Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 5:00 a.m. in The City."

I got up around 3:00 a.m. and let the fur-children out. Ginger was asking and STWD was just downstairs when I went down with Ginger, so out she went too.

I did the few dishes in the sink, the remnants of a very fine dinner that I'd asked Mary to make, her world-famous Spaghetti Role Casserole. We had been out to get some bread @ The Village Baker for the sumptuous Thanksgiving extravaganza that she will be crafting, along with some things at the drugstore in Spring Lake. Then we made a stop @ Stan's, where it was another of their Sunday Fun-Day afternoons. Since the woeful Lions aren't playing until Thursday, I think that the people were in more of a party mood. Country music was combined with 70s and 80s music, the kind that fits the regular crowd @ Stan's, all spun by a local DJ.

Home to feed the girls and allow Mary time to craft dinner. She had to alter the recipe slightly due to the supplies she had on hand, but I think that it was one of her best. She did use more of those dehydrates onios that we got the other day and I think that was a plus. Just one man's opinion.

She reminded me that her grocery store plans are for today, not yesterday. I believe that she has to make stops @ both the regular grocery and also @ that big-box nearly everything store. Will I be going along? I dunno.

We have plans today to plant those tulip bulbs we picked up the other day and also to transplant the mum plant from its pot on the front-porch to a new permanent location. That will be the extent of my outdoor activities today.

Yesterday, we did some indoor chores and those went well. We worked around the walking schedule for the fur-children and also around the solving of the crossword puzzle from the Grand Haven Tribune weekend edition, which is now $1.50. That price gives you access to a thin newspaper surrounding numerous ads.

We have a current temperature of 34° under clear-skies. Today's high will reach 38° with snow showers developing in the later afternoon. I'll encourage Mary to assist me with the placement of the tulip bulbs and the mum and get to the stores before the snow begins to fall.

The sun will rise this morning @ 7:42 a.m. and set later @ 5:17 p.m. In between, the NWS has issued another Small Craft Warning for the "Big Lake", from 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., with 15 to 20 knot winds and waves of from 3 to 5 feet in height. I think our new Jeep Renegade™ will pull us through.

Otherwise, I plan to make more of Mary's favorite vegan Italian meatballs, read, and maybe get to that tree topper I mentioned in my last blog. That looks like enough for another day in paradise.

A sad side-note. I forgot to mention that Roy Clark one of the finest guitar players that has ever been, died on November 15 @ the age of 85. He could flat out pick the guitar and banjo, and was also proficient on drums, the piano the trumpet and trombone, along with delivering great vocal performances. I thought that it would be appropriate to include one of Clark's songs, Yesterday When I Was Young, that Clark recorded in 1964. Coincidentally, it is said the he performed this song @  the funeral of baseball great Mickey Mantle, @ Mickey's request. This is another of my favorites from YouTube™.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xNbtnQb31c

Ciao.