Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 12:00 a.m. in "The City", where the current temperature under rainy skies is 30° with the wind blowing @ 22 mph that makes it feel more like 17°. Our overnight low is forecast to drop to 29°.

We have that aforementioned Gale Warning in effect until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow with wind speeds possibly up to 40 knots that may produce waves up to 12 feet in height from St. Joseph to Manistee!

Our current barometric pressure readings are 29.09" of Hg and rising per my DTWS, while the NWS in GR is reporting 29.70" of Hg and falling. 

The high-temperature today is expected to reach 40°, albeit with a 59% chance for additional rain and/or snow showers. The overnight low tonight will fall to 18° causing whatever falls from the sky to freeze on roads and sidewalks. The sun will rise this morning @ 7:49 a.m. and set later @ 6:09 p.m.

I regret that I have but one picture to offer on this blog, but it is a picture taken by our Senior Staff Photographer of my afternoon's activities in the kitchen. The picture depicts both the end product and my new apple peeler which helped me speed up the process. The peeler actually worked as advertised.

The pie crust turned out great, and the mechanical peeler was a great tool. The pie itself? We'll be sampling that later this morning. As you can see it is another apple pie.

Otherwise, yesterday was another in a series of days in which I worked on two crosswords puzzles. read two newspapers, Thursday's edition of the Grand Haven Tribune, and the Wednesday edition of the USA Today, and watched another episode of Suits.

Mary spent some time cross-stitching and listening to her own book after reading the same newspapers and also watching Suits. She also made a nice lunch of leftover stir fry. Dinner was fried tofu with tartar sauce and a side salad. I liked both meals.

Today, the cloudy conditions will likely force me to postpone my painting activities, which will allow me time to play some music, read two more newspapers, complete two more crossword puzzles, and continue reading my latest novel, Fear No Evil, by James Patterson. Mary has plans for brunch after our fur-children have been out for their morning offerings, which will include something for the main dish and apple pie for the second course.

Otherwise, retirement should consume most of our time. Ciao.