Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 4:00 a.m. in "The City."

It seems as though the winter into spring weather in West Michigan is an ever changing phenomenon, as the days unfold. Warm, cool, wet, dry, cloudy, sunny. calm, windy take your pick. It used to be said that in Chicago if you didn't like the weather, all you had to do was wait 15 minutes. I think that's true here too.

We have a current temperature of 41° under cloudy skies. According to the NWS, the clouds are low hanging and there is some fog about. I don't see either of those out the WW, but who am I to argue? Later today, the temperature is expected to rise to 46° with a 20% chance of rain with continued fog in the morning and clouds in the afternoon. Bill Steffens, Chief Meteorologist @ WOOD TV/Radio has forecast warmer temps and more sun for GR today. Our next chance of significant rainfall is Thursday, which that could be as high as 90%!

However, let's talk about yesterday. We got up early and spent the morning doing some laundry and cooking the potatoes that were going to seed. Some of the potatoes got added to my sack for planting later this spring. We added some cauliflower to the pot and the result was a huge supply of mashed potatoes and cauliflower. Since we had those, Mary decided it was time to make some gravy and use that over the top of them and her extraordinary beest. We still have a huge supply of potatoes for other activities/meals.

After lunch, we took the opportunity to walk the fur-children, but my "Little Big Dog", AKA, STWD, wanted no part and she wanted to get home as soon as possible. We were going to walk to the Baker's Wife for some bread, but since I had to get home with Sugar, I ended up driving there while Mary and Ginger continued their walk. I guess when you get to be a septuagenarian, like Sugar, you can be as eccentric as you want.

I got the bread and when I returned, I was able to hang our newly acquired wall decoration on the back of the manse. I think it looks great in its new home.

Old meets new.

We needed to go to the grocery store yesterday, but first, we traveled to the big-box store in Muskegon that sells all things for the bed, bath and beyond to use a 20% off coupon that expired today. We had thoughts of buying a new shower curtain but instead used that 20% off coupon to purchase a new pizza pan. This pan is made in the USA and it is a non-stick variety like my bread pans.

Since we now had that pan and since we now had the proper vegetables from our trip to the grocery store, when we got home from a quick stop at Sporty's, we decided it was a good chance to make our first homemade pizza in many years. We had been inspired by the efforts of Steph and Adam the day before.

I started with making the dough in my stand mixer and then I chopped the veggies while Mary made a terrific tasting sauce as the dough rose for about one hour in a nearby bowl.

Looking good, smelling better.

The results of my chopping.

Once the dough had risen, Mary assembled everything into our dinner. It tasted better than it looks.

Pre-baking.

Post-baking.

Post dinner. Leftovers for lunch today?

But enough about our dinner. I got tired, and so I headed upstairs to watch some TV. That didn't last long and I fell into bed for the night. The fur-children were there with me before Mary took them out for their final trip to the back-forty. Mary watched what must have been several movies while I slept blissfully.

Today, I have no plans, but Mary has something to do, I think. We'll be walking the fur-children towards the Bookman and then I'll be reading more of our book club selection, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, by Timothy Egan. This book is a winner of the National Book Award. It should be a good read with lots of photos.

I nearly forgot. I am an avid Scrabble™ player on my tablet and I got curious while playing last night about which letters in the English language are used the least to start words. My curiosity is an offshoot from a conversation that Mary and I recently had about why some people are curious while others are not. At any rate, I learned that the least commonly used letters in the English language are: Z X Q J and K, in increasing order with Z being the least commonly used.

The sun will rise @ 7:35 a.m. and set @ 8:05 p.m. Ciao.