Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 4:45 a.m. in "The City", where the current temperature is a seasonal 31° under cloudy skies. The "Real Feel" temperature is 25° with a slight wind directly out of the east @ six mph. 

The NWS has issued another Small Craft Advisory from St. Joseph to Manistee effective from 1:00 p.m. today until 10 p.m. tomorrow night, with wind speeds from 15 to 30 knots and waves from three to five feet in height. In short, another day in paradise.

Today's high temperature forecast calls for 35° with an overnight low of 31°. As January approaches February, the forecast calls for chillier temperatures and more precipitation. If that doesn't come to pass, I'm okay with that possibility.

The NWS has also forecast snow showers starting this morning @ 6:00 a.m. with scattered snow possible, but little accumulation. We shall see.

The sun will rise this morning @ 8:07 a.m. and sunset will be @ 5:47 p.m.

P/T went well yesterday. I am moving better and my range of motion in my knee is better each day. I wish that it was all over, but every source I've consulted shows that full recovery can take up to one year. However, since I am just passing five weeks, Eric, my therapist, says I am doing great. Easy for him to say, but I know that he is right.

I asked about having both knees done at the same time, and his answer was based on my unique physical size, well unique by the mythical standard for US males, of six feet tall and 170 pounds. I haven't been that size since grammar school. 

More times than I care to remember, when I was much younger, women I dated always thought I was smaller than I am, why I don't know, only to discover that clothing that they'd bought and thought would fit me, looked like it came from the children's department when I tried things on. That's both a curse and a blessing, I guess.

Otherwise, I finished that Stephen King novel, and I am trying another by Scott Turow, but it is not to my liking. I'll give it a few more page turns, and then it will probably end up in the return pile.

Today is a day to get up to my art/music studio/office and do some organizing. I have a hankering to do more than just sit around and I can use the trips up and down the stairs to add to my rehab activities.

Mary has several different cross-stitch projects either newly completed or ready to start. However, as this is a "hobby" that often requires counting and concentration, I don't know where she is at with some of them. Another example of hobby skills that improve with time. I just don't have that level of patience.

That's enough for one blog. Ciao.