Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 5:00 a.m. in "The City."

I am going to endeavor to follow the KISS formula once again. It looks like that WWA, (Winter Weather Advisory) issued by the NWS in Grand Rapids is going to be like a memo from the Congress, a dud. We are still on track to get about one-inch of additional snowfall, but that's a far cry from the two to four inches in the original forecast. That's fine by me.

Yesterday we had plenty of snowfall that required the intervention of both of our neighbors. Fortunately, they came through and we were able to get out a run a few errands, several local and one in nearby Muskegon. I guess you could say we dodged the proverbial bullet.

We have a current temperature of 15° which should be our low for today. Later, we anticipate a high of 22° as we hopefully travel to our monthly history book club meeting. In anticipation of that meeting, I spent time in the kitchen yesterday baking cookies, which if I do say so myself, turned out great. I upped my game yesterday and baked both vegan chocolate-chip and sugar cookies with internal sprinkles.

Ginger was there to help, but due to the presence of the chocolate, she couldn't partake of the product. However, she is doing fine, so fine in fact that she and I were able to do some trainspotting yesterday.

At 9:04 a.m., we spotted the southbound run of locomotive #2019 at the head of eight CHCs, one DBT, and two DWTCs as they plowed through the freshly fallen snow. Later @ 1:47 p.m., we spotted the northbound run on the RSTL as it made its way towards Muskegon and points north at a much faster rate of speed. The same locomotive was towing five CHCs, five DBTCs, and three DWTCs.

Today, I hope to stay out of the kitchen and rest up for our 3:00 p.m. book club meeting. I finished our book for this meeting, All Quiet on the Western Front, last week, and having read it many years ago, I remembered why a book written 90 years ago was still important today. I don't think we have learned much in those ninety years.

I also finished my latest novel yesterday, Gunmetal Gray, by Mark Greaney, and I found it to be action-packed and very satisfying. I took it back as one of our errands and got my fifth signature for the annual winter reading activity. Five more to go.

I also learned that the Loutit Library's Outreach Coordinator, Larry Halvorsen, has finalized arrangements to bring several Irish musicians to the library in early June. Dave Curley, of the group Slide, Tadhg O Meachair of the Irish band Goitsee, pronounced Gwitcha, and Joanna Hyde, of The Hydes, for several hours of foot-stomping music and fun. Opening for those musicians will be Larry's own Irish band, Uneven Ground. The evening's activities are scheduled to run from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

It looks like I failed in my KISS quest, but that's okay. It keeps my mind off of the pain in my yak. I also spent some time in meditation before this blog, which also helps.

The sun will rise today @ 7: 52.a.m. and set later this evening @ 6:05 p.m. Ciao.