patches of frost

here and there on the newspaper walk.....34F, all bundled up.....but the sun is out and maybe it will heat up some today.....enough for a walk after lunch.....and then rain is predicted on and off until the weekend.....Saturday morning I'm planning on going to a charity pancake breakfast at Fatz Cafe.....cousin Cindy will be waiting on tables.....it's for Thornwell, the orphanage that used to have a school there too, where some of the cousins went....two or three anyway, I think.....Thornwell, like everything else, is falling on hard times.....they do have a beautiful old campus of stone buildings over across from the college, but it's largely empty now.....I think most of the kids there now aren't actually orphans, but just children taken out of their homes because of neglect, abuse, parents on meth, or whatever.....the usual modern situation.....and now they ride the bus to regular public schools....until a couple of years ago they had a working model farm there....the orphans for decades were taught to be good farmers......not a good business model for today's youth, I don't think.....I had chicken livers last night, and I have one pork chop left for today, and then it's shopping day again.....watched a couple of old movies last night until around ten, slept well with the space heater on in the bedroom as it got down to freezing by the wee small hours.....