on the table for my enjoyment. She is more than happy to accommodate me. 

At any rate, here is a picture of the meal taken with our Smart Phone.

No pun intended, but, "But eat your hearts out my fellow Americans.

We finished the indoor chores today so that tomorrow, my afternoon is open to allow me to watch the game between the 10 - 1 OSU Buckeyes, who are 8 - 0 in the Big-10 conference, and our own 10 - 1 team, the Wolverines of Michigan, who are 7 - 1 in the Big-10, following their lopsided loss to the Spartans of MSU. The winner of tomorrow's game @ The Big House in Ann Arbor, gets to play for the Big-10 championship. 

Speaking of the 9 - 2 Spartans, 6 - 2 in the Big-10 conference, they host the 7 - 4, 4 - 4 in the Big-10 Nittany Lions of Penn State tomorrow @ Spartan Stadium.

I finished another novel early this morning and I am not quite ready to start my next. Instead, I did some painting today along with finishing another crossword puzzle and assisting with the indoor chores. We also watched another episode of out latest Amazon Prime™ series, Chuck while eating lunch.

Mary has been hard at work on her cross-stitching and today she is ordering more floss, as if she doesn't already have every color ever conceived She is taking advantage of the Black Friday coupon she received from Everything Cross-Stitch. I say why not, as we are likely indoors for the winter between the cold, the snow, and the Covidiots. I too may have to take advantage of one of the myriad coupons I get for painting supplies. Like I already don't have every color of acrylic paint and brush type imaginable.

Tomorrow, I have no plans other than to watch football and perhaps a Hallmark Channel™ movie  in the evening. To paraphrase that old commercial, "It doesn't get any better than this." Ciao.