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

I've just come upstairs after several rousing games of Control, all of which I lost. I guess you could say that as a card player, I am a better musician. Prior to that, we were listening to Celtic Radio on Pandora, followed by 70s Easy Listening. I offer as proof, these two pictures taken by Mary with her phone.

A new recipe from the internet, that actually turned out fine.

As you can see, at the time this picture was taken, the band Chicago was being played

Otherwise, not much was happening. My yak is feeling better now, but when I arose this morning, it was kind of achy. Not as good as it has been for the last several days. I did a lot of reading and looking at my tablet along with working a crossword puzzle from the Grand Haven Tribune Friday edition. We have yet to pick up the weekend edition, but maybe tomorrow if we go out.

Tomorrow, we may go to the Grand Haven 9 Cinema to watch the movie Gigi starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jordan, and many others. Of course, if we go, there is a humongous bucket of popcorn and a ginormous cherry cola with my name on them waiting for me. Those plans are weather dependent. We had quite a bit of snow the last two days, and more is expected overnight. We seem to be in a lull at the moment.We do have a current temperature of 30°. The low tonight will drop to 20° before we soar to tomorrow's high of 24°! The sun will rise tomorrow @ 7:56 a.m. and set @ 6:01 p.m.

I refuse to go out and remove the snow due to my yak, but fortunately, our next door neighbor, Ron, has been kind enough to remove the snow from the front porch and sidewalk of the manse. I have to find a way to say thanks. Now, if our other next door neighbor clears the shared driveway, we'll be set to go.

If we don't go out, I/we have plenty to do here. Mary has a yarn stash that could last until next year and I have songs to play and new instruments to learn along with more reading.

I know the fur-children are getting antsy due to a lack of walks, but. in our opinion, it has been too cold for them to go out. I/we may watch part of Superbowl LII in hopes that I/we can see the Patriots lose. I suspect that I share that sentiment with many others. 

Worthy of note is that the pitchers and catchers for my beloved Boston Red Sox, the Detroit Tigers, and the Cubs all report to camp on the 13th, just 10 days from today! I'll be born again as there will be baseball, and as John Fogerty intoned in his song, Centerfield, there will be new grass on the field. Oh what the hey, let me insert a YouTube link to that song now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04KQydlJ-qc

That looks like enough for one day. Ciao.