Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just after 4:30 a.m. in "The City."

The sun will rise today @ 7:40 a.m. and set later @ 8:02 p.m.

The current temperature is 34° under cloud skies with winds of 1 mph which make it feel like, wait for it, 31°. Today's forecast from the NWS calls for the high to be 47° under partly-cloudy skies. The high temperature will be about 10° warmer than yesterday.

What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours. Here's a nostalgic trip down memory-lane, featuring a cut from the late Dinah Washington taken from YouTube™.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmBxVfQTuvI

Otherwise, not much is happening here in "The City." I did snap some pix of the snow that lay on the ground yesterday morning as I said I would. I had to get the pix in early as the snow was gone by mid-afternoon when the temperature climbed above freezing.

Gone and quickly forgotten.

Just enough to cause Ginger to feel the pull on her tether, so I had to "Rescue" her so that she could do her duty.

And of course, the aforementioned snow on the sidewalks.

And the front-porch steps.

Elsewhere in our self-imposed quarantine, I made a double-batch of vegan Italian meatballs. Mary used some of them for our dinner along with her old-family recipe for pasta sauce. Actually, this was her old family recipe, using her special blend of eleven herbs and spice. Oops, I was channeling an old ad from Kentucky Fried Chicken there for a moment.

I don't actually know how many herbs and spices she used, but I do know that the result was delicious. I could tell you exactly how many herbs and spices are in my old family recipe for vegan Italian meatballs, but you know what happens after I tell you a secret.

Once the meatballs were done, put away, and the dishes were washed, we took the fur-children for a short walk. They seemed happy with that.

Today, I have to go down to the man-cave and set up our greenhouse and some lighting so that I can get the seeds started for our garden later this spring. We received the seeds yesterday for all of our plantings, but only some need to be started and nurtured.

I hope to have nothing else to do today as I want some down-time. I need to read, play with my girls, perhaps take another walk with the fur-children, etc. I was unable to work the crossword puzzle from the weekend edition of the Grand Haven Tribune due to technical difficulties beyond my control. The printing process cut off part of the puzzle and made it unworkable. That's the second time in recent printings.

Mary has plenty to do to day too, as I espied her cookbook for breads in the kitchen while I was downstairs earlier. I know that she will tell me that the actual bread making process is mostly letting the rising process take its course, but that's the part of the process that makes her breads so good. When I bake bread, I go for recipes that use a quick-rise process that generally take about one to two hours.

So, that's all folks. Ciao.