Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 10:00 p.m. in "The City", where the current temperature under rainy skies is 36°, as we drop to our overnight low temperature of 29°. However, with a wind blowing directly out of the west @ 15 mph, it feels more like 27°.

There is a Small Craft Advisory in effect from St. Joseph to Manistee until 11:00 p.m. tomorrow night, with wind speeds gusting up to 30 knots and waves up to six feet in height.  

That Small Craft Advisory will be superseded by yet another Gale Warning beginning @ 11:00 p.m. tomorrow night and continuing until 9:00 a.m. Friday, with wind speeds possibly up to 40 knots and the waves may reach heights up to 11 feet. I may have to grab my camera and get down to the shores of the "Big Lake" at Grand Haven State Park for some action shots.

That being said, the sun will rise tomorrow @ 7:50 a.m. and set later @ 6:08 p.m.

We got out late today to make yet more donations at the local Goodwill™ store as Mary continues to pare down our things and stuff. I agree wholeheartedly that we have accumulated too many things over the last 10 years and too much stuff that either cluttered up the manse or that we never use. 

We followed that stop with a visit to Hofma Preserve for a possible photoshoot. Unfortunately, there was too much ice on the pathways so we decided that discretion is truly the better part of valor and so we stopped only long enough to take a couple pix of the ice-covered trails. While it looks like I took these shots in black and white, they were taken under very cloudy conditions. 

What looked inviting out the windows of our car, proved less than safe close up.

Same in this direction.

So, we quickly hopped into the car and took off for the waterfront and the downtown area of GH to take some pix of the channel and the downtown area. It felt good to just get out and walk with a camera in my hands. 

No small craft nor ships were in the ice-covered channel.

Dewey Hill from the east side of the channel.

Looking south towards the mouth of the Grand River.

 Looking to the east, Mary suggested this shot of the Grand Theater Marquee through the leafless tree.

I decided that this shot of the Portobello Restaurant sign at the old piano factory mall was interesting too. 

Although she is decluttering the manse, this corner of her desk is reserved for some of her cross-stitch efforts, a picture of a butterfly that she took this past summer at Ottawa Sands Park, and the dragon globe I gave her last Christmas.

Yesterday afternoon, I made a stirfry for our dinner, as Mary employed our steamer to make the rice. Collectively, we created a great dinner with a lot of leftovers. 

Earlier tonight, we collaborated on making Coleslaw using our food processor. The slaw turned out fantastic!

Tomorrow, I hope to get into the kitchen and bake another apple pie. I have a new apple peeling device that is supposed to cut the time of apple peeling by 50%. We shall see.

Otherwise, that's enough for one day after I let our fur-children out for their duties. Ciao.