Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 10:30 p.m. in "The City."

Well, another day in paradise is wrapping up. Mary made a nice breakfast/lunch of roasted tofu and Tater Tots™ this morning after we arose around 12:00 p.m. I guess that I answered the breakfast/lunch question with that time reference. At any rate, I heard the train pass by heading south on the RSTL around 8:00 a.m., and Ginger and I actually spotted it heading north around 12:25 p.m. That passage was a mix of CHCs, and DBTCs.

I spent some time in the kitchen and at the dining room table yesterday, peeling apples and creating an apple pie. I overshot on the apple peeling for the pie, so some of that effort became applesauce. I have a lot more apples to peel to finish the bag and convert those apples into sauce. The pie tastes delicious and my crust was, as always, flaky and perfect. However, I am still working on the amount of flour to use for the thickening of the apple filling. A bit more would have been better for this pie.

Mary took a picture of my pie to preserve it for posterity and so that I could share it on my blog.

Aesthetically, very eye appealing, taste appealing too, but a bit runny.

We spent some time in the later afternoon reading more of The Nightingale and we are both enjoying the excellent craftsmanship of the author. We are taking turns reading as that has worked well for us in the past.

We have a current temperature of 30° under clear skies. Tomorrow, the high should reach 42° under sunny skies. Sunday, the high is forecast to reach 47°. Both predictions are from the NWS. The sun will rise tomorrow @ 7:17 a.m. and set @ 6:36 p.m.

Tomorrow, I may get into the kitchen once again and try a recipe that I have for Irish Soda Bread. I am also feeling well enough now following my yak surgery, that I want to sit on my stool and play with the girls again. I just didn't have the stamina required the past few weeks. That's a good sign with regard to my recovery. Speaking of my yak, we have to travel to Muskegon on Monday to have my external stitches removed. According to Mary, my "seam" looks fine. I just have to avoid doing any bending, lifting or twisting for six more weeks so as not to cause a problem with the internal, self-dissolving stitches.

Not much else to add at this time. Ciao.