arctic air on the way

over the weekend.....all the way down into Florida.....predicting 20 degrees at sunrise Sunday....36 and clouded over here this morning....saved some of the chicken breast from last night to make curried chicken salad for lunch sandwiches....I have whole-grain rye bread that's pretty tasty....and slaw.....I might go ahead and make chicken chow mein tonight, still have plenty of vegetables, etc....the bowl of shrimp chow mein made a good hot lunch yesterday, on a dang cold day.....it did get warm enough to walk the park around noon, but then it clouded over again and the wind came up too, so when I tried to sit out on the porch for a while I gave up and came back inside pretty quick.....instead of snack mix, I had crackers and swiss cheese while I was watching something about Lord Nelson, and then something about King John and the Magna Carta after the news and before bed.....

back to frost, north wind

yesterday's clouds are gone leaving it clear and cold again.....below freezing at night....there's enough shrimp chow mein left to have a bowl for lunch today.....and for supper I'll do something with chicken breast besides chow mein.....like maybe BBQ style, with cole slaw and something.....nothing in the mail yesterday......watched an old movie and then read an e-book until around 10:30 and then went to bed.....in front of the mill when I was walking in the afternoon the AT&T guys were moving their lines from the old telephone pole to the new one that the contractor had put in the ground last week.....when they released the lines from the old pole, it just fell over.....guess it really was ripe for replacement.....the pole near my back fence looks fairly new, hopefully it isn't ready to fall over too.....the one by the mill had been hit by a car a few months ago, maybe that was a contributing factor in it's failure.....not any other excitement in the neighborhood that I can think of.....

stir-fry

I'll make shrimp chow mein tonight, and chicken chow mein some other day....got the noodles, veggies, sauce, etc.....frozen shrimp, some chicken breasts at a decent price.....rye bread, swiss cheese, pickle loaf, jar of Greek peppers.....bite-size shredded wheat and a can of mixed nuts for snack mix this week....little green apples.....and the weekly paper to read next thing, 'cause it's light rain outside at the moment.....was raining on the grocery trip, drizzle for about one minute on my 20 minute sunrise walk....39 degrees ......I had hash browns, toast, egg-over-easy and two sausage links for supper last night......watched a movie about Mary Queen of Scots ....today is the anniversary of her death, beheaded by Elizabeth I......well, I'll eat my apple and read the paper.....oh, Vienna Sausages were marked down to .50 so I got a can of those too....

turned fairly nice

by the afternoon......the park walk was comfortable enough after lunch.....the Tuesday grocery ads didn't have anything to inspire me.....don't know what I'll look for in the morning at the store....bags of shrimp are on sale....and there were two pages of sweets for Valentine's Day.....fatten up your Valentine.....maybe I'll figure out some Chinese dish with shrimp....I've done shrimp and grits every way I can think of already.....though the pimento cheese shrimp and grits was pretty good last time I fixed that....hmmm....the store brand mixed nuts are on sale too....maybe they can go in my snack mix for the week.....with Corn Chex or something.....the Pandora "radio" is kickin' pretty good for some reason....guess I could crank up the Mustang amp and the Special SG and jam along for a bit.....I'm easily amused.....

down around freezing

early in the morning....I hope the frost isn't hard enough to hurt the peach blossoms.....walked for the newspaper all bundled up.....will probably delay any more walking until the afternoon, like I did yesterday......I did a bourbon glaze for the pork chop .....so there's some of that sausage casserole and some cornbread stuffing left....might mix them together in a pan and heat that up for supper ...... a Radio Shack ad was all I got in the mail for Monday.....I watched a Chinese Johnny Hallyday flick last night.....the "French Elvis".....sort of a Charles Bronson persona shooting at hit-men in Macau.....and I finished Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell....looks like I could sweep, mop, and vacuum around here......they are working on power lines down the street, hope they don't glitch the power 'cause that always screws up the internet connection until everything can reset itself.....it looks like they are replacing some old utility poles that are split and cracked and leaning....our aging infrastructure.....I need to remember to get more cheese tomorrow at the store, there's just a little left.....

cold wind

overcast, windchill 34 degrees.....yesterday it got up to 72.....those Super Bowl commercials were largely just confusing.....at the end of all these images flashed on the screen the viewer can't figure out what is being advertised exactly.....this viewer anyway....so was that money well spent? How old is Madonna? Why did that one guy sit down backwards going over the goal line with no defender anywhere near him? My french bread pizza at half-time was good, that's about all

I've got to say really.....I've got pork chop supper for today I guess.....it just doesn't look cheerful outside at all right now.....maybe by the afternoon some sunshine will come through......

it's burning off some

the early fog and overcast.....the rain that went through in the middle of the night didn't even wake me up.....I must have been sleeping like a log....in fact I slept almost until 6 AM, which is pretty good for me.....I did stay up until 11, maybe that had something to do with it.....54 degrees at sunrise today.....this mild Winter has some things blooming too early, like the peach groves.....the growers are worried that a hard frost might come along and nip the whole crop in the bud, as it were......always something to worry about....glad I'm not a farmer.....the casserole last night came out pretty much OK.....some of the rice was a little al dente.....the brown rice doesn't cook exactly like the white rice, takes a little longer I guess.....the Super Bowl is on way after supper-time.....at least my supper-time.....but folks still have feasts during the game? like Dagwood in the funnies this morning.....hot wings and pulled pork have been featured in the grocery store ads leading up to game day around here......a recipe in the paper was for what they call a BBQ sundae....pulled pork, baked beans, and slaw all layered in a mason jar, with cornbread on top of it all.....sounds messy to eat in the TV room.....I'm still going with the french bread pizza .....I got a steam-punk sci-fi adventure downloaded from the library, was reading that late last night, after watching some foreign news and a Firefly episode.....