Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 7:45 p.m. in "The City."

Once again, my big fingers got me in trouble and I had to retype most of this blog, as one errant punch of a key and I wiped out all of my previous work. At any rate, we got up early, for us, and fed the fur-children before we had a brunch of vegan hot dogs and homemade applesauce. Once that was over, we walked the fur-children and made stops at the Bookman and Health Hutt. I needed to purchase an additional package of vegan  chocolate chips so that I could make another batch of my world famous vegan chocolate chip cookies. Alas, I never got to making those today, hopefully tomorrow, but I did manage to make another batch of vegan sausages. I challenge anyone to tell the difference between my vital wheat gluten sausages and a meat-based sausage, they are, in this man's opinion, that good.

Once we returned home we finished our latest collective historical fiction novel, The Nightingale, by Kristen Hannah. This book had it all, great writing, superb detail, and terrific action. We laughed, we cried, and we reflected, You can't ask any more from a read.

Somewhere in there, GTTSD and I observed MMRR EMD GP 38-2 locomotive #2019 heading south on the RSTL towing seven CHCs, two GTCs, 12 DBTCs, and five DWTCs, with one of those sporting a green anti-corrosive stripe around its mid-section. In the early afternoon, we observed that same locomotive heading north towing four CHCs, and 11 DBTCs.

We had other plans, but we ended up at our favorite watering hole for a bean burrito for dinner. I was going to walk, but it was just too cold.

Tomorrow night, we are making a trip to Seven Steps Up in Spring Lake for a concert featuring Max and Ruth Blomquist. They play a mix of folk and pop music that is always a pleasure to hear.

Mary is downstairs knitting and I am here blogging. We have a current temperature, according to the NWS, of 38° under mostly clear skies. Tomorrow, after the sun rises @ 7:41 a.m. and long before it sets @ 8:01 p.m., the temperature is forecast to peak @ 43°. Sadly, it will be at least 10 more days before we see high temperature that break out of the low 40s on a consistent basis. I know this is Michigan, but it appears as though April will continue the cooler than normal temperatures we have been experiencing in March. Ciao.