Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 5:30 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 24° but it feels like 16° under cloudy skies with light winds blowing @ 7 mph. Today's high is forecast to reach 32°, under cloudy skies. It will be about 6°cooler than yesterday. But, it is only six more days until spring too. The sun will rise today @ 7:56 a.m. and set later @ 6:02 p.m.

I'm going to try to K.I.S.S. this one, as I just don't have much to say.

We ran a couple of small errands yesterday after lunch and some recreational reading and crossword solving. Our lunch consisted of a salad with Mary's version of ranch dressing along with mushrooms and some cubes of baked tofu with a lemon and herb coating as a marinade. I like the tofu prepared this way.

Dinner was the balance of the chili-mac from the day before. Since there are just the two of us, it is difficult to not have leftovers.

We took the fur-children for a walk too. While it was much cooler and windier than the day before, it was still a pleasant experience for all.

I picked up a 2019 National Park Quarter @ Stan's yesterday for my America the Beautiful quarter collection. This one celebrates the Lowell National Park and the “Mill Girls” of Lowell, MA, young women who were recruited to work in the mills where they earned cash wages and lived in supervised, company-owned boarding houses. You know, the working conditions were great for young women in the early 1900s. They generally couldn't wait to get married and get out of that "supervised" housing. Marriage was a refuge then and not really a choice. Those young women became an important voice for labor by advocating for better working conditions, supporting abolition, and embracing education. I am now done with 2019. Although the women of today have it better, they really haven't come a long way...

Yesterday, I traveled to the library for that monthly Coffee and Coloring session which was well attended. I worked for two hours completing the coloring of a hibiscus that I had previously drawn freehand using a graphite pencil. I added the color yesterday. I like the result.

This afternoon, I am going to go to the movies @ the Goodrich Quality Theater here in GH to see Meet Me In St. Louis, starring Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien in the MGM classic that was first released in 1944. I love musicals and this one is one of the best ever released by MGM.
 
Naturally, I'll be enjoying a ginormous bucket of popcorn and a huge soft-drink, the flavor of which has yet to be determined.

Otherwise, this afternoon is another "Tad" day for Mary at the library. She'll be there, I'll be at the movies, and the fur-children will be left to guard the manse from intruders, mail-carriers, delivery people, walkers, other dogs, etc. It's a tough job, but some dog has to do it.

I think I missed on that K.I.S.S. idea. Oh well. Ciao.