Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 12:30 a.m. in "The City."

This should turn out to be a relatively short blog, especially when compared to yesterday's missive. I have no pictures to share and not much was happening yesterday.

We did make it to Dirty Dancing yesterday @ the Goodrich Theater near here. The movie was better than I remembered and the really big bucket of popcorn that I washed down with the ginormous cherry-cola was all I'd hoped for and more.

Mary and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and then we went to the grocery store to pick up just a few things so that some recipes we want to try can be brought to fruition. A stop at Sporty's and then home to free and feed the fur-children before we sat down to eat the last of the leftover vegan No Bull Beefaroni that I had made for lunch on Tuesday.

We have a current temperature of 28° under clear skies. Today's high is expected to reach 36° with only a 10% chance of precipitation. If the long-term forecast from the NWS can be relied upon, we'll put the 30s in the rear-view mirror for good next Thursday. I suppose since the first official day of spring begins Monday the 20th @ 6:29 p.m. it is a safe bet that winter will be behind us for this year.

I witnessed the southbound passage of the train on the RSTL @ 9:55 a.m. yesterday. Only locomotive #2019 was plying the rails and in tow were 11 CHCs, one BC, one DWTC and two DBTCs. We were @ the library picking up some books when we heard the passage of the train heading north. I didn't see it.

Today, we have an appointment @ the dentist that was supposed to have been in January. However, we canceled that appointment and moved it to what should have been a better day for driving. As of now, that appears to be the case.

Otherwise, no new adventures in the kitchen until Friday. I want to try my hand @ baking some Irish Soda Bread. It should be a nice treat for the people who come to the jam session on Saturday if the bread turns out as planned. If not, I won't even mention it.

The sun will rise today @ 7:54 a.m. and set @ 7:52 p.m. Ciao.