Middle of the week

Yesterday supper was chili  dogs with sort. Of sloppy joe sauce .....pear slices for dessert.potato chips..
Tapioca pudding was
Inch dessert

Wednesday

Lunch was talapia,cornbread, rice,pinto beans,a brownie....

Sunday

Sunday evening meal....corn meal breaded chicken strips, sweet tater fries, raspberry sherbet ...lunch was ?  Breakfast was the usual grits eggs toast....

RIPJFK

Grits...eggs...toast and jelly....cranberry juice , coffee....lunch...pork chop ...mashed potatoes....new carrots...really moist and tasty applesauce spice cake....

Missed a day or two somehow?

Last night they had supper one hour late...so today breakfast was an hour late too.....supper was taco soup...or chili ...and a baked potato ...tree were lots of desserts...I had peanut butter cake,and some really good pecan pie and then breakfast was sausage and eggs...and grits...cranberry juice and coffee...lunch : beef and mushroom in gravy over rice....steamed yellow squash...excellent large slice  yellow cake with sugar frosting..with a cup of coffeetowash down the dessert....sandwiches...the old folks lik them because they are easy to eat I guess...and they don't have to ask what they are eating...with a pickle spear...burnt sugar cake dessert...tea,coffee...

French toast

And grits...with butter and syrup....juice...coffee....good French toast....might snow late afternoon, early evening they are saying.....watched the Tampa game through to the end last night, then went to sleep after a while......lunch....meatloaf wih chili sauce...parsley mashed taters....peach cobbler, still warm ...the usual beverages....supper .....ham sandwiches , steamed beets, pickle slices crinkle cut....ambrosia dessert.....tea and coffee....before supper I had been sitting in the room eating parched peanuts.....also tropical trail mix, and tea and toast.....Lipton and raisin bread...there goes the train whistle again....looks like the
 cold front is up around Charlotte right now headed this way?  Lunch was apiece of ham....turnip greens, sweet tater soufflé, corn bread and a sweet cornbread cake presented with whipped cream....supper ...tuna salad sandwiches ....tomato bisque soup.....potato chips....incredible  sweet tater cake dessert .....with hard sauce for frosting....later I wandered the halls again pulling myself along the railings ....get lots of exercise that way....now watching a David Gilmour...concert on the DVD player....with my new very nice Sony headphones....they sound great ....plenty of bass, etc....

11/11

Breakfast was sausage, grits, eggs, cranberry juice, coffee.....lunch was meaty BBQ ribs, tater salad, mixed veggies, sweet tea /lemonade....fudge cake, coffee....Dan bought an OPERA harmonica at the junk store in Clinton....pretty cool double octave harp,....and he put the Rotosound  bronze strins on the new guitar, and we be jamming....evening meal.....hot and hearty bowl of soup,ham sandwiches, lemon custard dessert, the usual beverages....

Sunday

Sausage patties, grits and eggs and toast .....three cups black coffee....some OJ....some cranberry juice too.....beautiful looking morning.......Dan is messing around trying to get roku working.....GTM at one Clinton daylight time....lunch was BBQ chicken leg quarters, Mac n cheese bake....chunky sour kraut cooked with bacon,sweet tea,and some kind of Apple cake thing for dessert....j

Three cups of strong black coffee

Ham and eggs with grits and toast,orange juice....was breakfast....brisk morning out whe n I rode over to the. Doctors office then a slice of pork and baked Mac n cheese, sweet tea and lemon custard for lunch...then puttering around in my little apartment. Then a nap around three? Supper is at five.....folks start filtering down there around. 4:30......too many crab cakes for supper.....I got my veggie barley soup as first course.......and the crab cake and French fries.....and later the server asked if I wanted more crab cakes because they were just going to end up throwing them away.....so out of half a dozen offered to I ate four....lunch....chicken and dumplings.....corn....sweet tea....two ice cream desserts. .....bowl of vanilla and a bowl of chocolate ....washed down with hot black coffee....I declined seconds on the dumplings.....those are kinda heavy....a supper...fish fry, barley veggie soup....slaw....Moon Pies for dessert...time for bed...I'm beat....

Warm and cozy

My daughter go me this fleece thing...it's wonderful on a cold night.....and I got something in my stomach....a nutrition shake to tide me over until breakfast......my last meal was a large bowl of tomato soup, and a hamburger....with a bowl of vanilla ice cream dessert.....

Slept through until Thursday morning

Last meal I had was chili con crane, red jello with a little whipped cream garnish....and two amazing sweet tater cupcakes....this morning , it says breakfast is a western omelette, with juice, coffee, and buttered toast..turned out to be scrambled eggs, not an omelette ....but that's fine ......some kid of fish for lunch with a pilaf/pasta salad side....ice tea.....fruit bowl.....

Moved

So yesterday lunch in Greenville was a warm juicy hamburger,baked potato chips, grapes, cheese cake, Lima beans, Coke, and then we drove down to Clinton where dinner in the dining room was a tasty chicken breast sandwich on a wheat roll, with a fruit cup, and sweet tea, with an ice cream sundae for dessert...a good sized bowl o vanilla with whipped cream and broken up
Oreos....

Things are coming together.....new wheelchair, and a beside commode, ad a new walker.....

Breakfast was raisin bran twice......and a big banana ......and the peach yogurt.....milk and sugar and cream on the cereal....coffee was hotter than usual.....lunch....tuna salad sandwich ,baked potato chips, large apple,bowl of grapes....chocolate ice cream....Coke..opened the window some for some fresh air....Caroline and Dan gone looking for their lunch ....Downstairs somewhere .....dinner.....saucy pork roast, red potatoes , carrots, cornbread, apple crisp, sweet tea.....new wheelchair to take to new facility tomorrow.....

Proper breakfast

And a beautiful Sunday morning.....oatmeal, with raisins, butter, cream ,brown sugar.....a very big apple, peach yogurt?....my brother is here visiting.....

The food replicator must be stuck in a loop

Same breakfast again....the cold cereal trip, with warm blue berry muffin, etc...nice looking day out, but the tele says morning temps in the forties.....lunch was different...meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy....baby carrots...Jello....sweet tea hot dinner roll...melted butter on that.....70 out....nothing to do for the rest of the day but watch college football....feel asleep late afternoon.....with foot ball on dinner was a piece of chicken, butternut squash....steamed broccoli ,sweet tea, a brownie.....

Rainy day

Lunch was chicken Brest pretty tinder.....with black beans and rice....cheese,salsa, and sour cream, sweet tea cheese cake.....break was blueberry muffin, Cheereos,peach yogurt,milk,butter,cream,sugar.  For the cereal....as in childhood, ....coffee....that was still hot....am using kindle fire now....back to iPad supper was herb crust pork ...whipped sweet taters....haricot vert....dinner roll with melted butter....sweet tea....vanilla pudding....

Pretty much the same as yeste

Day.  Generic meals...
Name for every body?

Early bird

After a decent night of sleep I think ......default breakfast....Blueberry muffin, peach yogurt, Cheerios, coffee, orange juice,butter and grape jelly....three sessions in the morning....just finished lunch....piece of turkey breast.....wild rice, squash, sweet tea....dinner roll with butter,hot enough to melt the butter....Apple pie....

Out of here in a week

Breakfast....an apple, some grapes, a biscuit, half a dozen pierces of bacon.....grits , scrambled eggs, yogurt, coffee....cranberry juice....lunch.....applesauce, grapes, Coke, cornbread, roast beef hash, whipped potatoes with brown gravy,pinto beans....nice day out again....
Was nodding off when supper entered the room.....a hamburger with BBQ sauce and mayo, lettuce...also a side salad with ranch dressing, ginger ale...a brownie...

Tuesday.....

Indian summer?   Breakfast was plenty ...two biscuits with gravy, two sausage links,a banana...bad on one end, but mostly edible.....coffee, peach yogurt, cranberry juice.....speech canceled out for today....just back from
OT....PT in 20 minutes......and again at 1:00. Radiation around 2:30....lunch....chicken breast sandwich with BBQ  sauce and lettuce....baked potato chips.....grapes.....pound cake with topping....sweet tea....supper....my son brought me my Baby Taylor from the house.....pot roast, red potatoes, small carrot slices....Ginger ale....dinner roll....vanilla ice cream.....

Good Monday so far

For breakfast....banana, cranberry juice, pancakes with butter and syrup....bacon, vanilla yogurt.....coffee....some puddles outside, chance of rain again around lunch time says the paper and the tele.....and then a good chance too during trick or treat later this week....overcast now out the window.....Speech and physical in the morning....lunch....PBJ sandwich.....grapes, baked potato chips, sweet tea, chocolate chip cookies....supper, after a late nap......pork loin with onions on top....red potatoes.....corn....sweet tea.....Apple pie.  ....buttered dinner roll...

Lazy morning ....rehash college ball, wait for the pro games...

Breakfast....two cups of coffee snowed up,and a fluffy biscuit..with grape jelly, and two thins of raisin bran, two milks,one cranberry juice,one banana,and one vanilla yogurt....lunch....pimento cheese sandwich, strawberries, chocolate chip cookies, baked potato chips....Coke....now watching Detroit vs Dallas....and then whatever else they are going to show this afternoon and evening.....supper.....beef stir fry, veggie fried rice, corn,brownie,grapes,dinner roll,ginger ale....

Snow on the mountains

But we might warm up into an Indian summer? Breakfast was two packages of raisin bran, with milk and cranberry vanilla yogurt sugar and milk on the cereal...an apple,vanilla yogurt....lunch was meatloaf with gravy and mashed potatoes, green beans ice tea ...cheese cake....hot dinner roll with butter...in the evening...chili dog, chili fries,bowl of grapes,brownie,ginger ale...supper was....beef pepper stir fry....veggie fried rice....corn side....dinner roll, ginger ale, grapes, brownie....still got the sports on tele....

Muffin

Wild blueberry muffin,scrambled eggs,bacon,coffee,banana,vanilla yogurt.....watched Top Gun on kindle fire hdx while waiting for breakfast...we'll the opening scenes....then used the new device to play some Breakfast Bach....freezing outside says the morning paper.... Lunch...chicken fillet sandwich,with BBQ sauce, catsup,mustard,mayo....lettuce...a little bowl of strawberries, authentic creamy Mac n cheese,sweet Tea...chocolate ice cream.....Brian and I had separated some bills from the junk mail, and I was thinking I would have time to work on those while he went down to look at Homes in Clinton...but they are now across the room beyond my reach ...maybe some one will come in and give me a hand....supper was pork tenderloin marinade , sweet tater, corn,ginger ale, two slices of pound cake, bunch of grapes....

Loaded oatmeal

Oatmeal with raisins, butter, brown sugar, cinnomin, and cream...plus two sausage links, an apple ...and vanilla yogurt...cranberry juice, coffee....lunch....hamburger with lettuce and mayo...baked potato chips a bunch of grapes....sweet tea....the hamburger was still warm and juicy ....chocolate chip cookies....supper....fork tender chopped steak with mushroom gravy....mashed potatoes, sweet peas,corn bread with butter,angel food cake, ginger ale, freeze warning tonight over the Upstate....

Good morning

For me so far....slept well...from Letterman until five.....sleeping like a log....and then Igot a shower, and breakfast early....and already done with first exercise session....waiting for cognitive instructor OK....breakfast was two biscuits with gravy,two strips of bacon, cranberry juice....coffee....blueberry yogurt.....day continues good mostly noon meal....pimento cheese sandwich, cream of chicken soup.....Apple cole slaw....tropical jello, sweet tea.....clear and bright out but people are wearing jackets....supper...chicken breast with rice and gravy....a bowl of pinto beans ....corn bread with butter ....Ginger ale....chocolate cake.....

Student nurses running amok today... From Bob jones....

Breakfast. Twice raisin bran....milk and sugar....a banana...vanilla yogurt....coffee...cranberry juice...got my main meds already....get a shower later....after the first exercise....midday...grilled ham and cheese sandwich....cream of chicken soup....sweet tea....saltines and pepper for the soup...chocolate pudding.....supper...sirloin steak,baked potato with butter, sour cream and pepper...side salad with ranch dressing....vanilla ice cream,dinner roll...

Frost advisory

In the local mountains....breakfast was wheat toast twice with butter and jam,scrambled eggs, bacon, grits, coffee,cranberry juice,banana,vanilla yogurt....and a while after breakfast it got somewhat hectic in here....five of them at once for some reason...then I went to the first exercise session....and after that lunch....tuna salad cold plate....vanilla ice cream....and a side salad too with that dark green kinda bitter lettuce variety...saltines....club crackers Coke .....and a large thing of ranch dressing ....cucumber slices...chocolate cake.finely diced carrot....done with second PT and radiation by 3:30, so able to kick back some late afternoon ....supper....pork loin with sauce.....black eye peas....corn bread....red potatoes .....ice tea....brownie with walnuts....updated ipad2 with ios7 pretty slick so far....

Looks sunny and bright out

But the weather site says its 46 degrees....an apple AND a banana this morning...and pancakes....vanilla yogurt...coffee...orange juice..bacon...crazy college football yesterday with all those upsets...Rhea,the nurse from Ora,is here on Sundays....I lived on a farm in Ora through first grade, started second grade in San Diego county...where the folks had moved looking for better pay and steady work....in the mid 1950s. This part of the South was still pretty much Depressed....Lunch...whole baked sweet potato with. Butter and pepper...roast beef sandwich wih lettuce and mayo....side salad witw various greens and ranch dressing..also chocolate cake. .spent a couple hours before lunch listening to60s music on utube....pretty soon Panthers should come on..I'll leave it muted so we can have our family meeting ...later in the afternoon ...Panthers are ahead.....had a good family meeting too....Sunday evening meal.....stir fry pepper steak with peppers and rice...side of corn...ginger ale...peach pie...70 outside says the weather site.....

Pancake breakfast

Two large buckwheat pancakes with plenty of butter and syrup....an apple...vanilla yogurt...bacon...coffee..cranberry juice....no exercise until 12:30... TheSouth Carolina game starts at noon, so I will have miss part of that....Clemson is a night game.....some little bit of rain this morning...for the tailgaters who are already over at ESPN Game Day at Clemson...Lunch....meatloaf wih gravy and whipped potatoes.....dinner roll, ginger ale....apple pie....sat and wolfed it down in front of Wayne, not very polite I guess....Side of cut corn too, almost forgot....Supper...chicken salad plate...saltines, club crackers,pile of chicken salad...cucumber slices, shredded carrot....some lettuce,along with ginger ale and chocolate chip cookies....

Biscuits and gravy

Banana, bacon, orange juice, coffee, vanilla yogurt....Lunch ....grilled cheese sandwich, potato chips,chocolate chip cookies,Coke....some sun on the other side of the curtains .....was going to try to nap some ...but that didn't happen...about time now to go exercise some more....In the evening....herb crusted pork, green beans, whipped sweet potatoes, corn bread,peach pie, ginger ale....had frm 3pm til 5 to kinda relax

Return to Government?

Well, I guess Wasington is open for business ....breakfast...two slices wheat toast ....cheese omelette....butter and Apple jelly for the toast, grits with butter too...orange juice, vanilla yogurt...got a paper to read now....see you later....almost forgot...bacon too....and coffee...Lunch....turkey breast, dinner roll,wild rice,squash,bowl of grapes,apple pie,Coke....did rain a bit,might rain more....three therapies completed so far..one to go plus radiation....and the team meeting regarding eventual discharge....Dinner....chopped steak with mushroom gravy....mashed potatoes....peas.....strawberries, dinner roll...chocolate chip cookies...ginger ale....

Wednesday

Breakfast was buckwheat pancakes with butter and syrup...a banana .....coffee....vanilla yogurt....apple juice....Lunch...pinto beans and cornbread,Mac and cheese,Hot ground roast beef(hash?),sweet tea, brownie..a lot to eat really...overcast outside....they were cooking burgers. ..outside in the garden a while ago.....employe appreciation day.....Supper....fairly tender chicken breast...rice aand gravy, dinner roll, ginger ale, chocolate cake.....the budget crisis seems to be averted for the nonce....

Fruit plate breakfast

But before eating the fruit I took two sausage links, and put them into the hot biscuit to make a custom sausage biscuit to wash down with the hot coffee...pineapple,cantaloupe, honeydew,grapes,strawberries,orange juice,vanilla yogurt .....jam on the biscuit too.....Lunch....chicken breast....sweet tater...bowl of Lima beans....plain cheesecake...Coke.. So now I wait an hour before the next therapy session...Tonight at 8:00 on ABC I'll try remember to watch SHIELD....evening meal....pot roast with red potatoes and carrots, hot dinner roll, vanilla ice cream....

Overcast Monday morning

Wheat toast with butter and grape jelly,scrambled eggs, grits, bacon, an apple, orange juice, coffee....vanilla yogurt....Lunch...cream of chicken soup with saltines....grilled ham and cheese sandwich....chocolate ice cream,Coke. ...didn't need the fork ...used the knife to cut the sandwich in half...and spoon for soup and ice cream...now I wait for more exercise in an hour or so...Supper....pork tenderloin cooked with onions, bowl of blackeyed peas, red potatoes .....brownie dessert, ginger ale...Chargers on later...if I stay awake..I will watch...

Grape jam for the grits?

Nice soft scrambled eggs, bacon, grits, orange juice, vanilla yogurt ,coffee, an apple...I guess I got the jelly instead of syrup for the grits....looks grey out this Sunday morning....burn off later I suppose .....lunch....cream of chicken soup with pimento cheese sandwich,saltines for the soup....chocolate pudding,Coke....football games haven't started yet, still pregame stuff on..... supper....chicken fillet sandwich....fries..angel food cake....ginger ale....

More condiment ambiguity

Baked potato with dinner....but no sour cream..instead the brown sugar and cinnomin for a sweet potato....and baked chicken tenders witk honey mustard dipping sauce....broccoli ...bowl of grapes...cheesecake....sweet tea....hot air balloons were part of the goings on today they...But I didn't see any from here....Clemson does some good and now has the lead over Boston College......

Put the peanut butter in the grits

Because it was there...and the syrup and butter on the pancakes....also an apple, orange juice, and coffee .....a little overcast out....Fall for Greenville event continues. Downtown booths with arts, crafts, food, etc...big crowds they say.....Lunch....meatloaf with whipped potatoes and gravy, baby carrots and a bake apple ring....dinner roll hot with butter...Good Humor Orange Sherbet....ginger ale

Oatmeal breakfast

With butter and brown sugar and cinnomin plus a banana,orange juice,and vanilla yogurt .....got a shower....brushed out my long hair,etc...the window is open some and I heard a train somewhere Fall for Greenville this weekend....paper says 150,000 folk will turn out for the event....reading the story of Prince John on kindle...a trilogy...the guy in Robin Hood..brother to Richard the Lion Hearted....good writing....jan Foxall the author."Lunch....tuna salad sandwich,baked Lays chips, chocolate pudding, ginger ale...lots o fresh air in the room with the window open....Supper....herb crusted pork,baked sweet potato with butter,brown sugar,cinnomin,hot dinner roll,great northern beans,peach pie,Coke...

Ten minutes after sunrise

First the apple, and then cut the biscuit in half and pour on the sausage gravy, leaving the bacon to one side....go ahead and eat all that.....already drank the orange juice....coffee with the B and G.....then what's left is vanilla Yoplait.....then read the newspaper .....comics last,for dessert ......Lunch....they had a session put right at lunch time....I told them they would have to wait while I ate, which didn't take long....piece of turkey breast....baked sweet potato ....the skin is the best part....butter beans, cornbread , chocolate pudding,ginger ale...plenty of butter for the sweet potato.....then I went and did the exercise..sitting now waiting to do more in 40 minutes or so.....bright Fall day out looks like....Supper....another baked potato, with buter and sour cream....chopped steak with mushroom gravy,sweet peas,chocolate chip cookies....ginger ale.....

Fruit plate breakfast

Pineapple,honeydew,cantaloupe,red seedless grapes, couple of big strawberries,Vanilla yogurt, hot biscuit with butter and grape jelly.....Coffee?..huge lunch....large hot baked potato,with butter and sour cream....corn bread to crumble into a bowl of pinto beans, and sort of a roast beef hash in a little bowl....ice tea and a brownie.....so I'm full now....so now I wait for an hour until another PT session.....Supper...another big baked potato, and piles of carrots,green beans,and corn....called a steamed vegetable plate....with a piece of chocolate cake, and ginger ale....and a square of cornbread.....so I've had lots of roughage today.....and exercise....and chemo plus radiation....

Heard somebody out in the hall say elevators not working

English muffin,half dozen strips of bacon,OJ,coffee,butter,strawberry jam,yogurt .....an apple..got major meds already ....and my therapy hours look the same as yesterday....the blinds were shaking early in the morning because the window was open a crack and a little storm front went past .....Slept some after that I think..maybe another hour and a half after it started getting light out....any sleep is good sleep.... Lunch....turkey sandwich on white with lettuce and mayo....brownie,chips,ginger ale....light lunch ....enough for me...waiting now for one o'clock sitting up in wheelchair.....got the iPad ....to play with.....and TV ?...Supper...pot roast,red potatoes,Lima beans,dinner roll with butter,vanilla ice cream,ginger ale....very tasty,good portion of beef.....A's are on top 1 to nothing bottom of the second ......

10/7

The nurse today is from the Ukraine....homemade biscuit, still warm, with butter and grape jelly,grits,coffee,OJ,scrambled eggs, sausage.....can see rain puddles on the roof of Starbucks from the storm that went through earlier.....Lunch....tuna salad plate....with saltines and club crackers....big pile of tuna salad,with lettuce and cucumber slices....Supper burger and fries, apple crisp, Coke.....

Sunday morning

Pancakes with butter and syrup ....a banana....coffee....bacon.....read the paper....saw lots of football ,....yesterday....and baseball postseason ongoing....strange weather across the country...but nice enough here....might rain some they say....Lunch,after reading a ses story in the morning....roast beef sandwich with lettuce and mayo....fries with ketchup....pound cake with a little whipped cream and half a cherry on it....soon football will start....Way too much football on all day....supper....beef pepper stir fry. Veggie fried rice....carrots dinner roll....plain cheesecake ....Coke to drink ....never did rain here after all....so on into evening.....got a napolianic wars novel on kindle, a borrowed Prime....

Saturday Saturday

Banana,raisins,grits,sausage,scrambled eggs,wheat toast with butter and jam,apple juice.....bright sunshine on the four story brick and glass hospital block I see out the window....read the morning paper....read a scifi book and downloaded another for today....slept 5 or 6 hours I think.....saw the end of the SDSU game ....that was a good one...and saw some MLB playoffs .....Laurens won,Clinton did not......Blue Hose football today, but slips my mind who they play.....plenty of college games on TV looks like.....Lunch....meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy, baby carrots,sweet tea,plain cheesecake .....watching Alabama game.....Watching Clemson during supper....chicken salad plate with Club crackers and saltines .....chocolate chip cookies,sweet tea

Friday

Biscuit and gravy,cranberry juice,coffee,yoghurt ....and an apple.....sunrise on the building facade out the window....tropical storm likely to pass through this weekend.....sorta slept mostly sitting up with baseball on the tele.....feel somewhat rested.....Lunch was CluxDelux sandwich with lettuce and mayo. Vanilla pudding....Coke....Supper...pork cutlet,green beans,rice and gravy,Coke,tropical jello....been watching something on the history channel about slang words ....

10/3

Pancakes,coffee,lots of bacon...and a banana...I must not have asked for yoghurt ......window open,so pretty fresh in here...but I've got blankets...read the paper....I'll move to a different unit today....sub acute rehab....when someone is discharged from there,freeing up a room....Two OJ today,to make up for none yesterday?Lunch found where I was eventually....tuna salad sandwich....bag of chips,apple crisp,Coke....Supper....chop steak with mushroom gravy....barley pilaf....hot dinner roll...peas with red pepper.....sweet tea...chocolate chip cookies....the roll was hot enough to melt butter instead of being cold....from my new window I can see a four story facade of hospital......and sky and some trees.....

Wednesday

Going to into mid 80s today.....got pretty cool overnight. Breakfast...I guess I forgot to ask for juice,there wasn't any...there was grits, scrambled eggs,bacon,an apple,youghurt,....I put one butter and the pepper on the eggs,and the other butter on the grits...coffee was hot today....so now I'm just sitting here until they get me up and then later I will go do exercise,etc...Lunch...open face beef with purple onion on a half telera roll,choc ice cream apple cole slaw, strawberries ....Mac and cheese,with butter and pepper small cheese pizza,chocolate cake,bag of potato chips,ginger ale...no veggies unless the tomato sauce counts... I'll get something better tomorrow

First of October

S started cool,got warm enough later....oatmeal breakfast, with banana ,yoghurt ,coffee, juice....chili dog lunch with fries,fruit cup, ginger ale.....I think supper might be pot roast with red potato ...can't remember what I ordered...or...it might be an open face beef sandwich....I think I asked for chocolate cake dessert with that ....It ended up being pot roast, red potatoes, Lima beans,corn bread,vanilla ice cream,chocolate brownie, ice tea tw desserts?

Cool,some foggy

Breakfast....biscuits and gravy,grape juice,an apple...coffee..Dr. says I'm going to subacute Wednesday.....got some good sleep with the cool night air coming in.....Lunch....roast beef sandwich with lettuce and mayo,cream of chicken soup with saltines,no dessert? Coke.so I made a dessert....they have been giving me an insure with meals since the chemo....and it was chocolate this time....so I mixed some Coke in that and had sorta shake or malt...Supper...hamburger,apple pie,steak fries...ginger ale.....

Sleeping with the window open on the weekend

Its fresh in here that way .....and the construction isn't going on at all early Sunday morning, so it's quiet out....around midnight there were some police sirens downtown sounded like....more troubled youth? or something more sinister?or just the bars emptying.....Weather 52 and clear?..breakfast was pancakes and bacon,juIce,coffee,yoghurt .... Aunt Doris and Cousin Lucy came by to visit right before lunch which was grilled cheese with cream of chicken soup,Coke,pudding.....supper just finished now....beef stir fried rice with veggie medley,angel food cake.....Aunt Doris brought me a copy of a 200 page story of the Tingles she had written recently....had the meeting with the west coast,discussing this and that per usual.....

Fresh air,quiet morning,sunny

Cold breakfast....cereal,muffin,juice,yoghurt ....coffee, orange juice.... I think everybody gets this on Saturday.....Lunch....meatloaf,mashed potatoes with gravy,dinner roll,strawberry jello,ice tea.....Supper....herb roasted chicken,butternut squash,steamed broccoli,dinner roll,brownie for dessert....Geogria Tech just made touch,Clemson winning, gamecocks won.

Breakfast and lunch

Breakfast was Cheerios, muffin,orange juice, yoghurt lunch:grilled chicken breast with black beans and brown rice,salsa and sour cream.....cheesecake don't know about dinner yet, can't remember if that's been ordered yet or not.....

Warm day,window open in the evening

Breakfast bagel with cream cheese.....talk with the radiation doctor in the morning....he is satisfied with the treatment progress.....bacon at breakfast too....lunch grilled ham and cheese, fries...supper chicken filet sandwich with ice cream dessert,bag of potato chips......

Another rainy day?

Can't really tell through The window

Tuesday afternoon

Breakfast was buckwheat pancakes with butter and syrup,banana,coffee,bacon.lunch was grilled cheese sandwich and cream of chicken soup,plain cheese cake.supper was roast beef pot roast style with red potatoes and carrots. and vanilla ice cream,dinner roll too. sweet tea all this eating and I've lost twenty pounds or more.The radiation trip went much faster today. When the beam comes,you see this purple wash of light behind your eyelids....

Oncology treatment begins

Breakfast was oatmeal,muffin,coffee,yoghurt,Lunch was a chili dog.....supper was roast pork with red potatoes and veggie medley, apple pie, Chicken noodle soup,cornbread. I missed some therapy today because the radiation took up a hunk of the afternoon, but it won't always take that long they say nice weather again today I guess

Just waiting

Nobody seems to know when I'm supposed to go down to the cancer treatment this morning.....too much trouble to figure things out in advance? Or it isn't Important. For you to know

Treatment in the morning?

I guess they will are going to "transport" me to radio-chemo Monday morning....should try to get some sleep I suppose .....lunch was salmon.....supper was reported on Facebook I think.....breakfast was a muffin mainly.....got warm outside I think, upper seventies.....

Looking better to me today....as far as maybe getting back living in my house after the hospital is over...

Working with the folks here,I can see that you can maybe get back around normal if you can fix thingsup to live more easily in the house and probably find someone to come in and help sometimes. They have good ideas about how to get dressed even with weakness on one side, and they can help get devices and products for in the shower,etc...have a contractorfix the place up for elder safety

Not as good a sleep this time around

Hard to get comfortable for some reason...oh well, still might catch a few winks yet I suppose....

Lots of scoring in the Oregon game, and then there will be more games going on into the night?

or I might use the iPad to watch a movie or some show episode

InRCP

Things are much nicer...good breakfast at 7:30. Good overnight sleep, and I have an ortho boot thing towear at night which seems to work wonders on my bad left ankle and lower..so Pt andOT to do today, and on IMO the future....

Watched some of that strange million second show in the middle of the night

And then got some good sleep I think

Breakfast was fruit plate,oatmeal with brown sugar,orange pekoe tea, peach yoghurt had a slower already too...."

Doc came by, and it seems like everybody is on the same page pretty muc no as regards what's next.....

Got

Some sleep after dawn Might be a busy day Tuesday,today... Will be hot outside but I will be inside I'm tired and old and brain damaged One doc said the tumor was the size of a baseball 20mkv X-rays are used in the radiation oncology treatments

Tillin hospital, as they say on the other side of th pond.......grits,scrambled eggs , tw slices of bacon, toast without ter and jam....OJ, coffee.....

Actually got some sleep after midnight........

Cooler still

Watched some horse race yesterday evening, and some dodgers, did not stay up late enough for preseason nfl.....had pizza hut cinnomin sticks and black coffee for Sunday? Breakfast.....

Friday morning

More rain during th night, but nice this morning, mid70s.....slept well....didn't watch much tv last night.....the storm was breaking up reception ......did see ashortvideo about a guy with his mobile sawmill, like WB senior had? zho rt video of a guy with

Lots more rain

iheard a noise out front last night when the sot rm was starting just as I was going to bed after watching the first half of a preseason game...I thought maybe it was a branch falling off the oak, but ThisMorning all I can see that might account for the noise is the storm door blown up against the rocker.....so I don't have to worry about cleaning up fallen tree debris after all.....oatmeal and tea at breakfast.....pizza lunch in a while, mabe back to crab cake&hushpuppies this evening......

Nick sand dan ordered a pizza in sb and Clinton dominos delivers it to my door 30minuteslater

It's good, with dr pepper too.....

Friday morning and the weekend rain has already started

Asupersaturatedmoisture plume frm tropical activity in th gulf

relief from the sticky heat today anyway, and maybe

Thurday too I ope. but by the weekend possible tropical storm conditions here.....

Savory crab cake with hush puppies

I think all I have for lunch today is a peanut butter and peach preserve sandwich.theres a can of chili that can be Sunday supper I guess...Iiwas thinking I could get some food at Walmart today, but I'm too lazy to go do that actually .....

deli case chicken

had some of that for weds. supper.....it should do for a couple more days too, also bought frozen crab cakes and hushpuppies, all at half price....a new ache this morning...my left elbow....what next? not very many body parts left that aren't messed up somehow another bridge washed out yesterday, north of Clemson....and flash flood watch here until late tonight......muggy out now....should get up and go mop the kitchen....spilled a glass of oj this morning......

cooler this morning

I had Thai Kitchen Red Curry Chicken with veggies and saffron rice...."ready in 5 minutes",,,,... tasty and easy so that leaves me the last of the meatloaf, potatoes and spinach for today......feeling tired, might take a nap later.....

the rains return but it is cooler......

had a chicken salad sandwich Monday evening....might fry a slice of meatloaf for lunch.....and put chili on it?

88 and fair today

had meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and creamed spinach Saturday, same Sunday I think....it's been getting cool enough at night to sleep OK... without sweating all that much anyway....in a bit we will have our family video chat....every other weekend is the idea... don't know if Dave is in a wifi hot spot or not, we will see....

August thIrd 2008 is when I got moved in here....

89 heat index outside AC keeping it somewhat what cooler inside.....feels like 80 under a ceiling fan.....I got some cleaning done, and a load started in the washer, but thereby missed the cooler morning hours as far as going on a Walmart trip.....if I go later it's going to be in the real heat of the day......maybe a rainstorm will come up to cool us off a bit later in the day.....saw a thing last night about Peres, the dude in Isreal who is 90 and still involved in the leadership of the country, wich is 65 years old....dang Isreal crisis has been going on my entire life!

I did make a tasty meatloaf Wednesday afternoon, with baked [otato and cut green beans......heated up lefted-overs for Thursday.....enough for today too should be, with mashed potatoes this time.....f

they are saying cooler and drier this weekend as a front moves down from the North, but then back to dog days early next week.....the big front-page article on the Greenville paper yesterday was about how everybody has been struggling this wet, hot Summer to keep up with cutting grass and other yard work... so I'm not alone in having a jungle out there it would seem.....if you mow when it's still wet, you risk fungus, etc....fungus, weeds... whatever....got the kitchen mopped up yesterday....most of it.....chili dog lunches....got grapes for snacks.....haven't gotten outside much this week....too hot, too humid, too many bugs to bite you......

fog, cooler so far

It's a Tuesday do there's youth camp across the street at the church grounds....but it doesn't look very busy yet today.....chicken last night with mushrooms in brown rice, corn-on-the-cob.....almost out of bread, but did have enough left for poached egg on toast breakfast.....maybe the grocery ad will be in the mail today....or in the e-mail maybe......well, probably.....

monday

went to the library, and made sure to roll up the car windows when I got back...chance of thunderstorms later....for lunch had a chicken leg.....a chunk of swiss cheese, two greek peppers, and some kettle chips.I've got more drumsticks for suppers and lunch, before the next shopping trip.....AC is running to fight the sticky, glad that does work.....Saw a good show on PBS about hiking the Great Divide, and another English Manor house hour, and then Masterpiece Mystery before bed......I could lie down and nap now I bet....

paper said 42% chance of rain today

at 8:30 it started raining....should stay in the 80s today and for a few more days, maybe.....this constant humidity for weeks on end makes it hard to put a shirt on....the fabric wants to stick to your skin, instead of just sliding on like you are used to in a normal world.....I should vacuum, and at least sweep the kitchen if not get it mopped too....but it might be too humid to mop, the floor would never dry, even with the ceiling fan blowing on it.....

it was fairly cool when I headed out for Walmart

but warm and sticky again by the time I got back.....nothing much in the mail....well there hardly ever is....tuna sandwich lunch in a bit....with a glass of chilled chablis...was oatmeal breakfast today....two more steak-and-fries suppers left, then I've got chicken drumsticks....I'll cook those all at once, so I don't have to make a mess every evening over the weekend....well, there's only two evenings in a weekend, huh? Bought a new walking cane this morning....musta left my old one in a store, done that before.....ten bucks for a new metal model....been playing internet radio in the afternoons....Acid Flashback-Psychedeeelic Mindtrip stuff.....and in the evenings switch the TV between BBC World News Tonight and PBS channels.....no commercial television, except the local five O' clock news......got some strange things cleaned out of the fridge and taken out to the trash before I left the house this morning......

Thursday?

looks fairly cool outside yet....some overcast....thinking of a trip to the drugstore, CVS, in the same center as the grocery store....maybe find some cortisone or something....sort of an itchy heat rash or whatever on my neck where shirt collars touch.....need some new rub for my lumbar too....and that kind of pre-brush foaming mouthwash......these things might be a little cheaper at Walmart, but I don't feel like driving all the way over there this morning.....steak and fries and fresh corn last night for supper, same today I suppose.....

the show about Buddha was good

and so was the show about finding his bones....right now I'm fixing to head out grocery shopping....sirloin steak is featured in the store flyer...and if they have chicken salad out in the deli section, that can be for lunch sandwiches this coming week.....90s again today, but the air has been drier, with some west wind too.....paid the June electric bill....$122.....well, late June and two weeks of July.....

no storm last night here

but still flash-flood watch in the mountains.....Wednesday is grocery day again already....no ideas yet for meals....maybe a meatloaf? Continues in the 90s looks like....I'm going to have a hefty electric bill when it gets here......but at least with the AC on you can get a breath of cool dry air......instead of swamp miasma....been sleeping fairly well with the bedroom ceiling fan on slow.....gets down around 70 in the small hours of the night.....the Buddha is on PBS this evening, hope by then I still remember that.....

storm before bed again

with thunder and other noises....I thought maybe I had heard another big branch falling off the oak, but I don't see anything like that in the light of day.....in the paper it says it rained two inches in one hour Sunday afternoon in Charleston, resulting in flooded streets in the low-lying parts of town....they had to use a rubber raft to get some lady out of her car and get her to the hospital.....didn't notice any reports of storm damage locally.....

french toast breakfast, with oat-nut bread for the toast part

I watched Escape from New York last night....a couple nights ago watched Escape from L.A......NY was free on Prime, LA free on Netflix Escape from Clinton probably would not attract major stars.....easy to escape from Clinton, go a mile or two in any direction and you are lost in the woods....might make a bacon and egg sandwich for lunch, another avocado burger for supper....saw the Braves blow a 4 run lead yesterday....but nothing on today but golf.....my right forearm is itching....looks like spider bites to me....I have a history of those.....where-ever I have lived.....lightning flashes as I went to sleep last night, but it doesn't look like it rained much, if at all....lawn was pretty dry when I went out to pick up the Sunday paper.....need to take the trash can to the curb some time today.....talked to Nick and Dan on the Ipad yesterday afternoon.....not much news I don't suppose really.....

better today so far

I was able to make a quick shopping run in 70 degree weather.....because it's still overcast this morning.....it was heat index 95 yesterday afternoon when I thought about going out for a couple things I needed....glad I waited 'til today.....of course more ice was one of the things.....and a loaf of bread....got oat-nut this time.....my bacon-avocado burgers are coming out OK.....more of those this weekend....that precooked bacon you microwave is pretty trick....tastes good, and most of the grease is already gone seems like.....never tried it before....regular bacon makes a mess and is bad for you....haven't had any of that in the fridge in probably ten years.....used to eat it every day....sometimes a slice wanted to stick to the rest, so you would just get half a slice peeled off, or it would shred....no rain the last couple days, but some places around the state are still flooded from the long wet spell....

the newspaper was there when I looked out the front door after breakfast

good thing I didn't have to go very far to get it....high heat/humidity continue....I feel OK as long as I stay in the air-conditioning.....otherwise this is dangerous conditions for old folk....I've got stuff to make bacon-avocado-swiss burgers....and potato chips....I don't usually have any chips in the house, but Classic Lay's were two for one the other day.....yesterday lunch was just wine and cheese, the last of the Colby....and some crackers.....I don't think I really need to go out today, play it safe and avoid the heat.....

Subscribed to the Greenvillie News

Should start coming tomorrow....meanwhile, the iPad version works well....it's all actually cheaper than the newsstand price I have been paying at the minimart.......

hope today is better than yesterday

the main disaster yesterday was my car breaking down....so today I get to sit and wait for the shop to call with whatever news they have to tell me....I just cannot afford to buy another vehicle...so I'm trying to keep the old one running a while longer....at least I can get in and out of it....a small car just would not do for me....I might get into it one time and then be stuck there forever.....unless I could somehow roll out of it onto the ground, but that exit method might be painful and harmful.....huge thunder storm last night around dark.....more flooding and trees down in the Upstate....probably do the same again this evening, since there will be plenty more heat and moisture conditions to feed thunderheads.....my electricity stayed on last night, hope it doesn't go out....I need the AC, or at least the fans.....

need cool meals

I guess everybody in the country right now thinks it's too hot in the kitchen to cook much.....I know I do.....I hope the electricity grid survives the demands through this week......100% humid this morning, but not too bad 77 degrees F. But I woke up feeling like somebody had put me through the heavy duty cycle in a washing machine and then tried to tumble me dry for an hour or so, but I came out still damp.....I'm not walking or working outside anymore for a while at least....and I'm being as careful as I can in the house, or walking to the car....I do need to go in the grocery store today.....but it will be air-conditioned enough there I hope.....

Monday afternoon more storms were here

But Tuesday morning has been mostly clear.....on the news last night they showed where cousin Ricky works....the Clemson Dairy Farm....it was totally flooded.... The cows had a banner "eat more fish".....I took a shower this morning after reading the paper....carefully...don't want to slip in the bathroom and become another senior statistic....the city did pick up that big oak branch from the curb a little while ago, so that's done with....

feel beat up

all I did was the laundry....and "picked up" inside the house, but muscle aches this morning....there's nobody but me here to blame for what needed picking up....and nobody else to notice the mess either.....misting on the windshield this morning....enough for folks to be driving with lights on....might get up to triple digit heat index later this week....Thursday or so....cool so far today....but if the clouds burn off it will end up steaming again in the afternoon, when there will be a 30% chance of thunderstorms....had a thin fried pork chop and one egg over easy for Sunday supper....and since I forgot to do Sunday french toast and sausage breakfast yesterday, I fixed that this morning instead.....watched another PBS show about stately British country homes last night, before Endeavor, which took me to a 10:30 bedtime.....

still damp

one of these days I expect to mildew.....storm damage mentioned in the paper....house burns down after being struck by lightning....another house cut in half by a falling oak....cars washed off the road and into the woods....pick-up truck hits a tree fallen across the highway....driver dies.....well, most of the stormy weather is clearing out they say, giving way to "a more normal Summer pattern".....high heat and humidity....going to be in the 90s instead of the 80s like it has been during the rains....in the first 6 months, we've had a whole year worth of rain....I don't even feel like eating much....that just heats up your metabolism....more sweating.....

some drizzle so far today

heavier rain expected again in the afternoon.....some flooding in the Upstate yesterday, but not right here.....had steak and onions with beans for supper....don't know what's for lunch, maybe grilled cheese sandwich, or fried egg sandwich......I can look in the sports section and see if there's a baseball game on a station I get today.....cool enough to leave the AC off all day I hope....

About melted crossing the Walmart parking lot in the afternoon....I usually go over there earlier in the day

And now a thunderstorm looks to be moving in from the north.....so heat and rain today too.....I'm going to cook steak and onions with beans as a side.....Saturday supper can be pork chop with sauerkraut and apple....had a Ballpark frank on cheese toast for lunch.....got Cabernet at Walmart....got something done in the yard this morning, but not as much as I wanted ......shifted a large fallen oak branch to the curb using a five foot piece of two by four as a lever....the earth as the fulcrum.....

another bedtime storm last night

but it's not so bad so far today....not raining, and not hot yet.....

so far today it is not raining

but more rain is predicted, the area remains under flood watch....but the tropical system that they were saying might get here next week has fallen apart, do maybe this depressing dampness will end one day.....I'm still dragged out and confused feeling.....been forgetful for perhaps three weeks now.....can't find where I've left things, etc....just too damn old is what it boils down to I'm afraid.....

some major storming going on last night

as I was going to bed.....but the thunder moved on off and I slept OK after a bit.....in some places there was flood damage.....a creek got into yards, and a bridge or two got damaged the flood gates are open at Lake Hartwell for the first time since 1964.....and it might do it all again late today....and there is a tropical storm brewing that might dump yet more rain here next week......well, grocery day, better get moving....

Outside feels like 93.....inside it's about 83.... I'm stayin inside for a while

Got some things done today....windshield wiper blades replaced, vapor lock problem attacked with Marvel Mystery Oil...seems to be working so far .....the guy at the auto parts says he is hearing complaints of bad gas in town....and the ethanol gas is going to boil faster than real gas, what with the extra alcohol.....did get around to mopping the kitchen, but am still avoiding working out in the heat....afraid of just falling. ... over from the heat and humidity.....got the fixings for root beer floats....been years since I had one of those, and it sounded good in this weather.....got frozen lasagna for supper....

now they say this wet heat

is here for another week....it's about to wipe me out......I made sausage and large pasta shells with alfredo sauce and chopped onion for Sunday supper, with heart of lettuce salad......might eat leftovers today.....watched PBS last night......listened to Acid Flashback in the afternoon...good stuff

maybe not as wet today

but outside the grass and shrubs are still soaked and dripping.....a couple days ago I closed all the windows and ran air-conditioning long enough to condition a few points of humidity out of the inside air.....leaving windows tightly closed, it remains dryer and more comfortable......lost wi-fi there for a minute...had to go click the router off and on to reset it.....heard a transformer blow with a distant "crump".....that's been happening almost daily in these weather conditions.....next time I go to watch roku, I'll have to run the set-up to reconnect I suppose......watched Braves-Phillies last night, 'til close to midnight.....used up the rib-eye, with potato salad and "southern pit BBQ style beans" as the veggie sides......this afternoon I can fix sausage and shells, with maybe heart-of-lettuce with blue cheese veggie-wise.....it might start raining again any time they predict.....I got the trash out of the kitchen, but still need to get it out to the curb......and I need to mop the kitchen floor.....

the "deep moisture" has moved West of here

so it's not raining, for a change.....but still 94% humidity.....heat index 86.....finished off the ribs OK yesterday....was still plenty of meat on 'em for a hearty meal.....so back to rib-eye platter later today.....honey smoked turkey breast on pumpernickel with lettuce and mayo was Friday lunch.....Sat. lunch will be brat mit kraut on a whole wheat bun.......the watermelon .....I ate some yesterday sitting out front on the porch.....tasty and refreshing....have some left for another time too.....Brian's birthday today .....41 I calculate.....might see him on GTM at one my time....David probably won't be able to connect, unless they link up with an NC cousin.....I hope they are doing alright....the last three or four days the weather service has been warning campers out of the mountains.....flash floods, landslides on roads and trails, possible falling trees.....

was raining during the fireworks

but some were still going off right around here, and you could hear that the show on the other side of town was still going on.....at Whitten Center, the State Disability home......thunder this morning early, and more rain....it's good for the corn, but bad for wheat, watermelons, and cotton.....good for the trees......and cow pasture......I have some watermelon to eat, didn't get around to it on the 4th.....need to vacuum......still not feeling so good.....weak and wobbly.....still under flash flood watch through tonight.......had steak, potato salad, and corn last night, I can have the other rib meal this evening.....it will all microwave up OK I'm sure......

was coming down in buckets

the weatherman yesterday was warning that it could be at the rate of 2" an hour.....not raining at the moment.....but was in the night and right after dawn.....four day Fourth holiday food supply....ribs, baking potato, potato salad, brats, kraut, lettuce, corn-on-the-cob, rib-eye, watermelon, salt and vinegar chips.....guess that's about it.....already did half the ribs yesterday.....salt and vinegar ribs, with oregano-cumin rub on one side, and mixed generic sauce after turning over ......mixed yellow and red store brand bottles......

some 4th of July events

have already been cancelled....in anticipation of thunderstorms tomorrow......I'm cooking in the kitchen, so the weather won't bother my plans.....checking the grocery ads, I'm thinking rib-eye, corn-on-the-cob, and maybe potato salad.....I'll look in the deli case for potato-egg salad, not sure if my regular store offers that or not, I used to find that in Escondido.....rained yesterday afternoon quite a bit.....probably do it again later today.....I'll get a can of sauerkraut to kick my brat lunches up a notch.....last night finished off romaine lettuce and beets.....one more serving left of BB&R, after a bowl with my salad.....[black beans and rice]   maybe do simple shells and sausage for this week's casserole option......

flash flood watch

through Wednesday night.....a high over the Atlantic is pushing the moisture flow inland ......for Monday supper I had sweet potato, fresh corn, and heated-up deli fried chicken.....lunch was a brat on a whole wheat bun with stoneground mustard and chopped onion.....today lunch can be turkey and jack cheese on pumpernickel, with a little mayo.....it rained a bit around sun-up, but I'm going to go check out how wet the back lawn looks....if it's not too soaked I might try running the mower....it's 72, overcast, and some cool wind out right now.....

very humid air, lots of rain late Sunday

was still raining at midnight......when the air is so full of water vapor, it's harder to get oxygen, so you feel kinda beat......I do anyway.....going to be "soaking weather " for the next few days too, they say.....the rain does keep it cooler, though.....can just run ceiling fans for comfort, leave the AC turned off.....I've two Civil War books and a strange Sci-Fi book from the library going all at once, plus something on kindle too......I'm out of oatmeal, so I'll go get some more.....

didn't realize it had been raining this morning

until I went out the back door with the kitchen trash.....between rain and muggy heat I haven't been getting much walking done lately, or much yard work either......and it looks like I even forgot this Report a couple days.....just plain lazy and hazy, fuzzy-minded......well, Dave and Tree should be at their campsite up in the Smoky Mountains I suppose, or maybe still enroute ........I cleaned some gross stuff out of the fridge before I took out the trash, but still have lots of things in there that need attention.....black beans and rice, cold grocery store fried chicken.....used some country sausage with my french toast breakfast this morning......it's staying cool in the house so far today.....with ceiling fans going in whichever room I'm in at the time......now I think I hear more rain ......I have enough avocado left for another turkey lunch sandwich......with hearts of romaine for lettuce on it too.....can probably nap some after lunch, not much energy for doing anything else.....got plenty of reading material, and I've been finding some Prime movies to watch before bedtime......was nice out on the porch last night between the end of the movie and full dark......

heat index 95 later today predicted

I fixed black beans and rice with onion and hamburger added, and hearts of romaine salad with blue cheese dressing....hadn't bought any of that in years.....but I forgot a few things Wednesday when I was in the grocery store.....like olive oil, and apple cider vinegar.....so maybe I can get it right this morning on a Walmart trip.....get a bag of ice over there too.....it's just too muggy to get out and run the weed eater and mower.....maybe there will be a breeze Friday morning, like last Friday.....I've got a package of smoked turkey breast for lunch sandwiches.....I'll look at Walmart avocados if I can find them.....suffering brain drain in this weather, or maybe it's just more senility.....forget to do things, or can't remember if I forgot them or not.......just comes with the territory I guess.....the land of the lost.....

haze, heat index 84

If there were more of a breeze I might go walking....but it was about like this yesterday when I went to walk the park, and it was really too muggy to be pleasant......I could use the exercise on the one hand, while on the other hand, the elderly should be careful of heat exhaustion sneaking up on you .....even under seemingly benign conditions......they say you are only as old as you feel....well, I feel elderly a lot lately......had hamburger steak with grilled Vidalia onion for Monday supper, with veggie sides of an ear of corn and a pile of slaw.....tonight might be sausage and egg scramble, grits.....then shopping day again.....I heard the mailman a while ago, I should go see if the ads are in the mailbox.....yes, grocery ad and something from an insurance agency.....

more or less sweltering Sunday afternoon late

so I turned on the AC for a while......77 mostly cloudy this morning......patty melt worked for supper yesterday, but now I'm out of cheese......hmm, the City bill just came in the mail.....about 40 bucks worth of electricity for 5/16 to 6/19.....not too bad.....I should get out and go for a walk before it gets any warmer......

no blog yesterday

I was busy.....mowed the back lawn and did laundry.....and Dave and Tree came by for GotoMeeting with the Santa Barbara brothers.....and we got my Weber kettle out of the shed and grilled some really good sweet corn from a local roadside produce stand.....and hot dogs....they had vegan, I had BallPark....I got pretty sweaty going for the paper early on.....bright sun and more humid than the last few days.....but now it's overcast and staying in the 70s so far.....at 4:30 in the morning I was in the kitchen getting a drink of water, and I could see the full moon shining big and bright.....but by the Eastern Daylight Time of the "Supermoon" at 7:32, it was daylight and the moon was behind the trees out the kitchen window anyway.....I still have an awful lot of cole slaw to consume.....have to work on that over the next few days......should do something with ground beef for supper, got plenty of that too....like a pumpernickel patty melt with grilled onions and Swiss cheese.....I think there's swiss left in the fridge somewhere.....I'm going real slow today for some reason, but I don't have any hard schedule to adhere to so I'll continue slow and easy.....

is this Friday? woke up thinking it was Saturday.....

Dave and Tree stopped by for quite a while yesterday.....were here when the band was playing over by the tracks.....I had steak with onions, fries, corn....in the kitchen....they had Thai over in Spartanburg before they came over this way......http://blog.travelpod.com/members/tdtingle.....see this blog for a good time!    

feel better today

yesterday I felt somewhat dragged-out and listless.....some clouds are helping keep it cooler so far this morning.....had pulled pork on a whole wheat sub roll and slaw for Wednesday supper.....sat out on the porch until 9:30 last night, talking with a neighbor......pretty nice out that time of evening.....should go for another walk if I can work up the gumption.....

happened again

as soon as I put my boots on to go out to the shed and get the lawnmower, it started to rain.....rained a good bit around sunrise, I got some raindrops on me when I went to get the paper, but didn't get soaked or anything.....down at the grocery store it looked like maybe that side of town got more then this side....there were puddles in the streets and parking lots......so I should quit stressing about cutting down the weeds .....maybe Thursday or Friday I can get things done.....I did get the kitchen mopped, that's something anyway......

Tuesday morning

went down Monday afternoon to visit with Dave and Tree at the RV park.....nice place.....later after I was back home a thundershower went through.....I made tacos of steak, potato, onion, avocado for my supper.....Tree had made a lunch of cous-cous, with veggies.....they are plotting how to get a good spot somewhere in the Blue Ridge by the 4th of July four day weekend.....there's a thunderstorm heading this way on the radar, so I'm going to ignore lawn mowing for yet another day, and just drive over to Walmart instead this morning......some day the weeds will get cut I hope.....I can have a Spam and avocado sandwich for lunch......

found somethings at the library

not too muggy yet today.....shouldn't get terribly hot later.....Dave and Tree are down in an RV park maybe 15 minutes from here, I'll go  visit after lunch sometime.....watched the final few holes of the US Open Sunday evening....it was on instead of any local newscast.....that whole thing looks like pure insanity to me.....I guess they make lots of money at it though.....the winner got like 1.5 million, the 2 guys who tied for second got around 700K each, and Tiger Woods was tied with a bunch of others for 32nd place....those folks all got 47K each.......what a deal....

mild morning

64F when I went out walking, nice breeze too.....not as humid.....might be "pop-up" showers towards the end of the day, and then increasing rain chances into Monday......might fix steak tacos either for lunch or dinner.....forgot to turn on the Angels' game, but they won it says in the paper.....so library tomorrow.....maybe I can crock-pot the pork I have left into pulled pork, and get some hamburger buns and cole slaw......some red bbq sauce left in one bottle, and some of the yellow kind in another.....could mix them together for pulled pork......with some vinegar too.....real lazy feel to the morning so far......

got down to 59 for an early morning temp

beautiful morning.....tree-trimmers over on Washington were there all day Friday, they are back this morning.....looks like they are taking a large oak out altogether.....so chain saw and limb grinding noise continues....checking the bank online against my check book register, the bank had my balance $100 more then I did by hand.....the bank is correct of course, I went back a little ways and found my error.....sounds like the mail just came.....yesterday I got the natural gas bill, only sixteen bucks this time of year.....hard to believe it's another Saturday already.....time becomes strange in old age, to me anyway......Yankees at Angels tonight on TV......do they still do the Disneyland fireworks at nine?  That was a Summer bonus living in Santa Ana, in the old days......

cooler day so far

I was able to get the back yard grass cut earlier, in the 70s with some shade and breeze.....yesterday afternoon I had to run the AC for a while, was in the 90s and humid.....on the evening news storms were moving from north to south presenting a threat of lightning, wind and hail.....but it all missed Clinton somehow....I did see lightning South of here from out on the porch 8:30-9:00......for supper I had reheated stuffed pepper with black-eyed peas.....got to do something with that pork this evening I suppose.....still have sweet corn too....finished my library books, have something on kindle that's on loan from Prime......the monthly free book.....been watching the BBC original House of Cards, and have almost finished Wallander.....it gets dark so late, feels like there's a lot of evening to fill up with some kind of distraction.....

86 and 58 humidity

just got back from Walmart and the DMV.....at least at the DMV they knew what I was talking about with filing the eye exam....the folks at Family Eye had never heard of the 5 year eye requirement on a ten year license.....but they did fill out the correct form for me once they found one.....so I got some new stronger reading glasses, a pak of three for eight bucks.....the doctor yesterday said 2.50 or better would work fine for me.....I found 3.00.....I'll see how they work if I can figure out how to open the plastic thing they came in.....also got some Vision Formula pills.....with zinc, selenium, and copper.....what's good for the eyes is good for the brain is good for the body.....holistic.....had sirloin steak, french fries, and corn-on-the-cob last night.....I have some pork too, and more sirloin for more suppers.....lunch can be Bacon Spam, Swiss cheese, on marble rye.....grilled or not.....I have more Arizona green tea.....I might have to turn on the air before the day is over, for the humidity if not for the heat......

was 90 yesterday, predicted hotter today

I feel like I never really woke up this morning......oh well.....going grocery shopping when I work up the energy......lethargic muggy conditions.....swiss cheese and avocado omelette yesterday for supper, with a cold biscuit.....ads are for BBQ and grillin' things again.....'cause of Fathers' Day?   The news keeps calling it " the upcoming holiday weekend".....I suppose maybe it is.....

some rain went through at dawn

but it was sunny and bright by the time I went out the door ......so I didn't get rained on going for the paper like I did Monday.....going to be around 90 and muggy by the afternoon.....75 out now, 65 inside....Youth Camp starts today at the church across the street ......I could hear the activity director explaining the drill earlier.....they divide into age groups that alternate on Tuesdays and Thursdays going swimming at the Y, which is another camp sponsor......last year they played ball outside part of the day.....they have a big air-conditioned hall where they can get out of the heat later in the Summer....last night I had a microwaved stuffed pepper, plus biscuits topped with simmered black-eyed peas.....today I might make an avocado omelette.....got to remember coffee filters tomorrow at the store, and Arm-and-Hammer for the washing machine.....tomorrow at 2 I'll walk over to Musgrove and get an eye exam.....they will send the results to SCDMV, so I can drive legally for another 5 years.....hopefully I won't need to buy glasses, we'll see......

dang it

the power flickered and it took a few minutes to get the internet running again.....still unsettled weather in the region, expected to continue raining and thunderstorms on and off until a high pressure moves in Tuesday-Wednesday .......Sunday afternoon around four the tornado sirens went off, and the NWS on television was showing a thunderstorm cell with "some rotation" heading this way from down around Lake Greenwood.....by four-thirty the warning was cancelled as that cell fell apart.....a funnel cloud was reported  near the lake, but it never touched the ground.... no reports of damage.....but it did set a record for rain-for-the-date......automated rain gauges somewhere around here signaled 3" in 90 minutes......was some road flooding around Greer I guess.....but the rivers stayed within their banks as far as I've heard.....I went out on the front porch as the sirens were sounding, as did my neighbors on the block.....we allowed as how there's nothing you can do really, just wait and see if everything blows away or not.....if you are in a car or a trailer-home you are supposed to get inside a real house.....had tacos for supper after all that, watched a "Wallander" and then later found an ESPN radio feed on roku and listened to the Spurs game until the Heat got up by 30 points in the 4th quarter when I went on to bed.......damn, the lights flickered again.....

too wet to sweat

when the dew point and the temperature are the same number.....this morning 68 and 68....then sweat can't dry off you to cool you.....so by the time I got back with the Sunday paper my shirt was soaked, so I went and sat under a ceiling fan to read the paper.....at 8 am you could hear air-conditioning running already  in places......stay hydrated......60% chance of an afternoon thunderstorm.....around suppertime maybe, after the heat of the day has built up in the supersaturated atmosphere.....can have either more tacos or a stuffed pepper and something for supper.....should go with the tacos to use up lettuce and avocado before they turn funny.....frozen peppers will keep OK......had marbled rye french toast for breakfast, with two sausage links......lunch will be chili cheese dog I suppose.....the other afternoon I listened to Wrote a Song for Everyone album on MOG....a review of John Fogerty pointed out that CCR had made "Americana" popular long before anybody came up with that term.....another thing I read pointed out the synergy between internet radio and album sales......Wrote a Song was an editor's pick on MOG and Pandora, and went right to #3 on Billboard.....21st century exposure for a 60s powerhouse hit-maker......

high 80s called for this coming week

with a chance of more thunder showers in the afternoon hours......clouded over this morning, 70F and muggy.....most lakes are close to full pool, since we are running 5" above normal rainfall so far, instead of 5" below like during the recent drought years.....if you have a pond on your farm to store water for irrigation, check the level to make sure it's not about to overflow and break down the dirt dam and flood your neighbor.....advice from the morning paper.....I walked for the paper with my new hiking sandals on my feet....they are going to work fine I think, comfortable and can get a decent stride going with them on.....came Fed Ex yesterday from Louisville Kentucky.....tacos last night, with good avocado chopped up in the lettuce mix.....which includes red cabbage and carrot too.....in other words, a bagged salad mix.....got Arizona Green Tea with ginseng and honey on a special Friday supplementary shopping trip.....went mainly 'cause I was low on TP.....also got a generic can of chili no beans, and for lunch indulged in a pimento cheese chili dog.....radical.....supper Saturday can be a couple ribs, half a baked potato, and an ear of white corn that I picked up too.....it was raining too much Friday for the roadside fruit and veggie trucks to be out, so I just got store-bought corn from Florida.....

just after midnight

the tropical storm arrived in force......a deluge drumming on the roof.....nine hours later it is still raining.....periods of torrential downpours called for throughout the rest of the day.....but mill hill drains pretty well, we are on the high ground in town actually.....I'll make tacos tonight.....maybe with avocado if one is ripe by then.....with this weather I sort of feel like just going back to sleep.....probably take a nap after lunch again today.....too wet to walk or look at yard work.....

tropical storm Andrea

will mingle with a lingering cold front here tomorrow......so flash flood watch through Friday evening....sort of a warm misting drizzle on my early walk.....I'll check the radar before I go for another walk this morning......taco nite worked out well, but neither avocado was ripe enough to use.....maybe next time.....today I'll do a small thing of half ribs and a smallish potato in the iron skillet at 350 for an hour in the oven......other side can be black beans.....sounds like the mail truck is here.....Friday I will await the UPS, I ordered some summer sandals from Amazon.....Nevados like I had some years ago.....the Ozark Trail from Walmart don't hold up well.....two day delivery with Prime.....woke up with a crick in my neck....that doesn't happen very often.....musta "slept wrong".....rolling my head around right now there's popping and grinding noises.....watching the news last night I snacked on wheat thins with crunchy peanut butter and pimento cheese sandwiched between them.....a favorite....

was gonna try

to work on the front yard after getting back from the grocery store, but just as I went through the kitchen towards the back porch I saw that it was just starting to rain.....well, some other day I suppose.....went to the store with no list, so it was an unorganized expedition.....ended up with tacos and black beans.....ribs and potato.....stuffed peppers.....shoulda got more sweet corn, but maybe I can get some from one of those guys at the side of the road that grew it himself.....see how many ears you get for a dollar that way.....maybe it stopped raining already, but I've lost the mood for yard work this morning now......I'll go read the Clinton paper, eat my apple, then eat lunch later ......hot dogs this week with pimento cheese and stone-ground German mustard......

early morning fog

68F, dewpoint 68, 100% humidity......no sunshine, but still muggy......grocery ads are here, but I haven't looked through them yet.....been needing the ceiling fan on in the living room after supper in this sticky weather.....but haven't gone to fan on in the bedroom at night yet.....that will be needed later in the season I'm sure.....I guess I'm almost done with tuna sandwiches for lunch....that's cheap though....might go to canned roast beef tacos, something I used to do in days gone by.....that green leaf lettuce lasted almost two weeks without rusting very much.....was a buck fifty the head.....the little bit of breeze should keep it cooler for another walk shortly.....

lots of rain last night

between my supper and dark.....it was really dumping down, some thunder, but not much wind.....one tornado over in Anderson County damaged one house and knocked down some trees....no reports of injuries.....high humidity and mostly cloudy this morning, around 70.....chance of more rain again this afternoon, and every afternoon this week actually.....highs around 80 predicted....went over to Walmart earlier for a few things.....and walked around the park, ate an avocado and tuna salad sandwich with lettuce for lunch......tonight I'll have two chicken wings, black beans, and mac n cheese.....that will leave one chicken wing and one rib with the same sides for Tuesday, and Wednesday back to the grocery store.....

about like yesterday so far

72 inside and out.....overnight low of 70 ....I did see sparse lighting-bug activity between nine and ten PM......the storm front that caused all the trouble in the midwest is sliding away to the north and west of here, as the Upstate is protected by an area of high pressure.....but it still might rain some later I guess.....rib dinner last night was plenty filling.....reality boils down to molecules, then to atoms, then to sub-atomic particles.....then to quanta.....which are just information bits.....in binary code.....so we do actually live in the Matrix......the lights just dimmed briefly, that happens when the powerful energy-sucking AC units kick on at the church across the street.....don't know how many tons those things are rated at......you can hear them from the front porch.....I hope to leave my HVAC turned off altogether for a few more weeks, save on the electric bill.....

school's out for summer

does Alice Cooper still get royalties?  It was noisier than usual outside last night.....graduation night.....I put those chicken wings in Corning wear and doused them with apple cider vinegar and microwaved them covered for ten minutes, and then took the lid off and put on a mixture of BBQ sauce and soy sauce, and then put them under the broiler element in the oven for fifteen minutes.....worked great.....with a green salad and black beans....tonight will be a reprise of the rib platter.....that's a good avocado, tasty......overcast again and 100% humidity.....starting tonight and going on through Monday morning high chance of thunderstorms......normal temps called for....in the 80s in other words.....Clemson is calling for volunteers to do a lightning-bug count tonight .....there's an app for that.....I haven't seen any at all yet this year.....frogs and fireflies are disappearing .....they are doing counts to document this.....walking around the block in this weather will work up a sweat.....I'll go walk over through downtown shortly.....

somewhat warm and pretty humid

77F and 64 dew point.....but was clouded over earlier so I went ahead and did the back yard before lunch.....forgot I had lettuce, so my sandwich was tuna salad and avocado with no lettuce.....maybe I can remember the lettuce tomorrow.....might have avocado, lettuce, sweet onion salad as one side and more mesquite black beans as the other side with BBQ chicken wings for supper today.....the folks who opened the family style soul food eatery live about a block over from here apparently.....I walk by their house when I go to the park.....today I read that their soft opening went well, good amount of business....a grand opening will be coming up soon.....a better market around here for soul food than for Greek ......for Sunday night 80% chance of almost an inch of rain.....but between now and then pretty much the same in store.....mostly cloudy, highs in the 80s, sticky feeling.....

enough cloud cover

to keep it cool this morning earlier so I could go out and deal with the front yard.....staying around 70 inside and out so far.....afternoons are getting to mid-80s......maybe Friday morning it will be cool enough to tackle the back yard.....that artichoke yesterday didn't look that great, but it turned out to be a good one after all.....with garlic pounded steak and mesquite black beans.....the other half of the ribs is thawing out for the oven later today.....a potato can go into the big iron skillet with the ribs.....it's about time to start spraying with mosquito stuff before porch-sitting in the evening.....didn't get any mail today or yesterday either.....no bills or ads, that's about all I ever get anyway.....the paper said that the Badcock furniture store that closed recently will reopen as Home Sweet Home....with a new city approved facade and free-standing sign.....city approval is needed because the building is within the Historic District.....there's a panel that decides.....I think it was last week that I read that the Greek place across the tracks that had closed and that I had never been in anyway has reopened as a family style "meat-and-three" .......I don't have money to waste eating out anyway.....

avocado and tuna salad sandwiches

that's what's for lunch at least part of the week.....I've got half of the memorial ribs still to cook, with baked potato and more of that good sweet corn as sides....and today I'll fix garlic pounded sirloin steak with an artichoke and ranch beans as sides.....steak and eggs with hash browns might be my Sunday breakfast for supper....and oven BBQ chicken wings with black eye peas and Mac n cheese is also likely some time this week....75 outside....yesterday it got to 80 in the living room late in the afternoon, but stayed 70 in the kitchen....been good walking weather lately .....read the local weekly paper after lunch.....it had a special section with the graduation photos of the high school class.....that's on Friday, the graduation.....in the gym....looks like I could go out on the porch and enjoy the breeze, so that's what I'll do.....

library Tuesday

since Monday was a holiday......some clouds right now, should heat up again in the afternoon.....used a ceiling fan some after supper watching television last night.....got stuffed finishing off the ribs.....I've got spicy orange chicken meal in the freezer for today.....with hamburgers all gone I can have grilled swiss on pumpernickel at lunch.....and then it's grocery day again.....right now I'm off to the library.....

Memorial Day

dawns bright and sunny.....warmer out.....had a green salad with my supper hamburger....only one burger left now.....might get close to 90 later, a taste of what lies ahead in actual Summer.....I haven't really looked at watermelons.....suppose grocery stores are open at least part of the day, but it's too late to chill a melon in the fridge for holiday consumption on the front porch in the early evening.....quiet around here.....at ten over on the square there will be the JROTC from the high school doing a color guard, with the high school band playing too I think.....Memorial ceremony....I might look for hiking sandals soon, I wear out a pair every year before schools starts again.....the rubber tip on my cane was wearing uneven, so I twisted it around with water-pump pliers to get a fresh surface.....

not a sunny Sunday so far

well, we had one nice day.....now it's back to being behind a cold front from the North.....I watched that Braves game last night from New York and the conditions looked awful....the ball park was mostly empty, and the folks that were there were dressed for a football game.....there was rain sometimes, and wind all the time....lots of things blowing across the playing field, and the ball blowing around crazy for the outfielders.....looks like some of that is getting down this way.....the big car race over in Charlotte might not get the best weather later today.....or the weekend events in the greater Greenville area, like the hot-air balloon festival or the Highland Games.....it was nice when I walked through downtown here after lunch Saturday, but it was fairly chilly going over for the newspaper this morning.....should not complain too much though.....at least there are no flood evacuations here, like in San Antonio where Dave and Tree had to move their motorhome quick like to avoid the rising water.....hamburger weekend continues, until tomorrow when I finish off the ribs that are already cooked.....had my usual Sunday breakfast.....

was too windy

to launch the hot-air balloons yesterday in Simpsonville, for the annual festival.....should be able to go today OK though they think.....I suppose it was the high winds overnight that made the power go out again in the wee small hours.....Scottish games at Furman today, bagpipe parade last evening.....my pork loin ribs came out delicious, with tender new corn and the bourbon beans as sides.....probably be a  swiss burger and a green salad for supper today......Braves play the Mets at 7 on Fox.....I need to finish my Furst novel on kindle this weekend.....borrowed from the library so it can just expire on you ......but you do get an email to remind you when.....was 45 at sunrise, 55 now.....might get up around 80 in the afternoon.....no clouds, no real chance of rain today, but 20% in the Upstate for Monday.....then a warming trend for the rest of the week.....

yard work done

before the long weekend......after lunch yesterday the front weeds had dried out some, and it wasn't too hot yet so I mowed that part.....and this morning it is 70 with a breeze, so after reading the paper this morning I spent about an hour knocking down the clover in the back yard.....got my guitar magazine in the mail, and the homeowners insurance renewal offer.....the bill isn't due until July.....later on today I'll cut that rack of baby back ribs in half and cook half in the oven and put the other half in the freezer.....I'll eat some with sweet corn and bourbon beans tonight, and save enough for a similar meal on Monday.....I've got plenty of hamburger fixings left too for the rest of the weekend.....

extremely electrical

that's how the weatherman described the storm front coming through yesterday evening and on into the night....he meant that there were lots of lightning strikes.....power went out during the night, around 2 am I think.....so things are pretty wet this morning.....I should have mowed out front yesterday I guess, or maybe it will dry up enough to mow after lunch.....but it's going to be getting hot by then....oh well....I did a grilled swiss on pumpernickel with pickle for lunch, and then a hamburger and slaw for supper.....a homemade hamburger is always better than any fast-food hamburger, that's my firm belief....so today I can do the last bratwurst on a wheat roll with brown sugar bourbon beans as the side....hamburger lunch today......64 and overcast outside, staying 70 in the house mostly.....took a nap after lunch yesterday......walked the park after putting away the groceries.....

baby back ribs

for the holiday.....I said I wasn't doing ribs this time, but they had such a good deal on them I went ahead and got some.....I can freeze half for another week maybe.....got the corn, but the avocados were picked over so didn't get any.....got leaf lettuce, ground round, hamburger buns, bread-and-butter pickle chips, honey mustard BBQ sauce, bourbon beans, etc......I'll make a burger for lunch today, might as well.....real good price on Swiss cheese this week, got that.....so ready for Summer fare, and the weather should be like that.....sultry.....

muggy and foggy

at the same time.....around 70 now, will get to the 80s later I imagine.....last night I cooked one chicken leg, half a bratwurst, and some hash-browns.....slaw as a side too......my chicken salad is all gone now, so lunch sandwich can be a fried egg with mustard and mayo, black pepper......the ads for the holiday weekend came yesterday, full of BBQ ideas.....looks like good prices on hamburger fixings, rib-eye, etc....avocado and sweet corn look good too.....so avocado burgers are on the menu some time this week, and steak and corn-on-the-cob plus slaw probably....I've done ribs recently, and a Boston Butt makes an awful lot of pulled pork for one person, so I might eschew the pig this time around....get some leaf lettuce for the burgers, some swiss cheese.....I had a sharp pain in my foot when I walked bare foot.....read some online and it said "don't walk bare foot".....got a Dr. Scholl's Pro Ball-of-Foot Pad thingy at CVS, and one day with that took care of the pain pretty well.....ten bucks.....and I got mouthwash while I was over there.....

68F, 100% humid

clouded over.....chance of afternoon thunderstorms all week.....jasmine is in bloom, you can smell it everywhere walking around the neighborhood.....finished my last library book, but I have a sea story and a 1930s spy novel on kindle to read.....the chinese frozen dinner was pretty good....I have some soy sauce.....still eating chicken salad sandwich lunches.....it will get hot if the overcast burns off, it burned off about noon yesterday so I got pretty warm out walking right then.....went over to the town square and back, only saw one other person out on foot......

rain

yesterday the neighbors on Washington looked like they were going hunting.....they had a trailer loaded with camping stuff and ice-chests of beer behind a big window van....it was raining as they loaded up and left around lunch time.....this morning when I went for the paper at 7:30 their rig was back in front of their house.....I guess they didn't camp out anywhere overnight 'cause it was too wet.....and another storm just got here about 20 minutes ago.....good thing I never go anywhere or I'd get rained out anyway.....Oxbow went out at 15-1, and paid $32.50 on a $1 bet......didn't watch any Netflix or Prime Saturday night, just sat out on the porch until dusk and then came in and read a sci-fi novel until I got sleepy enough to turn out the lights.....I think for Sunday supper I'll microwave that box of broccoli beef chinese ......used half a bratwurst to go with my french toast at breakfast, since I didn't remember to get more brown-and-serve sausage at the store Wednesday....that worked OK.....will probably stay in the 70s today again, unless this all burns off pretty soon and things heat up more.....

raining pretty good

but it wasn't raining yet when I went out for the newspaper.....but my second walk might have to wait until this afternoon.....the guy around the corner was putting his yard-sale stuff out earlier, he guessed wrong this time .....but they are organized there, with a big porch to move things out of the elements when needed......going to be muggy today.....stayed 75 in the house yesterday, I turned on the ceiling fan in the living room after supper though......supper was fried chicken, hash-browns, cole slaw.....tonight I'll fix another bratwurst sub, with more slaw on the side.....yesterday I put some slaw on top of the chicken salad in my lunch sandwich.....it's good for you, I hope.....this afternoon there's the Preakness on some time, plus Fox has a baseball game at 4.....

heirloom building materials

cousin Charlotte says they are taking down the old Tingle farmhouse out in Ora.....cousin Elizabeth's husband is in the lumber business, working with contractors building places up in the mountains, and he is taking the boards and tin roof, etc.....so it's not going to just be bulldozed and taken to a land-fill, it's going to be recycled ......they decided that it's too dangerous to leave it standing in the condition it's in.....I would agree.....another nice morning here, not too hot, not too cool....pleasant....I'll walk for exercise this morning, since the yard is pretty well cleaned up now.....I fried some onion with a bratwurst, and toasted a whole wheat bun cut in half with olive oil drizzled on, plus some mustard and mayo made a hearty sandwich at supper....with my cole slaw I'd made earlier in the afternoon so it could chill in the fridge.....today I guess I'll alternate to chicken again, like Wednesday.....the chicken salad gets better too in the fridge.....for lunch on pumpernickel......got Franzia sangria in the fridge also.....and I got the first bag of ice since last year yesterday in the freezer......of course around here some trendy bar in Greenville comes up with sweet-tea sangria served at the roof-top lounge.....in the paper it said that's made with white rum in it too.....I don't have any white rum, but I know where I can get it......watched Saving Private Perez last night on Netflix.....pretty funny.....

some high clouds

20% chance of thunderstorms later.....or the newspaper says only 14%.....whichever, it shouldn't rain on me when I go out to trim things up in the back yard......high 60s right now.....I made chicken salad yesterday, and today I'll make cole slaw ......I put a small can of chopped olives in the chicken salad, that worked.....I got "three color cole slaw" and I'll add raisins as usual.....and mayo and buttermilk ranch dressing....some apple cider vinegar, not too much.......well, time to get busy with the weeds.....

73, clear

high of 88 called for this afternoon.....it will stay cool enough in the house, probably about 70 with the windows shut.....if it starts to get much warmer inside I can open some windows and let the breeze in.....got groceries, and got the gas bill in the mail and paid it.....got chicken legs, and a can of chicken to make chicken salad sandwiches for lunches.....drumsticks enough for two meals I think....and enough beer brats for two or three hot weather suppers of brat subs on wheat rolls, with cole slaw.....I'll mix up a big batch of slaw tomorrow I guess, today start with chicken, peas, fried potatoes.....also got two Chinese take-out boxes from the frozen foods section.....they say they are complete meals.....four dollars for two of them and an additional nickel off the pump price at Shell....this is for sure nicer weather than that cold snap....

no excuses

at least I can't think of any.....so I'll have to go out front and knock down the weeds, clean things up a bit.....it's pretty cool out now, so maybe not too much sweat will be involved.....pounded the second piece of rib-eye with diced garlic and fried that up for supper, with ranch beans and hash-browns.....should be enough meat left on the last of the ribs for a meal this evening....with the same sides.....almost done with my nacho-chili dog lunches.....used the last slice of pumpernickel this morning with my poached egg.....good thing tomorrow is groceries.....finished a kindle novel last night....well, the mower won't push itself so I'd better get moving.....

cooler this morning

in the 40s early on......they are late picking up the trashcan, usually that's done before I go get the newspaper.....maybe they got lost somewhere.....the front yard could use some work again, but I don't feel like doing it right now....maybe Tuesday......might get up into the 80s later this week, no rain expected until the weekend......finished two out of three library books already.....have to switch to reading the things I have on kindle I suppose.....one book on kindle is from the library, the other one I bought for a couple bucks.....maybe I hear the trash truck down the block now.....I should go out walking.....maybe that would perk me up or something.....I feel listless today.....

61, wind N 5 mph

yesterday to got up close to 80, by afternoon it was overcast and sort of muggy.....3:30- 4:00 it rained.....and it rained again just after dark, around 9:00.....so I sat on the porch for a bit watching it rain, went to bed a little after 10:00.....nice Sunday morning, fresh outside from the rain in the night....no clouds right now, none predicted.....didn't find anything at the church sale; didn't have any money anyway.....school kid art was taped up in windows of vacant store-fronts.....they were setting up the P.A. for singing and drumming.....steel drums are something one of the schools does....a constant line of cars was going by on Broad St. .......headed to the college commencement at ten in the morning.....by one or so in the afternoon all the excitement was pretty much over, and the stream of cars was headed back out towards the interstate.....some with U-Haul trailers and four years of stuff?  For my Sunday supper I've got ribs, baked potato, corn-on-the-cob.....newspaper ads are BBQ and camping items.....Mother's Day ads were last week.....

some high clouds

30% chance of thundershowers late in the day.....I'm going over to the Methodist church-lady yard sale....that's where I got a nice sweater for .50 last year.....over downtown will be my second walk this morning.....ribeye platter was good last night, today might be the last of the ham with rice n gravy and sweet peas ......I think today is the college graduation.....usually the busiest traffic day of the year in town.....they should have fair weather for it.....so things will be turned down a notch or two around here when college is out, if you can imagine that .....going from slow to even slower.....still two or three weeks 'til high school graduation.....

in the 80s

well, 82 anyway yesterday....same predicted for today....so it was nice enough to get out and cut the grass....and then take a shower.....also did a load of laundry.....nacho chili dog lunch.....the ribs are nice and meaty so they will make two more meals I guess.....sweet corn from Florida pretty tasty.....I can iron skillet a little piece of rib-eye steak this evening with diced garlic .......beans and hash-browns as sides.....did a lot of porch-sitting Thursday too since the good weather finally got here.....might rain Saturday.....I've got interesting things to read.....

normal temps

was 78 yesterday, normal for the date.....should be about the same today.....the next storm front should get here in time for the weekend again.....so it's a nice enough morning to go out and trim up the back yard, which I'll do shortly instead of going for the park walk....the back yard will be enough exercise....made rice n gravy last night with ham slice and the last of the butter beans.....that's not rice with gravy on it, it's rice with gravy cooked in it.....like they do it at the BBQ buffet place out on the edge of town.....except I used brown rice.....today I'll cook ribs, baked potato, corn on the cob.....I also have ribeye, ranch beans, hash browns on the menu this week.....big bag of hash browns was half price.....porch-sitting as it gets dark is pretty nice right now, mosquitoes aren't active yet.....crickets and frogs are in full voice though as it gets warmer.....waiting for the 17 year cicada swarm some time soon I guess.....

nice sunny morning

no wind, no clouds.....things still a little damp from the thunderstorms late yesterday.....another chance of those this evening too.....only 23% chance.....the storms we had were brief but intense.....localized....never did get the grocery ad in the mail, but it was in this morning's paper instead?  Have to look at their ribs, they are featured in the ad.....and I need eggs and orange juice this week....good walking weather Tuesday morning.....didn't get stormy until around 3:30 in the afternoon....maybe by tomorrow it will be dry enough to tackle the back-yard weeds....

scattered showers

right now it looks like they a staying a couple of counties due south .....cloudy here now, but I should be able to go walk the park OK.....yesterday after lunch I went out and trimmed up the front yard.....it had dried up enough to do that.....got some library books.....and I've got two things going on kindle.....slowly working through that ham slice, might use more of it in a sandwich at lunch.....can finish off the tamale pie this evening, and then shop next morning.....a little chilly early on today, was 46 after breakfast.....might get up to 68 this afternoon.....

record breaking Cinco de Mayo

the coldest and wettest May 5th at GSP weather station.....high of 54 and 3.16 inches of rain.....once again, the wind and rain didn't stop until after the sun was going down.....some sun this morning, and the wind has shifted back around to SW.....but Upstate rivers might go over their banks as the runoff comes down from the mountains, and rain continues on into the week.....I did get to walk for the paper today, and maybe I can get another walk done later.....did not walk at all Sunday.....right now I'm going over to the library......

Tamale pie

Raining all day for my Cinco de Mayo.....but it's worked out OK with some tequila and a dish of tamale pie done in the oven.....ended up tasting very much like the chili cheese tamales we used to get in the middle of the night at the Tamale Factory in East L.A. in the late 1960s.....that strange place where you drove up and pushed a button and a steel window opened and you handed in your money and an unseen person handed back out your tamales.....good stuff.....I have leftovers enough for another lunch or dinner.....

was sunny in Pittsburgh

watched a Pirates game yesterday.....looked a lot nicer there then it was here....too nasty to go outside for more than three or four minutes ......so I found something on TV.....a baseball game and two minutes of the Derby show.....the two minutes when they actually ran the race.....I had found the post time online.....did my ham platter supper all in the iron skillet, heated it up that way, worked pretty good....maybe I'll do the last of the curry for Sunday lunch.....and I'll bake the enchilada pie for Cinco de Supper.....raining right now, rained all night I think.....we might get another inch today.....and a real sunny day isn't expected until Thursday.....so the weeds will just keep growing in the yard some more....this weather is good for only hibernation.....sleep well at night and one hour naps after lunch lately.....watched Julius Caesar last night from 1953.....with Richard Burton and lots of other famous actors of the day.....lend me your ears.....

another wet weekend

not ideal conditions for Spring Fling in Spartanburg.....if Furman graduation is moved indoors, you'll need a ticket for seating......the Monday after May 1 is a Bank Holiday in Great Britain.....so this is a holiday weekend over there.....saw a segment on BBC about how it's been so wet lately that the white cliffs of Dover are falling down in places, sending rock slides into the ocean.....10 times more rock slides than a typical year.....so the paths along the tops of the cliff are closed just as tourist season starts in Dover.....on the Early May Bank Holiday.....it's still cold and wet over there too....here it is running ten degrees below usual for daily highs.....66 yesterday instead of 76.....I might watch the Kentucky Derby this afternoon.....might be raining on it too.....flood warnings for Georgia counties not far from here.....reheated beef curry was warm and filling for Friday supper.....Saturday can be the fried ham steak, biscuits and gravy, tiny butter beans again.....really too nasty out this morning for a pleasant walk in the park, so that probably won't get done again.....NE wind makes it feel like it's in the 40s outside....

weather pattern continues

it will take the low front moving from the West some time yet to push the high up North of here out to sea.....until that happens the air will keep moving in a clock-wise rotation dragging cold and damp off the Atlantic and leaving it in the Upstate.....maybe some time next week we might get a sunny day.....graduations and Farmers Market openings might get chilly rain this weekend.....rained last night so the yard is soaked again, too wet to cut the grass.....the warmest time yesterday was after dark....after the wind stopped.....before then it was just plain uncomfortable on the front porch.....there's lots of leftovers for more ham platters.....plenty of gravy left, etc.....might fry a little ham at lunch for a sandwich.....I'll go walking again with a hooded sweatshirt on, to battle the breeze.....it's good weather for sleeping at night, and for naps in the afternoon....but that's about all it's good for.....

misting, damp

foggy, overcast, humid.....some NE wind.....rain went through around dawn.....bit of drizzle on the early walk.....too wet for yard work today looks like to me.....the beef curry on brown rice made for a hearty meal, and there are leftovers.....I put in curry powder, chili powder, and extra cumin.....today I'll fry some ham steak and make biscuits and pepper gravy....heat up baby limas in a little butter.....so it's a gloomy looking day again....in May?  PC graduation is around Mothers Day I think, so that must be coming up sometime soon.....the church across the street has the sign up for a youth Summer camp again this year.....it was a big success last year they say, popular with the powers that be in town anyway.....they were all patting themselves on the back about it.....kids seemed to enjoy it while it lasted....middle of June through early August.....I can watch from my front porch while they play games on the big lawn opposite......it moves to various venues around town during the week, and they go to a water park one time, and maybe camping one weekend or a few days.....according to the 2010 census there's 40.6% poverty rate in our school district....so some kids get fed when school's out too this way....