Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 2:20 p.m. in "The City", where the temperature feels like 26°, due to strong winds out of the southwest @ 20 mph. That wind is part of the Gale Warning issued by the NWS for areas along the shore of Lake Michigan from St. Joseph to Whitehall until 10:00 pm. tonight. Wind speeds of 20 - 30 knots with gusts possible to 35 knots will propel waves up to nine feet in height.

Our current temperature of 37° will also be today's high temperature before we fall to an overnight low temperature of a very chilly 21° after sunset tonight @ 6:26 p.m.

Tomorrow's high temperature will only reach 27°, so whatever melting of the ice that coated everything from the latest Winter Storm Warning will only last so long. In fact, the daytime temperatures for the next ten days or so will bounce around from the low 30s to 40°, with low temperatures dropping into the upper 20s to lower 30s each night. It appears that March will indeed come in like a lion and go out any way it pleases.

Worthy of note is that due to that Winter Storm Warning, most schools closed yesterday and remain closed today, while the county offices, and other entities closed early yesterday, and some remain closed today too. In addition, depending on the area in which people are living, power outages range from a low of less than 500 customers in Ottawa, County, to a high of over 7,000 customers in Portage and Kalamazoo, Counties, due to tree limbs coated with ice falling and landing on power lines. Crews are waiting for roads to be safe before attempting to repair those outages. Some customers may be out until the weekend.

We have been enjoying our latest ear-read, while Mary has been ear-reading a separate book of her own along with cross-stitching and baking bread.

I have been painting, sketching, changing the strings on my banjitar, playing music, reading a novel, solving crossword puzzles and crypto quote codes. Plus, I also made more of my soon to be famous vegan Italian burgers, using kidney beans in lieu of portabella mushrooms and also baking nearly three dozen funfetti cookies, Mary's favorite. I have been quite busy as I look back on my week.

Today is more of a day for both of us to do whatever feels right at the moment. Right now, Mary is ear-reading and cross-stitching after reading the newspapers and stowing our latest order from Doorganics™, a service that delivers local and/or organic produce direct to homes throughout Michigan. 

As I noted, I've been painting, sketching, and just enjoying the efforts of our snow removal service, who had to chop at the heavy ice on our deck and driveway to clear a path to the garage and for Ginger to go out.

As for tomorrow, to paraphrase from an old song lyric, "Who cares what tomorrow may bring." Ciao.