Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 4:00 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 44° under clear skies. Winds of 1 mph make it feel like 44°. Today's high-temperature forecast from the NWS calls for a high of 64º, albeit with a 60% chance for rain and foggy conditions. Unfortunately, that 64º is the last 60 plus temperature we can expect to see for at least 10 more days.

The sun will rise today @ 6:41 a.m. and set later @ 8:43 p.m.

Yesterday was a busy day. We collectively completed some indoor chores and later, when Mary drove to pick up the latest Fast Lane™ grocery order, I washed the floors in the vegan kitchen and the downstairs bathroom.

I had great hopes for getting outdoors today, but that forecast is a bit foreboding for me. The fur-children will not be happy.

Mary made some vegan sandwiches for lunch yesterday out of my vegan pepperoni on rye, with a side of my vegan Coleslaw. Very tasty.

Dinner was much more elaborate and required more time end effort on her part. We'd been toying with a recipe for vegan Chick'n fajitas that used soy curls in lieu of chicken and those vegetables that I'd grilled up on Sunday. A special marinade gave the fajitas a terrific aroma and flavor. I'll add some pix of the process and outcome because they were so good!

Cooking in the cast-iron skillet.

Almost ready to devour.

Ready to eat!

All photos courtesy of our Senior Staff Photographer.

This recipe is a keeper! Not an easy recipe to prepare and it took two days of effort by two people, but well worth the time.

I made significant progress on my manuscript yesterday. I hope to make more progress again today.

I'm still working on my latest musical effort, but I am nearly there.

I finished a crossword yesterday with some assistance from my collaborator. I also completed reading my latest book, The Perfect Alibi, by Phillip Margolin. I am checking on my seedlings in the man-cave daily to make sure that they are ready to go for transplantation into larger pots and then ultimately into the vast-gardens, assuming that the outdoor temperatures ever get consistently into the 60s and above sometime before June! But, you know what "They" say about assuming.

Today, more writing, more music, more coloring, and more retirement. Ciao.