Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 4:30 p.m. in "The City", so I guess you can call this either an early edition or a late edition from Sunday/Monday morning. Either way, the current temperature is 60° though it feels like 58° with a wind out of the southeast @ 13 mph under what the NWS is calling mostly-cloudy skies, which a view out the WW indicates to me is partly cloudy. You say potato, so to speak.

The sun will rise tomorrow @ 7:46 a.m. and set tomorrow evening @ 7:56 p.m. as the temperature will rise from that 40° overnight low to a high temperature of 53° which will be about seven degrees lower than today. 

We will have a Small Craft Advisory going into effect this evening @ 8:00 p.m. from St. Joseph to Manistee and lasting until 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, with wind speeds of 15 to 25 knots and gusts possible to 30 knots, with waves no more than three feet in height. 

Mary and Ginger were out picking up some groceries, but they are back now. Yesterday, they went for a morning walkabout as they did this morning. In addition, in the afternoon, they walked over to the auxiliary gardens, and lo and behold, the garlic we planted last fall is coming up.

I have to make a deer-resistant cover before the deer in our area discover they like garlic sprouts.

We amended the soil last fall to make it more garlic friendly and it looks like that worked.

The sprouts resemble the daffodils that are sprouting in our beds here at the manse.

Another angle was taken by our Senior Staff Photographer.

I took STWD for a walk earlier too, but as Mary has to remind me, Sugar is getting older, as am I, so while she thinks she can go farther, she needs to be kept in check so that her flesh doesn't give out before her mind. My yak felt better today than yesterday. I'll take it!

Today, we had a nice lunch of salad and leftover spaghettirole casserole and I did some reading of a novel I am enjoying entitled, The Last Thing He Told Me, by Laura Dave. I gave up on one yesterday that was quickly becoming tedious. I don't have time to waste on novels that require too much effort to read.

Tomorrow, we have nothing on the agenda other than some longer walks for Mary and Ginger and a shorter walk for STWD and me. We hope to get to look at our picture archives for some pictures we'd like to have printed for around the manse. 

Mary is still ear reading and stitching and I am still working on music and reading. Tomorrow should also bring some new crossword puzzles too. Ciao.