Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just after 3:00 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 34° under clear skies with winds of 16 mph. With that wind, it feels like 23°. Today's high is forecast to reach 37°. By tomorrow, we'll reach a balmy 40°!

The Small Craft Advisory continues in effect until 7:00 p.m. tonight. Southwest winds  of 15 to 30 knots and waves from 6 to 9 feet early this morning, will subside to 3 to 5 feet by this afternoon from St Joseph to Manistee. Southwest winds of 15 to 30 knots will continue this morning. Winds and waves will gradually subside this afternoon. The sun will rise today @ 7:32 a.m. and set later @ 6:25 p.m.

All of that bodes well for our anticipated outdoor activity this afternoon. From 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., many Main Street businesses throughout Grand Haven's downtown shopping district and in the center town shopping district near the manse, will be participating in the Frozen in Time activity and each one will feature live, “frozen” mannequins depicting a scene from a favorite nursery rhyme. The public is invited to wander throughout the districts to view the nursery rhymes, take pix, and vote for their favorite. I hope to use my Olympus DSLR camera to capture the "mannequins" in action. LOL

We took the fur-children to the groomer yesterday so that they could both get pawdicures and baths. In addition, Ginger got a trim. She looks better. STWD looks like STWD, but also better.

We made a trip to the grocery store after we dropped the fur-children  yesterday. After we picked them up, we stopped @ our favorite watering hole for a snack. Since I had made vegan Italian meatballs earlier yesterday, they became part of the pasta dinner that Mary prepared. She allowed the sauce to simmer and that made it all the more savory.

I am making progress on my latest novel, by Greg Hurwitz Into the Fire an Orphan X novel, but this one is not in large-print format, so I am having to take frequent breaks.

Mary is continuing to read her novel too, a fiction book based on the facts of the JFK assassination. This book weighs nearly two pounds and is 849 pages long, so she anticipates reading this book for a long time.

Otherwise, we finished the crossword from the Friday edition of the Grand Haven Tribune. These puzzles are from the LA Times and like all newspaper crosswords, they get more difficult as the week progresses.

Not much else is happening. Ciao.