Good morning or good evening wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 5:40 p.m. in "The City", where there are currently no watches, alerts, advisories, nor warnings in effect at this time. I believe that may be a first for quite a while.

The current temperature is 25°, although it feels like 19°, with a slight wind out of the northwest at five mph. The sun will be setting @ 6:27 p.m. tonight.

Tomorrow, the NWS has forecast that the high temperature will rise to 34°, with an overnight low of only 32°, so we should see some of that heavy coating of ice melt away.

We have been ear-reading our latest audio book entitled The Last Dress From Paris, by Jade Beer. It is a story of a young woman's search in Paris, France, (Duh), circa 2017, for a dress worn by her grandmother in 1953-54. It has been a fascinating ear-read and if you are into this type of fiction, I recommend this book without reservation. 

I finished my own print-read early this morning, but I have yet to start another, owing to reading two newspapers, starting their respective crossword puzzles, and doing some painting, and playing some songs in my studio.

I am totally enjoying finding time to do these various activities in my time between surgery, physical therapy, etc., which begins anew next month.

Mary is downstairs finishing the indoor chores, which I assisted with, ear-reading her own novel, and cross-stitching. 

Tomorrow, I believe that we have no specific plans, but that is something that I may have misinterpreted.

That being said. Ciao.