Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is 2:00 a.m. in "The City."
I confess. I was cold last night and so I overrode the programmable thermostat and set the temperature @ 70°. Mary said I should be sure to reset it when I went upstairs to bed. However, I overrode my frugal self and didn't change the setting. It is still set @ 70°. When the current outdoor temperature is 30° under cloudy skies and the wind is blowing @ 10 to 20 mph, I am going to override every time. Right now, I am very comfortable. I know that I often chastise Mary for trying to broil me by setting the thermostat @ 72°, but in this case, it was and continues to be my choice to stay warm. Sorry, Mary.
Today's high temperature will reach a zenith of 32° under skies that will continue to be cloudy. The winds will continue to blow at a steady 17 mph and there is a 60% chance of snow showers. The sun will rise @ 8:03 a.m., but I have no plans to be around to see it. The fur-children may get up and want their breakfast, but that will be the only impetus to change my mind. By the time that the sun sets @ 5:52 p.m., I will once again be enjoying the fine indoor temperature over which I do have control.
This is the weekend or the annual Winterfest in GH. Although most of the snow has melted and there is very little chance for additional snow, the events are going on as planned in the downtown area. The city has been moving snow to Harbor Island and so they are trucking it back into the city for some events. Plus, the setting for the annual Cardboard Sled Race, Mulligan's Hollow, near the YMCA, has snowmaking equipment and so that event should go off without a problem. It will go off without Mary and me.
GTTSD is lying near my feet right now. She was lying in the bed with us earlier, but once I got up, she got up. I will probably have to take her out and brave the cold temperatures and windy conditions in the back-forty in the not too distant future. Sigh. Well, we did go out and so did her sister, STWD. The winds were blocked in the back-forty, so it wasn't too bad. Ginger accomplished what we euphemistically call a three-peat. That's a #1 and a #2 combined. STWD, just a #1.
Yesterday, we traveled to the big-box tool store in Muskegon to get something that I wanted and we had plans to go farther to a kitchen store about seven miles north. However, the snow was falling just enough to convince us that heading home was a better choice. We will travel to the grocery store later today unless we don't. There are some produce items and juices that we would like to get and some cans to return, but they can wait.
I tried to order a book from the library that is in the new non-fiction pamphlet, but it is not yet available. I have inquired with the library staff. It may not be available yet although the paperback edition shows a publication date of 1/25/17.
We will have to take the morning safari with the fur-children after we feel it is time to rise. Not much can be done about their internal clocks. Mary read something that said that dogs internal clocks are regulated by their sense of smell. Maybe, but there is certainly something that causes them to get up and want their meals at the same time every day.
More time with the girls, more reading, more puzzle solving for me. More cooking and crafting for Mary, and more Hallmark Mysteries and Movies Channel for both of us later today. Ciao.
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