Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 8:30 p.m. in "The City."

We had a busy day today. We actually got up at a reasonably early hour and then Mary made a delicious breakfast of scrambled tofu served in a  pita bread sandwich, for lack of a better term. Whatever name you give her efforts, I liked them. Tonight, she crafted some bean enchiladas for dinner served with vegan sour cream and salsa. Once again, I liked them. In between, that was another story altogether.

We dropped the fur-children at the groomers around 12:00 p.m. and then set out to do some grocery shopping, a stop at that famous chain drug store, and then took a ride to Norton Shores to attempt to buy some pine bunting or roping for the front porch of the PE. Sadly, the regular place we usually go to was out of stock until later this afternoon. Not to be deterred, we went to our own City Farmer and purchased the bunting there. 

Now you may ask, what else happened in between? Well, I only heard the train go by heading south on the RSTL at 10:00 a.m. and actually observed it heading north at 12:49 p.m. I was able to observe that there were 14 CHCs, one in rusty red, five DBTCs, and four DWTCs, one with an anticorrosive green paint band around its midsection, all towed by MMRR EMD GP-38-2 locomotive #2019. 

Of course, that leads me full circle to the fur-children. We picked them up from grooming and then made our way to the local pet food purveyor, Chow Hound, where they were offering a chance to have your dog's picture taken with Santa Claus for $5.00, with all proceeds going to benefit the West Michigan Humane Society. We stood in line for only a short time and the result was a great picture of our newly groomed fur-children with Santa. Mary took this picture of that picture with her cell phone and it turned out terrific.

In all their glory!

But I digress. I worked a couple of crossword puzzles and also read today's edition of the Grand Haven Tribune. The weather was crisp and cool under mostly clear skies with a high temperature of 30° The NWS is forecasting a winter weather advisory for early tomorrow morning that will commence about 1:00 a.m. and continue until about 9:00 a.m. with an 80% probability. Accumulations are forecast to be between three and five inches.

In any event, I have some cooking to do tomorrow and so I won't be going anywhere other than the kitchen. Mary has to get to work on the index. I am making solid progress on my highlighting duties and I am well ahead of her.

Other than those activities, I can say with certainty that my yak is feeling better, but I have to do my strengthening exercises to continue to make progress.

The sun will rise tomorrow @ 8:04 a.m. and set @ 5:09 p.m. Ciao.