Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. across the nation and across the world It is just past 6:45 p.m. in "The City." 

The skies are clear with a current temperature of 37° which will also be our overnight low tonight. We have passed the sunset today. Tomorrow's sunrise will be @ 8:00 a.m. with sunset @ 5:10 p.m.

The NWS has continued the Small Craft Advisory until 7:00 a.m. tomorrow, from St. Joseph to Manistee, with wind speeds from 15 to 25 knots and gusts possibly up to 30 knots that may produce waves from four to eight feet in height.

Tomorrow's high temperature will reach 44° with an overnight low temperature of 32°. In between, the NWS is forecasting cloudy skies with windy conditions. 

I watched enough of the 5 - 7 Detroit Lions game to see improvement, as they defeated the 4 - 8 Jacksonville Jaguars, 40 - 14.

I eschewed watching any of the fiasco that saw the 3 - 10 Chicago Bears lose to the 5 - 8 Green Bay Packers, 19 - 28.

Since I had the time afforded to me by not watching pro football, I took time to vacuum the upstairs. When I came down, Mary had just returned with Ginger from their safari to the waterfront, where they took some pictures of the calm channel, the deserted recreation area nearby, and the ongoing construction at the former site of the Grand Haven Tribune.

Here is what they saw and what our Senior Staff Photographer photographed using Mary's Olympus TG-6  Tough DSLR camera. 

Unlike the last few days, the channel was quite calm in spite of that Small Craft Advisory.

But the temperature was cold enough to deter anyone from playing "Bags."

Ping Pong, or Foosball.

It always seems to take forever to get a new building up and out of the ground. Any tall building starts with underground plumbing and an elevator tower, as shown in this picture.

Here at the manse, along with my vacuuming, I took pictures of our decorated Christmas tree utilizing my own Olympus E-M10 III DSLR camera using two different settings.

I used the Auto function, which selects the best settings for the shot.

While for this shot, I used the Scene setting with the multi-shot Backlight HDR function, which compiles several shots to create a picture with the ambient lighting. 

I almost forgot to mention, that Mary requested that I look at our large cordless vacuum because it seemed to have lost its ability to vacuum. It turns out that I had to get some tools from the man cave and extract a clog from the inlet of the machine. It works much better now and I can add Vacuum Repair Technician to my list of skills.

We have continued to ear-read our collective book, The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson. This book is a chronicle of Bryson's walking tour of his adopted country, Great Britain, and is a sort of sequel to his previous book, entitled Notes From a Small Island. In that book, Bryson chronicled a motor tour of the island he had taken about 20 years earlier. His goal was to see how much things had stayed the same and how much things had changed. We are enjoying The Road to Little Dribbling very much.

I have my Sunday night Simple Songs for Ukulele Players session tonight @ 9:00 p.m. 

Tomorrow, we have hopes that our fall/winter clean-up will take place. Otherwise, not much is planned. Ciao.