Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 12:00 a.m. in "The City."

Let me start by saying that the winter weather advisory from the NWS has been a hit and miss advisory. We have had and continue to have snow showers that will extend the winter weather advisory through 5:00 p.m. Friday, with possible accumulations of 3 to 5 additional inches, or not. Temperatures will continue to be in the teens until Sunday before the cold begins to dissipate on Monday of next week. Windy conditions will also prevail for most of the next six days.

We have a current temperature of 15°, but it feels like 11° due to the 18 mph winds. The high later today will be 14°, but it will also feel colder due to the wind. The sun will rise @ 8:16 a.m. and set later @ 5:24 p.m. My outdoor activities will be limited by the snow covered sidewalks.

I have a trainspotting report for yesterday. At 10:08 a.m., locomotives 2019 and 2057 moved down the tracks of the RSTL heading south towing two CHCs, six DBTCs, and four DWTCs. At 3:12 p.m., those same locomotives were seen traveling north towing four CHCs, seven DBTCs, one GTC, and four DWTCs, all fully loaded and moving relatively quickly on those not so even rails.

I finished the Amish novel I started @ the laundromat on Tuesday late last night. My regular readers may recall that I have added this genre of novel to my reading list because I find it fascinating reading about murder mysteries set in Amish country. If people can read vampire novels or romance novels, I can read Amish mystery novels.

Today, I have no plans to leave the manse for anything that does not involve taking the fur-children out for their abbreviated sojourns into the back forty. It is too cold for my old bones. STWD is okay with not going out. but GTWD would like more activity. Oh well, winter will break by March and we can get back to our regular walking schedule.

I am nearly done with my highlighting chores and Mary is hard at work on the actual index, so I hope that we are on schedule. Mary took time from her indexing to make vegan hot dogs to accompany my world famous Coleslaw for lunch. She made vegan spaghetti bolognese for dinner that she felt was overspiced but which I felt tasted just fine. Whatever.

I just took GTWD out for her late night business trip, so I hope we are done until later this morning.

I want to spend some time with the girls in my office/music room/weather center, but I can't disturb Mary when she is trying to concentrate. I have plenty of things to do, but I need to play and sing like nobody is listening.

I would be remiss if I didn't give a shout out to my favorite daughter in law, Stephany, on this, her 30 something birthday. She is a remarkable person whom I love dearly and who also indulges Adam's hobbies. That in itself is a truly remarkable thing. So, Happy Birthday Stephany. I wish you many happy returns. We'll see you soon. Steph, here is a link just for you on your birthday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LhizYTDkRM

Love,

Dad

Ciao.