Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 3:00 a.m. in "The City."

We have a current temperature of 23° under clear skies. Later today, after the sun rises at 7:39 and well before it sets at 6:19 p.m., the NWS is forecasting a high of 35° with an 80% chance for less than one-inch of snow in the afternoon/evening. Sounds good to me.

I tried a new recipe for vegan sausages yesterday. I followed the recipe and the sausages turned out as described, but the no chicken broth base I used is way to high in sodium and so the taste is very salty. I need to find a different base broth before I try again.

Ginger and I did some trainspotting yesterday along with my apprentice trainspotter, Mary. At 10:00 a.m., MMRR EMD GP 38-2 locomotive # 2019 rolled by on the RSTL towing one CHC, five DBTCs, one DWTC, and one GTC. Later in the early afternoon, I was on the phone with the hospital ans so I had to press Mary into service to observe the northbound run of that same locomotive. In tow it had three CHCs, and two DBTCs. Not much of a day for railroading in GH.

I did some reading too, and I am enjoying The Deceivers, by Alex Berenson. This book is another in his series featuring John Wells and the CIA.

The only time we went out yesterday was to travel to the library and go out to our favorite watering hole for dinner. I am not very mobile at this time. Mostly, I sat around and watched old and new TV shows. That is also my plan for today. No kitchen, no walking, no excess activity, no Irish Jam. Sunday, I hope to watch the Daytona 500 to add to the mix.

So, not much else to say. Oh wait, Mary took this great picture of Ginger in her pose as the resident guard terrier for the manse.

Always at the ready. If someone walks by or comes on the porch for a delivery, she's ready.

Ciao.