Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 1:00 a.m. in "The City."

As predicted by the NWS, it is snowing and the flakes are falling at a pretty good clip. In fact, the NWS is showing a Winter Weather Advisory for our area, and when interpreted by the Weather.Com website, that forecast calls for an additional three to six inches of snow on top of what we already have on the ground. The current temperature is 20° per the NWS, while my own DTWS is showing 23°. The overnight low is forecast by the NWS to be 16° before we climb back to 26° later today.

That forecast is one of the reasons that Mary and I traveled to Newaygo yesterday to visit what Mary has proclaimed as her favorite yarn store, The New Ewe. In spite of her substantial stash of yarn, that I believe holds enough yarn for several years of projects, she purchased more. Of course, to make me feel good about that purchase, she bought some yarn to make me a new winter hat too, so who am I to complain?

Not all of this yarn will go into my hat, just the dark blue in the back.

Of course, no mid-winter road trip is complete without a stop to buy flowers for our foyer, although I don't have a picture of those. While at that flower stop, Mary espied the "Perfect" clock for our living room. I was happily sitting in the car listening to the radio when she called me in to see it. I have to agree, it is perfect, but now I have to hang that clock as another chore.

However, I do have a picture of the apples from our third stop near Newaygo where we, well, actually where Mary, stopped at a farm stand and bought half a bushel of mostly Jonagold apples. A small portion of her purchase were Granny Smith apples too. In any case, the apples are good for pies and other things like sauces and Coleslaw. Oddly, those apples won't peel themselves nor turn themselves into a sauce, Coleslaw or a pie. That task falls to me.

We headed towards home, but before we got there, we stopped at JWs for some adult libations. We finally traveled to Sitting Pretty to pick up the fur-children from daycare, where it turns out, STWD really didn't want to be so she will be staying home from now on and Ginger will be soloing. That is always better for Ginger as she takes STWD coming along as a sign that she, Ginger, will be bathed and groomed. I suppose it is better for STWD too.

Once home, Mary took her culinary skills to the kitchen and made a terrific veggie pizza for dinner. She thinks it was her best effort to date, and I have to agree. What was different you ask? I don't know, but I liked it.

Lots of Portabello mushrooms, heavy sauce, a great thick crust, a touch of vegan cheese, and one of my vegan sausages perhaps.

Given the wintry conditions, staying in today to read, bake, knit, and do whatever strikes our collective fancies, seems like a good way to while away the day after we get up from bed and chair in later this morning. My yak is feeling okay right now, but that isn't a long-lived state, I'm sure.

The sun will rise this morning @7:50 a.m. and set later @ 6:08 p.m. Ciao.