windchill 38F

that'll wake you up when you go walking after breakfast.....might get down to freezing tonight.....hopefully after trick or treat is over.....got to remember to get the candy this morning at the grocery store....might get a chicken to roast too, haven't done that in a while....St. Louis ribs were in the ad yesterday.....I've got cornbread stuffing to eat up, that goes with about anything.....need olive oil this week, and a dozen eggs....out of Fritos too.....the central heat is running, guess the" heating season" is here right on time......my neighbor from around the corner came over yesterday and picked up a bag of pecans from out back, there are way too many for me to do anything with.....and I don't bend over very well to pick things up any how.....so, off to the market.....

From outer space

You can see the Frankenstorm images show the edge of the system extending over the Upstate again....this time coming in the back door over the mountains....where it is blowing snow probably....here it is 42 windchill and dark with clouds....I don't feel like getting out and going for a walk right now....maybe it will be a little warmer by the afternoon....I did meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and squash all in the iron skillet yesterday, instead of heating it up in the microwave....makes for a better presentation.....today I will sauté sweet onion and bell pepper in olive oil and then add a box of cornbread stuffing. ....that will be the "starch" side with more squash as the veg and a brat as the meat....I've got the electric fire on in the living room, and lamps on to make it less gloomy.....the forced air heat kicked on during the night....it is a lot quieter with the replacement fan motor than it was in previous years.....you have to concentrate on the sounds to tell if it's even on, whereas it used to be that the floor vents would whistle sort of.....I should go out and cut off whatever it is that is rubbing against the wall outside the bedroom in the wind, pestering me at night....must be the wisteria...that's all we've been getting from the storm, lots of wind....

43 at sunrise

my weather page showed the same reading for Escondido.....predicting 37 for Monday night-Tuesday morning......calling for wet heavy snow and high winds in the mountains, but dry and chilly down 'round here getting into Halloween night.....glad I don't live in New York or anywhere near it.....so it's crisp walking weather this morning.....the World Series is over so I can get to bed earlier tonight than I have been.....can have meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and yellow squash for supper.....then do something with bratwurst Tuesday and go shopping Wednesday.....I think there might be a box of cornbread stuffing still in the kitchen cupboard, 'cause they were buy one get one free.....a potential side with the brat?  we'll make something work....that's another day anyway.....

more Giants

so I stayed up late again watching the baseball.....maybe SF will win the Series tonight in a sweep?  watched the Dawgs bite the Gators.....don't know if I'll bother watching those lousy Panthers or not.....sometime in the wee small hours I woke up briefly thinking I'd felt a slight earthquake.....but the only earthquake news online this morning is a 7.7 off Vancouver Island.....don't think I felt that....it said there was a tsunami warning for Oregon....I wonder if the warning siren went off where Caroline lives.....the wave ended up being four inches tall I think it said.....hurricane Sandy has gone North, the Carolina coast got some rain but no real bad winds or damage.....there's a big black bank of cloud visible to the West, must be that cold front moving this way.....52 for the Sunday sunrise, with lows in the 30s predicted for tonight....I had a sausage patty with my french toast this morning, rather than the usual two sausage links.....got a half pound of bulk country sausage to use up somehow, maybe in chili later this week.....it looks like it's going to be dang cold Halloween night.....I haven't bought any candy yet....can do that during my regular Wednesday shopping....

hurricane weather?

clouds and wind from Sandy reaching into the Upstate area.....and the cold front slowly slipping south and east to get here Sunday sometime.....but they say the worst of it will be in the North-East where the Frankenstorm hits.....60s this morning, persistent winds, clouded over.....Laurens and Clinton both won their football games, and Laurens plays unbeaten Greenwood next week in their Region showdown.....Georgia and Florida will be on this afternoon.....and tonight will be game 3 of the Series.....I'm going to ride over to Laurens and Walmart, come home the back way.....mainly just for the drive, get out of the house.....plenty of leftovers for suppers and sandwiches this weekend.....ads in the paper for holiday dinners.....frozen turkeys on sale, etc.....pages of pictures of pies, cakes, and candy....ack, the holidaze....bah humbug.....

the best meatloaf I ever made

maybe I say that every time I make meatloaf.....it was good anyway, and plenty left over.....instead of walking right now I'll go out and run the mower for perhaps the last time until Spring.....the grass has already stopped growing pretty much, but a quick pass over it all will blow away or grind into mulch a lot of the stuff falling off the trees.....need to blow the acorns off the sidewalk too.....55 outside, should be comfortable enough.....late night again watching that baseball game.....a pitcher's duel I guess you could say.....and the Giants had lots of lucky breaks again.....so I can have a cold meatloaf sandwich for lunch....pickles, mustard, mayo....on rye.....this week seemed to go by fast....if we can live through the election and the Holidays we will be in 2013 before we know it.....

81 yesterday

today should be much the same....50 at sunrise again this morning....but after this weekend they are saying the highs will be down in the 60s or 50s even.....hurricane Sandy may or may not send clouds this way before or at Halloween......watched the Giants again....another good game, so another night of not getting to bed until almost 12.....but then I sleep through pretty well until 6:30 when I get going out of force of habit anyway.....I checked online for the time and temp for the oatmeal meatloaf.....and it's 3/4 cup of oats for 1.5 lbs. meat.....I use 1 pound of ground round and a half pound of country sausage.....diced onion, diced bell pepper, diced garlic, cream of mushroom soup for the liquid....one egg.....spices may very by whim......bake a potato with that, serve with peas.....I have peppered gravy already made from yesterday's banger and mash.....another baseball game this evening at 8.....I'm half-way through Horse Shoe Robinson.....the action takes place in this neck of the woods towards the end of the Revolution.....Musgrove Mill and all that.....the story is mostly true, but the writing is 19th century florid romantic in style.....oh, time and temp are one hour at 350.....

Gone barefoot

Was sweating when I got back from the park....so changed from boots and jeans and flannel shirt to T shirt, shorts, and barefoot....yesterday it went from 50 in the morning to 80 in the afternoon....today should be the same thing....I'm not complaining.....went to the store and got fixings  for meatloaf, baked potato, bangers and mash......got peas, squash.....remembered the paper towels this time, got more whipped butter....brat, grits, egg over easy as a breakfast for Sunday supper?  We'll figure things out eventually.....I'm still feeling somewhat beat up from Monday working in the yard....as the wise man said, it's Hell getting old.....lunch menu can vary this week with bratwurst sandwich, meatloaf sandwich, and patty melt as options to the corned beef sandwich.....going to put a whole bell pepper into the meatloaf, probably tomorrow....done that before and it's good....today is banger and a mash with tender peas, gravy......haven't looked at the Clinton paper yet....

Finally

The gas company is next door with a back hoe digging up their line to the burned out house.....the one guy says the place should be demolished in the next couple weeks....sounds good to me....then I'll have an empty lot next door maintained by the City as far as mowing down the weeds there....they already picked up my yard debris from yesterday....I had to rub some extra stuff on my lower back last night to get to sleep, after working on those shrubs in the morning....got to bed around midnight since I stayed up to watch all of that pennant game from on the bay out West....it was finished in a regular deluge.....my beans and rice with slow roast pork made for a hearty supper....will finish that off today, and then we will see what we can find at the grocery store next morning for another week....paid my broadband bill and the City bill.....my car insurance is due on election day....I'll get over there before that and pay it .....Allstate is just a couple blocks from the house.....nothing good in the mail today.....had a pleasant walk through the park....ate my little green apple on the front porch in the sunshine.....I'll fix grilled Swiss and corned beef on rye in a while for lunch....I've got plenty to read...

Hedge trimming

I don't think anybody would hire me to trim hedges....not if they saw the way I hacked things up along the north fence this morning.....I did get a big pile of trimmings moved out to the curb for the truck tomorrow .....the clam shell on a crane will pick up maybe a pick up truck worth of stuff all at once....that's about how much I put out there.....sure is easier this way than actually putting it in a truck and driving it to a dump and paying for that .....I guess in Sonora I could have burned it.....anyway, I got a good part done....will do more some other day.....was 41 at sunrise.....now it's 68 outside, but not that warm inside....watched the Giants last night so I got to bed late, but it's cold enough lately to sleep pretty well.....cold pork sandwich with pickles and Swiss cheese on lightly toasted rye spread with brown mustard and mayo for lunch.....ate all my Sun Chips yesterday watching sports on TV, so I had Fritos and a pepper and a glass of Merlot with that....later today I can do up some more pork with sweet onion and garlic in olive oil to go into the black beans and rice....the cooked pork, it will just have to brown up some with the garlic and onion.....that yard work put a bend in my back, so now I can just lie down for a bit I think....

Clear and chilly Sunday morning

41 degrees at sunrise when I went out walking for the paper.....didn't see much going on that time on a Sunday. ...one jogger and the guy at the store were about all that seemed to be moving....a train did go by.....I ran the electric fire some to heat up the living room....55 in the rest of the house.....had my French toast and sausage this morning.....corned beef and Swiss on rye for lunch I imagine.....supper might be French bread pizza while watching some football game or other....Panthers play the Cowboys in an early game I think....Gamecocks did not do well....Blue Hose lost.....they won the first half, but not the game....with the slow pork yesterday I fixed brown rice and the last of the spinach greens....so there's slow cooked pork to dice up and use with red beans and rice for a
 couple meals.....leaves out the window seem to be turning color as we speak....I picked up some pecans off the back lawn the other day and sat on the porch edge and cracked and ate some....some others were old, not good to eat....a lot haven't fallen yet.....

68, blues skies, leaves in the breeze

From the front porch there's the music from the street fair.....inside there's some football on with the sound off.....and the aroma of the chili-curry pork in a slow oven....makes for another lazy Saturday afternoon.....family groups walking to and from downtown, those headed back into mill village have balloons tried to the strollers......I think all the kids rides and games are free, there's some couple who pays for that every year .....

Fall Festival Report

not too much festive happening early on downtown.....as usual, nobody stepped up to a microphone to start anything when it was scheduled to begin.....various people with clipboards or pieces of paper in their hands were twisting about looking  like they were trying to find somebody who appeared to be in charge.....but nothing happened .....they do have two nice rented PA systems set up a few blocks away from each other.....both of them going "test one two three".....the sound guys were ready anyway....not a very good car show this time....no old Studebakers or Packards like that one year.....I think there's a major cruise-in going on today in a bigger city.....this event is usually one weekend closer to Halloween, so some vendors are some where else I guess.....the hash dog folks from Greenwood were not there this morning.....so maybe it will pick up later, get more people .....it goes on until after dark with a street dance, but I'll be watching Gamecock football by then, if I get that channel....I think I do.....saw some innings of the Giants last night, and it looks like they hung on to win and send it back to Frisco.....I should probably go ahead and cook up those country ribs that are defrosted now.....do something with them before they get funky.....it's cool enough for folks out over there to be all wearing jackets and sweatshirts or something, will probably stay in the 60s with some west wind all day.....anyway, I got some extra walking done, and I can go back over after lunch maybe.....probably not.....

just a walk in the park

another fine Fall morning for it.....also went to the library, even though it's not my usual day....'cause I was done with my books.....found something more for a while....got stopped by the empty returning coal train on the way over....I guess if they close some of the coal-fired power plants like they are talking about maybe those trains won't run?  This is the time of year when acorns drop loudly on top of your car as you drive along in front of the college.....I'm going to vacuum, take a shower, wash a load of laundry, eat lunch in there some time.....there's various leftovers for supper this evening....like chow mien.....going to be sunny and around 70 mostly.....pretty soon I can take a drive out through the forest and look at the colors of the season....you don't have to go far out of town to be in the middle of all that....got the electric, water, trash bill this morning and paid it online.....not bad for September since I didn't have to run the AC at all and the heating only came on one or two of the colder nights we had....

50, cloudy

but the rain front fell apart before it got here looks like, just sort of dissolved on the radar replay.....I don't know what tweaked my back yesterday, but it is acting tricky this morning.....muscles knotted up in the same old spot as usual.....I turned off the TV last night when the ballgame went into rain-delay.....SF lost anyway it says on Yahoo Sports......so if the World Series ends up with Detroit and St. Louis, who will care?  SF and NY would have better ratings, I think.....just a second, I heard the mailbox......dang, something from my bank.....Accidental Death Insurance?  useless.....whether it's an accident or not, you're just as dead.....and would hence have no need for the money.....the shrimp dish turned out pretty good for supper, enough left for another night.....today I think I'll make pintos cooked with sweet onion and diced up pork served over hot cornbread.....lunch can be corned beef and swiss on rye.....hopefully Saturday morning won't be dismal like this.....we want a good crowd for the Fall Festival don't we?   maybe if I put on a warmer jacket the walk around the park will be comfortable enough right now.....

Mostly cleared off

After chilly overcast earlier in the morning.....went grocery shopping.....some meals will be: shrimp chow mien, pintos with pork over cornbread, and red beans and rice with pork .....got the other package of pork out of the freezer obviously .....the above should be 2X suppers....so six days taken care of there, and I still have a French bread pizza.......had hash tacos today, finished off tortillas and hash.....so now for lunches I have rye bread, swiss cheese, can of corned beef.....along with peppers, pickles, Fritos.....got some Sun Chips 'cause they were half price.....got more eggs and OJ.....remembered toothpaste this time but forgot paper towels again .....watched Elvis Costello and the Imposters from 2004 in Memphis....another great Netflix offering.....I think I saw that show live on some Dish channel back when.....looks like the Giants game is on at 4 this afternoon.....

Nice afternoon

Lawns are starting to go dormant, trees are turning color.....not too hot, not too cold.....I looked up piano tuning online, and it said a rule of thumb is to sound A# above middle C with the stops off and see if it resonates at 440 .....something like that anyway.....with a Seiko quartz guitar tuner I got the green diode lit up....so the dang old piano might be pretty much in tune....it must have been tuned some time since 1941......on the food front, I've got a sweet tater needs to be used.....and spinach greens too....so supper can be some of that pork fried up, cooked spinach, sweet potato baked.....didn't see anything in today's grocery ad to inspire me, but I'll find something I suppose when I go to the store in the morning.....

clear, cool, less humid a little

was 46 at sunrise......I'll go for another walk and then I really should mop the kitchen floor, it's pretty bad.....watched a Pretenders concert from somewhere in L.A. in 2003.....two hours worth of the hits, that was a good show.....went out on the porch for a few minutes after that, and then it was bedtime.....got a Guitar Player in the mail yesterday, along with three insurance solicitations....one to "Tingle Family" offering insurance on children?  Why would you insure children......I got Merlot while I was over at Walmart, 'cause the 5 litre box is a few bucks cheaper there than at the grocery store.....didn't find the other things I was looking for.....it was a nice drive though, raining just enough to run the wipers on the slowest speed going over that way.....it had stopped by the time I came back home.....

new moon on Monday

64F this morning....the clouds kept the warmth pretty well....I got around my route for the newspaper before the rain front got here....it started coming down while I was reading the paper....but I don't know how long it's going to keep coming and going this morning, hard to tell from the radar which way it is heading exactly.....but things got wet so I won't try to go out and trim up the shrubs out back with the electric pruner.....I was thinking of working on that today because Tuesday is the day they pick up yard cuttings from the curb.....watched a lot of football yesterday, but when the baseball Giants got behind by 6 runs I gave up and went on to bed at my regular time.....I guess I'll go over to Walmart, I can do that while it's raining easily enough.....some things I want to look at over there.....it will be back to pork platter for supper today, and lunch can be some kind of sandwich.....maybe a fried egg sandwich, I do that every once in a while for variety....

mostly cloudy

mid-50s......some rainy weather might start moving up during the night, 40% chance for Monday......49er game on TV later.....and even MLB with the SF Giants at night.....but I'd never stay awake through a baseball game running that late, doesn't start until 8?  Looking like grilled swiss on rye with some onion for lunch, french bread pizza and spinach salad for supper.....that's easy.....this cooler weather is good for sleeping....even in the middle of the day...it's easy to take a bit of a nap after lunch.....since there's nothing much else to do anyway.....the library books are going fast this time, good stories.....only half a  book left......

invigorating

walking just after sunrise.....54F, windy.....gets the blood pumping after breakfast.....did get to 75 yesterday, 70 predicted today....maybe it will get that warm if this cold wind lets up by the afternoon.....should be some football on to watch today and this evening....Laurens and Clinton both won their games, so they are "alive" as regards getting through region and into post-season play.....Laurens is in a strong position, Clinton just barely hanging in there.....the mail man just came by.....nothing but somebody trying to sell insurance again.....and it's dang cold out there still in that wind, so I might forgo walking around the park this morning.....today lunch can be pot roast sandwich, supper can be the rib platter heated up.....

Warmer today

75 predicted.....nice morning, so I got out and knocked down the weeds behind the house and some along the north side.....I talked to a couple of guys who were looking at the burned house next door.....the City had put an ad in the paper for bids to tear it down, and these guys said they had quoted eight grand .....so they don't know if they will get it or not.....maybe some day it will get gone....I boiled the crock pot juices down into a gravy, with just a little flour in there to thicken it up....and that was good with the rib meat and the stuffing, etc....for lunch today I'll make hash taquitos.....and supper might be spaghetti and meatballs and a salad....using a frozen entree I got a couple weeks ago for a buck I think it was....just to vary things instead of having the same supper two nights in a row.....nothing in the mail but an insurance solicitation.....lots of acorns this year, so they say the bears have a good supply of mast to eat so they shouldn't come into town so much and get in garbage.....but there is a bear warning right now in the campgrounds off the Blue Ridge Highway.....bears went on a rampage last weekend for some unknown reason, chased out some tourists.....

cold front?

a cold front was predicted to come through in the middle of the night.....not such a terrible cold front I guess, the heater didn't come on at all.....and it's sunny out this morning with a high around 70 called for this afternoon.....it was 46 at sunrise.....the weather page gave the same reading for Coos Bay.....hash on rice is a tasty and hearty meal, I'll have to do that again some time.....today will be the pork that's in the slow cooker already.....lunch will be a cold pot roast beef sandwich with pickles, mustard, mayo.....some BBQ Fritos, and a glass of merlot....and probably a Greek pepper too.....
I might need the jean jacket when I go walk again, there is a north wind.....finished another library book, and on the fly it said that two books by the author had been made into movies, so I punched into Netflix search and watched one of them last night.....Elvis in Texas fighting a soul-sucking mummy.....Bubba Ho-Tep?  I think that's what it was called.....

Hash on rice

With spinach salad as the side.....that's for today....tomorrow I'll do country ribs in the crock pot with BBQ sauce, onion, apple cider vinegar, oregano.....and whatever.....a little soy sauce?  And the sides will be cornbread stuffing and cut corn.....you can boil the drippings into a reduction sauce gravy, put some on the stuffing.....

sun's come out

still some chilly morning air though, crisp walking conditions.....went to get groceries and gas.....90 bucks for those....regular Shell I got for $3.29.....got country pork ribs cheap today too, froze half of them and the other half will be plenty of supper meat for a week.....pinto beans, cornbread stuffing, sweet tater, spinach greens, etc.... for sides.....lunches will be pot roast sandwiches, or grilled swiss on rye....or both of those put together as a beef melt?  got fruit and nut mix for snacking.....I already had enough eggs and apples on hand 'til next time.....got more orange juice, and oatmeal....well, I've got the Clinton paper to look at....the gas bill came, and yesterday the car insurance bill came that's due in November for six months worth.....this will be the last real cheap natural gas bill, since I fired up the heater two nights ago and it will cost more and more as it gets colder and colder.....the City posted hints on saving on your energy bill.....one of them was "wear clothes"......I hadn't thought of that.....

Indoor day

It just didn't want to warm up today.....did my daily walking in the chill and then have been mostly playing guitar and listening to Internet radio....or both at the same time.....right now got Sonic Youth Daydream Nation (remaster) on mog....earlier I had on that blues station that streams from Suriname while jamming along with the Silvertone  Fastback plugged into the Pedal Farm Hybrid Fuzz and then into the Fender Champion 600 reissue.....cheap thrills.....sounded good....good tone anyway, don't know about good licks.....close enough for government work, as we used to say.....mid fifties in most of the house, warm enough in this room with the electric fire on....

colder still

46F outside at sunrise, about 10 degrees warmer in the house.....the newspaper described the wake-up weather as "drizzle/fog".....that's about right.....out early walking the cars had on headlights but not wipers.....but the cold NE wind has stopped, so it should get warmer this afternoon than it did yesterday.....Monday I had the hash fried with an egg in the middle and fried grits too.....well, you boil them the regular way and then fry them sorta as a patty, with butter.....I think there's enough of the pot roast veggies and gravy left for one more of those meals tonight....one biscuit left for that....don't know what I will find in the morning for another week of eating....I need to buy toothpaste....two chili-dogs left to fix.....one of these days soon I should go to the gas station with the Jeep, got about a quarter tank left.....

52F, lowering skies, 12 mph NE wind

but on the radar it looks like the rain isn't coming near here any time soon....it's over in the mountains.....60F in the house, put a sweatshirt on.....maybe I'll have to turn on the central heat one of these days.....it looked to me like San Diego was going to get beat, so I went to bed by half-time....sure enough.....I watched most of the Falcons game too, and parts of a couple of others, switching back and forth with the flow of commercials.....and on PBS I saw "Give Me the Banjo".....that was good, inspired me to get the banjo out of the corner and strum it during the last of the football.....they showed some old-timey dude playing it with a slide.....I like to play the mandolin with a slide sometimes.....had pot roast last night, which is about like a stew as you get towards the end of it 'cause there's lots of gravy left....there will be a good chunk of the beef left to do something with.....tacos or sandwiches.....I've got that hash to work with too.....it's too nasty out to consider yard-work again, so maybe I'll just bundle up some and go for a walk.....as some of the bushes out there loose some leaves it will be easier to work on them....when I can see what I'm doing....that's my rationalization.....

Staying chilly and windy

This day isn't good for much but reading or watching football.....or taking a nap .....on the radar it looks like rain headed this way from the west.....maybe it will just be a pot roast day, since it's so autumnal....

grumbling and flickering

thunderstorm passing to the north of here in the dark just before it was time to get out of bed.....didn't get any rain from it in Clinton .....so dark overcast, windy, chilly.....street lights still on after dawn when I walked for the newspaper.....should stay in the 60s today.....I don't think the City takes a holiday on Columbus Day.....I'll try putting the trash out and see if it gets picked up.....ham and rye french toast for breakfast, last little bit of that ham slice.....lunch can be a chili dog or a hash dog.....supper might be a french bread pizza watching a football game in the living room.....or maybe fried hash with an egg and grits.....watched plenty of football Saturday evening, some interesting games.....I think a Charger game is on today later .....on a channel I get.....I don't know if it was from stomping around in Laurens yesterday, or from the change in the weather....but my left knee and right ankle were doing their aching thing in bed this morning....but not too bad now, after I got my feet under me and some walking done.....if it's going to be this gloomy of a day it should just go ahead and rain, at least make it worthwhile.....

did get some hash

but no brisket.....they all said their brisket wouldn't be ready until 12:30 or 1:00.....and that's pretty much nap time for me these days....if it can't get done in the morning, it doesn't get done....so I had a lot of lunch, a chili dog and a hash dog....and some good sweet tea.....to use up my tickets I got some hash to take home .....so now I have containers of pot roast and hash in the fridge....easy to fix meals for a few days anyway....the hash is pretty tasty, might have it over biscuit for supper.....in T shirt and jeans it was getting hot seemed to me by 11:30 or so.....made my escape from the crowd.....saw Cindy and Addie and Edson over there.....Addie is 4 years older, but they appear to be the same height....I walked around a lot over there, so got my boots off as soon as I got home....and put on some old ragged  bluejean shorts, 'cause the weather has switched back to warmish, at least for today.....only mail here was ads trying to get me to sign up for various Medicare Advantage programs....tore them in half and tossed them in the kitchen trash.....Cindy said there was a good crowd last night too, and it goes on today until bands and fireworks after dark.....I put in my ten bucks worth for the civic festivities....somebody must be making money on it all.....

Cool morning

So I got out and did the front yard, trimming and mowing.....clear today, finally no clouds....the pot roast is a success, tasty with a large bell pepper in there with the other stuff....guess I'll have that again this evening.....tomorrow I'll get a lunch of ribs and whatever over in Laurens ....last year I got three ribs and a chili dog and an apple fritter, or some other sweet thing at this church bake sale booth....I want to see if I can find a sample size of beef brisket maybe.....in a sandwich?  It's something different to do anyway on a Saturday, other than just sitting around as usual.....they have lots of crafts booths, but I've never seen anything  I needed to buy.....

crock pot roast

meat and veggies and such cooking slowly, ought to be plenty.....high humidity again today, mostly cloudy....was raining around bedtime last night, gently......looks like it will be dry and mild Saturday morning for the festivities in Laurens.....I forgot yesterday to get extra cash at the store for ribs and whatever else at the Square, but my bank has ATMs right there.....I remembered parmesan-romono, so I had some of that on top of my bowl of beans and rice....tasty that way....the front lawn is too wet to mess with, so I'll look at it again Friday morning....did not watch any debate, don't see any point in that....near the end of a good library book, and I have three more.....might get up to 78 today they think,  was 64 at sunrise when I went for my first walk....

clouded over, somewhat muggy

at the grocery store I got a small beef roast to put in the crock pot tomorrow with potatoes, carrots, green beans, bell pepper, and a can of mushroom soup....got Texas biscuits to have with that....mop up the juices with a biscuit....tonight can be red beans and rice, Tuesday I had ham, the last of the mac n cheese, green beans.....lunch today was a chili dog with onion, two small Greek peppers, and the last of the burgundy....the new box of wine is merlot.....high of 79 expected this afternoon....should play some piano, read some books, play some guitar, take a little nap......finish looking at the Clinton paper....that won't take long....

strange

it was 10 degrees warmer when I got out of bed than when I went to bed.....warmed up during the night?  that just seems wrong.....it's because a warm front from the south overpowered the colder front that had been here a few days.....72F outside, 70 in the house.....got my newspaper OK, but right now it's raining some....I'll try for a dry spell later for the park walk....I did get some walking done yesterday, in an afternoon haze.....the bowl of red beans and rice made for a filling supper, and there's plenty for today too.....the grocery flyer came in the mail Monday this week.....looks like a good price on rump roast.....for "Crocktoberfest" as the meat department ad said.....I might do a pot roast.....those make for good lunch sandwiches.....or maybe it's time to do chili-dog lunches again....I get that craving.....used up all the onion last night, need to remember that tomorrow.....don't think I need to drive anywhere today....I dreamed I was working in a gas station.....I've never had a job like that....where do these ideas come from?  maybe sometimes you get a dream meant for somebody else.....

It's not nice out

I thought is was supposed to warm up this afternoon some....but it's still 63.....it was 63 at sunrise this morning....not really raining right now, just sort of a cold blowing mist.....wind 6 mph from the north-east.....not very inviting for a stroll around the neighborhood....

rain and more rain

was raining when I went to bed, think it rained all night, and it's still raining.....63F, high of 73 predicted....might rain the rest of today and on into Tuesday.....should help ease the drought conditions.....so it's too wet for walking....and people drive crazy in the rain, you might get run over out walking.....so today I can make red beans and rice with ham diced up in it, and that should be enough for two days, and then it's grocery day again.....this weather is all coming from south and west, so it's not a cold system, just wet.....so far it's just coming straight down steady, but thunderstorms with wind might show up before it's over.....off to the library in a bit, see if I can find something to sit inside with and read.....didn't do much yesterday but slouch on the sofa and watch football, but woke up with an ache in my right shoulder....can't figure that out.....maybe it's just the damp getting in aged joints....