Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 2:00 a.m. in "The City."

Yesterday was anything but mundane. We got up late, and if I'd had my choice, I'd have stayed in bed even longer than we did. Alas, the fur-children had other plans. We did get up to feed them breakfast, and then they allowed us to go back to bed/sleep, but finally they too had to get up and roughhouse, what we like to call getting into a scrum. So, we were up.

Mary made a tasty lunch of vegan Sloppy Joes on her baguette augmented with beet powder for our health accompanied by a side of cucumber salad. Then I was off to complete my indoor chores, which I did, albeit with a rush order from Mary. During the time I was doing my chores, she had made an extraordinary beest and put it on the stove. Since her chat time was fast approaching, I had to speed up my work in order to get down to the kitchen for the beest to be removed from the pot while she chatted. I made it with time to spare. If I want to continue to enjoy Mary's kitchen efforts I'll have to make the beest removal part of my life. By the by, I made it with 10 minutes to spare.

It was good to hear that John P. is now home from the hospital and continuing his recovery @ home. Recent pictures indicate that he is looking well and being @ home with his wife, children, and grandchildren, and other familiar things around him should help greatly. I can speak from experience in this case.

Once I was done with the kitchen duties, I sat down to read before we had to go to the chiropractor. That went well and we stopped at JWs for a lively discussion and a snack of chips and salsa with some adult libations. We got home in time to give the fur-children a late afternoon/early evening trip to the back-forty and then they voraciously ate their dinners like it had been days since they had eaten. I know that in dog time, there is no time reference that relates to human time, but I believe that they have us well trained.

Following a dinner of beest, and spinach, I watched the evening news and then Wheel of Fortune followed by Jeopardy. Since I had seen that The Grapes of Wrath, the movie starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad was on the TV schedule, I went upstairs to watch while Mary continued to enjoy the news. However, I fell asleep in the chair and so I don't know how it ended. : - ). Even Mary came up to bed early having gotten all the news she could handle for one day.

The current temperature is 37° according to the NWS and 39° according to the DTWS here on the desk in my office. The NWS has issued a "Small Craft Warning" for the "Big Lake" due to high winds and large waves. I know that with the cold and high winds, I would not need the warning to stay off the "Big Lake." With little wind, the trip I made to the back-forty with the fur-children @ 1:20 a.m. was quite comfortable. They did their duty.

In Oroville, CA, officials have reported that the tallest dam in the U.S. @ 770 feet high, above man-made Lake Oroville, is experiencing a first-time ever need to use an emergency spillway to relieve the pressure on the dam that has been caused by the recent heavy rains in CA. In addition, a large hole has formed in a spillway for that dam. That hole in the spillway is 200 feet long and 30 feet deep. Apparently, the water flowing through that hole has turned brown with mud as it has "Consumed trees and soil." In one short season, the state has gone from drought conditions to floods. At the dam site, officials have loaded millions of baby salmon into tanker trucks in an attempt to save them from the mud and broken concrete.

Where was I before my digression? Oh yes, I was describing the weather here in GH. We'll see a high temperature of 42° today for the annual Frozen in Time window scenes that the merchants in GH use to lure tourists to our fair city in mid-winter. These scenes are generally from movies and plays, like Hamilton, and depict people of all ages "Frozen in Time", in the storefronts.

There is only a 20% chance of snow showers and light winds. Tomorrow, Sunday, the winds will be blowing from 20 - 30 mph with a high temperature of 37° that will make temperatures feel much colder. In addition, the chance of snow showers increases to 60%.

I have no work to do today, but Mary does. I'll read and walk with STWD to The Bookman for the weekend edition of The Grand Haven Tribune. I may try my hand @ baking some bread too. The sun will rise @ 7:47 and set @ 6:11 p.m as we near the first unofficial day of spring when the pitchers and catchers report in just three short days. Ciao.