Good morning or good evening. wherever you may be. It is just past 11:30 p.m. in the "The City."

It was an interesting day today. I spent a goodly portion of my day in the kitchen. I made more baked tofu cubes, an attempt at Mary's extraordinary beest, and baked rye bread 3.0. The tofu and the bread turned out fine. My solo on the beest, not so much. Apparently, I didn't add enough vegetable broth to the pot and so the beest came out less than the expected size. Good taste, but insufficient expansion. I'll do better next time.

As I said, the rye bread turned out great! Taste and texture are excellent. You can't tell from the picture below, but I can assure you that this was my best effort to date.

Once again, the Kitchenaid™ stand mixer that Mary procured for me did its job. In addition, it was Mary's idea that rather than baking the bread on a flat cookie sheet, I should place it in one of my bread pans that produced this result. Much better!

I also got good news yesterday regarding the MRI that I had on Wednesday afternoon. According to the doctor, the scan showed normal post-operative results. In other words, after six years, I am fine and I can get on with my life. What is it that they say, "Nothing to see here!"

The weather today gave us significantly cooler temperatures. However, the wind was not blowing and so the temperature felt fine when we went on safari with the fur-children to the Bookman for the Thursday edition of the Grand Haven Tribune where. Sugar got her biscuit and we headed home.

Speaking of the weather, the current temperature is 31° under mostly cloudy skies. Friday's high temperature will be 22° under partly cloudy skies. The sun will rise @ 7:05 a.m. and set @ 6:45 p.m.

I spent some time with the girls. My playing was fine, but my singing was at best not very good. I spent more time reading after the hours in the kitchen. Then it was off to the chiropractor. We stopped at JWs on the way home and then it was time to feed the fur-children and let them out.

Mary had been hard at work on the indexing project and I'll be wearing my editor's hat Friday afternoon as my final contribution to this index. I understand that this index is now in excess of 40 pages.

Ciao.